I have often written about how important collaboration between learners is on an online course - but I can see that everything I have done up until now was collaboration-lite.
This week has been quite hectic but, just as would happen in face-to-face teaching, there are some course members who take the initiative.
The trick for all of us students is to pick and choose from the traffic in the posts, making sure that we put in our twopenn'orth from time to time.
This has not been a week for students who like to learn at their own pace - but that's fair enough, I think. If I want to do more than pay lip-service to the idea of constructivism then I have to enter the fray. That way, rather than just developing my ideas in my own sweet way, they are exposed to question and analysis.