Well, to be fair, it’s not yet a full course, rather a course proposal. Whether it will have the chance to become a real MOOC is unclear yet and depends on your support. But about that later. Continue reading →

Johnston (2009) explores the metaphors of the Internet. It occurred to me that one reason it seems to abound in metaphor could be the fact that it is perceived as unreal or as a reflection of reality and not a true reality. Continue reading →

For now, for me, a Mooc is an add-on, an interest, an opportunity, not a replacement for HE – if I could afford to do a doctorate I would, but I can’t so I’m moocing, because I enjoy study. For some of my students, moocs are a preparation, slightly above what they can understand or cope with, but equivalent in some ways to doing some background reading before going up to University. One student wants to study medicine, so she has enrolled in Mooc courses in physiology and diagnosis. Continue reading →

Hello again edcMOOC bloggers!

Many of us in #edcmooc either blogged throughout the course, or used quad- blogging to connect with other edcMOOCers. Continue reading →

Here is my review of EDC MOOC written for another blog

EDC MOOC Review at “Bytes and Banter”

(btw, there are many useful MOOC reviews by different authors in this blog)

With the eBook edition of this book set at £0.00 I couldn’t resist seeing what the fuss is about – this book has received good and bad reviews. But, more importantly, it’s made people question our interest and reliance on online tools and websites and networks and activities. Continue reading →

It’s the 2nd week of Leading Strategic Innovation in Organizations and the focus this week has been on individual constraints to innovation. According to Owen’s there are three main individual constraints to innovation: perception, intellection, and expression. Continue reading →

Brevemente les comparto que sentí tristeza y cierta frustración al no poder seguir el ritmo del EDCMOOC, propuesto por la Universidad de Edimburgo, ofrecido desde coursera. Sin embargo quiero rescatar aspectos que me parecen importantes sobre la experiencia:

1. De cómo sobrevivir a un MOOC. Continue reading →

Well, it is now a couple of weeks since edcmooc finished and I feel sort of empty – there is a hole in my life!  Even though I have had plenty to fill the space it has left; during edcmooc we were also building up to saying farewell to our eldest as he starts on a new chapter of his life in Canada. Continue reading →

This is my first Wordle, based on all my blogs during the University of Edinburgh’s MOOC on E-learning and Digital Technology.

What a great video with so much to say, but I’m concentrating on the elements of the “importance of teacher presence” section, especially given my recent experience with the Coursera / Edinburgh EDC MOOC:

YouTube: Engaging and Motivating Student

I am reading a lot of negative comments about the course on the forum and in some posts. Participants are complaining about “absent teacher”, “no videos and quizzes” and no “formal assessment”.

Following on my previous post, here is my deeper analysis and reflection on why this course worked for me and my peers.

To start with, below is the #edcmooc course details as mentioned on Coursera site:

#edcmooc

although the official journey is over and we are supposed to have completed our mission and returned to earth, this course has been such a stimulant to many of us that the conversation continues… many are still blogging about the course, writing reviews, discussing it in G+ and FB and twitter conversations and scheduled twitterchat sessions, and generally not letting it go…. a LinkedIn conversation has begun, to talk specifically about how we’re applying what we’ve learned in our teaching practice…. Continue reading →

Maddie in My Mooc Adventure describes the E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC experience well in her reflection. She does an excellent job describing the design of the course and how it was intended to operate. One point that resonated with me was how she discussed the fact that each participant could achieve their own learning objectives and engage in the content to different degrees. Continue reading →

Cindy McKee has added a post:

A touch of insommia has led to this development. There I was yesterday in a post mooc euphoric glow of satisfaction, chatting to #robhogg as to where we were and where does this all go now?

March 8th, second post, still struggling with navigating and editting in wordpress, finding it clunky and sticky as always. Hence my second post.

My final assignment can be found in this Feb 27 blog post. This time I will analyze the feedback I got from the ‘official’ peer gradings and other comments. The inspiring quality of #edcmooc can be identified in the way that students shared their digital artefacts all the time, before the dead line and after it. Continue reading →

I have just finished the e-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC (#edcmooc) run by The University of Edinburg through Cousera.  It was the sort of thing I usually avoid: outcomes only broadly specified; heavy reliance on process; liberal use of fluffy words like ‘engage’, ‘relationship’, ‘network’, ‘creative’.

OK, so I’m on a roll here, having just completed Edinburgh University’s Coursera EDCMOOC on e-Learning and Digital Cultures. I enjoyed participating in the open and online community that blew up around that mooc. That course helped me to develop my digital skills and deepen my understanding of the issues around being human in a digital age. Continue reading →

Acostumbrados a la facilidad de las comunicaciones de hoy en día, olvidamos a menudo las pequeñas distancias inasibles entre nosotros.

Battle of the Century: eLearning vs. Classroom Learning #EDCMOOC

effectiveness, cost and motivation were measured. Continue reading →

“Close up of The Thinker” by Brian Hillegas. Creative Commons licence CC BY

Hmmm, I still find myself not quite walking away from my phenomenal #edcmooc experience – though this has not been the experience for everyone who have not liked the laissez-faire approach of this course (Young, 2013). Continue reading →

Now the course is completed, the comments on my artefact have been made available. Many thanks to the 9 individuals who left such complementary and encouraging comments.

After spending considerable time and effort on MOOCs in the past the  Coursera / University of Edinburgh eLearning and Digital Culture MOOC (#edcmooc) was the first have been able to complete.

How I did this was quite simple … I knew I’d fade out after a week or so so I set a goal of one blog entry per week’s activity, including a pre-MOOC post and post-MOOC ‘submission feedback’ post. Continue reading →

So..our Mooc ( E-learning & Digital Cultures) has ended. Sigh…it’s been a great experience! Continue reading →

The course edcmooc is ending: we have assessed each other and  got the feedback. It is good to ponder the assessment issues, I always do when a course is over. There are numerous ways to assess learning but no simple ways. Continue reading →

One of the edcmooc study groups was named “Age 60+”. Dolores McCarthy started it a month ago and it has been in active daily use. To me, it is the only forum from which I receive emails. Continue reading →

He estat 5 setmanes submergit en un curs telemàtic ofert per la Universitat d’Edimburgh i la plataforma Coursera.org titulat “eLearning and Digital Cultures”. Continue reading →

After a few failed attempts (happy to be human!), I finally feel quite comfortable with my final Digital Artifact. It’s a short animation. Continue reading →

Cindy McKee has added a post:

After publishing my final assigment Digital Artifact for the eLearning and Digital Culture MOOC, I decided to try and provide a background of the creation process. These are some ideas I think are closely related:

Cindy McKee has added a post:

As we end the final week of EDCMOOC – a week devoted to the final assignment and in which my teaching role was perhaps pushed further to the ‘side-lines’ – I find myself lured into considering the kind of things we might have achieved on this course.  The following comment, from CourseTalk, has given me much to think about in this respect:

Edcmooc artefact by Lisa Klovekorn
PS : I got to say that Lisa Klovekorn’s artefact is my favorite one up to now…

My final assignment #edcmooc

This has been a great experience. It was a great course, I really enjoyed it. Continue reading →

#EDCMOOC Week 5

My 5-week experiment in on-line learning is drawing to a close. Though I’m sure there is as much variation in the MOOC experience as there are platforms ( and learners),  I nonetheless fell that having actually completed a MOOC allows me to weigh on the debate, discussion and media frenzy over these courses in a more informed and meaningful way. Continue reading →

I wasn’t joking when I tweeted this. And here I am about to take another MOOC course. Continue reading →

The future is technology. So goes the idealistic vision of the future theme of edcmooc and the happy dreams of those who dream of a digital utopia in which our lives are enhanced by amazing geekery and augmented reality.

I have now finished all my course work for the E-Learning and Digital Cultures MOOC and am free to reflect on my experience. Taking this course was like exploring a fractal, each bud opening into whole new vistas, and those into further still. Continue reading →