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
The Four Horsemen
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, Teaching
Yesterday, I attended the Fourth Symposium on Social Learning Spaces at Oxford Brookes University with my boss who is, incidently, doing his masters on professional development and the use of e-portfolios. We had hoped to have come back from the symposium with lots of ideas and food for thought with regards to our University’s new [...]
Tags: education, four horsemen, IDGBL2009, learning, risk, serendipity, trust, violence
The Language of Play
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, Teaching, Technology
Reading this week’s papers from Pat Kane (2005) and Brian Sutton-Smith (1997) were a sheer joy and delight compared to the James Newman chapter the other week. I think the issue between these three writers is one of how an argument is being presented to the reader. We start with Sutton-Smith (1997) who sets that scene [...]
Tags: education, game, google, IDGBL2009, learning, play, rhetorics, toy
