SLENZ (Midwifery) – Ideas for stage 1 – Virtual Birthing Unit
Last week I posted a process for developing educational resources through Second Life. We are still sorting out terminology but we agree with the general direction and so can proceed – thinking about better terminology as we go.
We have 3 projects to pass through this process:
Foundation interview skills
Midwifery
Second Life orientation
The midwifery project seems to be [...]
Talk: Assessment in open access and flexible learning courses
mp3 file on Blip.tv
We are having a day of professional development here at Otago Polytechnic today, and I’ve been asked to give a talk on assessment in open access and flexible learning courses at 2.40pm today NZ time (2.40am UTC) which is in about 30 minutes from now.
Although the talk is taking place in a [...]
About to develop another model for open access education
Last week, our Business School took a day to meet, along with external people like myself, and business and community spokes people, to discuss the future of the School and its services. It was interesting to participate in the process. While it had its boggy patches and sensitive areas, it was good to see by [...]
Computer Mediated Social Networking: Dunedin Conference 2008
Sarah Stewart has picked up on a conference taking place here in Dunedin that I know very little about. Part of me is offended that I know so little about a conference being organised in my home town without any of the organisers talking to me directly about it. But universities are a bit like [...]
I know what happened to podcasting, but what happened to audio blogging?
Here I am, on a lovely and sunny Sunday morning about to commit to another day of good old digging in my back yard. We have a steep section, and I just seem to end up doing a lot of digging in it. Mainly to terrace it off and make flat spaces for the day [...]
Lectures
Sometimes, people come into my office area and in an effort to strike up conversation or something they say, “lectures are so old school don’t you think..?”.
I don’t know what to say to a statement like that. I don’t want to discourage their attempt to show how progressive a thinker they are… but I also [...]
Educational Development at Otago Polytechnic
Otago Polytechnic has adopted a Creative Commons Attribution copyright license and has been using the Wikieducator platform with other popular media sharing services to develop and publish Open Educational Resources and Practices. This article outlines some of the steps that the Polytechnic has taken, as well as some of the challenges being faced, and a [...]
To facilitate or to teach
As I teach and facilitate various online courses this year, a lot of the theories and concepts I subscribe to are getting some hard testing. The biggest challenge I am finding is the expectation for a teacher or instructor while everyone talks about a facilitator. I don’t think someone can be both, primarily because a [...]
10 Minute Lecture – George Siemens – Curatorial Teaching
George Siemens gave a 15 minute talk on his concept of curatorial teaching. It is a very thought provoking idea and generated quite a lot of good discussion afterwards.
Elluminate recording – no login
MP3 recording of presentation
MP3 recording of discussion
Slides in Slideshare
10min lectures – Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach – The Art of Building Virtual Communities
Early on in this course, many of us were enthusiastic for Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach’ s article The Art of Building Virtual Communities. The tips in that article have received wide acclaim in the comments and other people’s blogging.
We were lucky to have Sheryl join us with a 10 minute lecture and then discussion on [...]
