A learning model serves to map the skeleton of a course, ensuring that it is constructively aligned, workload balanced and actively supports learning. A learning pattern is a student-engagement activity designed to meet a set of learning objectives. A quick reminder that learning outcomes are set at a course level and are always assessed. Learning …
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DiAL-e and SOLE at Distance Education Conference Madison-Wisconsin 2011
The 27th Annual Distance Learning and Teaching Conference at Madison-Wisconsin this August was a diverse and varied programme attended by some 900 distance educators from all sectors, from K-12 to professional education. My contribution was a half-day DiAL-e Workshop with Kevin Burden (University of Hull) attended by some 24 people. The workshop went relatively well but …
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DiAL-e Workshop in US #dtl2011
24 colleagues from Distance Providers across the US, including from sectors with which we were less familiar such as Military Instructional Education, joined us for a DiAL-e workshop in Madison-Wisconsin. A half-day workshop on the first day of the 27th Annual Distance Education Conference in Madison-Wisconsin ( #dtl2011 ) provided us with an excellent opportunity …
DiAL-e Workshop is PM07! #dialeUS
Great to see details of the DiAL-e Workshop is PM-7 at the The 27th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning is sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Our session is: DiAL-e Framework: Optimizing media for engagement at a distance and is a half-day workshop on Wednesday, August 3; 1:00-4:00 advertised as “Despite the abundance of digital media and …
DiAL-e Presented at ALDinHE 2011
It was a pleasure to join some 120 colleagues at ALDinHE 2011 at Queen’s University Belfast. From a range of different HEIs, and a diverse set of professional roles, participants came to share insights and good practice in a range of learning development-related activities. The conference theme ‘Engaging Students – Engaging Learning’ was so closely related …
SOLE Model and DiAl-e Framework Presented at ALDinHE 2011
ALDinHE 2011 was a relatively small professional conference with some 120 colleagues from across a diverse range of UK Higher Education institutions. The theme was “Engaging Students – Engaging Learning” although, with some noticeable exceptions, much of the conference was concerned primarily with the challenges we face as educational (or academic) developers. There was a lot of discussion about …
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The Digital Artefacts for Learner Engagement (DiAL-e) in 5 minutes!
A brief 5 minute (exactly!) Prezi presentation, based on the ALDinHE poster has been added to the ‘What is the DiAL-e’ page and as the opener to the YouTube channel. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyRTAnGnBt4] Can you spare 5 minutes?
SOLE Model shared at ALDinHE Workshop 2011
Simon Atkinson will present the DiAL-e Framework to colleagues at the ALDinHE conference in Belfast on Wednesday 20th April. The 90 minute workshop (session 6.3 1400-1530) is entitled Engaging Learners with Digital Resources. Participants will have an overview of the framework before getting the chance to use it in earnest and consider how it might support their colleagues …
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YouTube Channel for DiAL-e: Digital Artefacts for Learner Engagement
A new YouTube channel has been produced in order to bring together a disperate range of video exemplars, explanatory videos and training & development material from the different DiAL-e projects in one place. We hope to develop this channel in the near future with your help, to make it a useful place to critique the framework and its applications, as well …
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SOLE Model dissemination 2011 Conferences
The next version of the SOLE model, with embedded Intended Learning Outcomes and further pedagogical guidance, along with a populated example, will be ready for the 2011 conference season! Version 2.0 will be released on Saturday 16 April just before the 8th ALDinHE Conference: Queen’s University Belfast “Engaging Students – Engaging Learning” 18-20 April 2011 I …
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DiAl-e at Media and Learning Conference, Brussels Nov 2010
I am currently in a symposium session at the Media and Learning conference in Brussels, sharing our ideas about how we might engage students and staff in Higher Education with media rich resources. We have explored the issue in some depth with a particular focus on identifying what students want from their University courses, and …
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Media and Learning Conference DiAL-e presentation, Brussels, November 25-26th 2010
The DiAL-e framework has already proven to be a flexible set of designs which can be used in a range of different contexts and one of these is the EduTubePlus European project which I am currently working on. Along with my colleague, Theo Kuechel, we are demonstrating how the DiAL-e framework can be used to …
DiAL-e Framework Moving to WordPress
Kevin Burden and I met today in Leicester to review our progress on the DiAL-e Framework project. The project, funded by JISC in 2007-08 has generated significant interest, two book chapters, an article in review, several project reports, a JISC hosted website, over 120 workshop participants and more besides. We decided today to revitalise this work and …
GloMaker patterns and DiAL-e framework
Back in 2007, Kevin Burden at the University of Hull and I (then at Hull) were writing a chapter for a book by the late John O’Donoghue called ‘Technology-Supported Environments for Personalized Learning: Methods and Case Studies’ (2010). The chapter was based on earlier work, mostly by Kevin and Theo Kuechel, with the (then) QIA and a …
Reviewing participation at LAMS 2009 in Oxford with the DiAL-e
Two conference in June/July in the UK 2009
VoiceThread and evolving communication
How is VoiceThread changing our ideas about communication?
Must learn to focus…
My own writing has been the focus the last couple of days. I’ve been struggling with a personal tendency towards the theoretical and philosophical ramblings of a prematurely ageing ‘whatever I am’ and the need to develop something more substantial. I have memories of my primary school teachers telling my parents “Simon would do well …
Visit to CompendiumLD team at the Open University
Interesting meeting with the CompendiumLD team at the Open University