Rowland’s Blog about e-learning matters

I am leading a session at the SEDA conference next week about whether e-learning encourages good pedagogy and this made me think about what I was going to say to the group in the way of introduction. So I thought I would try out some ideas here.
I am Director of the Learning and Teaching Centre [...]

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I was looking at Chickering and Ehrmann’s paper IMPLEMENTING “THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES: Technology as Lever” and wondering how well it ties in with the concepts of e-learning 2.0.
Good practice:
Encourages Contacts Between Students and Faculty
Develops Reciprocity and Cooperation Among Students
Uses Active Learning Techniques
Gives Prompt Feedback
Emphasizes Time on [...]

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I have just been taking a look at George Siemens ideas about connectivism on his blog. There are some interesting ideas here about the way that peolpe are perceived to learn. I particularly like the idea of giving each student a blog which is aggregated with something like bloglines so the the tutor can see [...]

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According to Stephen Downes e-learning 2.0 is all about the learners developing their own ideas from a variety of sources and sharing ideas in a community of learners. Learners will take charge of their own learning using such tools as blogs, wikis and podcasts. No longer will a tutor set up an e-learning course with [...]

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There seems to be some confusion about the meaning of the term “blended Learning”.
Possible alternatives include:

learning that includes more than one mode e.g. face to face and distance learning
learning that includes more than one technology e.g. printed material and on-line learning but at different times
learning that includes more than one mode or [...]

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Having used blogs for the first seven weeks of the COMP3092 module I have a few reflections about how it went.
The main blog has been a useful way of getting feedback about student activity and their perceptions about their own learning. Asking students to respond to a post by using the comments facility has worked [...]

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I have set up a blog at Blogger.com to allow students to make general comments about my module COMP3092 Advanced Web Design.
I have also set up some group blogs that the students themselves control on which they address a particular issue to do with the module.
The main blog has worked quite well for [...]

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