Update: article on completion issues, drawing on Katy Jordan’s research, HT to Emerging student patterns in MOOCs from March, plus Sheila Macneill’s No cost, no risk – no problem? prezi. And you can always become a repeat offender – many MOOCs run several times, so you can listen the first time round and complete the [...]
Having just drawn the curtains on my third MOOC time to take stock. Is it constructivist/connectivist to blog about MOOCing – and not share? Lurkers, lurking and labels implies yes, but also that the practice may be disruptive in xMOOCs, as in #ivmooc (sorry guys!), while Emerging patterns in MOOCs develops a full classification for [...]
Update, 8 March: report from #DR2 At SMWCPH @fiwa presented the results from his research on the science of virality, looking at what makes a story popular on social media (see also article in Journalisten). The results on Facebook, where the overwhelming majority of Danish #socme action takes place, were dominated by tabloid stories – [...]
On the UK R4 comedy show Just a Minute you can be penalised for listing. Can it be useful though? David Kelly, lister extraordinaire, must have started listing #lt13uk way back, and published the outcome on 25 January: Learning Technologies 2013 Conference Backchannel: Curated Resources #LT13UK – Go Caps! Didn’t think much about europe’s leading [...]
I’ve signed up for my third MOOC, #ivmooc, on information visualisation. With theoretical and practical tracks, plus the chance to work on a ‘real world’ problem, it looks well organised so far and will hopefully help process some of the content from my previous MOOCs in a more positive way. Follow progress on my CPD [...]
In Denmark the government gives money to the press. For me this touches a holy cow re press freedom, and was highlighted in a recent league table, but it doesn’t seem to trouble the Danes.
I’ve a post in draft on whether social media will run its course and why I don’t participate much. Meanwhile Steven Poole has written about the invasion of the cyber-hustlers, a polemic so perfect I could weep. Favourite quotes: for most of us, disruption is annoying On Coursera: for a cybertheorist, a brilliant plan to [...]
The latest figures in the Guardian state that “more than half of those with a Twitter account prefer not to tweet themselves”. I’m not quite there yet, but nearly! After my RSS feed-a-like Twitter reader gave up the ghost I stopped looking at my stream every day. I’ve given the new Tweetdeck a whirl, still [...]
Part of my motivation for MOOCing was to see how the learning management system (LMS) and any associated tools worked in practice, from a content perspective. I found both LMSs (Coursera and Moodle) lacking in terms of design and usability. They looked outdated, were not ‘fun’ to use and contributed to my not engaging with [...]
Visual.ly might be a bit limited, but it does simple things well. Here’s my LinkedIn profile infographic, Earth Tone Version. The other styles include different categories of information and are laid out differently. Egobooster task for the Xmas hols: update LinkedIn profile, plus investigate other personal timeline tools. create infographics with visual.ly