Month: March 2019
Learning analytics mind map I decided to try out a mind mapping tool to summarise the key points of this week’s core readings, with a focus on how different learning analytics methods may be used to track aspects of students’ participation in online courses and inform interventions to improve participation. As well as […]
**spoilers alert** – it may be best to read this after checking my assignment! After a blogging hiatus of two weeks I’ve decided to make my comeback with a post about the whole experience around the assignment. I thought it would be useful to do a kind of informal SWOT analysis as a way of […]
In this second HEA-related post, I would like to turn to the issue of learner diversity and discuss this with specific reference to the different ways in which online students perceive being ‘at’ university. This is an area worthy of consideration because the more awareness course designers and tutors have of these differing perceptions and […]
During the process of putting together this outline I have deliberated a lot over whether to focus on ‘informal’ (self-directed) or ‘formal’ (accredited) digital education. In the end I have included both but I fear that the scope may be too wide for an assignment of this length. If I decide to narrow the scope […]
Here is my belated response to the Week 7 task for which we were asked to depict our online studies using a spatial metaphor. Perhaps I diverged slightly from the brief but the outcome is interesting and pleasing, to me at least! Completing this task has helped me to articulate the significance of the IDEL […]
My intention in the next two posts is to address two of the HEA topics within the context of discussions and readings from Weeks 6 and 7 regarding the concept of ‘space’. Admittedly I have found the subject matter in this section of the course quite challengingly abstract and have observed myself retreating into “lurker” […]
I created these word clouds on Wordart.com to display key words identified in my preliminary reading for the IDEL assignment; they are intended to represent two broad perspectives on the question I have chosen to tackle: Who benefits from digital education? The first perspective emphasises the discontinuity between digitally-mediated education and previously existing forms […]
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