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Category Archives: PhD
Learning and Meaning
I rewatched a superb TedX talk yesterday by Tesia Marshik called Learning styles & the importance of critical self-reflection. She talks about the myth of learning styles and the danger of believing in them, and it’s a powerful and persuasive critique. What … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, Learning, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Teaching, University
Tagged assessment, Assessment and Feedback, feedback, meaning
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Researcher Journal: Trust and Authenticity
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the ethics of conducting research on open data. I know that some folk take the view that because Twitter is in the public domain, that means that researchers are welcome to help themselves … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, #rhizo14, Learning, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Researcher Journal, Rhizomes, Writing
Tagged #clmooc, authenticity, ethics, participatory research, reciprocity, trust
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Researcher Journal: Research Questions
When I changed my PhD thesis title a while back, I omitted to think through any accompanying research questions. At my last supervision meeting, Vic suggested that it was time to think about what my up to date research questions … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, Learning, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Researcher Journal, Writing
Tagged #clmooc, active learning, collaborative learning, peer interaction, peer learning, PhD
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Understanding lurkers
Last week I attended the most excellent SocMedHE16 conference to present a paper that I have co-written with Aras Bozkurt, Len Singh and AK based on some research we have been doing about learner behaviour in #CLMOOC – an online community … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, Learning, MOOC, Online learning, PhD, Social Media
Tagged #clmooc, #SocMedHE16, Community of Practice, CoP, lurkers, lurking, Pareto's Law
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Who am I this month?
I had meant to spend more time crafting my intro to CLMooc16 – trying out some tools I’d not used before, curating some of my digital artefacts – that sort of thing. But then Brexit happened, and everything changed. For … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, Flowers, Garden, knitting, Learning, MOOC, Music, Peer interaction, PhD, Philosophy, Photos, Politics, Rhizomes, Scotland, Twisted Pair
Tagged #Brexit, #clmooc, online identity
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Researcher Journal: Ethical Clearance
It took me ages to work out how to write my ethics application for my PhD. It was only when Fiona (my supervisor) said that doing it would help me think through my methodology that something clicked and I started … Continue reading
Posted in Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Researcher Journal, Writing
Tagged ethics, research
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Researcher journal: starting out
Wise words from a friend about the importance of keeping a researcher journal. I mentioned this at my PhD annual review this week and my reviewers agreed, so here goes. I started my studies in January 2012 with Vicky Gunn (then … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Researcher Journal
Tagged cMOOC, online learning, peer interaction, PhD, research
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