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One of the major themes of this module has been the issue of privacy. For this activity, you will focus on understanding the idea of privacy in education. Consider the following questions: What expectation of privacy should students have? When… Continue Reading →

In this module, you explored a number of different ways that education technologies can be tools for control: controlling access to information, controlling behaviour, controlling learning. For this activity, you will consider the digital spaces that you frequent for education…. Continue Reading →

Module 3 emphasises that technology in education has the potential for both good and harm. Often institutions will adopt new technologies without due diligence to understand who and how might be harmed by the use of those technologies. Because of… Continue Reading →

Module 2 highlights the importance of connection and community in distributed education. Part of this is creating opportunities for social and cognitive interaction, allowing learners (and instructors!) to think together. One technique for this is Social Annotation, which is a… Continue Reading →

Weller suggests that networked learning is “characterized by its decentralization, multiple nodes, and changing nature”. Stewart suggests at the beginning of the podcast that actually all learning occurs in a complex network of nodes and connections. For this activity, you… Continue Reading →

In module 1, you read about various Learning Theories and orientations to teaching and learning. In higher education, most disciplines follow relatively consistent teaching practices and subscribe to specific learning theories. In this module, Weller shares the basic tenets of… Continue Reading →

In the Bates’ reading on “Learning theories and online learning”, the author outlines a number of Theories on Learning. Each of of these theories has implications for teaching and learning design. Consider each of the theories outlined in the article,… Continue Reading →

Imagine a professor standing in front of a room full of students and lecturing at them. This is and continues to be a common, pervasive vision of what learning is and how it happens. In his session on “How Distance… Continue Reading →

Description: Once throughout the course, you are invited to submit your own idea for a Learning Activity. The activity must tie in with the topic for the module you are submitting it on, drawing on concepts from at least one… Continue Reading →

Description: Part of the goal of this module is to look at the history and development of distributed and open learning. For this activity, you will choose an Ed Tech or Open Learning development or technology and summarise it. You… Continue Reading →