Lisa Lane has written a blog post - The Guiding Force - that has captured my interest. In her post, she asks us to identify our ‘guiding forces’ in planning our work as teachers – or as she calls them – instructors. (As an aside, I find the use of language here an interesting cultural [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Autonomy, assessment and guiding forces
Posted in ChangeMOOC11, tagged #change11, assessment, autonomy, changemooc11, Connectivism, lisalane, MOOC on December 21, 2011 | 6 Comments »
#Change11- Half way point reflections
Posted in ChangeMOOC11, tagged #change11, changemooc11, Connectivism, MOOC on December 19, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Well it’s time to take stock a bit – not the ideal time – with Xmas looming and everything that entails and needs thinking about – mostly food. Every year I cannot believe how much food is consumed But how much of Change MOOC have I consumed and what are my tentative and first reflections [...]
Pas de Deux online partnerships
Posted in CCK11, ChangeMOOC11, tagged #change11, changemooc11, eLearning, learning, MOOC on December 19, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Today I was really warmed by an email I received from a colleague I am working with in which he wrote that the work we are doing together is ‘ a great pas de deux’. The description of Pas de Deux that I found in the first few lines of this website - I think [...]
Wikis for project management, research and personal use
Posted in eLearning, tagged eLearning, learning, Research, technology, wikis on December 19, 2011 | 6 Comments »
This year the tool I have used the most to support my work has been a wiki. I have found it an invaluable tool, for both working in small research groups and working in large and small project teams. My wiki of choice is PBWorks – although I am also familiar with Wikispaces, but only [...]
3rd Networked Learning Hotseat: Dec 12-16
Posted in Networked Learning Conference 2012, tagged #change11, changemooc11, networked learning on December 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Prior to the Networked Learning 2012 conference on April 2nd, 3rd and 4th in Maastricht, The Netherlands we are offering an exciting series of online hot seats hosted here by some of the leading thinkers in the field. From October 2011 we will have a Hot Seat each month till the conference starts. This year’s [...]
Doubts about Slow learning
Posted in ChangeMOOC11, tagged #change11, changemooc11, clarkquinn, learning, slow learning on December 10, 2011 | 13 Comments »
I thought I would enjoy this Week 13 in ChangeMooc – presented by Clark Quinn on ‘slow learning’, but instead I find myself a bit at odds with some of the ideas that have been discussed. I think the main problem is the terminology, i.e. ‘slow learning’. I just don’t think it describes the ideas [...]

