Week Four #ededc

Week four was a crazy week! A good proportion of this week (outside of work duty) has been spent swatting for an interview (SL lecturer academic development), meaning a lot less time available for #ededc. I was happy with the work I produced for #edcmooc Friday 8th. My artifact portrayed MOOC activity as I had hoped, not as a direct reflection, but as a response to why we have MOOC’s.

I must say I am struggling with #edcmooc at the moment. I can understand why #edcmooc exists, and reasons for participation, but I’m finding it difficult to arrive at any direct meaning from MOOC activity. My interset seems to lay in how lectures are reacting, and how lectures seem almost naked within the shadow of MOOC, as in the initial #edcmooc hangout. At the moment I’m relating to MOOC as institutional identity rather than learning (especially after the Gardener video) and the discusion on gears of learning.

This week I intend to search MOOC activity for a deeper evidence of learning, in an attempt to challenge my current thinking. I hope to archive MOOC activity and draw meaning from the juxtaposition of that MOOC material and my understanding of why MOOC exists, with lecturer idenity and activity.