Connectivism: Theory or Phenomenon?
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, Pedagogy, Technology
Preface Back in March 2013, I signed up to do the “Open Education“ MOOC from The Open University on the OpenLearn platform. Also in March, I started my Doctorate in Education (EdD) at Canterbury Christ Church University, so the “Open Education” course took a back seat. The EdD is made up of seven modules at Master’s level, on the successful completion of these [...]
Tags: connectivism, downes, EdD, h817open, learning theory, siemens, theory
Openness: A Common Property? #h817open
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, MOOC, Pedagogy, Teaching, Virtual Spaces
This is my final submitted digital artefact for the Open Education MOOC course (#h817open). The images and music used in this presentation are all Creative Commons licensed content. This is a reflection on the notion of “openness” and what interests me the most is what is this thing called “openness” and how and why is [...]
Tags: digital literacy, h817open, mooc, open education, open educational resource, open learner, open university, openlearn, pedagogy, week 7
The Open Learner #h817open
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Digital Literacy, Learning, MOOC, Pedagogy, Teaching, Virtual Spaces
In 2006, my institution took part in a joint Higher Education Academy (HEA) and Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) venture called the e-Learning Benchmarking and Pathfinder Project (HEA, 2008). Our project was called Digital Experience Building in University Teaching (DEBUT) (Westerman & Barry, 2009) and we had identified quite early on that digital literacy was going [...]
Tags: digital literacy, h817open, mooc, open education, open educational resource, open learner, open university, openlearn, pedagogy, week 6
The Way of the Rhizome #h817open
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, MOOC, Pedagogy, Teaching, Virtual Spaces
This is not my first foray into the realms of the “rhizome metaphor“, I was aware of Deleuze & Guattari’s (1988) rhizome metaphor which was introduced to me as a student on the MSc in e-Learning with the University of Edinburgh (yes, I know, another shameless plug). The rhizome metaphor was used in the context of [...]
Tags: h817open, mooc, open education, open educational resource, open university, openlearn, pedagogy, rhizomatic learning, week 5
Week 2: Metaphors, memes and mimicry? #edcmooc
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under MOOC, Pedagogy, Teaching, Virtual Spaces
Information that we copy from person to person, by imitation, by language, by talking, by telling stories, by wearing clothes, by doing things — this is information copied with variation and selection. This is [a] design process. (Blackmore, 2008) This post has taken a little longer to get published as I have been down with [...]
Tags: coursera, digital culture, edcmooc, meme, metaphor, teme, week 2
Week 1: Determinism, dependency and discrepancy? #edcmooc
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under MOOC, Pedagogy, Teaching, Virtual Spaces
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic (Clarke, 1962, rev. 2000) I am going to leave my impressions and reflections about the E-Learning and Digital Cultures MOOC until after the course has finished (but suffice to say I have been enormously impressed with it). Block 1 of the course is an exploration of utopian and [...]
Tags: coursera, digital culture, edcmooc, technological determinism, week 1
Limbering up for the #edcmooc 2013 sweepstake
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, MOOC, Pedagogy, Teaching, Virtual Spaces
One of the things that I have found to be quite remarkable since signing up for “E-learning and Digital Cultures” Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with the University of Edinburgh and Coursera is the sheer volume of online pre-course activity that has been generated by the EDC MOOC students – a kind of “limbering up” [...]
Tags: coursera, digital culture, e-learning, edcmooc, edinburgh, education, online learning
The e-Learning and Digital Cultures MOOC
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, MOOC, Pedagogy, Teaching, Virtual Spaces
I’ve opened up my blog for the first time in nearly 14 months and the moths are bludgeoning madly towards the nearest source of light, so such an extent that they are blocking the very source of light that I need to write this blog. So, why have I turned to my blog after leaving [...]
Tags: coursera, digital culture, e-learning, edcmooc, edinburgh, education, online learning
Learning, spaces and technology: exploring the concept
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning Spaces, Pedagogy, Technology
The “Learning, spaces and technology: exploring the concept“ is a publication aimed at anyone who has, or may be, engaged in creating, managing or supporting a large-scale learning space. It is not simply an account of the jointly funded JISC/CCCU iBorrow Project or the Augustine House Programme at Canterbury Christ Church University. Rather, it draws on our experience within the project [...]
Tags: learning spaces, pedagogy, planning, policy, technology
Towards aligning pedagogy, space and technology
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, Learning Spaces, Mobile Learning, Pedagogy, Spaces, Technology
As part of my MSc dissertation, entitled “Towards aligning pedagogy, space and technology inside a large-scale learning environment“, I did some research on how academic staff and students used the “learning spaces” and the mobile technologies with Canterbury Christ Church University‘s new library and student services centre called Augustine House. I have accumulated a lot [...]
Tags: alignment, Augustine House, cccu, elusive triangle, iborrow, learning spaces, library, mobile technology, pedagogy, space, technology, troublesome space
