OU blog

Personal Blogs

Graduation 2008

Week 5 - technology for educational use

Visible to anyone in the world
Edited by Amanda Harrington-Vail, Thursday, 24 Apr 2014, 14:35

 

Technology

How long used for educational purposes

by my organisation (OU)

by me

Cloud computing

2010 according to http://sclater.com/blog/ou-adopts-google-apps-for-education/

Cloudworks 2012 and Google Apps for Education 2014

Mobile/cell phone

OUAnywhere app since 2013 http://www2.open.ac.uk/students/skillsforstudy/mobiles.php

Used this app since 2013. Owned a smartphone since 2011

Open content

Free, interactive eBooks available on iTunes U since 2010. OpenLearn since 2006

OpenLearn 2008. iTunes eBooks 2013

Tablet computing

OUAnywhere app since 2013 http://www2.open.ac.uk/students/skillsforstudy/mobiles.php

Owned a tablet since 2012 

Game-based learning

Second Life since 2006. OUVirtualWorlds on Twitter since 2009. http://www.open.ac.uk/virtualworlds/content/ou-second-life

2013 

Learning analytics

2013 http://www.open.ac.uk/iet/main/research-innovation/learning-analytics

As part of the OU - student since 2002 and tutor since 2008

New scholarship

Digital Scholarship 2011 http://www.open.ac.uk/iet/main/research-innovation/learning-an-open-world/digital-scholarship

Since starting MAODE in 2008

Semantic applications

Social Learn since 2012 http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/sociallearn/

Social Learn since 2012

Augmented reality

 Second Life since 2006

Listening to podcasts and viewing webinars on my smartphone since 2011

Collective intelligence

 Tutor group forums for collaborative learning since 2006

2005

Smart objects

 Elluminate since 2009

Elluminate 2009

Telepresence

Content since 1971 http://www.open.ac.uk/about/main/the-ou-explained/history-the-ou and “The OU has had a partnership with the BBC for over 40 years and co-produces up to 25 TV and radio series a year with the BBC, recent examples; Empire, The Secret History of Our Streets, Bang Goes the Theory, Frozen Planet, Our Crime, Divine Women” http://www.open.ac.uk/about/main/the-ou-explained/facts-and-figures plus (in the same weblink) “•The OU is YouTube EDU’s largest UK university channel with 800 videos that have received 11.2 million views by 6.2 million visitors”.

 N/A

 

Permalink
Share post