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Who are the mooc educators and what are their tasks? A multiple case study

This is a post related to my presentation for FLAN (Future Learn Academic Network) meeting – 16 June 2017, Milton Keynes, UK. People working in HE institutions and organisations related to education are learning new forms of teaching and learning practice to transform the ways they work. This study explores who the people involved in … Continue reading Who are the mooc educators and what are their tasks? A multiple case study

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Running a moocs survey at University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona – Visiting PhD fellowship

This post is related to my work as a visiting PhD research fellow at the Interactive Technologies Group (Information and Communication Technologies Department) of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. The project I am currently working on in collaboration with Dr. Davinia Hernández-Leo and Dr. Manel Jimenez- Morales seeks to investigate and inform the ways in which educators learn … Continue reading Running a moocs survey at University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona – Visiting PhD fellowship

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Exploring how educators learn how to teach in massive open online courses

[This is a post about my PhD study on how educators learn how to teach in massive open online courses (moocs). My work is supervised by Dr. Doug Clow, Dr Rebecca Ferguson and Professor Allison Littlejohn. I am now in the final year of my PhD, and have completed the data collection, currently working on … Continue reading Exploring how educators learn how to teach in massive open online courses

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Math-free intro: Descriptive statistics

Originally posted on Mittelmeier's Musings:
I’ve recently had some questions from more qualitative-minded researchers about resources for understanding the foundations of quantitative methods. In attempting to compile a few resources to share, I found it a bit frustrating that there were relatively few ‘theoretical,’ easy-to-understand materials for beginners in this area (read: math-free). While I… Continue reading Math-free intro: Descriptive statistics

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Making the Production of Learning at Scale More Open and Flexible

Our poster paper with Rebecca Ferguson, Allison Littlejohn and Angela Coe on ‘Making the Production of Learning at Scale More Open and Flexible’ will be presented at the third annual meeting of the ACM Conference on Learning at Scale (April 25-26 at the University of Edinburgh, UK).  Professional learning is central for improvement, innovation and adoption … Continue reading Making the Production of Learning at Scale More Open and Flexible