1. Open Course in
Technology Enhanced Learning
TEL about TEL

2. What is it?
✦ Aimed initially at teaching in Higher Education
✦ Further ALT’s charitable aims in building
capability in Technology Enhanced Learning
✦ Free as in money; free as in reuse (where possible)
✦ 50 hours over 10 weeks
✦ Running Spring 2013, aiming to update it for 2-3
years subsequently

3. Who are we?
✦ The UK's leading membership organisation in the learning
technology field
✦ ALT: Maren Deepwell, Anna Davidge, David Jennings
✦ Contributors: Martin Hawksey (JISC CETIS), Linda
Creanor (Glasgow Caledonian University), Shirley
Evans (JISC TechDis), Peter Hartley (University of
Bradford), Terry McAndrew (HEA/JISC TechDis), Phil
Tubman (University of Lancaster), Nicola
Whitton (Manchester Metropolitan University), Clive
Young (UCL)
✦ Evaluator: Rachel Harris
✦ Critical friend: Stephen Downes

4. Market research: purpose &
background
✦ Understand the market demand for the OCTEL
course before starting development to enable
resources to be planned
✦ 140 responses of which 136 (97%) were
complete*
✦ 22% had participated in a MOOC before
✦ estimate over ¾ in uk (based on email
addresses)

5. Priority objectives
http://octel.alt.ac.uk

6. Priority areas
http://octel.alt.ac.uk

7. Objectives & topics we hadn’t thought of
✦ Context: models, theories, Digital Literacies
✦ Metrics for managing and evaluating TEL
✦ Pedagogy, designing the learning experience
✦ Planning and implementation, including
troubleshooting, managing risk with technologies
✦ Learner support & feedback including
assessment
✦ Mobile and open platforms
✦ Ethics, privacy, IPR
http://octel.alt.ac.uk

8. Roles: not just for teachers?
http://octel.alt.ac.uk

9. Experience of other MOOCs
✦ xMOOCs
✦ Coursera, Udacity, Google Powersearch, Blackboard Exemplary
Course Design, Curtis Bonk’s Instructional Ideas & Technology Tools
✦ cMOOCs
✦ Siemens/Downes (Change11, LAK12)
✦ Others
✦ Program for Online Teaching certificate, Stanford’s Designing a New
Learning Environment
http://octel.alt.ac.uk

10. What we value in MOOCs
http://octel.alt.ac.uk

11. Course outline http://goo.gl/AvCxy

12. Course outline http://goo.gl/AvCxy

13. Questions for discussion
✦ How credible is our interpretation of demand?
✦ What other developments should we be taking
into account?
✦ Does the course outline make sense?
✦ What features would you value in terms of
structure, activities and materials?
✦ What OERS would you recommend us to use?
✦ What might be the future and implications of
developments like ocTEL?