[SolentRoger]

I was ‘ready’ at 12:30 for the webinar which this week is at 5pm (UK BST)

So I ‘d say time management (both me as student and course leaders) is another expectation to manage.

I’m barely keeping track of this course, but trying to stay engaged. One consistent is the webinar which I duly put into my diary for same time every week because I can at least block that time out in advance.
Then the time changes, other commitments already at the new time. Engagement falls off etc etc.
I find webinars much more engaging if I am taking part rather than watching the replay.

One plus is that it has given me time to dig through the forums and post this 🙂

 

[SolentRoger]

I have 10 people now added to http://mycourse.solent.ac.uk/mongrels

Any other mongrels that have not sent me a mail, please do to roger.emery@solent.ac.uk with the subject “mogrles” and I’ll set you up. (Scott Johnson -I don’t seem to have a mail from you, or if you have can you resend it, may have got lost in the flood.)

Roger

[SolentRoger]

OK, will set up a Moodle space and see how it goes. It’s all an experiment!

Drop me an email roger.emery@solent.ac.uk with your preferred username (lower case alphanumeric only, no special characters please) and I’ll return a password and instructions to get started.

Roger

 

[SolentRoger]

@Jennie: my excuse is that I’d already seen Diana’s presentation on the PCC tool so I was cultivating a community of learning (honest teacher it wasn’t idle gossip)

@Shuna: Agree this forum is not the best for following what is going on, especially if we intend to use it for the whole course duration.
I’ll put this idea to vote:- I’d be happy to set up a page+accounts on our Moodle for this group and add as many forums/sections as required/desired. Can also add in RSS and twitter feeds to keep up with what is going on elsewhere. May be a bit of a MOOC anarchy as it will not be Massive, or Open, or even a Course. Can make it public to view for the others on this course. Let me know.

This leads me ask one big question (as in elephant in the room big) – What is a MOOC? What defines a MOOC?
Thinking of putting out a simple poll so we can get a consensus on the definition by virtue of what is can/can’t, should/shoudn’t/maybe have as its features eg community, network, file sharing, assessment, peer assessment etc. Where does an OER stop and a MOOC begin (that presumes a scale I guess from courseware to collaboration or some-such). Wikipedia has one (obvious) definition – but is that the only definition? Can it be whatever we want we to be as this current course is demonstrating? I’ll stop rambling now.

To go back to Shuna’s point about direction at the start of the course, this is the support we have for our online courses and the students are very guided/handheld through the materials (these aren’t MOOCs but fully online DL courses)
http://learn.solent.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=152

 

 

 

 

 

[SolentRoger]

Hello Phil and all others I don’t yet know.

Happy to stay here – make this our electronic base room. Yesterday felt like walking into a huge university with no timetable or idea of what subject I was taking and wandering around the corridors lost, chatting to random souls until I a decided to open the door of a seminar room and wander in.

Although there are around 1000 participants it now feels like I’m on a course with 12 people.

To pick up on the ‘what is technology’ question, once upon a time pencil and paper was introduced into the classroom to replace chalk boards allowing the students to keep a permanent personal record of their learning and take their notes home with them for further study, thus introducing portability.
hmmm – sounds a bit like proto Mobile Learning with a Personal Learning Environment? And the batteries never ran out!
But, it wasn’t networked, there was no social constructivism beyond the classroom/face-to-face. So do we define TEL as to include some some of comms/collaboration ability? Was school radio TEL by that definition or just resource delivery (ie audio book?)

 

 

[SolentRoger]

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I realised last night that was 30 years ag0 – it was for teaching of a subject not teaching of computing (if that makes sense). Learning about car engines and then doing a simple MCQ. However, I then went on to realise that my primary school used to sit us all down to listen to BBC Schools Radio on a big loudspeaker (well I was little) connected to a Rediffusion service in the corner of a room.

[SolentRoger]

I hate being categorised, so I’m in.
My first MOOC, here for the experience as much as anything.

I’m the Learning Technologies Development Manager at Southampton Solent University. First experience of TEL was at school learning about 4-stroke engines in 1983 on a commordore PET – green screen and terrible graphics. Have previously worked in children’s publishing authoring education games on floppy disk and CD-ROM and have produced a sea of courseware for various clients. Been at Solent for 11 years and have done a bit of teaching on our PGCLT alongside the day job and have recently worked on some OERs.

 

 

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