Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: eLearning/Distance
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Clearing out a bunch of things that have been sitting in the Bookmarks bar of my web browser. Here’s a bunch of links to some interesting higher education posts I saved during the last 6 months. Videoing lectures ‘has no impact’ on attendance, says study | Times Higher Education (THE) This is why traditional lectures…
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This article is a little old now, but it does point out how the learning management systems we choose to use (or have thrust upon us by our institutions) shape how we actually teach, rather than being shaped by pedagogy that is appropriate to the topic and material being covered. And to which, I’d add…
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A couple of interesting posts on online academia. The first looks at how PhD students might use online resources and networks to promote and resource their own research, while the second looks at developments in online theological education. The online scholar: A guide for PhD students After initial skepticism, online theological education growing
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Over the past year or so I’ve been using an older model iPad in my tertiary education environment to access various information and learning management systems and have, on the whole, been disappointed. The iPad works well for consuming media (provided it comes from a ‘kosher’ source), for reading email (but less so for responding…
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A link to Universities Australia response to proposed copyright reforms in Australia and how that might affect higher education. http://www.alrc.gov.au/sites/default/files/subs/754._org__universities_australia.pdf
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An interesting looking online course Gender Through Comic Books | Canvas Network that partners a study of gender in comics with required reading materials being available to purchase through digital comic providers (in this case, Comixology). Wondering if such a model might work for distance/online theological education?
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I quite like how Prezi can create a different perspective on a presentation, either as part of a person’s talk or as a standalone tool. But unless it’s done well it can be quite disorientating. Here are a couple of different presentations (just given for example, rather than as ‘good’ examples) I’ve seen recently that…
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This link came across my desk today. Blog + Twitter feed for those writing theses etc. Looks interesting. The Thesis Whisperer.
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Couple of recent online learning links: A Social Network Can Be a Learning Network – Online Learning – The Chronicle of Higher Education Survey shows that as online enrollments have boomed, doubts about online quality persist | Inside Higher Ed
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Given the shift towards public and institutional libraries moving towards the eBook work, this raises some interesting questions. See Amazon, OverDrive, and Kindle! Oh my! | The Digital Immigrant. (P.S. Not entirely convinced by Auckland Library’s Overdrive link up in terms of pragmatics – just too fiddly and unfriendly to struggle with.)