Personal learning goals for #oldsmooc

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In setting my personal learning goals for #oldsmooc I need to formulate something that I can return to at the end to see if I have met those goals. This is very like setting learning outcomes which Frank Furedi’s recent article “The unhappiness principle“ in the THE so disparaged. Without a learning outcome how can you assess?

Without a smart learning goal how will I know I’ve learned anything?

Learning outcomes and learning goals are only part of the learning equation. All those things that Furedi wants to see happening, the development of creativity, serendipity, flexibility, emergent learning, etc. are still important. Admittedly for some people whose approach is calculating – interested in the qualification and not the learning, those learning outcomes are what they will focus on. Maybe it’s up to the teacher to encourage an interest in actual learning as well. In fact – I’d make that a learning outcome!

So for my learning goals I’d like to:

  1. Complete the course
  2. Be able to state several new approaches that will aid me in my learning design activities
  3. Have a better knowledge of the theoretical background to learning design
  4. Have applied the principles studied to a practical project which in my case is likely to be a set of resources to support online and face to face training in e-assessment
  5. Have evaluated this MOOC in the context of the wider MOOC movement and have drawn up a set of success criteria for MOOCS as well as best practice notes
e-assessment, Elearning, learner experience, learning and teaching, online learning