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The course materials are on the project website http://dlaberasmus.eu/courses/technology-outdoors-online-course/and the online community is here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/117458443566280105364

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Welcome to our Technology Outdoors MOOC.

This is a free, interactive and participatory online course on how to make effective use of technologies to extend teaching and learning beyond the classroom walls.

To get started, please see the course content at the bottom of this page.

General Introduction

Course Overview

Technology Outdoors is a flexible online course that you can join in with at a pace and depth that suits you. We will suggest activities and ideas, and encourage you to try them within your teaching.

We would like you to leave each week with something new to try out in practice and we will encourage you to share your experiences and swap ideas on our weekly themes within our Google+ community.

Who is this course for?

Our course is aimed at primary and lower secondary teachers, however anyone with an interest in the field is very welcome. It is taught in English.

Overview of course structure:

The course is divided into four sections, each with a different theme and suggested activities:

Section 1: Creating Trails

Section 2: Art in the Environment

Section 3: Wild Writing

Section 4: Science Outdoors

Duration: Self-Paced. Workload: Approximately 2 hours per section.

Structure for each section:

We will begin each section by sharing resources and case studies with you from the Digital Learning Across Boundaries (DLaB) project run by a partnership of universities, schools and cultural institutions in Norway, England, Belgium and Denmark. We will suggest some activities that help you plan to put ideas into practice with your own learners.

One of the most exciting aspects of the course is the chance to share and reflect upon these co-created resources with our community of fellow practitioners. Real life examples, photos, videos and comments within the community will give the course a truly practical focus. The community will also give you a chance to make some international connections and set up some collaborations of your own. You can join the community now and introduce yourself.

You can also follow us on Twitter on @DLAB_Erasmus and use the hashtag #DLABErasmus to see what others are posting.

What this course will give you:

The idea is to take a few risks, try some new things, share our developing practice in teaching with technology outdoors and learn together as we go.

We hope that our course will inspire you to explore strategies to integrate technology into learning beyond the classroom by offering guidance on:

how to use technologies to devise authentic and meaningful outdoor learning activities

how to embed technology use in genuine curriculum contexts

how to use technologies to enhance learners' exploration of the physical world

Succeeding in a MOOC

You may wish to watch the below 4 minute video that describes five steps that will help you succeed in a MOOC.

Show us where you're from!

Can we encourage you to add your location to our Zeemap as it is really interesting to see where everyone comes from: http://j.mp/2qiuSNA

You need to go to 'Additions' and 'Add marker'.

To get started on the MOOC:

1. Log in (or sign up for FREE if you have not already done so). Please note: you can tell if you're already logged in if you can see your login details in the top right within the black bar.

2. Once you are logged in , then Click on Week 1: below to get started.

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Teaching with Tablets Online Course | Enrol here for Teaching with Tablets: http://bit.ly/TWT16

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Enrol here for Teaching with Tablets: http://bit.ly/TWT16

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The Teaching with Tablets MOOC community

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The Teaching with Tablets MOOC community

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An interactive & participatory 5-week online course on how to make effective use of iPads and tablets for teaching and learning.Feb-Mar 2016

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Welcome to our Technology Outdoors MOOC.

This is a free, interactive and participatory online course on how to make effective use of technologies to extend teaching and learning beyond the classroom walls.

To get started, please see the course content at the bottom of this page.

General Introduction

Course Overview

Technology Outdoors is a flexible online course that you can join in with at a pace and depth that suits you. We will suggest activities and ideas, and encourage you to try them within your teaching.

We would like you to leave each week with something new to try out in practice and we will encourage you to share your experiences and swap ideas on our weekly themes within our Google+ community.

Who is this course for?

Our course is aimed at primary and lower secondary teachers, however anyone with an interest in the field is very welcome. It is taught in English.

Overview of course structure:

The course is divided into four sections, each with a different theme and suggested activities:

Section 1: Creating Trails

Section 2: Art in the Environment

Section 3: Wild Writing

Section 4: Science Outdoors

Duration: Self-Paced. Workload: Approximately 2 hours per section.

Structure for each section:

We will begin each section by sharing resources and case studies with you from the Digital Learning Across Boundaries (DLaB) project run by a partnership of universities, schools and cultural institutions in Norway, England, Belgium and Denmark. We will suggest some activities that help you plan to put ideas into practice with your own learners.

One of the most exciting aspects of the course is the chance to share and reflect upon these co-created resources with our community of fellow practitioners. Real life examples, photos, videos and comments within the community will give the course a truly practical focus. The community will also give you a chance to make some international connections and set up some collaborations of your own. You can join the community now and introduce yourself.

You can also follow us on Twitter on @DLAB_Erasmus and use the hashtag #DLABErasmus to see what others are posting.

What this course will give you:

The idea is to take a few risks, try some new things, share our developing practice in teaching with technology outdoors and learn together as we go.

We hope that our course will inspire you to explore strategies to integrate technology into learning beyond the classroom by offering guidance on:

how to use technologies to devise authentic and meaningful outdoor learning activities

how to embed technology use in genuine curriculum contexts

how to use technologies to enhance learners' exploration of the physical world

Succeeding in a MOOC

You may wish to watch the below 4 minute video that describes five steps that will help you succeed in a MOOC.

Show us where you're from!

Can we encourage you to add your location to our Zeemap as it is really interesting to see where everyone comes from: http://j.mp/2qiuSNA

You need to go to 'Additions' and 'Add marker'.

To get started on the MOOC:

1. Log in (or sign up for FREE if you have not already done so). Please note: you can tell if you're already logged in if you can see your login details in the top right within the black bar.

2. Once you are logged in , then Click on Week 1: below to get started.

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How technology can facilitate high quality social learning in online and blended environments within teacher education Link to the overview: http://bit.ly/2sHr9yc Link to the slides: http://bit.ly/2tvFOt3 Our fundamental idea is that the best online learning is social and active rather than discr...

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Some recommendations for social blended and online learning:

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Some recommendations for social blended and online learning:

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- Ensure that staff are regularly visible online.
- Foster a positive, experimental attitude towards technology for learning through creative experimentation - mix up options.
- Do not assume that online social interaction happens ‘naturally’. Embed it, expect it, and facilitate it.
- Encourage interaction with content through concrete doing or producing activities and embed small passive tasks into active tasks.
- Work towards ‘knowledge creation’, i.e. students creating content themselves and make use of student-generated content as “your presentation”.

(Palmer, E., Lomer, S and Bashliyska, I. (2017) Overcoming barriers to student engagement with Active Blended Learning Available at:https://www.northampton.ac.uk/ilt/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/05/Student-Engagement-with-ABL-Interim-Report-May-2017-v2.pdf [Accessed 12/06/17]

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