ocTEL Big Questions
as compiled by Tom Franklin, Franklin Consulting
Author | Question/ topic |
Evaluation | |
Nigel Jones | how to evaluate the technology enhanced learning items/objects/methods before, during, and after implementation. |
Engagement | |
Wendy Wood | How can I help people engage, enjoy and learn effectively using TEL? |
Sarla Gandhi | how can it [my module] be developed into a more effective teaching and learning medium to enhance engagement? |
David Read | how technology, especially mobile devices, can motivate and encourage students to learn English outside of the classroom. |
Maria Hacker | the technologies available and how they can best be used for student engagement. |
Andrew MacLeod | ways to engage these reluctant professionals without alienating them. |
Pete Richardson | What is the best way to help classroom teachers adopt digital materials and methods to improve their practice and the student experience? |
Technology selection and effectiveness | |
Lynne Francis | what technologies are actually available, how do I use them, how are they beneficial for me to use as a teacher, and what are the learning gains for those I teach. |
Barbara Wilford | how do we encourage academics to use appropriate technologies to support student learning and to enhance digital literacy? |
Tracey Yeadon-Lee | I use a general VLE for my courses and in lectures I will often YouTube and radio podcasts. I think my big question is what else can I use and how |
Mary Watkins | I'd like to know more about TEl outside of the VLE so academics and students aren't constrained by the features of the VLE. |
Bill Miller | [What is] the scope of the field |
Orla Daly | I can ensure that what I offer in terms of TEL initiatives/projects/suggestions is meeting the requirements and expectations of staff and students for an enhanced teaching and learning experience. |
Maria Hacker | the technologies available and how they can best be used for student engagement. |
Kari Rasmussen | How do we clearly identify who our student is, what responsibilities are they balancing and how to we best select and implement technology in a way that supports their learning and success in an educational career? |
jamila osman | with the various technology that is being developed to enhance learning, how does the teacher determine whether teaching has taken place or not? |
Quick wins | |
Sue Watson | I am really interested in quick fixes for teachers in formative assessment and would like to discuss how BTEC higher order grades can be assessed easily online. I think we need to get the assessment part integrated, which will lead to greater adoption by staff |
Examples of good practice | |
Stephanie Bennett | I am really keen to learn and discuss more about best practice for implementing TEL both for campus and distance students – and also discover new and effective ways to encourage student learning through participation and interaction. |
Elizabeth Charles | how TEL can be best used in teaching information literacy both face-to-face and via the VLE to support the self-directed independent learning of Birkbeck's mature students. |
Evidence base | |
Donald MacLean | What do other practitioners find most effective in this field, why, and is there any research to back it up? I often find that research backed activity, and evidence, can be difficult to find. |
Kate Simpson | Is the student getting a different quality of experience by not being in the same room as the teacher; and, does TEL justify its worth in terms of money and time? |
Tom Franklin | To what extent is evidence informing practice in technology enhanced learning? |
Ethics | |
beth.ritter-guth@UCC.EDU | How do we promote ethical and robust content in online courses? |
Understanding MOOCs | |
Lesly Huxley | I am hoping to learn a) what it's like to participate in a MOOC b) what innovations as well as the basics of TEL are 'out there' and peoples' experience of them and c) how others respond to the MOOC. |
Tim Bones | to glean a wider understanding of OOCs and their workings how, both as an educator and participant/learner, might I benefit from engaging in MOOCs? |
Tom Franklin | To what extent will Moocs transform learning and educational institutions? |
Effeciency and effectiveness | |
David Read | how technology can free up teachers’ time to focus on the more important things in the classroom. |
Accessibility | |
gemma holtam | How can technology be embedded in to everyday teaching and learning to support and enhance the needs of dyslexic students as well as all of the other student in the class? |
Pedagogic theory | |
Bopelo Boitshwarelo | Is there a specific online pedagogy? |
Rawad Hammad | how learning can be done through ICT? |
I can’t classify | |
ScottJohnson | How do we build thinking content that seeps into society such that people start to revalue an enhanced and thoughtful version of themselves over the comfort and effortless state of general dumbness and pointless ammusement? |
"Nortcliffe, Anne" | With Tablets sales exceeeding desktop/laptop sales, Ahmed (2013), what are implications for academic and student learning practice? How are others embracing Post PC technology to enhance student learning? How others are encouraging their students to user their personal devices to support their learning? Particularly as in our student population as smart device ownership has increased the useage of smart devices for learning appears to have narrowed, to an expensiving surfing tool (Woodcock et al 2012c). How do we engage our learners to utilise their smart devices and apps more effectively to develop and deepen their learning |
Simon Bates | How can we fill the void between the need to co-create TEL work with educators and the needs of large (and mainly necessary) central administration systems?’ |
Janet Holmes | How can I enable learners to learn as they want to? It could be How can I learn what I need to do that! Maybe it should be How can I get the trainees to teach each other? |
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