introducing the open course in technology enhanced learning
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Open Course in
Technology Enhanced Learning
TEL about TEL
What is it?
✦ Aimed initially at teaching in Higher Education
✦ Further ALT’s charitable aims in building capability in Technology Enhanced Learning
✦ Free as in money; free as in reuse (where possible)
✦ 50 hours over 10 weeks
✦ Running Spring 2013, aiming to update it for 2-3 years subsequently
Who are we?
✦ The UK's leading membership organisation in the learning technology field
✦ ALT: Maren Deepwell, Anna Davidge, David Jennings
✦ Contributors: Martin Hawksey (JISC CETIS), Linda Creanor (Glasgow Caledonian University), Shirley Evans (JISC TechDis), Peter Hartley (University of Bradford), Terry McAndrew (HEA/JISC TechDis), Phil Tubman (University of Lancaster), Nicola Whitton (Manchester Metropolitan University), Clive Young (UCL)
✦ Evaluator: Rachel Harris
✦ Critical friend: Stephen Downes
Market research: purpose & background
✦ Understand the market demand for the OCTEL course before starting development to enable resources to be planned
✦ 140 responses of which 136 (97%) were complete*
✦ 22% had participated in a MOOC before
✦ estimate over ¾ in uk (based on email addresses)
http://octel.alt.ac.uk
Priority objectives
http://octel.alt.ac.uk
Priority areas
http://octel.alt.ac.uk
✦ Context: models, theories, Digital Literacies
✦ Metrics for managing and evaluating TEL
✦ Pedagogy, designing the learning experience
✦ Planning and implementation, including troubleshooting, managing risk with technologies
✦ Learner support & feedback including assessment
✦ Mobile and open platforms
✦ Ethics, privacy, IPR
Objectives & topics we hadn’t thought of
http://octel.alt.ac.uk
Roles: not just for teachers?
http://octel.alt.ac.uk
Experience of other MOOCs
✦ xMOOCs ✦ Coursera, Udacity, Google Powersearch, Blackboard
Exemplary Course Design, Curtis Bonk’s Instructional Ideas & Technology Tools
✦ cMOOCs✦ Siemens/Downes (Change11, LAK12)
✦ Others✦ Program for Online Teaching certificate, Stanford’s Designing
a New Learning Environment
http://octel.alt.ac.uk
What we value in MOOCs
Course outline http://goo.gl/AvCxy
Course outline http://goo.gl/AvCxy
Questions for discussion
✦ How credible is our interpretation of demand?
✦ What other developments should we be taking into account?
✦ Does the course outline make sense?
✦ What features would you value in terms of structure, activities and materials?
✦ What OERS would you recommend us to use?
✦ What might be the future and implications of developments like ocTEL?