Seb Schmoller
Online learning person. Had a hand in https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/assessment-for-learning. Involved in the maths course https://citizenmaths.com - more at https://repository.alt.ac.uk/2373.
Location Sheffield, UK
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Chronologically old and also old hand in online learning. Interest piqued by @a_l_t blog post about the course, by Teresa M.
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Thanks for this course, which is the first FL course that I feel like paying to get continuing access. I've been learning Norwegian for some months using Duolingo and I would say that a course designed like this is much more effective, although in some places I think the course tried to help us learn too much too quickly, with an underlying assumption being...
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Thank you.
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De sier at vi ikke vi må vente her. Hun sier at vi må gå dit.
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Moren min er fra Uruguay, og min far er fra Tyskland. Jeg er i England, men min partner (?) er i Australia. Sønnere våre er i Kina og i Belgia.
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Katerina tar t-banen med Yunha till konserten.
De synes t-bannen går bra.
Nå Yunha og Katerina snakker med Teodor. -
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Bordet til min == Mitt bord?
Hytta til Sarah == Sarahs hytte?
Maten til dyr == Dyrets mat? -
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A question.... "I have sat in the library." = "Jeg har sittet på biblioteket." How would I say "I have been sitting in the library"? (which seems to me to mean the same thing, or very nearly so....).
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I Sheffield klokka ti på halv fem.
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Seb Schmoller replied to Seb Schmoller
Thanks for correcting this.
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The course is tough going, but good, and it feels like we are being given things to do that make us learn. It is the first FL course where I've been tempted to pay for continuing access. The course sort of presumes that learners already have an explicit grasp of grammatical terms (like preterite tense). I don't mind having also to learn things like these...
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Jeg er sulten, og jeg gleder meg til å spise frokost. Først må jeg vaske meg. Etterpå barberer jeg meg og lager kaffe. Etter frokost kler jeg på meg.
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Har jeg spist risotto oppvarmet fra i går og smørbrød.
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et dyr / dyret / dyr / dyrene
en bjørn / bjørnen / bjørner / bjørnene
en maur / myren / maur / myrene
en edderkopp / edderkoppen / edderkopper / edderkoppene -
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I am enjoying the course, partly for the (challenging!) opportunity to improve my rudimentary Norwegian, and partly because my work involves designing and running online courses, so seeing how this one has been organised is very interesting. There is a big temptation, which I am sometimes succumbing to, to have Google Translate open in another browser window....
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Jeg kjopper pasta i butikken. Jeg er veldig sulten.
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Snart skal jeg gå på en fest. På festen møter jeg gamle venner. Vennene er folk jeg visste på jobb.
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Tak, Erik.
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Det er veldig forskjellig fra å lære norsk med Duolingo. Det er veldig bra.
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Jeg pleier å spille piano hver dag. Og på noen mandager jeg ofte har en leksjon.
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Jeg øver norsk og sitter ved bordet mitt.
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Minor criticism of Q2 - https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/adult-first-aid/1/steps/172901/questions/2. It is not sensible to offer an "all of the above" option when you are also giving the hint that there are two correct answers.
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"Repeat steps 1 and 2 until help arrives or the child recovers by showing signs that they are breathing." looks like you may have carried over some content from the FA for babies and children course?
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At the risk of nitpicking, I think the final quiz question and the feedback on it should have offered "Any of the above" rather than "All of the above".
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First rate course design with excellent, convincing, "snappy" videos, and well-thought-out quizzes that have the right kind of feedback on "correct" as well as on "incorrect". [For me personally it was interesting to see the almost total consistency between the "line" taken in the course and that taken in some CPR training for new Red Cross volunteers that I...
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If I've got a profession it is as an "educationalist". It is very striking how much more "health care professionals" seem much better able and willing to act within their independent professional groupings advocating policy change. To a limited extent this role is taken in education by trade unions; but in general teacher trade unions are perceived as (and...
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NB - I am not medically trained. Coronary heart deaths and diet in Finland. Concerning the Melkas article (http://sjp.sagepub.com/content/41/11_suppl/3.full.pdf+html) I was very struck by box 1 on page 14 and the two charts on page 15. There's been a very impressive reductions in death rates of 35-64s from coronary heart disease between 1951 and 2011. The...
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In principle yes, and there are some similarities between what is described (oh so briefly) in the case study, and, say, the iron and steel employees readaptation benefit scheme (ISERBS) in the late 1970s and early 1980s, which saw many redundant steel workers being retrained for work in the social care sector in Sheffield where I live. ISERBS allowed...
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For those without institutional access to it or £27.60 to pay for 1 day's access to it (!), here's a link to the full text of three articles, including one by Johan Mackenbach's that cover similar ground:...
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I don't work in health. I wonder of anyone doing this course who works in education (as I do) can see an almost identical framework being useful for thinking (and doing something about) social determinants of education inequities? "Health" is a much more fundamental outcome of life than "education", so might this be a reason why the approach I suggest is flawed?
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I am here because I had so many "aha" moments reading Michael Marmot's "The health gap" to the point that I thought that there ought to be a MOOC about the ideas in this book. So when I discovered there is one I signed up for it. I'm not a health professional. I work in education and I my specialism is online learning. I was very involved in the development of...
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This animation seemed a bit thin on "social determinants of health". Too much emphasis on individual lifestyle and individual behavioural changes, and not enough emphasis on poor living conditions, poverty, employment conditions, and other "stuff" that is not really under an individual's control. See, for example...
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Seb Schmoller replied to Mark Brown
Sometimes I think that having to remember a lot of different logins is what keeps from losing it......
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Seb Schmoller replied to Tom Starkey
What follows here is ill-formed. Doesn't this also pose a question about learner and teacher expectations of what digital systems should be like? 20 years ago, it was in education (HE mainly) that "state of the (then) art" digital tools and services were to be found. Now the state of the art tools and services are with Google, Uber, et al, with investment...
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Seb Schmoller replied to Tony Saunders
I am with you on this one, Tony. Seems to be that a view is being taken that if a teacher has not planned it, then it ain't blended. But if a course results in learners doing their own thing online, then that's good, isn't it? And blended. (Am on a sticky wicket here because I've never been one for the term "blended".)
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Thanks Sergio. Your own contributions to the course have been very useful to others. Seb Schmoller
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Dawn - you can watch the recording of the full session on YouTube at https://plus.google.com/events/c86jacrocjlktmp7fj28ov0l1ng, and you can download the recording and access a full transcript of the session from http://goo.gl/HPpcnU - Seb Schmoller
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Seb Schmoller replied to Paul Bartlett
Paul. If you have time it would be useful for the team if you could briefly expand on this a bit. No pressure if not. Seb Schmoller
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Hello Ruth - you may be interested in this related comment by Dylan - https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/assessment-for-learning/comments/5270565. Seb Schmoller
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Seb Schmoller replied to John Byrne
John - very good of you to say this. I have passed the message on. Seb
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Seb Schmoller replied to Debbie Barker
Debbie - Chris Harrison has a public profile on the Kings College London web site. Seb
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Seb Schmoller replied to Татьяна Ковалева
Татьяна - https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/assessment-for-learning/steps/25700 has links to the recording on YouTube, as well as to a downloadable MP4 file. A transcript of the session is also being prepared. Seb
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Seb Schmoller replied to Nurul Islam Akanda
Hello Nurul - https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/assessment-for-learning/steps/25700 has links to the recording on YouTube, as well as to a downloadable MP4 file. A transcript of the session is also being prepared. Seb
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Were these two more were of more thorough than the first?
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Seb Schmoller replied to TIMITE Mory
Hello Timite - NSLC has provided a downloadable file as well, though the file is close to 1GB. You should be able to get it here: http://goo.gl/HPpcnU. Seb
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Seb Schmoller replied to Catherine Whatmough
Hello Catherine - sorry that you could not access the session. Here's a link to the recording of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4ET4_rpR8I. Seb
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Seb Schmoller replied to Felicity Aktas
Felicity - here is the URL of the recording from today's live session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4ET4_rpR8I. Can you access that? Seb
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Hello Anna. To the best of my knowledge your HPQ "assignment" will remain in the pool until it has had three lots of feedback. That's why it is important for everyone to do review plenty of fellow learners' HPQs, as you';ve been doing. [Keep an eye on Step 3.9 where HPQs from the review pool can be found:...
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Seb Schmoller replied to Craig Hewitt
Hello Craig. The session - and the recording - will be public. So, to the best of my knowledge, there should be no problem with sharing what is covered with your team. Seb
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Seb Schmoller replied to Sally Howard
Sally. Please note my subsequent edit. It turns out - and I should have known this - that creating multiple accounts is contrary to the FutureLearn terms of use. Seb
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Seb Schmoller replied to Sally Howard
Sally - unfortunately there isn't a way to submit a further HPQ. A crude "work around" would be to create another account on FutureLearn and to submit a further HPQ. But that would be a bit fiddly to keep tabs on. (Added later....) It would also be contrary to the terms of use for FutureLearn. Seb Schmoller
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Seb Schmoller replied to Lesley Edgar
Lesley - as a recent starter see https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/assessment-for-learning/comments/4709274. Seb Schmoller
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Seb Schmoller replied to Eric Jones
Hello Eric. Worth briefly jumping ahead a bit, just so that you are aware of plans for this coming Wednesday's live session. Seb Schmoller
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Seb Schmoller replied to Tsimako Tsimako
Tsimako. A recording of the session will be available, though unfortunately probably not in downloadable form. Seb
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Felicity - just out of interest, seeing that you work in FE (where I worked for many years), how have you found the considerably greater focus on schools in the course? Our intention during the design and development process was that the ideas would be easily transferable, but at the same time it has bothered us a bit that few of the examples and none of the...
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Seb Schmoller replied to Nicola Glen
Hello Nicola - the intention is definitely that you devise from scratch, because doing this should help develop your own capability. (You may be interested in this thread from yesterday: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/assessment-for-learning/comments/4649923.) Of course in the long term there would be advantages if a searchable database of teacher-created...
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Glenn, Eleanor. I must say I am torn on the one v multiple correct answer issue. In one of the course videos we incorporated the histogram from a multiple correct answer question and I was thinking to myself that quickly making inferences from it would be a hard thing for a teacher to have to do "on the fly". But at the same time multi-correct HPQs probably...
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Hello Liam. For your convenience, here's the comment by Dylan Wiliam that Sergio refers to: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/assessment-for-learning/comments/4676347. Seb
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Hello Anne. I could not possibly comment....... More seriously, the wide range of engagements on open online courses is one of the features, and, in some ways, "part of the fun". Thanks for your previous comments on the peer-review process. I am sure that your suggestion for how the guidance in...
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Anne - yes there is quite a bit of "luck of the draw" at work, though the feeling I get is that committed course participants are getting quite a bit out of devising HPQs, and from reviewing at least some of the HPQs that the system allocates to them. The value of the feedback received is, predictably, the least secure aspect. I think the course team would...
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Hello Michael. Unfortunately the terms under which ReelLearning (who own the copyright) permitted the video to be used on the course did not include allowing it to be downloaded. It's a really good summary isn't it? Seb Schmoller
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Hello Nicola, Jacky, Anne, Charlotte, and Ruth. Thanks for highlighting this very important issue. The peer-review process is dependent for its success on submitters and
reviewers acting in good faith. And it is obviously very frustrating to be faced with copied and pasted work to review. Note also that plagiarism is in likely to be in breach of Section 4 of... -
Seb Schmoller replied to Margarita Beltran
Hell Margarita. We've fixed this. An earlier version of the quiz got uploaded on top of the corrected version. Thanks very much for pointing out the problem. Seb
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Seb Schmoller replied to Stephen Lumb
Adding to Paul's point, Stephen. The form will accept URLs as input. So, if you are fluent in creating Google Docs (say), you could create the whole question as a Google Doc, and then point from the form to the URL of the Google Doc. Not smooth by any means, but it ought to work. Seb
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Seb Schmoller replied to Katherine Kirk
Hi Katherine - another option would be to devise a couple of HPQs for a subject that you yourself feel more confident about, with a very brief explanation for this. That way you'd be having to do the underlying thinking, get feedback from others on your work. It would also mean you would be offered other people's HPQs to review. Seb Schmoller
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Seb Schmoller replied to Eva Hartell
Eva. I have checked Q4. I could not replicate the problem you experienced. Unless we get a several similar reports we'll assume that this was (non-technical term) a "temporary glitch" for example caused by a momentary loss of connection between the device you are using for the course and the FutureLearn system. Seb
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Eva, This reminds me of a conversation I once had with someone running an international project who said they had had to spend whole day working out what the English word "learning" meant in the several languages of the project. Just shows how much worse things must be with phrases like "intentional dialogue". Good luck. Seb
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Seb Schmoller replied to TOBIAS OYUGI
Hello Tobias - I should apologise to you that you've had a non Hinge-Point Question (just some dummy text I submitted when getting to grips with the platform weeks ago) to review. I very much hope that you will find other "real" HPQs to review at https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/assessment-for-learning/steps/33774. Seb
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Seb Schmoller replied to Jennifer Ahmed
Jennifer - on this page you already clicked on the "Discussion" icon - it's a little stylized pink speech bubble with a "+" in it - in order to post your original question. On some other pages, there is, instead of a "Discussion" icon there is a "Comments" icon. It looks just the same. In both cases it usually appears below the main page content and above the...
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Colleen. Do please share it. Seb
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Sue. Not my area of expertise, but http://goo.gl/2G5wg5 looks as if it would give you plenty to go on. Seb
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Seb Schmoller replied to Sofia Chambers
In case this is of interest, here's a talk (on YouTube) by Eric Mazur at the 2012 ALT conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYiI2Hvg5LE
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Seb Schmoller replied to rasha alkhalil
Rasha - "STEM" is shorthand for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. You teach science. So in the language of this course you are a STEM teacher. Seb
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Tobias - Quickly to mention that the "HPQ" from me that you reviewed was some dummy text that I used some weeks ago when trying to understand the peer-review system. Apologies from me, therefore, that you were allocated some dummy text instead of an HPQ to review. Seb
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Oliver - I should stress here that I am no longer a teacher, nor an educational researcher. You may find this piece by Daniel Willingham concerning "VAK" of interest: http://www.aft.org/ae/summer2005/willingham. More generally on learning styles, Frank Coffield et al's review http://sxills.nl/lerenlerennu/bronnen/Learning%20styles%20by%20Coffield%20e.a..pdf is...
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Seb Schmoller replied to Cecilia Petersson
Hello Cecilia. The two titles are not really "almost the same". "Inside the Black Box - Raising standards through classroom assessment" is Paul Black and Dylan Wiliams's original 1998 publication. "Mathematics inside the black box - Assessment for learning in the mathematics classroom" (by Jeremy Hodgen and Dylan Wiliam) is one a series of 10 booklets...
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Kevin. I think it was me causing you inconvenience! Seb
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Kevin - Quickly to mention that the "HPQ" from me that you reviewed was some dummy text that I used some weeks ago when trying to understand the peer-review system. Apologies from me, therefore, that you were allocated a non HPQ to review. Seb
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Seb Schmoller replied to Joseph Michael Jengo
Joseph. Nothing to stop other people joining the course, especially if they do so in the first few days. Seb
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Maria. Though the course focuses on AfL in STEM (that is Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) the principles of AfL are similar across different disciplines, so you should gain quite a lot from the course. Seb
