I don’t like this article. It appears to muddle its technologies, it throws in terms and references without explaining them and I feel it conflates time periods. I don’t believe that the ‘concept of adding value was identified from the start [1992]’ because I don’t believe the concept of value added came in until a […]
There was a long list of advantages to videoconfeence lectures – there are also disadvantages: • video quality was variable • audio quality was variable • connection was sometimes lost • 1-3 technical support staff were needed • difficult for students to prepare in advance of the lecture • lectures were not directly related to […]
So Luck and Laurence arranged videoconference lectures for students in New Zealand and Canada. Advantages they identified are: • provides students with different perspectives and new ideas • enhances student knowledge • enables collaborative learning • saves time and money • opportunity to try out new educational technologies • followed good educational practice in many […]
I’ve been reading Luck and Laurence on videoconferencing. I now have to consider what they have to say about the innovative nature of elearning and the technologies used for elearning. Before I get on to content, there’s also the issue of access to the material being innovative – it’s accessed and then discussed online. I […]
I’ve read five of the case studies now (all the ones without videos. Downloading videos without a broadband connection is generally a waste of time). As individual studies they’re all exciting and whizzy but, as a whole, I find them rather soulless. They’re all about the equipment, they’re not about the people or the learning. […]
Reading through the H807 case studies – the course materials require me tomake blog entries. The one I’ve just read is ‘Any time, any place learning: Multimedia learning with mobile phones’. It’s based on an initiative at City College, Southampton. They provide ESOL students with whizzy mobile phones which have camera and PDA abilities. Then […]
I’ve started looking at the H807 course materials, which I’m reviewing. I’m supposed to jot down a few initial ideas of my own on innovation in e-learning. E-learning is to be understood as ‘learning facilitated and supported by the use of information and communications technology (desktop and laptop computers, mobile and wireless devices, electronic communications, […]
Looking at Crook, C. (1994) Computers and the collaborative experience of learning Routledge, London which was lent to me by Karen. There’s a bit in the intro which I like, though it probably has no bearing on what I am studying. Apparently, Schelling carried out a study in which people were asked how they would […]
Seem to have been doing a lot recently: puting together a poster, applying to be an AL on H807, having lunch with John and Linda, organising WIP workshop, attending Knowledge Network training. Would be good if there were time to get some work done! And now I’ve lost my PDA. Damn. Where can it be? […]
I had this under another entry, but it became a major issue, so I’ve moved it to its own posting. Interesting about Ostrom is that she is looking at successful communities. What makes a learning community successful? Its learners are inspired? All learners construct some knowledge? Knowledge is constructed? All students pass the course? All […]