Five weeks ago, I started the Exploring Personal Learning Networks cMOOC with enthusiasm and expectation. Jeff Merrell (@JeffMerrell) and I had organised to meet via Google Hangout to have a chat about this but of course, our firewall prevented that from happening as it was during work hours. Instead, we talked via teleconference and I […]
How To Pitch The Value of Personal Learning Networks to a CEO – Wise or Folly?
After four weeks of participating in the Exploring Personal Learning Networks cMOOC, it has come to this. Our pitch to the CEO on the value of personal learning networks. In fact, through the various readings, discussion and activities of the previous three weeks, we have been building up to this point to undertake the following […]
Week 2 of Exploring Personal Learning Networks To Help Me in My Job
This second week of the Exploring Personal Learning Networks cMOOC was about defining Personal Learning Networks – and let me just say, there were LOTS of definitions. So much so that in all honesty, it confused me because I was getting bogged down in the details trying to grapple with everyone’s definitions, explanations and reflections. […]
Exploring Our Personal Learning Networks
I think I found my new cMOOC hit. After Educational Technology MOOC #etmooc, I searched high and low for a connectivist MOOC that could give me the same ‘highs’ as I had experienced with this one. I was looking for a MOOC where I could apply what I learned to my work immediately, but also […]
Third Place in Company & Conversation – A Place Where the PLN Gathers
This year will go down in my professional life as “The Year I Met my Online Personal Learning Network and Lived to Tell the Tale (Ad Nauseum)”. On average, every month I have met at least two people from my wider personal learning network whose connections I made through Twitter, LinkedIn or Yammer. I would […]
Week 1 of How To Teach Online MOOC – Everyone’s a Teacher…
It’s a tenuous time at work as we await the announcement of repoints to roles so the MOOC work outside of work hours has been providing me with the mental stimulation I need. This week marked the end of the first week of the How To Teach Online cMOOC. Reading some of the blog posts, […]
Week 0: How to Teach Online – the new MOOC on the block
After a nice long holiday, it didn’t take long for me to get back into work and into an organisational restructure. However despite all that, life goes on. Despite turbulent times in Learning and Development, it’s a good time to continue learning and do a MOOC or three. (a) Teaching with Moodle (started on 2 […]
Can You Make Your Learning Connect? Week 1 of #CLMOOC
I don’t know and that’s just what I’m about to find out. Thanks to my Google+ and Twitter pal, Gerardine Rudolphy who alerted me to this cMOOC called Making Learning Connected. “Making Learning Connected (#clmooc) is a collaborative, knowledge-building and sharing experience open to anyone who’s interested in making, creativity and learning. Over six weeks we will play […]
Week 1: Managing Change in Community Development MOOC
I have been lurking in this MOOC for the last couple of weeks just checking out other posts on Google + and viewing the webinars when I can get some time and I thought I’d contribute to last week’s question which was: Learning takes place in an ever shifting landscape, this is particularly true of […]
#OCTEL Week 6 Timely and Effective Assessment
I feel as if I’ve been a bit late with this week’s assignment but also a part of me saw that it was about assessment and I’d be lying if I said I was happy about it. I know that assessment and feedback is critical in our field but in my experience in the corporate […]