A 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)
I stumbled across this article brought to my attention by a few different people from my network and I wanted to briefly mention my take on the issue. The article …
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 …