Conversations on online learning: Recent Episodes
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Listen in on informal chats with experts and practitioners from the world of online learning and teaching. Your hosts are from the Department of Learning and Teaching Enhancement at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland: Dr Louise Drumm, Dr Stuart Taylor, Dr Imi Dencer-Brown and Dr Ingeborg van Knippenberg. We suggest you get away for the screens, download onto your favourite app and take a walk while listening in. Please get in touch with us if you'd like to participate in this podcast: dlte@napier.ac.uk This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
In this episode, we chat with Dr. Amrit Dencer-Brown (Edinburgh Napier University) about Blended Learning. The resources and case studies Imi speaks about are available under Creative Commons licence on the Department of Learning and Teaching Enhancement website: ENU Blended Learning: Guidance and Case Studies
In our first episode of season 2, Cinzia Pusceddu & Jessica O’Loughlin of the University of Edinburgh discuss inclusive online learning, reflecting on emergency provision, and consider what we might learn moving forward, from both student and teacher perspectives.
In our final episode of season one, we are joined by James York, lecturer at Tokyo Denki University. James conducts research on the application of ludic approaches to language teaching. He explores research on the use of tabletop games in a task-based language teaching curriculum, the use of Reddit in multiliteracies-inspired curriculum, and building community through online games. He also edits Ludic Language Pedagogy, an open-access journal that publishes research on the integration of games and play in language teaching contexts.
You can find James on: Twitter | LLP Discord | email
Links & resources
James’s methodology: Task-based language teaching (TBLT): https://www.english.com/blog/teaching-methods-introduction-to-tblt/
Problem-based Learning (PBL): https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.napier.ac.uk/science/article/pii/S2452301116300062
Bill Cope & Mary Kalantzis (Eds.) A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Learning by Design (Palgrave macmillan, 2016)https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137539717
Discord: https://discord.com/
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/
Massively multiplayer online (MMO) games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_multiplayer_online_game
Minecraft: https://www.minecraft.net/
Apex Legends: https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends
Among Us: https://innersloth.com/gameAmongUs.php
Kotoba-rollers: see J. York (2019), “Kotoba Rollers” walkthrough: Board games, TBLT, and player progression in a university EFL classroom. Ludic Language Pedagogy, 1, 58-114. https://llpjournal.org/assets/publication-pdfs/york-j-2019-kotoba-rollers-walkthrough.pdf & J. York (2021) ‘Creating playgrounds in online teaching spaces: Kanami and Nene’s “hero journeys” Lucic Language Pedagogy https://llpjournal.org/2021/05/14/j-york-creating-playgrounds-hero-journeys.html
Situated Learning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situated_learning
This week, Dr. Sarah McLean, Assistant Professor at Western University (Ontario), joins us to discuss, flipped-classroom approaches, community, and social connection in online and blended spaces.
Follow Sarah on Twitter: @DrSarahMcLean
Links & Resources
SAMR Model
Dr Nicole Campbell: @drsoup09 on Twitter
Western University’s Centre for Teaching and Learning
eLearning and Curriculum Specialist Beth Hundey’s website
academicchatter on Twitter
Our guest this week is Virginia Byrne, Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Morgan State University in the School of Education and Urban Studies. In this episode, we talk about Virginia’s experience and research on equity in online learning and how social media is changing the adult learning experience.
Follow Virginia on twitter (@VirginiaLByrne), and check out her website
Recommendations:
On Twitter: #AcademicTwitter
Karen Costa on her website http://www.100faculty.com/ and on twitter https://twitter.com/karenraycosta
Karen Costa’s asynchronous summer class Trauma Fundamentals for Higher Educators: https://www.onlinelearningtoolkit.com/trauma-aware-teaching
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Sarah R. Lambert, Honorary Research Fellow at Deakin University, Australia.
You can find Sarah on Twitter @SarahLambertOz
Her two publications we discuss in the episode are:
Lambert, S. R. (2019). Six critical dimensions: A model for widening participation in open, online and blended programs. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 35(6), 161-182. https://doi.org/10.14742/ajet.5683
Lambert, S. (2020). Do MOOCs contribute to student equity and social inclusion? A systematic review 2014–18. Computers and Education, 145, 103693–. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2019.103693
The rest of Sarah’s publications are listed on Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=oW424W0AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Sarah recommended the following:
Hamad, R. (2020). White Tears Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Colour. Hachette UK. ISBN: 9781398703087
Moreton-Robinson, A. (2000). Talkin'up to the white woman: Aboriginal women and feminism. Univ. of Queensland Press. ISBN: 9780702231346
Saad, L. (2020). Me and white supremacy: How to recognise your privilege, combat racism and change the world. Hachette UK. ISBN-13: 978152941376
In this episode, we speak with Bancha Srikacha, Instructional Technologist at Manhattanville College, about instructional design in online learning.
Follow Bancha:
Twitter: @BS96
Tools mentioned:
Padlet
MURAL
Hypothes.is
Blackboard Collaborate
Resources:
Backward Design
Quality Matters
Online Learning Consortium
Association of College and University Educators (ACUE)
In this episode, we are joined by educational developers Ceridwen Coulby (@cericoulby)and Laura Blundell (@laurablundell) of the University of Liverpool’s Centre for Innovation in Education.
Information about their Peru project can be found on what'srel and on UNESCO's PMESUT pages.
Resources:
L. Dee Fink, Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses
ABC Learning Design
Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe, ‘Backward Design’ in Understanding by Design
Kay Sampbell and Sally Brown, ‘Covid-19 Assessment Collection’
Twitter: Sally Brown; Phil Race; Virena Rossi
SEDA Network
Jisc Mailing List
LTHE Tweetchat on Twitter and collected here.
Association for Learning Technology (ALT)
Creative HE
University of Liverpool’s Spotlight Guides
Centre for Innovation in Education podcast
…including the series ‘Treasure Island Pedagogies’ by Dr. Tunde Varga-Atkins
Our guest this week is Aurelie Soulier (Learning Technologist at University College London), and we discuss design, wellbeing, and the #EdTechHuman
Contact Aurelie:
Twitter: @EdTechYogi
Email: A.Soulier@ucl.ac.uk
Links & Resources:
Sam Taylor: @samwisefox
Catalyst IT Webinar “Promote digital wellbeing through learning design”
Walking meetings
EdTechHuman
COOL Episode 1: Susanna Kohonen on Humanising Education
Zoom Poll
Moodle Choice
Mentimeter
Echo360 Confused Flag
COOL Episode 5: Gavin Henrick
Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Catalyst IT Advent Calendar
Moodle Educators Certificate
UCL Connected Baseline
Making e-learning standards stick
LTHEChat
In this episode, we speak with Deb Baff - Membership and Professional Development Manager for ALT Association for Learning Technology - about social and emotional support networks in online learning and beyond.
Follow Deb Baff on Twitter: @DebBaff
Deb Baff's PhD journey
Tweetdeck
Neil Withnell’s Twitter
Sue Beckingham’s website
National Teaching Repository (Dawne Irving-Bell)
Association for Learning Technology (ALT)
FutureLearn: Blended Learning Essentials
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Walk
LTHE Tweetchat on Twitter and collected here.
In this episode we chat with Dot Powell, Director of Teaching and Learning Enhancement at the Warwick Business School (University of Warwick).
Warwick Business School Profile
ESOL Nexus Project
Warwick Business School Blog
Peter Vorderer et al. (Eds.)Permanently Online, Permanently Connected: Living and Communicating in a POPC World
In this episode, we chat with Dani Dilkes, an e-learning specialist and doctoral candidate at Western University, London (Ontario).
Twitter: @DanielleDilkes
Email: Danielle.Dilkes@gmail.com
In this episode we chat with co-founder of Brickfield Education Labs, Gavin Henrick:
Brickfield.ie
Twitter: @ghenrick
LinkedIn: Gavin Henrick
Resources:
Brickfield Education Labs
Brickfield’s “Moodle Universal Design for Learning Guide”
Brendan Eich “… we need a GDPR for the United States”
F-Shaped Pattern of Reading on the Web
εxodus - the Privacy Auditing Platform for Android Applications
VeVox
In this episode, we speak with four postgraduate Occupational Health students - Andrew Marr, Rebecca Maughan, Kiva Sammon and Alison Sweeney - who researched student experiences of being online at Edinburgh Napier University. You can download a presentation about the project here (under 'Attachments' tab) and you can get further details by contact ing SHSCsupport@napier.ac.uk
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In this episode, we chat with Dr Alison Gilmour.
https://twitter.com/AlisonGilmour
a.j.gilmour@greenwich.ac.uk
Resources:
Embedding mental wellbeing in the curriculum: maximising success in higher education (AdvanceHE) https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/embedding-mental-wellbeing-curriculum-maximising-success-higher-education#:~:text=to%20Knowledge%20Hub-,Embedding%20mental%20wellbeing%20in%20the%20curriculum%3A%20maximising%20success%20in%20higher,for%20all%20students%20and%20staff.
Jones, E., Priestley, M., Brewster, L., Wilbraham, S. J., Hughes, G., & Spanner, L. (2020). Student wellbeing and assessment in higher education: the balancing act. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2020.1782344
Gilly Salmon https://www.gillysalmon.com/e-tivities.html
Maha Bali’s blog https://blog.mahabali.me/
Equity Unbound http://unboundeq.creativitycourse.org/
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Caroline Kühn is a senior lecturer in the School of Education (Bath Spa University) and principal investigator of EPSRC funded project Understanding data: praxis and politics,
Follow Caroline
On Twitter: @carolak
Caroline’s blog: https://carolinekuhn.net/
The critical data literacies project: Datapraxis.net
Caroline’s doctoral research
key concept: Jenkins (2006) participatory culture
theoretical framework(s): critical realism and realist social theory
focus: engagement with digital technology, specifically open and participatory tools.
Kühn Hildebrandt, C. (2019). Whose interest is educational technology serving? Who is included and who is excluded?. RIED: Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia, 22(1). http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/ried/article/view/22293
Caroline’s recommendations:
Global OER Graduate Network
The GO_GN network: and on twitter – #GO_GN
DeRosa and Jianghini → Open Pedagogy Notebook: an interesting and excellent resource for Open Educational Practice
ALT: Association for learning and technology. An excellent source for advice, interest groups, conferences, articles, etc.
Caroline is also interested in feminism from a Marxist perspective:
Silvia Federici: feminist activist, writer, and teacher.
YouTube talk: Witches, the Commons, reclaiming the body and discovering our power
Blog post by Jodi Dean: Silvia Federici, The exploitation of women and the development of capitalism
Interview with Nancy Fraser: Feminism in neoliberal times
Audre Lorde, Paris Review presents an interesting account of Lorde’s legacy.
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Welcome to Conversations on Online Learning, a podcast in which we discuss online learning and how to support it.
In each episode, we’ll ask our featured guest to share their own particular area of expertise and experiences related to online learning, and we’ll discuss how this has informed their understanding and practice. We’ll also ask our guests to share their advice on teaching and supporting learning online. This episode's guest is Dr Susanna Kohonen.
Dr Susanna Kohonen
https://twitter.com/KohonenSusanna
Susanna’s blog https://loimuavatiikeri.blogspot.com/
Susanna’s recommendations:
digped https://twitter.com/hashtag/digped?src=hashtag_click
Sean Michael Morris https://twitter.com/slamteacher
Jesse Stommel https://twitter.com/Jessifer
Stommel, J., Friend, C., Morris, S.M., (2020) Critical Digital Pedagogy: A Collection, Pressbooks https://hybridpedagogy.org/critical-digital-pedagogy/
Maha Bali https://twitter.com/Bali_Maha
Equity Unbound http://unboundeq.creativitycourse.org/
OneHE https://onehe.org/
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