Distributed and Open Learning

Category Learning Portfolio Prompt (A01)

Module 3 Learning Activity: Resisting Ed Tech

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 Learning Activity: Mapping your Learning Network

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 →

Module 2 Learning Activity: Connectivism in your Discipline

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 →

Module 1 Learning Activity: On Motivation

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 →

Module 1 Learning Activity: History of Ed Tech

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 →

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