Feel slightly low about Week 3.
The content has been interesting.
I really enjoyed the 3 learning theories
and the way they were presented with such variety – youtube clips, slideshare
etc.
From a post to a presentation I followed a
link to an Ayn Rand interview – nothing directly to do with H817 but very
stimulating – shows how there can be learning at a tangent in these formats.
I feel frustrated with Activity 12, which
was structured in such a way that to get the most benefit from it, you needed
to advance a lot quicker than I realized – with the consequence that by
Saturday morning (when the whole system has moved you on to Week 4 – very
demotivating!) – we had barely got thoughts down about individual theories – so
as a group we had no time for discussion and summing up – very frustrating.
In general the pacing of the course is
leaving too little time for proper asynchronous conversations – maybe we all
need to get into the pace more, but right now it feels very frustrating to
see so many varied and interesting posts but not be able to properly respond to them and develop
threads.
This style of course takes some getting used to! The sense of not being quite able to develop ideas about content encountered is deeply frustrating. Do you think this might partly be because at least some understanding of a wide range of topics is needed to approach innovation and open education, but that time to explore, for example, learning theories warrants half a module by itself? The frustration you are expressing at wanting to know/think/discuss more sounds like a long-term habit forming ;-)
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