Digital Artefact for University of Edinburgh #edcmooc

The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions.

Final Assignment for "E-learning and Digital Culture"

The University of Edinburgh professors who created the assignment required it to have a five-minute duration. Accordingly, I've created:

• Three short videos (3:01 min., 31 sec., 34 sec.), using tools suggested by the professors
• A Pinterest board.

Without further ado...

Human Nature and the Nature of Humans and Their Implications for [E-]learning

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What Does It Mean to Be Human?

Do you agree with the robot's sentiments? If a robot can express such feelings, is the robot human?

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Human Learners Need Human Attention While We Learn

e-learning is about self-motivation, but legacies of historical learning make it such that I expect attention from professors. When the cohort is 7K+ who are active, it is hard to gain such attention, so I find it amongst peers.

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Finally, a Pinterest Board, MOOC Marvels - "E-learning and Digital Culture"

To view the full board, please click here. You can select to read my comments for three out of the nine pins, so that your review time of my assignment won't exceed five minutes.

#EDCMOOC - MOOC on e-learning and Digital Culture

The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions.

Day 1

So far, the MOOC is over-stimulating in a good way -- all topics and people that interest me, and it's embarrassing that I don't already know how to make sure this blog ends up in the RSS, aggregated EDC MOOC News page. All four of the first four short films felt dark to me and I'm typically a hugely optimistic person re: technology's potential for good, so maybe this is a good reality-check, this course, or just a buzz-kill. Not yet sure which.

Having a purring cat on my lap as I type humanizes the alone-ness so far. Am excited by the many hundreds of new people whose viewpoints I'm being exposed to, and need to guard against self-consciousness in my posts in response to others' posts.

That's the tricky part: to acknowledge others' contributions without feeling like I'm just responding without posting original thoughts of my own. I think from now on, I'll ignore the tip, "Search before you post" because then I just get caught up in what others think and feel blocked in spouting my thoughts.

Instead, first I'll post and then I'll trawl through others' input and add selected responses to theirs. I also need to guard against feeling competitive and trying to write to attract votes....Still, earlier, I thought that at least one of my two posts was somewhat clever and was disappointed to check later and see no votes. The lesson, if it's like other online, asynchronous learning I've done, is to get in early. I don't think I'll be able to do that with this course, since psychologically, I know that there is relatively little consequence for not giving it my all vs. ensuring that I'm focusing on my job.

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