More than just lecture notes........

After fighting my way past the librarians (actually I've discovered it's just one who appears to be evil and all the others are actually very nice and helpful. Maybe all libraries have to employ at least one Evil Librarian? Is it a job title? Is it a vocation? Can you do Evil Librarianship Studies?) I put the finishing touches to today's lecture. I was asked to talk about how you can use a VLE for more than just lecture notes and also if I could use some real examples that I had taught with.

I talked about the TRIO Critical Thinking module I taught a while back and none of it was particularly new - thinking about the context(s) the learning will take place in, starting with the assessment and working back to the activities, socialising the students into the learning environment, getting the students to do the work, learning being a social activity and obviously the technology coming last in the process.

More than just lecture notes........

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Once again after the lecture there was a really lively discussion that continued for around 45 minutes and covered the nature of learning, the role and future of teaching, what we mean by communication and the assumptions we make when talking about various forms of communication, virtual worlds and student perceptions of learning. It even got a little heated at one point, which is always the sign of a real debate :-) As with all good discussions it continued in the pub over a beer.