Tag: idelsep17
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The automated teaching assistant aka ‘teacherbot’
The developing potential in it was clear to see in Sian Bayne’s paper (Bayne S. (2015) Teacherbot: interventions in automated teaching. Teaching in Higher Education. 20(4):455-467) on the ‘teacherbot’ developed by a team at the University of Edinburgh, and used in an earlier MOOC. The twitterbot examples we’d found as a collective were by their very nature…
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@the_ephemerides
Having come towards the end of week 2, it’s been interesting to see what twitterbots have been highlighted by the other course participants. Forgetting the bots that simply provide alerts on new events or information for now, it’s evident there’s a real richness in some of them. My own particular favourite is @the_ephemerides. Harking back…
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Twitterbots – something more than just scale
I’ve got to admit, I’d always assumed twitterbots were just the platform’s version of spam. I’ve used twitter fairly regularly over the past 2-3 years so, while no expert, would assume I’m one of their more savvy users. Sure, I’d had the occasional tweet from a ‘bimbot’, but assumed bots were being used for little…
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Week 1 takeaways
So week 1 is already over! Wow that went quick. The case studies on ‘constructing community’ have provoked some real food for thought, particularly given the polarised situations in the examples. A few key points and thoughts from the first week: Whether the student environment is online or offline, the complexity of community doesn’t really…
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Feeling swamped – MOOC perspectives
We’ve been posed some very interesting scenarios this week on the topic of ‘constructing community’, and it’s been fascinating to read the different takes from fellow students on these on the forums. I was particularly intrigued by some of the points raised about the sense of feeling ‘swamped’ in a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)…
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“The ledger”
So we aren’t even at week 1 of the IDEL course, and the University of Edinburgh team are already serving up some real food for thought. We were given some links to video content to peruse – I’m guessing as a way of getting the juices flowing and priming us for some of the content…
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A step into the unknown
Well some 13 years after graduating from an undergraduate degree in Economics, here I am back in the realm of formal education! Yet the motivations for doing so could hardly be more different. It’s a real maelstrom of feelings, particularly in the last week when it’s moved from being just an exciting project in the…