Edited by Jonathan Turner, Saturday, 29 Mar 2014, 09:14
I enjoyed searching for resources for my course on online teaching, although I wasn't completely successful. There were quite a few broken links and at other times it was difficult to find stuff that I wanted. I found the Open Learn site particularly frustrating as I know they have lots of stuff on elearning but I couldn't find what I wanted.
I wouldn't say the resources I found changed what I wanted to teach, but I did find the level of formality and academic level changed quite a bit between resources, meaning i was a bit concerned that the 'voices' would have a been a bit disjointed. one exception was the resource I found on the vocabulary of discussion forums, which made me consider the importance of teaching the vocabulary connected to this topic.
Still overall I think that the volume of resources was encouraging and i will definitely use these databases the next time I design a course.
Week 8 activity 8
I enjoyed searching for resources for my course on online teaching, although I wasn't completely successful. There were quite a few broken links and at other times it was difficult to find stuff that I wanted. I found the Open Learn site particularly frustrating as I know they have lots of stuff on elearning but I couldn't find what I wanted.
I wouldn't say the resources I found changed what I wanted to teach, but I did find the level of formality and academic level changed quite a bit between resources, meaning i was a bit concerned that the 'voices' would have a been a bit disjointed. one exception was the resource I found on the vocabulary of discussion forums, which made me consider the importance of teaching the vocabulary connected to this topic.
Still overall I think that the volume of resources was encouraging and i will definitely use these databases the next time I design a course.