hmmm_tea | Entries tagged with maode

Since September I've been studying for one of the modules of the OU's MAODE (H808 to be exact).

Compared to other courses I've done in the past, this one seems to have been an awful lot more work. This may be partly because a lot of the course explored the use of e-portfolios and the one the OU provided (MyStuff, which is based around Moodle) is fairly newly implemented (i.e. full of bugs).

It was interesting to explore the software and hear the reactions of the other students trying to use it, but I seem to have spent so much time over the past few months twiddling my thumbs waiting for pages to load or tearing my hair out when it returns an error when I'm trying to save an item.

My final e-portfolio for the module was submitted yesterday at about 2.30, so it's now all completed and I've suddenly got quite a bit of free time back again which is bizarre and don't need to look at MyStuff again for now.

Am hoping to follow it up with some more modules in the future, but work are not prepared to fund any more at the moment (recession, etc, etc) and I can't afford to fund myself at the moment either, so it looks like I'm going to get a break for a bit first.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: Langley
Current Music: Van Der Graaf Generator - Present

I've been taking an OU module in elearning over the past few months and have just got my results for the second (and final) piece of continuous assessment, leaving me with results as follows

TMA01 (submitted in November worth 34%) - 78%
TMA02 (submitted in December worth 66%) - 90%

The grade boundaries are as follows

Pass - 40%
Distinction - 85%

Now, if I've worked this out correctly, that makes my overall mark for the continuous assessment is 85.92%. Yay! *does little happy dance*

So, all that's left now is to do the same in the eportfolio which forms the final examinable content (i.e. I need to pass both the continuous and final assessment to pass the module and get a distinction in both parts to get distinction overall.)

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: Langley
Current Music: none

I've just finished reading a paper for the OU course I'm doing on what a Learning Technologist is and am now very scared.

Being involved in elearning, it would make sense that it would broadly describe what I do.

However, when it starts stating things like

they are normally of my age range

have been in their posts for about as long as I've been in mine

have been with there respective institutions for about as long as I've been with mine

their broader role often includes other aspects such as being a librarian (admittedly I haven't been one since August, but I was doing both side by side for a long time)

I'm now getting very scared

Were it not for the fact that this paper was written around 6 years ago, I would swear the author was stalking me.

So much for not falling into stereotypes...

Current Mood: shocked

Haven't posted here for a while, so here's a quick update:

thethirdvoice has now graduated and is now job hunting. Once we know where she's working we'll know where we'll be able to work out where we're aiming to end up living (a move back to Cambridge, although not certain anymore, is still not out of the question).

Although I didn't move to the new job in Cambridge in the end, my old one has changed focus and so is quite fun again. They're basically taking the bits I find boring (I've never really had much desire to be librarian) away from me and giving me more time to concentrate on the interesting bits (distance learning/elearning). As a lot of the distance learning/elearning can be done remotely, it does mean there's the possibility of working from home in the future and just going in a couple of days a week, which will give

thethirdvoice and I a bit more freedom to find somewhere to live together even if she's working some distance from London.

Got the results for my 2nd Unit 1 assignment for my Diploma (another distinction) and want to get the last 2 polished off over the summer, so it's out the way before I start an elearning course with the OU in September.

So, all in all, inspite of an odd couple of months, life seems to be generally going well at the moment.

Current Mood: content

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