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Belinda posted an update in the group ocTEL CMALT 10 years, 7 months ago
As we are already a small group, should we discuss Activity 0.2 here?
What can we tell about the range of experiences and preferences among ocTEL participants?
What challenges does this present for the course?
In what ways is a MOOC like this one well or poorly suited to these challenges?
What can we tell about the range of experiences and preferences among ocTEL participants?
For me its that we are all interested in learning no matter what our current experience. Encouraging people to ask questions and doing so ourselves will result in the community sharing what they know. I don’t see that this brings any challenges to the course. What is challenging is the newness and unfamiliarity for those people new to a course like this. But that in itself is something useful to reflect upon as in many of our roles as educators we introduce new to others and it will help us empathise.
What do others think?
Great points Sue – you’re absolutely right – we’re all interested in learning, to have joined ocTEL (or we really like badges, and being online :-)). It seems that there are participants from a range of backgrounds and experiences. Some are educators looking to bring ‘something special’ to their teaching, others are keen to share their expertise and make new connections, others are interested to experience online learning for themselves, and others bring a more technical perspective – all have a different level of skills. I think that this brings the challenge of how to enable each individual to participate in ways that they feel comfortable with, yet at the same time feel challenged by. I believe the course team are addressing this by aggregating the Various channels of communication that participants have chosen, so that the choice is up to the individual – bloggers, tweeters, google+rs (is that even a word?!), and advising us to try something new….. Which brings it round to your final really good comment Sue – it will help many of us in our roles of educators to empathise when we introduce new (and hopefully innovative, fun and sound) ways of Learning.
(I apologise if I have posted this in the wrong place everyone. I’d be happy to repost to the Discussion Forum, if that’s where you think it should be – just let me know. Thanks. :-)))