Category: 21204
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So what’s a MOOC…?
I thought I better check this out since I’m talking about it the literacy and numeracy conference in Wellington next week. According to the Wikipedia Entry on MOOCs: A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC; /muːk/) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials…
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Return of the Day of the MOOC
Just following on from my last post…this poster was pretty cool as well. Funny, but seems to reinforce the idea that a lot of people are going to find the idea of MOOC’s pretty darn terrifying.
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Day of the MOOC
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in 2015, 21204, ako, ALEC, Assessment, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, DipALNE, Diploma, Disruption, Economy, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Jokes, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, MOC, MOOC, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, NZCALN, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), NZDALN, NZQA, Online assessment, Online learning, Pathways, Pathways Awarua, Productivity, Professional Development, QMS, Qualifications, TEC, TechnologyI’m giving a talk next week about MOOCs… Since I’m writing one I thought I better do some basic research and find out what they actually are. My starting point was to look up MOOC jokes. I assumed there would be hundreds. However, it seems that MOOC jokes are a bit like jokes about literacy…
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Hacking Learning
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in 2015, 21204, ako, ALEC, Business improvement, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, Creativity, Economy, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Hacking, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Professional Development, QualificationsEveryone is in the education business. At least that’s our take on things. Obviously, if you’re a teacher, a tutor, a trainer, or an assessor of some kind then of course, you’re in education. However, if you own a company. If you are in sales. If you make stuff for people. If you’re in business for…
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Please support the new Adult Literacy & Numeracy Education qualifications
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in 21204, ALEC, Compliance, DipALNE, Diploma, Disruption, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Evaluation, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Improve teaching practice, Indigenous education, indigenous pedagogy, International education, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Mapping, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, NZCALN, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), NZDALN, NZQA, Online assessment, Online learning, Pathways, Pathways Awarua, Personal development, Professional Development, Qualifications, TEC, Theory, Tutor, Tutor ProfileWell… they’re out for consultation. Here’s the breakdown from the NZQA website. This is just out and it’s now in the public domain for consultation. Key points first: Please support the need for three distinct ALNE qualifications. These are the 40 credit NZCALNE (Voc) which replaces the NCALNE (Voc). the 80 credit NZCALNE (Ed) which replaces…
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What are the reasons for low levels of adult literacy and numeracy?
What do you think…? I tried surveying this a few years ago, but I think it’s worth having another go now. I’d love to have a couple of hundred responses here so when I talk about this it’s informed by a set of wider viewpoints.
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Is everyone working in education burnt out…? Part 2
So actual burn out is pretty darn serious… But, if you work in education, consider this list below and see how many of these you can identify with. Or think about how many of these you see affecting others: critical boss perfectionism lack of recognition inadequate pay under-employment tasks with no end impossible tasks / nearly…
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How to write a report in a few simple steps (or at least what works for me)
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in 21204, ALEC, Design, Edtech, Education, Education resources, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, Online assessment, Online learning, Professional Development, Qualifications, WritingWe had our NZQA external evaluation and review the other day. I’m still feeling exhausted. I think it went OK, but following comments from the reviewers, one of the things I need to do is update the report writing aspect of my course. I’ve been putting this off as it’s all going to change shortly…
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7 Trends in education that will disrupt our work as teachers
From our analysis of education in New Zealand and internationally, as well as from other sources including technological innovation, silicon valley ed-tech and other startups, we see the following as current trends impacting our work: Increased scrutiny around the economics of education: This applies both from the external position of funding agencies like the TEC…
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How much money has the TEC invested in the literacy and numeracy infrastructure…?
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in 21204, ALEC, DipALNE, Economy, Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCLANA, NDipALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), Online assessment, Online learning, Professional Development, Qualifications, TECIt’s a lot of money… I just changed my original title as I don’t have a good reference for the exact amount. Let’s just say it might have 9 figures. That’s how invested the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) is in the infrastructure that we now have for literacy and numeracy in New Zealand. That infrastructure…