We have been funded by the UK Energy Institute (EI) and Shell International BV in the Netherlands to help companies in the energy sector improve the effectiveness of organisational learning from safety incidents. The Caledonian Academy was one of only two international research centres invited by Shell and the ENergy Institute to bid for this…
DetailsWe are launching a research study into self-regulated learning in massive open online courses Massive Open Online Courses. Little is known about the impact of MOOCs on learning so we want to form a better understanding of how they support different types of learning. Anoush Margaryan, Colin Milligan and I are interested in self-regulated learning outside…
DetailsOn November 14th 2012 we released the UKOER2 final report (http://tinyurl.com/bu5lvge). UK Open Educational Resources (UKOER) is a largescale programme funded by the UK Government through the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) . The programme aims to encourage academics in universities and colleges to openly release educational resources under s creative commons licence.…
DetailsOn 14th november 2012 I travelled to Birmingham (UK) to join in the UKOER3 startup event. The event marked the start of phase 3 of a major programme funded by the JISC and the Higher Education Academy. The UK Open Educational Resources Programme. The UKOER is one of the largest programmes of its kind in…
Details#Change11 MOOC This week I facilitated week 6 of the #Change11 MOOC (Massive Open Online Course http://change.mooc.ca/post/220). The focus of the week was #collective learning. Georgia Tech cloned the MOOC and made a personalised version. Here’s an overview of the week. The week 4 position paper on Connected Knowledge Collective Learning outlined initials ideas http://littlebylittlejohn.com/change11-position-paper/…
DetailsCOLLECTIVE LEARNING: reflections This is the last day of the week on collective learning, we hope you have enjoyed thinking about some of the issues we have presented and discussed. In our work, we have tried to define the knowledge actions underpinning collective learning as described in the post (http://littlebylittlejohn.com/collective-learning-and-charting/): connect, consume, create, contribute. Using…
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DetailsThe Dynamics of Learning Ecosystems: literacies and resources Allison Littlejohn “The most profound impact of the Internet… is its ability to support and expand the various aspects of social learning”.“Attention has moved from access to information towards access to other people”. “Web2.0 blurs the boundaries between the producers and consumers of content”. (Seely Brown, 2008)…
DetailsCOLLECTIVE LEARNING: literacies and resources Learning effectively from the collective requires open learning literacies and resources which complement traditional types. Some of our work in UK Higher Education attempts to define and consider these and begin to foster them within formal education. These ideas are explored in task 4. Task 4 is to contribute to the…
DetailsHow do individuals use collective knowledge for learning? “The most profound impact of the Internet… is its ability to support and expand the various aspects of social learning”. “Attention has moved from access to information towards access to other people”. “Web2.0 blurs the boundaries between the producers and consumers of content”. (Seely Brown, 2008) John…
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