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In this last week of the University of Edinburgh’s Coursera MOOC – E-Learning and Digital Cultures, I mentioned in my last post that our assignment was to create a digital artifact for this learning experience.  I chose to explore Scoop.It as a way of curating resources from this course, and posted my resulting artifact here.  [...]

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EDCMOOC and My Digital Artifact

Posted by: | February 25, 2013 | 5 Comments |

As we entered the fifth and last week of the University of Edinburgh’s Coursera MOOC – E-Learning and Digital Cultures, our assignment was to create a digital artifact for this learning experience.  I chose to explore Scoop.It as a way of curating resources from this course, and then to use Camtasia to record a short [...]

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EDCMOOC Flickr Competition

Posted by: | February 18, 2013 | No Comment |

Last week, alongside engaging with the week’s tasks, we were invited to begin experimenting with visual ways of representing our understanding of being human in a digital world.  Several hundred images were uploaded to Flickr.  You can see the entries in Flickriver – and even click interesting ones to vote for the best. I thought [...]

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EDCMOOC Week 3 and Being Human

Posted by: | February 15, 2013 | 3 Comments |

  We have moved into our third week in the University of Edinburgh’s Coursera MOOC – E-Learning and Digital Cultures and have shifted from examining utopias and dystopias to an examination of what it means to be “human” in a digital age. This is a timely examination for me, as it gave me a new [...]

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Starting the New Year Open

Posted by: | January 4, 2013 | 2 Comments |

Happy New Year, everyone.  Welcome to 2013!  I have two “open” new years resolutions. We have been talking about how the web has become increasingly open, social and participatory for the past four years…yet with the arrival of the MOOC bandwagon last year, “open” took on new significance.  So, as 2013 gets rolling, I and [...]

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Final Week of BlendKit2012

Posted by: | October 25, 2012 | No Comment |

Five weeks pass pretty rapidly! … In this final week of BlendKit2012, we focused on quality assurance.  Kelvin Thompson suggested the following questions to ponder: How will you know whether your blended learning course is sound prior to teaching it? How will you know whether your teaching of the course was effective once it has [...]

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At SLOAN-C Conference

Posted by: | October 11, 2012 | 1 Comment |

I am enjoying my second day at the SLOAN-C International Conference on Online Learning.  The program can be found here.  The Twitter backchannel at #aln12 has been lively and fun. What is neat is that no one is dominating discussion, and lots of  voices are being heard: The theme this year is Online Learning at [...]

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BlendKit2012 Week 2

Posted by: | October 3, 2012 | 2 Comments |

In a post last week, I discussed starting UCF‘s MOOC on blended learning.  In the first week, we looked at what our blend might be.  This week, the focus is on how and when students will interact, with each other and with the instructor. There are some things I like about this course and things [...]

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Starting BlendKit2012

Posted by: | September 27, 2012 | 1 Comment |

This semester, Joyce Kincannon and I are both facilitating two separate faculty learning communities on blended learning.  I am also trying to wrap my brain around the whole MOOC thing.  So what better way than to sign up for a MOOC on blended learning!  Joyce is taking it too, so we will see if we [...]

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What I Learned From Daphne Koller

Posted by: | August 30, 2012 | No Comment |

A TED Talk posted earlier this month has created a bit of buzz.  Daphne Koller discussed what she had learned from forming Coursera and offering online courses free to thousands of people. I recommend spending the 20 minutes to listen to Daphne.  Many of her points are not new, but she has framed them in [...]

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