e-Learning at DIT

DIT Setup
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FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS, I have exchanged stories with the e-learning team in the Dublin Institute of Technology. Before setting off to Online Educa Berlin (#oeb08), I dropped into an afternoon session at DIT and shared some thoughts with MSc students concerning the baby steps we are taking in Tipperary Institute in technology-supported learning and training.  we have made some adjustments to how we educate Gen Y learners in the hopes that our initiatives will ensure students can produce meaningul items for inclusion in a module portfolio. We have also defined public, online social networks for student interations (i.e, a set of photos collected on Flickr, discussions in our Moodle VLE forums, strands of conversations on Friendfeed and allowances for personalised learning patterns.  Meeting fellow practitioners in DIT gives us a "soft" peer review session. We plan to connect with DIT e-learners by leveraging Online Meeeting Rooms (shown on the far wall) since that tech has proved highly successful every time we have used it in our DIT meet-ups. If #oeb08 proves worthwhile, we will return to base with another collaborator, ensuring our use of social media in education is more than babble on Twitter.