"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
Sat down with Jeff Nugent and David McLeod, my co-teachers for GRAD-602, to discuss the tension between learner autonomy and learner compliance. This is planned to be the first in a series of podcasts we three will do for this course. Good discussion around power, roles, self-directedness, and learning-centered students. Note: The Skeptical Goat made… Read more A Conversation on Learner Autonomy and Compliance
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. … Read more Exploring EDCMOOC Digital Artifacts from My Global Classmates
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… Read more EDCMOOC and My Digital Artifact
We are in our fourth week of the University of Edinburgh’s Coursera MOOC – E-Learning and Digital Cultures. Last week, we explored what it meant to be human in a digital age. This week, we focus on posthumanism…and its near twin, transhumanism. Transhumanism is a movement that supports and affirms the desirability of using technology… Read more EDCMOOC, Posthumanism and the Bowels of Christ
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… Read more EDCMOOC Flickr Competition
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… Read more EDCMOOC Week 3 and Being Human
. We are in our second week in the University of Edinburgh’s Coursera MOOC – E-Learning and Digital Cultures. This was the image that greeted us when we clicked on the Week 2 page – a cross-stitch noting that its gonna be the future soon! Nice Flickr photo from krupp! Of course, we are typically… Read more EDCMOOC Week 2: Looking to the Future
I discussed the first week in the Coursera course, E-Learning and Digital Cultures, in my last post. Now, four days later, it has been interesting to see the social side of this massive open online course unfold. Friday, I attended the Google Hangout session for the class. Bud Deihl joined me in my office as… Read more EDCMOOC Thoughts on Social Side