Gill Clough, Mark Gaved and Gareth Davies gave a fascinating and interactive update on the work of the xDelia project at an IET Technology Coffee morning during September.
The xDelia project is exploring the use of serious games linked to physiological sensors to detect and address the impact of people’s behaviours, habits and emotional states when they make financial decisions. The aim of the project is to develop learning interventions that will improve financial decision making of our target group, private traders, by enabling them to regulate their emotions so that they make better trading decisions.
Grainne Conole and Rebecca Galley have written a new addition to the Learning & Teaching Guide series for OU staff. This guide explains all about Learning Design and introduces some of the tools, resources and activities that have been created to support the design process.
This short video illustrates the cool use of technology to enhance the learning experience of students on a geology field trip. The ‘Out There and In Here’ project explores the possibilities for new technologies to support distributed, synchronous collaborations between students in the field and others based in a stationary location.
The project team are developing and evaluating systems to link students using mobile computing devices in the field, connecting via mobile phones or satellite data networks, to students and associate lecturers in a ‘mission control’ style classroom which also uses new technologies such as an interactive table-top and projected displays to support access to a range of resources as well as data review, hypotheses development and reports.
Open Educational Resources (OER) are an important indicator for the future direction of education and learning systems. Work on producing the resources themselves has now led to greater focus on the way in which they can influence policy and change the way in which educational systems help people learn.
The Open University UK and Carnegie Mellon University are now working in partnership on the OLnet (Open Learning Network), which is a three-year project, funded from March 2009 to February 2012 by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. OLnet aims to search out the evidence for use and reuse of Open Education Resources and to establish a network for information sharing about research in the field. This means gathering evidence and developing methods for how to research and understand ways to learn in a more open world, particularly linked to OER, but also looking at other influences.
Understanding how to design eAssessment questions is key to supporting staff and students during their learning. Used formatively, the right questions can provide confidence to students, highlight areas of strength and weakness to both staff and students, and allow staff to provide appropriate support.
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