Rebecca's Research Blog

Great infographic summarising approaches to pedagogy, making connections with key thinkers in the field. http://cmapspublic3.ihmc.us/rid=1LGVGJY66-CCD5CZ-12G3/Learning%20Theory.cmap

(Notes from the Technology Enhanced Learning event at The Open University on 9 Feb) Sharon Monie – LTS Further examples of communication and collaboration Blog L140 (personal reflection) B201 (group comment and responses to reflective questions) Database D872 (graphically calculates and displays collated results) Elluminate Library (live bookable information literacy session) L203 (student-only sessions in [...]

(Notes from the Technology Enhanced Learning event at The Open University on 9 Feb) Volker Patent DSE232 http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/dse232.htm Applying Psychology – provides an example of a second-level course where the team spent some time considering how to use learning systems to help students communicate with one another online and use their online experiences to inform [...]

Andy Northedge: K101 (Notes from the Technology Enhanced Learning event at The Open University on 9 Feb) http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/k101.htm K101 An Introduction to Health and Social Care – a course in its second presentation that walks new students through different learning systems, encouraging students to communicate with one another before a major collaborative activity half way [...]

Notes on a seminar given by Keith Sawyer. Relevant literature includes: Paul Torrance 1960s-80s – concerned with both teaching and assessing creativity. Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT) is still widely used in the US – primarily for admission into gifted and talented programmes. Howard Gardner 1970s – brought cognitive psychology to bear on creativity [...]

Researchers write all the time, writing is the means through which we work on and work out our ideas. We don’t just write up – we have not found a transparent truth which we then just put into words. Writing is a representation – we make choices and what we choose to write is a [...]

Interesting post on issues relating to SocialLearn by Scott Leslie in his EdTech blog. These are his sub-heads: Planning to Share versus Just Sharing We grow our network by sharing, they start their network by setting up initial agreements We share what we share, they want to share what they often don’t have (or even [...]

If you look at the list of sociocultural terms I listed a couple of posts back, you’ll observe that they’re not words which you’d expect to hear in day-to-day conversation. They also prove to be difficult words to use in a thesis, and I’ve been struggling to use any of them in my current chapter. [...]

My supervisors pointed out that, if I’m writing my thesis from a sociocultural perspective, I need to use the appropriate discourse. I do start off doing this, and then I start to use synonyms to stop it getting bland and repetitive. But, of course, the synonyms aren’t exactly synonyms and, before I know it, I’ve [...]

In the last month my entire thesis has undergone a radical rethink, as I have moved completely away from community, to consideration of temporality in the context of asynchronous dialogue. I think this is the right move to make – I’ve got excellent data to support a study of temporality, and it fits in with [...]