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Phew
I’m patting myself on the back Tentatively Today I submitted my draft findings For the last month I have been too busy writing about my affinity space to play in my affinity space Now I have time to breathe Hurrah
Miscommunication
Random moments of misconnection: George, a Chinese UG, tells me how hard it is to study independently when there is so much he does not understand in lectures. He struggles to understand aurally and finds it hard to use lecture … Continue reading
Posted in HE, Learning, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Teaching
Tagged #LTHEChat. #unboundeq, learning, networks, understanding
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Reclaiming Lurking
Lurking is a potential problem for theories of social constructivism and principles of active learning. It’s also a problem for data analytics – if the student is not VISIBLE, how do we KNOW that they are learning? The invisible are … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, #rhizo15, Academia, Critical pedagogy, Facebook, Learning, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Teaching
Tagged active learning, CoP, Lave and Wenger, LPP, lurking. lurk, social constructivism
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Twitter chat personas
I’ve been thinking a lot about the different ways of interacting, or not, on Twitter this week, and I’ve come up with a rough list of types of engagement in Twitter conversations: Academic: adds relevant academic references Networker: links to … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Social Media
Tagged lurk, lurkers, lurking, personas, Twitter
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It depends how you look at it
There’s a story that’s often told about a bunch of blind men and an elephant. Each man only encounters a part of the elephant and, based on their partial understanding, disagree with the others about the *real* nature of the … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, #rhizo15, D&G, Learning, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Philosophy, Researcher Journal, Rhizomes
Tagged #clmooc, blind men, elephant, perspectivism, Rhizome
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Lurkers
I lurk There, I’ve said it out loud. There are times that, for various reasons, I read conversations and watch what is going on without visibly participating. Does that make me a bad person, or is my behaviour an entirely … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Teaching, University
Tagged lurk. lurker, lurking
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Secondment
I’ve been dying to shout this out loud, and now I can. As my Facebook friends will know, on March 1st I take up a two year secondment to our Adam Smith Business School as a Teaching Fellow working with … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, University
Tagged business school, research, secondment
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Cargo Cults
Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law states that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. I think that’s probably true of many things and not just limited to technology – that many things that others do look like magic from the outside. … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, Capitalism, Critical pedagogy, DS106, Learning, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Rhizomes, Social Media, Teaching, Technology, University
Tagged #clmooc, #DS!06, cargo cult, cMOOC, Feynman, xMOOC
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Hope
Twitter gets a lot of bad press, for many reasons. But, for me, it’s a place I find like-minded friends who are generous, caring and creative. So today’s #DecDoodle is a Twitter dove with an olive branch – symbolising my … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, DailyCreate, DS106, Learning, Love, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD
Tagged #clmooc, #DS106, dove, hope, love, Twitter
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Creative Playfulness and Convivial Interactions
I’m giving a paper at the SocMedHE conference at Sheffield Hallam this Tuesday called Creative Playfulness and Convivial Interactions in a Participatory Culture: recent findings and implications for Higher Education. It’s based on some of the findings from my PhD research … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, Learning, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Social Media, Teaching, University
Tagged #clmooc, affinity space, Community of Practice, CoP, serendipity
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