Learning through a lens on the #edcmooc
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, MOOC, Teaching, Virtual Spaces
I thought I had drawn a line under my #edcmooc experience, but there is a something that is still niggling at me to say just a little bit more. In the preamble to the course, the tutors wanted to invite the participants to “view online educational practices through a particular lens – that of popular [...]
Tags: copyright, coursera, digital culture, e-learning, edcmooc, edinburgh, open access, open education, popular culture, reflection
Reflections on the #edcmooc (Part 2)
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, MOOC, Teaching, Virtual Spaces
This is the second of 2 blog posts on my critical reflection of the E-learning and Digital Cultures Coursera course with the University of Edinburgh. Tutor Presence One of the most interesting things to come out of the #edcmooc was a post from an anonymous participant in an EDCMOOC discussion forum thread entitled “Where are the professors?” which ran along [...]
Tags: coursera, digital culture, e-learning, edcmooc, edinburgh, open education, reflection
Reflections on the #edcmooc (Part 1)
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, MOOC, Teaching, Virtual Spaces
Well folks, what an amazing five weeks it has been on the E-learning and Digital Cultures Coursera course with the University of Edinburgh and I have enjoyed very single second of it – what a brilliant and fantastic experience to be part of this endeavour. As promised, I am going to be using this blog post [...]
Tags: coursera, digital culture, e-learning, edcmooc, edinburgh, open education, reflection
Effective Course Design for e-Learning: A Reflection
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Course Design
It was going to be my intention to keep a semi-regular-ish posts on my engagement with the “Effective Course Design for e-Learning” module. As you can see – this didn’t happen! The first week introduced us to some of the current theories around styles of course design (Toohey, 1999) and how some of them might [...]
Tags: course design, DESIGNERSspring08, reflection
The Hypothesis of the Online Distance Learner
Posted by HeyWayne | Filed under Learning, Technology
A thought occured to me whilst reading the Week 2 scenarios over the weekend. Am I being slow on the up-take here or what? During Week 1, we got to know our fellow virtual class mates by breaking some ice together and turning them into buckets of Pina Coladas and generally gelling very well as [...]
Tags: discussion boards, hypothesis, ice breaker, IDELautumn07, netiquette, reflection, week 1, week 2
