Grainne Conole surrounded by art collected and created by Paul Prinsloo of Unisa
A team from Beyond Distance is visiting Unisa in South Africa for a three-day series of workshops and seminars about research and online learning. It’s wonderful to be back here among friends in Pretoria less than a year after our last visit. The team of six of us from Leicester is split between the Pretoria and Florida campuses. A few links to the presentations that have been given so far follow:
An overview of technology-enhanced learning (Grainne Conole)
Research methodology in technology-enhanced learning (Grainne Conole)
Audio recordings: Research Methodology in TEL Part 1
and Research Methodology in TEL Part 2 (Grainne Conole)
Sharing: from research to practice (Grainne Conole)
Harnessing the power of new media for learning, teaching and research (Grainne Conole)
Audio recording: Harnessing the power of new media for learning, teaching and research part 1
Harnessing the power of new media for learning, teaching and research part 2
Going open: the implications for learning, teaching and research (Grainne Conole)
Optimising the research possibilities in online teaching and learning (Ming Nie and Gabi Witthaus)
Questions for future e-learning research: can we plug the gaps? (Ale Armellini)
New Technologies and 21st century learners and their impact on teaching and learning at Unisa (Palitha Edirisingha, Ming Nie)
Ethical considerations in learning and teaching (Palitha Edirisingha, Ming Nie)
OER-based design for learning and its impact on research (Ming Nie, Gabi Witthaus,Terese Bird)
What works and what doesn’t work in research dissemination (Terese Bird)
The twitter stream from the three-day event (using hashtag #unisa12), captured on Storify: http://storify.com/twitthaus/university-of-leicester-at-unisa-june-2012
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/ June 14, 2012http://www.slideshare.net/GrainneConole/
http://www.slideshare.net/alejandroarmellini/armellini-future-research-questions-elearning
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/ July 15, 2012The University’s Beyond Distance Research Alliance is hosting a discussion forum on the 22nd November to explore some of these issues. This informal session will draw on recent BDRA research work as well as external perspectives, and provide an opportunity for cross-faculty exchange of experience, knowledge and thinking. The meeting will be facilitated by Roger Dence, E-Learning Research Associate with the BDRA.