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Experiential Learning Theory is a constructivist learning theory first presented by Dewey (1938). Dewey described experiential learning as a cyclical process of bringing previous knowledge forward into a social context. A facilitator creates the conditions for participants to bring forward… Continue Reading →
My hope with my research is to disseminate it in three ways. For publication, I will be submitting my research findings to Digital Culture and Education “an international inter-disciplinary open-access peer-reviewed academic journal…. that challenges the hegemony of publishers”. This… Continue Reading →
The 3-2-1 structure is: 3 thoughts or ideas you have about digital facilitation based on your course experience. 2 questions you have about digital facilitation based on your course experience. 1 metaphor or simile about digital facilitation based on your… Continue Reading →
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 this approach might change the role of the online facilitator. Open educational practices (OEP) is a… 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 →
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 best learning experiences for me as learner and teacher have been those that relied on a community of practice approach. For example, as a teacher the ethics course I wrote about in a previous post Capturing the Unicorn was… Continue Reading →
I started teaching because a course needed coverage for a few classes when the regular instructor needed some time off. This snowballed into the next semester when I had three courses given to me with two days notice. There was… Continue Reading →
The themes I am working with in my upcoming speculative futures paper look at the predicted impacts to my rural post secondary institution as Canada takes steps to mitigate climate change. I consider myself a hopeful cynic. As this is… Continue Reading →