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Technology in research and teaching: the view from the University of Southampton, UK

Explore eLearning tools, online courses, open educational resources, communities, and social media in education. Learn about innovative technology advancements for teaching and learning.

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Technology in research and teaching: the view from the University of Southampton, UK

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  1. Technology in research and teaching: the view from the University of Southampton, UK Kate Borthwick Modern Languages, University of Southampton21 May 2013, Tomsk, Russia

  2. Overview • eLearning at the University of Southampton, UK • Course support • Distance learning • Authoring tools • Teaching and learning repositories • Developments in technology to support teaching and learning • open educational resources • communities and social media

  3. eLearning at Southampton • Course support • EAP toolkit and Study Skills Toolkit • In-sessional and pre-sessional support

  4. EAP toolkit • Learning to study • Academic writing • Academic reading and critical thinking • Academic listening and note-taking • Academic communication skills • Grammar for academic purposes • Vocabulary for academic purposes

  5. Online, distance courses • Online, distance MA in English Language Teaching Information and example materials at: http://tinyurl.com/bqwpsgl

  6. Online, distance courses • Pre-arrival courses for international students • Boarding Pass (tutored, 2000 students last year) • Prepare for Success www.prepareforsuccess.org.uk

  7. The LOC tool • Learning Object Creator (LOC) • Online authoring tool to create interactive materials in the style of the EAP toolkit • No technical support required • Simple, easy-to-use • Clear pedagogic approach • Professional look

  8. Open access repositories • Open educational practice: publishing teaching resources for others to use, download and adapt for their own classes • The LanguageBox www.languagebox.ac.uk • Share teaching materials • Find materials • Make contact with others

  9. New ways to support teaching and learning.

  10. Open educational resources "OERs are teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others.” (Report for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 2012) • Whole courses ‘big OER’ • Official sites: iTunesU, YouTubeEdu, TEDtalks • Individual resources ‘small OER’

  11. Benefits in using/creating OERs • demonstrates excellence in teaching • way of showing impact as a teacher and as an institution • raises your profile (and your institution’s) at home and internationally • a way of linking research and teaching • demonstrates excellence in content, technology or pedagogy • a way of making connections in discipline community • a way of making contact with other audiences for your work • encourages collaborative working

  12. Communities and social media • Social media enables communities to grow around shared interests and they offer support and new ideas • Find communities all over the internet, especially on Facebook and Twitter • MFL Twitterers “the best staffroom in the world” #mfltwitterati • Massive open online courses (MOOCs) – what does this mean for conventional providers of education?

  13. Спасибо! – useful links • Selected open content repositories: • Humanities: www.humbox.ac.uk • Languages: www.languagebox.ac.uk; www.loro.open.ac.uk; • http://coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/home • All subjects: www.jorum.ac.uk or http://www.oercommons.org/ • For tips on cool new tools and how to use them in education: http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/e.g. MyBrainshark, Linoit • Authoring tools: LOC: http://loc.llas.ac.ukand Xerte: www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte

  14. …more useful links • For more about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) listen to this webinar http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2012/07/webinarmooc.aspx • Free MOOC-style courses at: • - Khan Academy http://www.khanacademy.org/ • - Udacityhttps://www.udacity.com/ • - Coursera https://www.coursera.org/

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