http://sarahpayne.co.uk/blog E-learning - Is it the shiny new toy we hope it is? Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:30:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OK - so I am not the most consistent blogger in the world. Infact it is right down at the bottom of my list of priorities at the moment. I have a new job, my MSc studies take up a lot of time, and I am also embarking on a ... http://sarahpayne.co.uk/blog/?p=16 I am a girl - obviously, because Sarah would be a silly name for a boy. As a girl, even in this modern world of enlightenment and womens lib, there are still many expectations as to how I should live my life. One of those areas is the way ... http://sarahpayne.co.uk/blog/?p=15 Having an assessable element to contribution can be hard to measure. Do you, as the tutor, grade based on the number of postings which is easy to measure but doesn’t measure value of contribution and is therefore meaningless as a method of group cohesion. A better (and fairer) method of ... http://sarahpayne.co.uk/blog/?p=14 With the continuing march of technology available to learners, we as educators have a responsibility to update our teaching practices to reflect new demands. However, simply adopting new technologies to maintain our existing current practices may lead to internal efficiencies for us, but will probably not lead to new learning ... http://sarahpayne.co.uk/blog/?p=13 If you are interested in e-learning you cannot possibly have missed the interest in Second Life! Businesses are falling over themselves to establish a presence in this vitrual world. The ‘hip’ value of this means of advertising will not be doing any of them any harm. One possible area of ... http://sarahpayne.co.uk/blog/?p=11 Well my first module is over now and I handed the coursework in at the beginning of the month. So now I find myself with lots of free time on my hands. The last three months have been hectic, with the first module and work being mental at the moment. ... http://sarahpayne.co.uk/blog/?p=10 So what is all the fuss about? Surely learning is learning? Well not exactly. It is well known that people learn in different ways, and that some methods of learning are more effective than others. In most case, deep learning is really the one you want to encourage. So what is ... http://sarahpayne.co.uk/blog/?p=9 In my last post I lamented that the lack of facial expression in a digital world would create a barrier between learners and learning providers. And as usual, technology was one step ahead of me! Hiroshi Ishiguro is a reasearcher who has created a remote control copy of himself with ... http://sarahpayne.co.uk/blog/?p=8 Well my course is over now. I will hand in my web essay in the morning and that about wraps it up for my first module. So this is the opportunity to tie it all up and conclude what I have learned over the last 3 months. Technology - I have ... http://sarahpayne.co.uk/blog/?p=7 Why does anyone keep a weblog? There are literally millions of weblog out there on the web created to keep track of more topics than I can even imagine. They perform social, political, philosphical and plain entertainment functions. I started my weblog as part of a course that I am ... http://sarahpayne.co.uk/blog/?p=6