Developing ALT’s open course platform for ocTEL This was a post I prepared for another site. It got lost in the pending queue so is out of date (you can still register for ocTEL until the end of June), but I thought worth capturing this post here for future reference.

Here's @mhawksey's outline of the platform for @a_l_t's #octel #mooc: mashe.hawksey.info/2014/05/developing-alts-...

#octel Week 1 Thoughts and musings My MOOC journey to date Last Monday I embarked on my third MOOC. The first #edcmooc was run on the Coursera platform and I enjoyed every minute of the five weeks, the course content, the participan…

Encouraging assessment by QUB Med. School elearning developer Clare Thomson of the 1st week of @A_L_T's #octel #mooc edcmooccthomson.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/octel-week-1-...

#MOOCs and Open Education. Useful, if HE-focused, 21p rpt [PDF] by @stephenp & Li Yuan of @Jisccetis #octel: http://bit.ly/13pLRvM

Proposal for the establishment of a wide-ranging @A_L_T #MOOC Special Interest Group is now with ALT for review #octel.

On Putting it Online… What this post is about: Some thoughts on making the decision to “go online” with training interventions, and how you might go about doing that. What this post is not about: This is not…

Putting it online. "Make it accessible, appropriate, applicable for learner and subject" By @brenLearning #octel.: http://bit.ly/11UtH8F

Retention and Intention in Massive Open Online Courses: In Depth Passive participants engage with a MOOC predominantly through watching lecture videos, have limited participation on course forums, and typically atte

@donaldclark Interesting @coursera MOOC analysis here by Koller, Ng and colleagues www.educause.edu/ero/article/retention-an... via @sarahhorrigan #octel

7 things about MOOCs & UK HE Report from the UUK May 2013 event: Open and online learning: Making the most of Moocs and other models. This Universities UK event was aimed at senior staff in Higher Education (VCs, Pro-VCs, Regi…

7 things about #MOOCs & UK HE by @mattlingard, reporting from last week's UUK event - @donaldclark #octel: http://bit.ly/14kTQvR

Recording of @mhawksey 's #octel talk about DIY #MOOC infrastructure (45 slides here: http://goo.gl/4tkyh - PDF): http://bit.ly/148vi9i

Webinar: Overview of cMOOC platform trends and creating your own open online course using WordPress 15th May 16:30BST As part of ocTEL on the 15th May at 16:30BST (check in your own timezone) I’ll be doing a webinar on platforms for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), in particular focusing on some of the connectivist style recipes I’m aware of. As part of this I’ll be taking participants behind the scenes of the ocTEL […]

@mhawksey's imminent @A_L_T #octel webinar about "grow your own" #MOOC platforms will definitely be worth joining: mashe.hawksey.info/2013/05/webinar-overview...

The (dodgy) foundations of technology enhanced learning #ocTEL Ooh, this is sneaky. After three weeks, I’m jumping back into the #ocTEL MOOC. I’m fortunate in that this week the course comes to the end of Part I, the Foundations of Technology Enhan…

learningcreep.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/the-dodgy-fou... Incisive #octel reflection by Helen Crump.

How was it? The UK’s first Coursera Moocs assessed Instructors and students discuss their experiences of the University of Edinburgh’s debut courses on Coursera

Edinburgh U's "e-learning & digital cultures" MOOC - http://bit.ly/17sDKzR See also the course authors' own http://tinyurl.com/cth5kou #octel

An interview in Sheffield with Eric Mazur On 18 July, with help from Graham McElearney, I interviewed Eric Mazur when Eric was in Sheffield. The interview concentrates on: Eric's research into peer-based instruction; large group teaching; closing the gender gap in STEM; and "learning analytics". It ends...

@ALTocTEL The qs in this interview (audio & transcribed) with @eric_mazur are from the @ALT email list fm.schmoller.net/2012/08/an-interview-wit... #octel #edtech

Donald Clark Plan B What is Plan B? Not Plan A!

Nice non-prescriptive 8-type taxonomy for #MOOCs by @donaldclark #octel via @downes. Preceded by a Mean Street... http://bit.ly/13gryW7

1. TEL Concepts and Approaches We’re looking at TEL concepts and approaches this week, which can be easily overlooked in favour of technology when technologists and managers bring new tools onto their campuses. Imagine you were …

#octel "TEL Concepts and Approaches" is broad: from teeth with Margaret Cox of #TEL to the @donaldclark blogathon.: http://bit.ly/11h4Mcn

Big questions and learning the ropes Here’s quick overview and recap as the induction part of ocTEL draws to a close and we approach the start of the main course next week. The aims we set for this part were for you to have a se…

Promising #octel induction week stock take by @davidjennings octel.alt.ac.uk/big-questions-and-learni...

#ocTEL #MOOCs 3 min new semi-promo video about Stanford's drive to get a grip on 4 different types of online l... http://bit.ly/11ZIZr9

#ocTEL– proudly powered by … There have been a couple of very interesting WordPress/FeedWordPress recipe cards for open courses from Anne-Marie Scott for #edcmooc and Martin Weller for #h817open. Below is the ingredient list for #octel. Added to the pot is some homegrown veg which gives us some very personal customisation. A lot of this is to tweak the functionality […]

Impressive mashe.hawksey.info/2013/04/octel-proudly-po... @mhawksey summarises the underpinning technology for the @a_l_t #octel #mooc (or should that be #booc?)

Hacking btopro My name is Bryan Ollendyke (btopro) and I’m an instructional technologist on a mission. I know that we can and will change the world together. Yes, you, and I, together, working to collaborat…

Drupal in Education is an interesting blog by Bryan Ollendyke at Penn State U about Drupal as an LMS #octel: http://bit.ly/10Qcnyg

(M)OOC in a Box: Turning WordPress into an Open Course Reader #ocTEL Google Readers demise is unfortunate but before it disappears I thought it would be useful to raid some of the functionality for an open course reader (using WordPress/FeedWordPress

Definitely worth reading: "(M)OOC in a Box: Turning WordPress into an Open Course Reader" by @mhawksey #ocTEL: http://bit.ly/Y1fXHp

In this short video @mhawksey explains the (impressive) flexible aggregation achieved by the #ocTEL "Course Reader": http://bit.ly/12pa49v

Advice to OcTEL Context: email to David Jennings, on the occasion of the start of the OcTEL MOOC , in which participants have been flooded with introductory...

Very sound-looking/reading advice to #OcTEL from @downes: http://bit.ly/XXgI48

First task: respond to the questions. Well, here goes on my very first blog on a few days after my first tweet and it’s all thanks to #ocTEL  :) There follows answers to the questions posed in the induction activities 0.1. Neat w…

telcourse.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/first-task-re... is a nice candid #octel reflection.

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An impressive number of people have joined #ocTEL the @A_L_T open course on technology enhanced learning: octel.alt.ac.uk/course-discussions/parti...