Programme gallery
Here are some screenshots of our course environments, and links to some of the work produced by students on the programme.
Course environments
In addition to our Virtual Learning Environment, we use a variety of tools to deliver our courses, such as wikis, weblogs, Facebook and Second Life. The screenshot below shows the home page for the core course ‘An introduction to digital environments for learning’.
One of the features of the programme has been our exploration of avatar worlds for teaching and learning. Holyrood Park is our MSc in E-learning space in Second Life, first located on Campus Island and now at the University of Edinburgh’s own Vue Island. Siân Bayne talked about our use of Second Life in a recent podcast interview.
All of our students gather in Facebook to socialize and to talk about the programme and its courses. Here’s our programme-wide group.
Our students and staff also keep blogs, many of them public.
Student work
Here are some samples of student work from 2007-08, shown with their permission (with more coming soon). You can also see examples from previous years.
An introduction to digital environments for learning
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Debbie Aitken, Is the hypertext essay a valid form of assessment and learning in today's educational and academic environments?
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Nicki Brain, I blog, you blog, we blog: motivating learners to participate in pedagogical weblog activities
Tony McNeill, We have never been digital
Nicola Osborne, What is effective scholarly communication?
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Philippa Sheail, Boards, blogs and pedagogues: digital environments and the construction of digital learning narratives
E-learning, politics and society
David Brightwell, Give One Get One: ideological and political content in media and blog coverage of the OLPC donation program
Anton Lloyd-Williams, Issues facing Western e-learning providers in Japan
Christine Sinclair, Seven adjectives with a political and social impact on e-learning in universities
Information literacies for online learning
Tim Fawns, Enrichment or detachment? The learning implications of blending digital and biological memory
Language, culture and communication
Tony McNeill, 'Face work' in Facebook: an analysis of an online discourse community