OLDSMOOC – Beginning of week 2
I’m a bit behind with OLDSMOOC, having been catching up after being off sick.
Team Lost is going well, but we haven’t really started proper discussions. I probably need to dust off those online facilitation skills and pull things together a bit. Some really interesting people in Team Lost, and I am peripherally participating in two project groups, one about Sustainability MOOCs and one about webinars about webinars, both of which are particularly relevant to projects of my own.
Week 2 is about learning context – or the analysis of needs stage perhaps, of learning design.
We are asked to “Summarise your plans to your learning journal and comment on how you might assess your progress at the end of the week (example)”
Objectives
I think these have become more actions than objectives – so hopefully that makes them Smart!
Get back on track and catch up
Decide whether scenarios are for me – I do use user cases, but not sure scenarios need to be quite so extended if my overall context (my University, and usually) is the same – perhaps most important is to articulate in what ways the particular learning project is different and how it fits with the context.
Explore the Personas & Force Maps and Ecology of Resources (EoR) Design Framework and try one of them.
Read and comment on at least 2 other participants’ portfolio updates for week 2. I’ll choose people from Team Lost
How will I know I’ve achieved the objectives?
I’ll have at least an outline scenario, a context design of some kind, and be able to articulate in my end-of-week blog post what I’ve learned, I will have a contextual map of my project and have made at least two comments on others’ portfolios.
I’m pitching in with one of today’s tasks to go and read a learning journal or two. This makes a welcome change to doing this myself – my new year’s resolution was to be happy with one blog post a week rather thsn seversl times a day. Reflective writing shared online can be obsessive. You demonstrate here thouogh where it has real value a) keeping a record of your learning journey, the ups and downs, what you are getting from it and where there may be gaps. You share a problem and someone might come along and help. I’ve given Xerte a go for an OU module – perhaps you can say something more about it.