Eight Roles of an Effective Online Teacher
There are plenty of ways in which we can support and encourage students to participate in online activities, and these are important when designing activities for students who study online and at a distance. This report from Faculty Focus on ‘Eight Roles of an Effective Online Teacher’ has some important considerations for us all. When […]
Report: “Exploring eAssessment”
Date: October 16th, 2012 Location: University of Lancaster Details: “Exploring eAssessment”. This event was hosted as part of the eAssessment Association Regional Events and JISC Regional Support Centre Northwest. This post was first published on my private TEL blog, as we did not have a University blogging platform with which to share our work and […]
Blackboard: The Voice of an Active Learner [video]
“Do you recognise me? Very soon I will be your student, but I will not always sit in your classroom. I will not take out a pencil or open a textbook. You grew up with books, I read from a laptop, an iPad, a smart phone. I use a keyboard more than a pen. I’m […]
Twitter for Teaching and Research
I recently began a Master’s degree in Digital Education with University of Edinburgh. The first module is Investigating Digital Environments for Learning, and one of the environments we looked as was Twitter. In a tutorial the course tutor, Prof Hamish McCleod, said that when he first encountered Twitter he just “didn’t get it”. I also […]
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