Learning in an Open World

Grainne Conole; Dominic Newbould

Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 3642–3644

The aim of this research programme is to explore the impact that an increasingly ‘open’ technologically mediated learning environment will have on learning in the future. In a world where content and expertise is often free and where services are...

What is the future for MOOCs in Italy?

Francesca Pozzi; Grainne Conole

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 22, No. 3 (Dec 31, 2014) pp. 173–182

Questo contributo descrive il fenomeno dei MOOC e ne definisce il concetto, tenendo in considerazione le numerose varianti nate negli ultimi anni nel panorama mondiale. L\u2019articolo guarda alle classificazioni e alle tassonomie proposte in...

Designing a Learning Activity Toolkit

Karen Fill; Grainne Conole

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) p. 2212

The DialogPlus project involves two English and two American universities in sharing learning activities based on digital resources. The subject domain of Geography can draw on a wide variety of digital resources such as maps, databases, web pages,...

Topics: Learning Management Systems

Frameworks for understanding the nature of interactions, networking, and community in a social networking site for academic practice

Grainne Conole; Rebecca Galley; Juliette Culver

The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 12, No. 3 (Jan 11, 2011) pp. 119–138

This paper describes a new social networking site, Cloudworks, which has been developed to enable discussion and sharing of learning and teaching ideas/designs and to promote reflective academic practice. The site aims to foster new forms of social...

Using Educational Dialogues to Design Systems for Learning

John Cook; Martin Oliver; Grainne Conole

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 330–335

In this paper, a model is presented that uses educational dialogues to support the design process for learning support systems. This model assumes an iterative life cycle model of software design, in which dialogue can be both an input (in the form...

Topics: Research Methods

Building a Virtual University for Orthopaedics

Grainne Conole; Gary Wills; Leslie Carr; Lucile Vadcard; Wendy Hall; Simon Simon Grange

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 22–27

The development of a Virtual Orthopaedic University is underpinned by a pedagogical approach built on current education research in terms of learning being situated and authentic; with learners adopting an active and constructive approach. An aim of ...

Topics: Computer Sciences, Virtual Environments

An investigation into social learning activities by practitioners in open educational practices

Bieke Schreurs; Antoine Van den Beemt; Fleur Prinsen; Gabi Witthaus; Grainne Conole; Maarten de Laat

The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 15, No. 4 (Aug 15, 2014)

By investigating how educational practitioners participate in activities around open educational practices (OEP), this paper aims at contributing to an understanding of open practices and how these practitioners learn to use OEP. Our research is...

Ontological Hypermedia in Education: A framework for building web-based educational portals

Arouna Woukeu; Gary Wills; Grainne Conole; Leslie Carr; Simon Kampa; Wendy Hall

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 349–357

The World Wide Web offers access to a wealth of educational material; yet these are often weakly interlinked and fail to make explicit any real-world relationships. Ontological engineering support has been identified and stressed as one of the key...

Ontological Driven Learning Agreements

Gary Wills; Arouna Woukeu; Christopher Bailey; ALS Ong; Les Carr; Grainne Conole; Wendy Hall; Simon Grange

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 217–222

The Virtual Orthopaedic University (VOU) provides an infrastructure for clinicians to manage the administrative, research and educational workload of the university within the digital domain. Using a toolkit approach, underpinned by the use of...

Topics: Computer Sciences, Intelligence