This course has been based around The Manifesto for Teaching Online  and I have re-visited my posts to see what I was initially interested in 3 months ago, when I started my first blogs on the Manifesto. Here, I will briefly summarise my conclusions of a couple of aspects of the course. Technology and the […]

Over the years, as I have developed as a teacher, I have been a strong advocate of the principle that ‘pedagogy must lead the technology’.     I found Cousin’s paper, ‘Learning from cyberspace’ remarkably interesting, as she sets out to critique this very mantra that I have chanted over the years. My new mantra […]

Two weeks ago, I really struggled to come up with a metaphor for a learning space. I chose a poem, Daffodils by WIlliam Wordsworth to represent the individual learning through inspiration that came from nature. I also liked a learning space as a metaphor of a journey, or conceptualised as a dining table or the […]

My collage is one of juxtapositions. Three papers contributed to my final interpretation of the spaces of the IDEL course: Bayne et al (2013) Being ‘at’ university: the social topologies of distance students Sheail (2017) The digital university and the shifting time-space of the campus Nordquist et al (2015) Designing spaces for the networked learning […]

  Click on the link below to see the Miro Board and the Student Photos of Learning Spaces. (Once you’ve had a look, please return to the blog and listen) Miro Board   Now please press play:   Distance students, we find, need their own version of the ‘certainties’ of bounded, campus space, while at […]

  When I entered the IDEL realm in Minecraft,  I was completely out of my comfort zone and put off creating anything until the very end of the week. I was at a loss as to how to proceed and it was humbling to be given strict demonstrations by my two sons. How the tables […]

First there was this…… and then this….. and maybe this soon….

  A Learning Space is a space where you are enabled to learn. Traditionally, this is a quiet space, free from distractions. A learning space should enhance the acquisition of knowledge, allow the learner to process the knowledge, apply the knowledge and ultimately create something, using that knowledge. I don’t think a learning space need […]

  A learning space should inspire, enable, provoke and interest…. https://vimeo.com/109585616 Observations There were several common themes running through all the metaphors that the IDEL students came up with on the forum. Some of the concepts of a learning space that we chose to define through our metaphors were: learning takes place anytime learning takes […]

  The elephant I think it is a fun image for a learning space – we all take away something different from our learning experiences. (This image has many layers. It is originally linked to the parable of the blind men and the elephant.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant; which could be construed as a warning that we make judgements […]