Rowland’s Blog about e-learning matters

We have now had two weeks using blogs on two of the modules I teach.
I am using blogs in two ways:

on my third year undergraduate module I have set up a module blog on which I post and the students comment. Most of the comments are in response to activities or are giving feedback about [...]

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Finally got around to looking at my syndicated blog after being snowed under with work. I thought that I would put some of interesting information I have found on the blogs.
On Josie’s blog there is an interesting post about accessibility which I hope to have more time to look at later.
A post about commenting on [...]

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I have been following a number of the stories about wikipedia and the idea that some people seem to have that we should get all of out information vetted by “experts” before we read it. This is clearly not workable for a variety of reasons, not least that even “experts” get it wrong.
Some of [...]

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I have been thinking about the concept of transforming learning with technology rather than just transferring the old pedagogy onto the web and have come up with the following list so far:

Transfer 
 Transform

 Inflexible:  Teacher centered
 Flexible: Student centered

Fixed module contract: tutor decides on the structure of the module and the assessment criteria
Student negotiation: Tutor [...]

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I was just randomly linking around between blogs when I came across a post on Connectivism and web2.0 on Sharon Peter’s blog. It has a direct link to a lecture by George Siemans which uses a combined slide show and voice over to present the lecture.
Sharon gives an excellent summary of the lecture on her [...]

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I have just been looking at the JISC pages on e-learning pedagogy which contain some useful information. The aim of the e-Learning Programme is to improve the quality of e-learning across the post-16 and higher eduaction sectors. The Programme focuses on four areas: e-learning and Pedagogy; Technical Framework and Tools for e-Learning; Innovation and Distributed [...]

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Found some interesting information on Josie’s blog about the Learner’s Charter for a personalised learning environment which is a publication from Nesta Futurelab.
There is some excellent discussion here about how things might go if learner’s are given a flexible and personalised learning environment to work with rather than the manager centred systems that we [...]

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Things have been very hectic since I went to the conference and this is the first time I have had to write on this blog. My session seemed to go well and I had some positive feedback from a number of participants. Every body had an opportunity to discuss possible advantages of e-learning but the [...]

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First thing tomorrow morning I am off to give a session at the SEDA conference. I suspect that there will be no access to the Internet at the conference so it will be either find an internet cafe or not blog for a couple of days.
My session is exploring whether e-learning can help to imprive [...]

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As I am running a session at the SEDA conference to explore people’s conceptions of whether e-learning can help to promote good pedagogy I thought I would ask the question on an educational mail list to which I belong.
There have not been a lot of reponses as yet but it seems that I have [...]

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