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…. 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 place […]

  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 […]