The following is a reflection on Week 5 of the Educational Research Design module using Gibbs Reflective Cycle. Description Today we discussed quantitative methods which focuses on variables that can be measured. It is numerical, countable data which can be nominal (no numerical valuable but countable e.g. gender), ordinal (ranking order not equal/numerical differences e.g. tall, Read More …
The following is a reflection on Week 4 of the Educational Research Design module using Gibbs Reflective Cycle. Today’s class was a good review of theoretical perspectives, looking at what they are and why we use them. We reviewed ontology and epistemology and looked at case study and action research methodologies. Ontology refers to the study Read More …
Week 2 I’ve combined Week 2 and 3 as I was unable to make lectures on Week 2. However, the focus for Week 2 was on the Research Question and library searches. Over the past week I have been reflecting on my choice topic whilst reverting too and fro with my ideas. After class on Read More …
The following is a reflection on Week 1 of the Educational Research Design module using Gibbs Reflective Cycle. Description Today was our first day on Research Educational Methods and even though I was familiar with some of the terminology there were definitely some new elements e.g. Creswell’s Four Worldviews. Furthermore, my brief encounter with research stems Read More …
I was delighted today to win the Audience Award – the People’s Choice for my ePortfolio. I really wasn’t expecting to win anything and was so delighted. Thanks and congrats to everyone!! My aim is to keep updating my portfolio every week and try out new things to make improvements e.g plugins. I am behind on my Read More …
Awedh, M., Mueen, A., Zafar, B., & Manzoor, U. (2014). Using Socrative and Smartphones for the support of collaborative learning. IJITE, 3(4), 17-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5121/ijite.2014.3402 This paper investigates the impact Socrative, a cloud based student response system, has on student performance. It enables teachers to create assessments with real-time feedback and it was used in conjunction with smartphones Read More …
The following video presentation on Flipped Classrooms is the assessment submission for the Trends in eLearning module
I have decided to transfer my ePortfolio to my own hosted domain as I feel that it will give me more flexibility in the design e.g. using plugins. As the ePortfolio will grow over the period of the two years I want to ensure that ease of navigation is priority and that the overall feel Read More …
Trends in eLearning has been a valuable module with great insight into the technologies currently used in education today. The Horizon Report is instrumental in both speculating and preparing for technologies/trends that are and will be popular in higher education. (Johnson, et al, 2015). Flipping classrooms is an area I feel that could be both Read More …
Today was the final day of the Trends in eLearning and each of us showed our pre-recorded presentation with a question and answer session. It was interesting to hear other people’s interpretations of the different trends and even the technology they used to demonstrate this. Camtasia was popular and four of us used Video Scribe. As Read More …