Using IFTTT to manage course feedback: my approach to dealing with mass
Michael GallagherA pragmatic post here on how I am using IFTTT to manage my feedback to students on their writing and recorded audio texts. I wrote a post recently on how I…
Conflating MOOCs with all of online education: Cambridge, Edinburgh, and some nuance (please)
Nothing to see here, learners. This isn't the classroom. I stumbled across this article brought to my attention by a few different people from my network and I wanted to…
Music for writing: Playlist exploring the role of music in academic writing
James Lamb, a friend and colleague from our years on the MSc in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh and subsequently from shared projects like Edinspace and Elektronisches Lernen Muzik,…
Using Audio for Learning, Posting and Commenting: Audioboo
This is more of a utilitarian post for those teachers out there, but I have redesigned my courses a bit for the upcoming semester in an attempt to engage my…
Proceedings of EMOOCs 2014: Challenges for conceptualising EU MOOC for vulnerable learner groups
My colleague Inge de Waard, of MobiMOOC and other fame, drafted a paper that we worked on along with other fantastic colleagues Ronda Zelezny-Green, Laura Czerniewicz, Stephen Downes, Agnes Kukulska-Hulme and…
Pedagogy of Simultaneity Presentation for NLC 2014: Our methods for presenting complexity
My colleague Pekka Ihanainen and I will be in Edinburgh in April for the Networked Learning Conference and will be presenting our paper titled "Mobile Learning Field Activity: Pedagogy of Simultaneity…
Teaching with Wikipedia: generating ebooks, evaluation of pages, concept maps
It is Christmas Day and as my wife and I don't have children, we have oodles of time to do things like write blog posts. I just finished grading my…