Learning Community Design (Assessment 2.2)

Here is a link to my page outlining my reflections on experiences when designing learning communities.

edutweet – a model for elearning

Together with 5 other Masters students at UTS, we designed a model for an online learning community where members can participate in a socially constructive learning environment.  edutweet primarily focuses on adult learners and educators participating asynchronous in a collaborative yet flexible social network that assists in the completion of learning tasks.  Although the philosophy of [...]

Moderators – Community Managers – Technology Stewards

When I became involved in the group assessment task for developing a model for an e-Learning community, I was at first, a little apprehensive about using a microblogging tool such as Twitter to enhance collaborative learning.  Of course, we recognised that Twitter used alone, could not completely enhance all learning but together with other tools, [...]

Day of revelations

PDay – Presentation day for group uni work, Saturday 23 May 2009.
My last thought when going to sleep on Friday night was ‘god!  I have to get up so early for a Saturday!  That doesn’t seem fair and what about my sleep-in’.  Perhaps I shouldn’t have worried as I was pretty much awake most of [...]

Brain’s new world

While enjoying the luxury of R&R and the Easter break in Melbourne, I picked up a free magazine called ‘Child The best guide for parents – Food & Wellbeing Issue’ (April 2009).  No, I’m not a parent, but I thought it would give me something to read while I was waiting for my eagerly anticipated [...]

Reflections……

Since writing my assignment last week and analysising my role as a learner in a community, and also completing the Group Charter for the first part of our second assignment, I started reflecting on my ‘fears’ about posting my thoughts and ideas in the online learning environments that we are using for this subject.  To be honest [...]

Learning Experiences (Assessment 1.2)

Here is a link to my page outlining my learning experiences as a participant in a particular community.

Social Psychology of Adult Learning

Although particularly lengthy, I found this paper by Shirley Saunders particularly interesting to read.  The connections between how adults learn, the environment where that learning takes place, the types of interaction involved and what is learnt will affect how learning is viewed and what amount of that learning is retained.  This paper discusses various theories [...]

Assessment 1.1

Here is a link to my page outlining my experiences as a participant in a particular Learning Community

Learning, Working and Playing in the Digital Age

Isn’t it interesting that there is a underlying assumption that everyone will have access to a computer and there is uninterrupted and/or reliable connection to the internet to use its tools for social networking and learning. Just thinking particularly about people living in remote areas of Australia who are not serviced well (and in some [...]