Notes from the 2011 UK Moodle Moot

Session 1: 

Grainne Conole

• New digital literacy skills needed for learners and teachers
• Stressing the importance of creativity and openness
• New forms of sharing, communicating and collaborating - ability to network and be part of the shared intelligence

The Machine is Using Us

There is a role for formal courses and structures and standard assessments. But teachers ought to challenge themselves to at least try one or two different apporoaches to learning. This session looked at some examples of each.

E-training - drill and practice, interactive tutorials and revision resources

Inquiry-based learning - prominent in the sciences

Resource based learning - open education resources, podcasts, iTunes U, Le Mill, iSpot

Situated learning, virtual exhibitions

Role-based learning

Reflective learning - e.g. blogs and e-portfolios, wikis, cohort blogs, collaborative, Twitter for just-in-time learning and for an extended teacher community. Using web 2.0 to connect beyond the course

Personalised learning - open courses for people to participate

Social networks to share, discuss and describe - Facebook teaching groups. Twitter as an extended community of practice

A learning environment needs to be flexible, We still have the barrier of 'old practices'

Cloud Works is the social media application for teachers developed by the Open University.