Friday, April 26, 2013
Star Date 4.26.2013 -- so falling behind in my classes, no surprise there. Here my student lesson for the day, though. I am wondering if having a visual representation, like a map, of the course orientation, would help folks -- and I am also wondering if there is a better way to show in Canvas what part of what module a student has already visited, dealt with, covered.
Monday, April 22, 2013
Star date: 4.22.2013
Second week in the MOOC experiment -- what tips can I give to students who may want to go this route:
First one: set up routines -- check the online environment on a regular schedule to learn about new posts, new assignments, new discussions. Even if Canvas tells you that there is new stuff happening, changes are you will not be able to get to this right then and there, so a scheduled participation, like attending a class, is a must.
Second: do not procrastinate -- as easy as it is to do in a self-paced, independent learning environment, it will come back and haunt you. This becomes especially for required or suggested readings.
Second week in the MOOC experiment -- what tips can I give to students who may want to go this route:
First one: set up routines -- check the online environment on a regular schedule to learn about new posts, new assignments, new discussions. Even if Canvas tells you that there is new stuff happening, changes are you will not be able to get to this right then and there, so a scheduled participation, like attending a class, is a must.
Second: do not procrastinate -- as easy as it is to do in a self-paced, independent learning environment, it will come back and haunt you. This becomes especially for required or suggested readings.
Friday, April 19, 2013
Star Date: 4/19/2013
The mission is figuring out how to develop learning content in higher education for mobile, hybrid, online, active learning -- and getting faculty and students excited about this. First steps: Taking a couple of Micro-Moocs offered through the Canvas Network on mobile learning design and quality online course design.
A little later in the day -- had time to catch up on my mobile learning class, listening to the archive of Metcalf's webinar on mobile learning at http://www.insidehighered.com/audio/2013/04/17/instructional-design-mobile-learning
Some thoughts from this webinar
The connection between Social, Realtime and Mobile and the connection with constructivist pedagogies and andragogies and new instructional technologies and tools finally makes it doable (not easy) to develop, deliver, and have students work on, create meaningful, authentic assignments, projects, discussions that make it very clear to students what the connection between content, degree, program and the application to the real world can be.
However, that connection also needs to be established by the faculty who create the content and the assignments, and that is not a technology question, a mobile question, but a question of -- are we ready to make that change? And if so, how are we going to make that change happen?
The mission is figuring out how to develop learning content in higher education for mobile, hybrid, online, active learning -- and getting faculty and students excited about this. First steps: Taking a couple of Micro-Moocs offered through the Canvas Network on mobile learning design and quality online course design.
A little later in the day -- had time to catch up on my mobile learning class, listening to the archive of Metcalf's webinar on mobile learning at http://www.insidehighered.com/audio/2013/04/17/instructional-design-mobile-learning
Some thoughts from this webinar
The connection between Social, Realtime and Mobile and the connection with constructivist pedagogies and andragogies and new instructional technologies and tools finally makes it doable (not easy) to develop, deliver, and have students work on, create meaningful, authentic assignments, projects, discussions that make it very clear to students what the connection between content, degree, program and the application to the real world can be.
However, that connection also needs to be established by the faculty who create the content and the assignments, and that is not a technology question, a mobile question, but a question of -- are we ready to make that change? And if so, how are we going to make that change happen?
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