I am catching up on some of the readings and work associated with E-Learning and Digital Cultures and just viewed the recorded version of the end-of-the-week Google Hangout (below) hosted by the organizers of this Coursera course. I wanted to take a moment to comment on my experience – and my aha’s about Hangouts as part of MOOC design.…
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Loading ...This is a long post! It’s really just an aide memoire for myself of my first visit to BETT2013, or indeed any Edtech event, so if you like you can skip right to the end for the quiz!
I was recently given the opportunity to escape for a day to visit BETT2013 which is advertised as ’the learning technology event’ in the UK.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I read @jkunrein's Building a Seat at the Table for Design ASTD blog. She makes a some thoughtful points on how often SMEs and/or customers push a design approach. I'm not 100% clear on what kind of design she's talking about: instructional, look, feel, or something else.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Extending the reach and scope of public education is one answer. Let’s do more of these. Got suggestions?
via Stephen Downes, Let’s Make Some Art, Dammit: Homeschooling for Poor People. Full sized poster: http://t.co/ULpbQ0nr
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The #edcmooc starts in a week, and already it gathers a lot of attention. Some participants have been busy gearing up as early as three months before the kick-off, and words like “keeping up” and “overwhelming” flow by on the Google+ stream.…
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“If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides” · Charles de Montesquieu
When we build something new, it is often the sleight-of-hand change of innovation that it is much an iteration than an innovation. A faster car is in itself not innovate, how it gets faster might be innovate, whereas a flying car is definitely innovative.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I’ve been following #etmooc with interest, but with the hectic first week in our Electronic Village Online about neuroscience in Education (#brainELT…), I haven’t been much of a contributor, but an active listener.
What I’ve been trying to explore with much interest and anticipation is how a MOOC develops, unfolds, how conversations start and persist, and, mainly how participants perceive this whole experience of being in a massive online professional development opportunity and react to it. Continue reading
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...…Et tu, MOOC? It’s not my first time to enter…or return. To orient is to situate yourself but also explore your setting, take your bearings. The drill can still turn up surprises
Declare throws me because I never know quite where I am going so early in journey.…
(+2 rating, 2 votes) Loading ...I spent ages thinking of some smart lyric to sum up MOOC MOOC, but given I went for the cheap shot of Giorgio Moroder.
My thinking was this song has the slightly barbed of hook of always being together, but only, and very much damningly only in electric dreams.…
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As part of MOOC MOOC I’ve spent a lot of time looking at Venn diagrams or c0ncentric type pictures. Within pictures such as these – maybe I am too visual – there is an inevitable structure given to data or events in our case student networks or zones of development of knowledge.…
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