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Innovative Education Online: Ideas for the future of learning & the Internet

  By netcrit | April 25, 2011 - 23:42 | Write
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In 2009 I ran a series of workshops as the first main component of my ALTC Fellowship to group brainstorm and analyse ideas about online learning and web 2.0 technologies.  During these workshops, so many good ideas were raised that I felt compelled to write up a report distilling the wisdom of more than 200 participants at 7 locations so that it might provide something of a guide for others. At the same time, as I reflected on the workshops and what happened within them, I realised that they gave me an insight into the discourse of e-learning and Web 2.0 versions thereof in contemporary Australian higher education. Thus, I have also reported my responses to and analysis of those workshops. It’s one reason why the report has taken a while to produce and finalise. Finally, then, here is the report Innovative Education Online:  Ideas for the future of learning & the Internet My thanks again to everyone who attended and helped organise these events.  

Knowledge / network / learning

  By netcrit | April 24, 2011 - 00:43 | LINK project
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I have just completed my Australian Learning and Teaching Council Fellowship program, Learning in Networks of Knowledge. This 2-year program involved, in part, the development of an extensive resource for academics to use to assist in selecting Web 2.0 applications for use in their teaching practice.  The choice and use of these tools was underpinned by the possibility of now facilitating student learning within the knowledge networking paradigm. The site is now fully operational, both fixed content and regular updates, at: http://knowledgenetworklearning.net In a simple image, here is what I am attempting to do in proposing a knowledge network learning approach:  

Networked, Integrated, Augmented: towards a future when all learning is e-learning

  By netcrit | March 1, 2011 - 11:58 | Speak
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In March 2011, I present a paper at the Centre for Studies in Higher Education University of Melbourne which lays out an argument that we should no longer be identifying e-learning as something different to learning. All learning is now, or will soon become ‘e’, in the sense that it is mediated by computer networks, digital media devices and so on. Click to read more →

Should you use a wiki for teaching (and which one?)

  By netcrit | June 2, 2010 - 11:47 | Think
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I recently answered an email from a colleague asking for advice about wikis, especially in the face of his university’s (inevitable) suspicion about anything that is not authorised, locked-down, served from the campus and generally (IMO) unusable for agile teaching and learning. I thought I would share an edited version of my views, since it neatly captures some of what I’ve been thinking about as part of my ALTC project on Web 2.0 and online learning. Agile teaching: responding to needs and concerns in the learning design of students’ experiences, activities and tasks which takes account of current events, new technologies in ways that institutionalised curriculum design and enterprise technology practices can’t cope with because they are too structured, clumsy and slow-moving. Agile teaching implies agility of mind as well as design and technology – it’s being playful, picking up and putting down, making limited and short-term commitments to particular ways of teaching and content, on the basis that it’s more fun, more engaging and ultimately more realistic as an educator and thinker to be moving forward, not circling the bureaucratic wagons   Yes, we use wikis in our teaching, in two ways. First, some of the students naturally set … Click to read more →

Using Web 2.0 in your teaching: ideas, applications and affordances for enhanced educational outcomes

  By netcrit | April 5, 2010 - 12:11 | LINK project, Speak
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In 2010 I will be travelling to many Australian universities presenting the outcomes from my ALTC-funded project on Learning in Networks of Knowledge. This presentation focuses heavily on the way that a wide array of Web 2.0 / social media applications can be used in higher education, whether in distance or on-campus learning. The presentation will demonstrate a ‘top 10’ innovative services as examples of what can be done. Designed to provide practical, usable ideas, the presentation emphasises how the technologies which might be chosen must be understood in terms of their relationship to the content, assessment, outcomes of learning, and the particular context provided by students and the subjects they are studying. Handouts and slides are available. Click to read more →

ALTC-LINK – Innovative Education Online Workshop 2009

  By netcrit | July 10, 2009 - 14:08 | Speak
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During June/July I have been presenting and facilitating a workshop on innovative online learning as part of my ALTC Teaching Fellowship project. My thanks to all those involved in helping organise and host the events, at Curtin Uni, RMIT, UTS, QUT, and ADFA; especially thanks to Elaine Tay, colleague and LINK Project Officer. The workshops went particularly well, mainly thanks to the thoughtful contributions of all those involved (the workshop was mostly small-group discussion and presentation). Those who participated will soon receive a collated and developed response, spanning all the workshops so far, which will guide and assist in reflecting on what was learned in the workshop. The presentation component of the workshop is now available at http://netcrit.net/writing