Author kemcmurray
Our team (Ashley Breton, Emma Keating, Karen McMurray, and Ash Senini) will present a micro-course on Open Educational Practices where participants will explore how openness might change the role of their online facilitation. Open educational practices (OEP), is the use… Continue Reading →
3 initial thoughts Digital learning requires a lot of up-front detailed design consideration to support good facilitation. Prior to courses starting we need to design for the elements we want to include and engage participants with. In face to face… Continue Reading →
For the final deliverable of this course, I am designing a digital learning resource to meet the needs of faculty at the college I teach at. While the resource will be online and open (using wordpress and mattermost) the learners… Continue Reading →
I have been using this blog as a bit of a parking lot to help articulate some ideas and learning that arise as I consider MOOCs. A spot for the interesting things that come up but that are not part… Continue Reading →
As I consider the principle of openness in relation to MOOCs it has occurred to me that xMOOCs, the current version of MOOCs that are relied upon by corporate providers are at some point going to be irrelevant and maybe… Continue Reading →
In this inquiry work an early realization is the importance I need to give to differentiating between cMOOCs and xMOOCs. Tony Bates gives I believe a good job of describing these two categories with cMOOCs being the first version of… Continue Reading →
Rhizomes, I’m back to them again. For those of us in MALAT you will recall the rhizomes from Dave Cromier in the LRNT 521 course where he talked about being open on the web as an opportunity to create networks… Continue Reading →
The Massive Online Open Course (MOOCs) our group is exploring, The Science of Well Being, offered through Coursera created personal tensions for me that can be distilled into weighing the value of the opportunity to engage with the content presented… Continue Reading →
My thinking has shifted quite a bit from the outset of this course in how I relate to and understand my organization. What I attempted to do with this learning opportunity was actually act differently in my organization and take… Continue Reading →
Last summer I was hired to design an online foundations arts first year program for a college which had only taught online courses as part of the covid emergency pivot response. The faculty had never used an LMS before and… Continue Reading →