Taking a course to see for my self

I have joined a course in my own topic HRM to learn more ?   Its really interesting to see how professional the movies (recorded lectures) are. Wonder if we ever could do something like that at my University since "the cost of developing high quality educational video that exploits the unique characteristics of the medium is still relatively high" (Bates, 2015).  And there is no budget for that yet. But there are plans for internationalization and maybe this is a way for internationalization to use other University's courses and let the students make the examination here. And then we have to give courses, MOOC s so that other Schools can do the same ?! It is obvious  that god  pedagogy is necessary - but what is god pedagogy in MOOC s ? Just a few short notes in this blog. There are to be many problems to solve, things to think about like :
Universal (students from all over the word) You have to really think about what you say. 
Movies - how and why?
Budget - ?
Reusable ?
Who shall be movie star - lecturing?
Copyright of pictures and music?

How might my lecturing be reused? mixed? misunderstood ?
 

The look of the teacher one of my colleges said - I'm to ugly :( , I have to go to the hairdresser,,
Since the appearance are important . There are codes of conduct that are not in writing,, so even a male lecturer would probably want to look  as a male lecturer.


ref

Bates Anthony William (2015) under creativ commons licence.https://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/  

Schilling, A. (2014). Dressing for competence : Notes on the body practices of knowledge workers.   Linneaus University   2014 http://www.anzam.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf-manager/1721_ANZAM-2014-375.PDF

Now or Never?

To much to do,
And still  I accept more things to do - like informing my colleges about MOOCs - next Friday. I better hurry to grasp it. Since this ONL161 course for me was something more than I thought it was , I did not  pass - but I will pass sooner or later - or is there a time limit ? or what?
Ok here are my previous thought about MOOCs - nothing!
I had no idea about wat MOOCs was.  Today I know more :

 

MOOCs stand for Massive Open Online Courses. These are free online courses from universities around the world
                                             (Class Central, 2016-11-02). 
 You can find them on class central .You can use MOOCs in your education and examine them at your home university - You can use parts of the courses for seminars and discussions.

I have made an Power point introduction to some colleges.  The problem right now is  how do I find out how to make place for a power point file in blogger, this blog, I do not know. That might be the biggest problem with the internet revolution, it is not obvious how to do  for everyone .But there is books to read for those who finds it, for exampel  teaching in digital age  .  Anyhow

You can do your own MOOCs, share the knowledge. Get reputation, by collaboration you can move beyond the typical institutional collaboration patterns (Santos et al. 2016).  And maybe paid for it, maybe beneficial both in monetary and in mastery.


ref:
 Inamorato dos Santos, A., Punie, Y., Castaño-Muñoz, J. (2016) Opening up Education: A Support

Framework for Higher Education Institutions. JRC Science for Policy Report, EUR 27938 EN; doi:10.2791/293408 

Bates Anthony William (2015) under creativ commons licence.https://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/  

 

 

enought is not enough

Enough is enough?
Blogs in ONL course should be longer - more words - more thoughts -  better thoughts?
I missed, and maybe I did not look for what exactly was expected for passing this course.

I'm not giving up - and I will start commenting.  In this blog in more posts,  more about my learning and thoughts from the beginning of the course ONL161.

ONL161 - online learning network, a course that attracted me. I like to use internet, computers and  technology. I like teaching. I believe that studies and knowledge shall be made available to anyone who wants to take part - examinations are something else.

High motivation is considered to be good for making  learning easier (Eppler & Harju, 1997). And I look forward to learn more and  to meet teachers from other faculties, other countries, other people with other experiences. At the beginning of the course we met in Kalmar live, and got lots of information. Too much for me I think. Since I could not find the information about the amount of words that was necessary, and the amount of references and so on, for finishing the course.


 I went home to the my office and tried get it, to know what I was going to do, AND HOW to do it(everything). "All others" have portable computers work -  not me . I brought my private. And it is  private, but I use it at work anyhow-that is how it is for many teachers who do not go to conferences every five minutes. In this course As in many I give my students I guess, I probably assume previous knowledge at a too high level, the expectation that students have better knowledge than they have (Hedin, 2006). Just because I can and think it's simple and obvious, it is not for everyone. I have met university students who know little about WORD .


And before  this course I've never cared about Twitter, blogs, or Google+. HELP! is the spontaneous thought and feeling  - but I want to get through and learn more ,,,

Eppler,M.A. & Harju,B.L. (1997) Achievement motivation goals in relation to academic performance in traditional and nontraditional college students. Research in Higher Education, 38(5),s.557-573.

Hedin , A.(2006) Lärande på hög nivå: idéer från studenter, lärare och pedagogisk forskning som stöd för utveckling av universitetsundervisning. Uppsala : Uppsala Universitet

Kentnor, HE. (2015). Distance  education  and the  evolution  of online learning  in the United States . Curriculum & Teaching Dialogue, 17, 1/2, s. 21-34, Academic Search Premier, EBSCO host, viewed 2016-08-31

Education, teaching, formalities and support.

 This week I have focused on the similarities and differences in teaching on net and live. The similarities are many. The difference is that we do not have close contact with the students, we are not in the same house, we  may not even be in the same country. We may not have the same conditions, technical, economic elller politically. Awareness of the differences mean that we need to be clear, so clear that we can bridge the differences. 
There is a lot to take in account -To get to our students both in and out throughout the course. Hence the need for awareness of pedagogy perspective on learning - we learn in different ways. Despite differences in learning methods are meeting and discussing important.
 How should and can get you get your students to start a discussion on the web - without coercion? How might we examine thousands of students in a course, is that even possible?

This course is approaching its end. And  it has opened my eyes to all that online learning offers, Moocs, and Google +, blogs, twitter etc. The pedagogy of online courses is something I realize I want to familiarize myself with even more. And still there  are theories (Andersson (2008), Salmon (2013)). And so much, much left to know ,,,

Salmon, G. (2013) Scaffolding for online learning. Available here

Anderson, T. (Ed.). (2008). The theory and practice of online learning . Athabasca University Press. Available here 

So different - and the same

Pedagogy - teachich

the fifth week - getting to know more?

All the technic, the google+, wordpress, paddle, twitter , adobe, all of it is becoming familiar, at least a little. now I dont have to spend more time on looking for where and how compared to reading and taking part of the course. still I am confused. Today nobody else had written anything on the fish document - maybe I still am at the wrong place? Or maybe it is like in the text I wrote after reading Weller, M. (2014). Battle for Open: How openness won and why it doesn’t feel like victory. London: Ubiquity Press. Available here 

there is a lot to it - more than anyone can  get a glimps of (in the  few hours that is in this course) in my life ?

Wiki for students - an experience

I had decided that in the new course which began March 30, the students would be given the opportunity to make a wiki - for real. One of the  students came the following day and said: 

I wrote out my wiki, I had chosen health apps . I wrote five lines and would fetch a referens and left the computer a few minutes. When I came back, five people were had changed  "my" wiki, only the first two sentences I wrote were left. I changed back and then it became a debate where I gave up. Incredible .


There was a lively debate. Many students were  surprised, how can there be critic so quickly? Where the criticism justified?
A log was picked up by another student, and everyone could see the debate within the wiki. Then we had a discussion of credibility  it  was rewarding, even for me.
I had no idea that wiki was so "monitored".