#PLENK2010 The place of content in teaching and learning

Today’s PLENK presentation from Maria Anderson was based on her paper – The Holy Grail of Education: Personalized Learning Unfortunately, like many others, I hadn’t had time to read the paper before attending the session (Note to PLENK convenors – many of us might need more advance notice of pre-reading  - or did I miss [...]

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#PLENK2010 Reflective Learning

Reflective learning came up in the weekly round up Elluminate session today and Stephen asked Rita to expand on her understanding of reflective learning. It was one of those situations, where I was so busy trying to find my own response to Stephen’s question, that  I completely dropped out of Elluminate into my own thoughts [...]

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Openness and intellectual property

This is just going to be a quick post – just to mark something that happened today and which seems highly significant to me to the whole notion of open learning in open networks – if those networks are related to learning in Higher Education. Today I attended a meeting in which a PhD student [...]

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#PLENK2010 Assessment in distributed networks

I have been struggling to clearly identify the issues associated with assessment in PLEs/PLNs – which are probably similar to those in MOOCs or distributed networks. There seem to be a number of questions. Is it desirable/possible to assess learners in a course which takes place in a distributed network? Is it possible/desirable to accredit [...]

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#PLENK2010 More thoughts about evaluation and assessment

I have to admit to being confused about exactly what the focus of this week of the PLENK course has been about. The title of the week has been – ‘Evaluating Learning in PLE/Ns’. But the language used has been very confusing, starting with the words assessment and evaluation being used interchangeably – which I [...]

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#PLENK2010 Evaluation and assessment

I am skating around the edges of this MOOC. I am not unduly worried about this. I have been involved in MOOCs before and know that you need a lot of time to be involved in and make sense of the chaotic mess that is nearer the ‘heart’ of it – and currently I don’t [...]

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#PLENK2010 The relevance of learning theories

I was interested to see what George would come up with re the relationship between learning theories and PLE/PLNs. The Moodle discussion forums have been much quieter – but perhaps this is because it is Week 4 of the course. Dave Cormier has posted somewhere – I think – that this is a hard week [...]

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#PLENK2010 – Open courses and the ‘Granny Cloud’ phenomenon

Thanks to Alec Couros for further information about his open course – EC&I 831: Social Media & Open Education – and for the link to his call for mentors for this course which made for very interesting reading – and has had me reflecting on the question of how to scaffold open courses further – [...]

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#PLENK2010 Scaffolding Open Courses

I have just attended the Friday Elluminate session of the Plenk2010 course (will post recording as soon as it is available). I have been out of touch for more than a week trying to meet research and work deadlines and so it was great to be able to attend this session and also that the [...]

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