Transforming distance learning

On the afternoon of Friday October 2nd I’ll be giving a short presentation at the FOTE (Future of Technology in Education) conference in London. I’ll be sending out some ideas about social media (particularly blogs and Twitter) and what all of us can do to get more people (colleagues and students alike) building learning networks in which to share their [...]

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I’m beginning to feel frustrated by my lack of technical knowhow. I’ve spent the last two years in a job where everyone thought I was some sort of programmer. One university bigwig glazed over whenever I opened my mouth and responded to whatever I said (even if I was merely commenting on the weather) with [...]

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Life has been fairly hectic of late as I prepare to leave Bath - and, for now, the world of distance education.
For just over two years I’ve been working on a transformative project with an MSc distance learning programme. It’s been an extremely rewarding project that appears to have made a great deal of difference to [...]

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Following on from my previous post, which asked: what can we do to push the frontiers of understanding about learning technologies in general and Web 2.0 in particular? I’d like to pose a question to all the educators out there who have recently undertaken a formal course of teacher education – a PGCE, a University [...]

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So… there’s a debate raging! Should we be encouraging learners to develop and use their own personal learning environments (PLEs) rather than hemming them in to an institutional VLE?
James Clay, Matt Lingard and Steve Wheeler have added some great points to the debate – check out their blogs if you haven’t already! In a thoroughly [...]

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Due to popular request I’m posting this short video (5 mins) on how and why to use blogs to engage students in the curriculum. It’s due to be shown at the International Blended Learning Conference on June 18th but please feel free to comment here before and after.
There’s also an accompanying paper which presents further [...]

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Righty-ho… been focusing on my MA blogs – Assesslog and Metablog – over the last ten months. I think it’s time to get going again!
I’d like to kick off with some thoughts I’ve had about getting feedback from distance learners. If anyone else has any ideas on this I’d be delighted to get a conversation [...]

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