Michael Peak, British Council

I attended a seminar given at Coventry University by Michael Peake on "HE Trends and Opportunities to 2020". It included research by the British Council on "the shape of things to come". The talk gave several sets of results comparing different countries' rates of students' movement between countries.

Some results included the following:

• UK growth rates of international students has always been positive since 1995.
• The USA growth rates of international students went negative after 9/11
• The Australian growth rates of international students decreased in 2009-10 following the tightening of related legislation. 
• Looking at a graph showing these rates over time, it looks like the UK follows Australia - will there be a similar decrease to that shown by Australia in the years to come?

Mahara for 198EM Students and their tutor

You can record what you've been up to using Mahara. (e-portfolio)
But you can do more than that.  You can also use Mahara for creating presentations and web pages.  And simple blogs.
This demonstration session gave some examples and included how a page could be created and shared in Mahara.

More Mahara - audio, templates, planning and more

So you have used Mahara to create a page and share it. There are more things that you can do with Mahara, such as adding audio, creating a template and using its basic planning application. This session demonstrated these facilities and showed examples of how they could be used.

Pre-requisites for this session

Summary of creating a page and secret URL

See Mahara guide (PDF) http://tinyurl.com/coventry-e-portfolio
NOTE: there's an Addendum to page 2 (PDF), to reflect the new access via Moodle 2 

Exporting some pages and adding them to Curve

Mahara Basics Demonstration Update (PDF) - see pages 3 and 4

Mahara Basics

Demonstration given in January 2013

This was a basic Mahara demonstration, using the examples that I had collated in the Mahara examples page and the updated Mahara Student Guide on the Mahara help page.

Star Rating

My comments on a "star-rated" system for online learning

I'm referring to Moodle here because that's what's used at Coventry University.

I think that a "star-rated" system would be great and would be one way of rewarding those who do well. I agree that it could also be used as a method to encourage tutors who need to improve their online presence.

I think that a "star-rated" system, if supplied with the right criteria, push, leadership and rewards, could be made to work.

More activities post-2012

Picking up this blog from many years ago! 

Entries prior to this date were a diary, starting just before my secondment to CIPeL in Spring 2007 and continuing throughout the secondment. My aim was to record here the events that take place throughout the secondment.

Subsequent entries are thoughts, notes and items that I have found interesting during my search for tools, techs and other items connected with my role in e-Learning.

The links quoted elsewhere in this may take a little time to clear up so please be patient if they don't yet work. Five years is a long time!
:)

Thank yous

Suddenly realised that I needed to acknowledge Alistair as the person who gave me a copy of a basic TW and some of whose tiddlers still reside on my TW! Did this then emailed to Alistair giving a big thank you for introducing me to them.

http://annedickinson.blogspot.com/2007/06/report-back-from-york.html

And now there's some more software that he wants to share!

So it's great to say thank you - it may lead to looking at some more software.....