Introducing the open course in Technology Enhanced Learning

Open Course in

Technology Enhanced Learning

TEL about TEL

What is it?

✦ Aimed initially at teaching in Higher Education

✦ Further ALT’s charitable aims in building capability in Technology Enhanced Learning

✦ Free as in money; free as in reuse (where possible)

✦ 50 hours over 10 weeks

✦ Running Spring 2013, aiming to update it for 2-3 years subsequently

Who are we?

✦ The UK's leading membership organisation in the learning technology field

✦ ALT: Maren Deepwell, Anna Davidge, David Jennings

✦ Contributors: Martin Hawksey (JISC CETIS), Linda Creanor (Glasgow Caledonian University), Shirley Evans (JISC TechDis), Peter Hartley (University of Bradford), Terry McAndrew (HEA/JISC TechDis), Phil Tubman (University of Lancaster), Nicola Whitton (Manchester Metropolitan University), Clive Young  (UCL)

✦ Evaluator: Rachel Harris

✦ Critical friend: Stephen Downes

Market research: purpose & background

✦ Understand the market demand for the OCTEL course before starting development to enable resources to be planned

✦ 140 responses of which 136 (97%) were complete*

✦ 22% had participated in a MOOC before

✦ estimate over ¾ in uk (based on email addresses)

http://octel.alt.ac.uk

Priority objectives

http://octel.alt.ac.uk

Priority areas

http://octel.alt.ac.uk

✦ Context: models, theories, Digital Literacies

✦ Metrics for managing and evaluating TEL

✦ Pedagogy, designing the learning experience

✦ Planning and implementation, including troubleshooting, managing risk with technologies

✦ Learner support & feedback including assessment

✦ Mobile and open platforms

✦ Ethics, privacy, IPR

Objectives & topics we hadn’t thought of

http://octel.alt.ac.uk

Roles: not just for teachers?

http://octel.alt.ac.uk

Experience of other MOOCs

✦ xMOOCs ✦ Coursera, Udacity, Google Powersearch, Blackboard

Exemplary Course Design, Curtis Bonk’s Instructional Ideas & Technology Tools

✦ cMOOCs✦ Siemens/Downes (Change11, LAK12)

✦ Others✦ Program for Online Teaching certificate, Stanford’s Designing

a New Learning Environment

http://octel.alt.ac.uk

What we value in MOOCs

Course outline http://goo.gl/AvCxy

Course outline http://goo.gl/AvCxy

Questions for discussion

✦ How credible is our interpretation of demand?

✦ What other developments should we be taking into account?

✦ Does the course outline make sense?

✦ What features would you value in terms of structure, activities and materials?

✦ What OERS would you recommend us to use?

✦ What might be the future and implications of developments like ocTEL?