Below is a summary of the session of 28th December from Limmud Conference
Participants:
1x school e-learning person
1x organiser of business e-learning systems
1x open university professor using e-learning
1x enthusiastic user
1x English teacher in Israel
1x Director of Jerusalem cultural institute
Presentation of Ideas to get started
On limmud:
Streaming sessions live internationally
Resources from sessions (eg powerpoints)
Pre-session reading/resources
After Limmud:
Specific online discussions following on from sessions
Recorded (video or audio) sessions online
Year Round:
Online one off sessions video (webinars) or chat based
Series of online classes
Online chavruta discussion
taste of limmud discussions
Online Conference:
E-limmud one or two day worldwide online conference. Could be available in a range of time zones big or small.
Comments:
people don’t have to travel and it can be interactive
infrastructure – could be expensive and complicated but commercial stuff is available
copyright and licensing issues? Need presenters permission.
Lots of religious stuff online – not so much secular – limmud could fit in the non-religious side
Why do it? Need clear rationales and objectives.
People pick and choose different things – having a range of unexpected things online would be good recreating the limmud experience – interaction, creating a community.
Extending current online groups
building into what already exists – feeding limmud experiences in currently available networks
extending Limmud not competing
you go to great sessions on limmud and for an hour create a community, then at the end of the session your community ends and that’s it- a way of continuing what is going on.
Using a system of blogs, updating blogs before a session for “pre-reading” and then after the session on a blog.
Need to make sure it’s adapted to everyone. Keep it simple where possible.
Monthly online event. Webinar one off to try it out.
Website is very static – alpine plant website is more interesting as it’s updated regularly!
environmentally friendly
a series of milestones needed:
Situation in Israel would be of interest to many
Open university short course template – takes time but create something simple could be used.
Accessibility – print button available
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webinars – what are the best presenters. What would they be willing to do online.
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Taste of limmud
– discussion about this limmud
– Improvements to website to make it more interactive – blog online
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Online community
rolling guest bloggers to allow for commenting.
Open University may be interested in collaborating long term but there is a way to go before Limmud is ready!