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Martin King
Professional account of a Senior Learning Technologist and MOOC Producer @ Royal Holloway, University of London.
Location London, Surrey, Edinburgh, Monaco
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Martin King made a comment
Okay, I’ll go first then. I’m a Senior Learning Technologist at Royal Holloway, University of London. I’m based in Educational Development and manage a small team of Learning Technologists. Two of my main areas of responsibility and interest are e-assessment and academic integrity, which intersect both with each other and with the rapid developments in...
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Martin King replied to Stuart Hall
@DanielFrost Absolutely. A lot of the lyrics of Prince Buster are problematic to say the least, and The Specials were heavily influenced by his music. I really enjoyed the re-working of Ten Commandments from a woman's perspective; it went some way to acknowledging past errors of judgement. I wasn't aware of the Princess Buster song and I'll be checking that...
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Martin King replied to Stuart Hall
@StuartBaker Nite Club is probably the least contentious of the examples I provided but there is a fairly unpleasant line in the chorus. It is sung in character, I think, but certainly hasn't aged well.
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Martin King replied to Stuart Hall
While Two Tone certainly provided opportunities for women (Pauline Black, The Bodysnatchers, Rhoda Dakar) the make-up of the majority of bands was male. Nothing new to report there. Further to this, however, The Specials had a vein of lyrical misogyny running through their output for the first two years; songs like Nite Club, Little Bitch, the sneering Too...
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Hi, I'm a Learning Technologiust and MOOC Producer. I come in peace to learn more about UX, to absorb this knowledge into my own activities, and to reflect on the usability of some of the platforms I use and the content I create.
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I’m in London and, among other ed tech related activities such as producing MOOCs, I teach teachers how to teach online. Looking forward to learning more.
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Martin King replied to Cynthia Muciño
@CynthiaMuciño This is a really good response. I would add that artificial intelligence technologies may in turn also be culturally, linguistically, societally and politically biased by those that fund, develop and use them.
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...and human learning is key to technological advancement.
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I’ve used variants of DMAIC before, usually when gathering evidence in support of change.
As an aside for European researchers, is there a GDPR issue with analysing “data that was collected for reasons unrelated to our problem”?
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Here’s an example of my own: In my role in Learning Technology I manage the work of my team through an online service desk. By reviewing, describing and taxonimising years worth of service desk calls, and e-mails to personal inboxes, we were able to tag calls (service, user type, activity, etc). By running reports on what sort of problems were being raised,...
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Martin King replied to Geraldine Kershaw
You appear to be suggesting a 'flipped learning' approach here; exactly what I was thinking.
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Hello Everyone,
As an E-Learning practitioner and MOOC Producer I am interested in many aspects of this course. It's great to see that RLO's have survived the hyperbole of the turn of the century and appear to be well established and effective.
I was recently interviewed by a research student who was investigating the impact of MOOCs to date. The...
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We should care about digital accessibility because, like any great invention, the web and phone apps offer incredible opportunities to change the world for the better.
People can, through digital technology, overcome the obstacles of time, distance, and expense to access information, benefit from education, participate in democracy, reach and be reached...
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Hello everyone, I'm from Edinburgh but am now self-exiled in London. I am interested in photography, history, and technology. I am involved, professionally, in MOOC production, Higher Education, and outreach projects.
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digital, personal, actionable
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I'm a project manager for the production of free online courses (like this one). I will be assuming the role of Producer; securing the funding, developing ideas, shaping the look and feel of a course, and hiring in film companies and experts. Although I won't be making epic films the basics of production still apply, and this course will hopefully provide me...
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Martin King replied to Sonya Saunders
Hello Sonya! How are you?
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Okay, Ill go for usefulness, or perceived usefulness. If a service or product cannot improve, or be expected to improve, our lives/health/bank account/waistline etc then it will not take off.
I'm not sure of the value in choosing one of these keywords; business does not exist in a vacuum. For example, a fantastic product that is either too far ahead of...
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The idea of asking learners to produce a video is increasingly viable and attractive. The required skills can be developed quickly as the technology improves and is increasingly accessible. The wide range of media and competencies that can be demonstrated in a video is augmented by the other transferable skills; publishing to an audience, digital literacy,...
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I'm increasingly moved to think of solutions to 'third world problems' - rather than the somewhat tedious first world problems I've previously focused on. Applications of IoT to combat disease, the unnecessary waste of scare resources such as water, the protection of crops, education and microbanking all spring, rather generically to mind.
Those apps...
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I previously wrote that any device which can collect, share, receive, and act upon digital information is an Internet of Things device. I therefore included smartphones in this definition. Now I'm thinking of a smartphone a simply a vehicle for a number of IoT devices, i.e., sensors. Are smartphones enablers of the IoT, rather than one of them?
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I would argue that the term 'Internet of Things' is a nice but somewhat misleading. I'm sure this is unintentional, but it's really an extension of the flow of information to include traditionally non-networked devices - the currency is the same be it a light switch, fitbit, thermometer, dustbin with a bar code scanner. Any thing which can collect, share,...
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Hello, this is one of three MOOCs I'm, currently working on, and the only one where I'm not lagging behind. I work in E-Learning, and own a few things which I've connected to the internet. An example of this is when my football team (Hibernian FC) score a goal, my desk light flashes green. I'm hoping to discover more meaningful, marketable, and I will say...
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Martin King made a comment
Hello, this is one of three MOOCs I'm, currently working on, and the only one where I'm not lagging behind. I work in E-Learning, and own a few things which I've connected to the internet. An example of this is when my football team (Hibernian FC) score a goal, my desk light flashes green. I'm hoping to discover more meaningful, marketable, and I will say...
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I've read a few posts now about VLEs being used simply as repositories. In recent years many institutions have set 'baseline standards for VLE content' with the intention of providing equity for students. The outcomes of this are that much effort is spent 'supporting' those teachers that do not wish to use it; and you risk neglecting potential pockets of...
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A barrier I've experienced recently relates to reaching a level of maturity in e-learning uptake, acceptance and embedding.
Much of the backroom work involved in arriving at a point where electronic submission is the norm, and where online marking and feedback is quickly heading in that direction, was achieved by working with faculty and departmental...
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I've used SC and PBL approaches for a number of years now in both classroom-based teaching on a PG course in HE Teaching, and computer lab-based training in the use of various technologies.
When leading a classroom-based session on the benefits of using e-learning, I found that the participants mistakenly assumed that, like other sessions in the PG course,...
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It was good to see Padlet being used in the delivery of the course. I've used it a few times on a much smaller scale. It's a very useful, powerful, and FREE tool. Seeing it used with over 11K learners and without moderation was interesting, and reminded me of the need to think about the suitability, scalability and usability of a tool before using it in...
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This activity would serve a a great diagnostic tool ahead of any training in blended learning skills. I'm wearing my TEF hat this week, can't you tell?
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I was struck by the focus on how the blend often requires doing something outwith the classroom but then explicitly bringing that learning in. Referring back to one of my favourite subjects at school, I coined the phrase 'compound learning' a few years ago to describe this sort of approach, in contrast to a mixture of disparate activities.
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The examples provided certainly concur with both my teacher and student experiences of blended learning. Flexibility and control, in particular, have been key factors in successful blended learning outcomes. Feedback is a growing driver of technology adoption.
What has not been specifically mentioned (yet) is the ability to extend student-to-student and...
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The message was loud and clear for me; the use of digital technology affords greater freedom and flexibility for both teachers and students. This is exemplified by the electronic submission, originality checking, and marking tool Turnitin, which I noticed featured prominently in the video. The ability to research, write, and upload an assignment to a VLE...
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I used the syntax: dataPopM = data['Population (1000s)'] to provide me with a variable. I then edited and saved the spreadsheet and re-ran the notebook and, as suspected, the table was updated accordingly. Happy crunching times ahead.
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I remembered that the deathsInBrazil variable had already been declared and was able to produce some nice tight code...not bad for week 1.
2.19 anyone?
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I produced a total BRICS death rate in 2013 of 327400, with an average rate of 65480
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Martin King replied to John Holding
You'll find the installation instructions for Anaconda at the bottom of the course welcome page: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/learn-to-code/1/steps/42096
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I would like to study the impact of increasing populations on the spread of TB, and what the various factors might be.
