Every time a new technology comes along, it take s time to really utilise its potential because we view it through the lens of previous technologies. This was the “digital artifact” I submitted for the assessment of EDCMOOC, the Coursera MOOC I did recently. It was well received, although obviously
So here are the results of my design exercise for my own project – a MOOC (I’m focusing on assessment in a MOOC, but obviously at this stage the visualisations are of the assessment in the context of the whole course!) Course Feature Cards Activity profile – Predict A MOOC
As a member of the team that developed the first Carpe Diem workshops at Leicester, I’m delighted to see how it has been further developed – the 7Cs of Learning Design idea and the very practical format of the process (always a feature of Carpe Diem) is really exciting and
At the beginning of the week I had my aims and objectives and I think I have (just about) met them. Get back on track and catch up – well more or less! Decide whether scenarios are for me – well, with personas, quite possibly. I do like to spend
Misconception 1: Turnitin compares a paper against everything ever written . . . web pages, books, publications, unpublished works, etc . . . Reality: There are sources that are not in Turnitin–especially if that material is only available in print, or is in a very specialist journal. However Turnitin state that
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
Yesterday I attended a launch event for the OLDSMOOC – “Learning Design for a 21st Century Curriculum” – which will officially start on Thursday 10th January. There was a lot of interesting material in the talk, from Yishay Mor. At least I hope I got his name right, as I
As the subject is an area I’m particularly interested in AND a MOOC I’ve signed up for E-Learning and Digital Cultures at Coursera. I haven’t participated in a MOOC since CCK (Connectivism and Connective Knowledge) and they seem to have many more varieties these days. https://www.coursera.org/course/edc
Zumba is an exercise style that has swept the world of female fitness of late. Based on Latin American dance, its rhythms and routines use steps from salsa, merengue, samba, mambo, bachata, and more. Women like Zumba because it is good exercise, it is social and it is fun –
University of Hull 2012 – based on JISC’S ‘Susie’s Journey’ I’ve just published (on the University of Nottingham Learning Technology Blog) a really useful explanation of Open Badges, from Kirstie Coolin: The Whats and Whys of Open Badges.