What role can social media tools play in the creation of knowledge? Can the interactions themselves generate knowledge? Interesting questions to ponder in relation to MOOCs. edSocial Media looks at dimensions: establish a conversation (one dimension) – chat topic and hashtag on Twitter, Google+ community; one dimensional because once the conversation ends the learning ends [...]
Reining in interest is sort of going OK, as I have been largely sunk in MOOCery and refining my research interests for a couple of months. Librarians are prone to being generalists, and I often feel envious of people who have a clear focus. Working on sharpening mine a bit more. Related to MOOCs is [...]
At the moment I’m registered on #h817open and #acadmooc, but turns out I’m more interested in how the thing works than the content – the MOOC angle seems to get in the way of my actually learning anything. In the latest on MOOC infrastructures, Wordpress is increasingly used in UK based MOOCs – in particular the [...]
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 [...]
My first MOOC has turned out to be not quite as expected – see #sna posts over on my CPD blog – but at least that means I’ve a smidgen of time for my second MOOC. Introduction to infographics and data visualisation (needs a #) is hosted by the Knight Center for Journalism in the [...]
I’ve joined the MOOC (and blogging about it) bandwagon and have signed up for Lada Adamic’s social network analysis course on Coursera, which started on 24 September. I attended an online course on community engagement in May, but this is rather more serious. I’m blogging about the content on my CPD blog – this post looks [...]
The Learning and Skills Group recently held an online conference. While most of the sessions were a bit fringe, I was interested in Jane Hart on using a collaborative platform for learning. Jane set up the Social Learning Centre, whose work touches on some themes of interest. Session links: webinar recording - 45 mins, manageable webinar tour - [...]
@RichMillington, author of the FeverBee blog and a community management expert, offered a free one week masterclass on community engagement from 7-10 May. The class was run in Lore (formerly Coursekit), a free online course platform/learning management system (LMS) geared at social learning, with daily webinars held in GoTo Webinar. Nearly 350 people signed up. This is my [...]
Updates and postscripts: Visitors and Residents is a concept which just won’t go away – see the foot of the post. And, Jakob Nielsen debunks teenagers as digital natives (Feb 2013). On 9 December I tuned into the #vandr webinar, presenting findings from the JISC/OCLC Visitors and Residents project. To get the most out of a webinar, or [...]
Update, April 2012: AssociCom makes some good points about extending the lifecycle of a conference using blended learning, while Jenny Mackness looks at what makes participation at a blended event work. Event Camp Europe (Eventbrite | website) on 9 September was presented as an opportunity for event professionals to “learn about hybrid events through actual experience”. A [...]