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Done!

I wasn't really sure in places how much weighting to put on learner choices vs practitioner choices vs my own experience in the activities.

I found the last part quite hard at first, as it wasn't entirely obvious what "learner experiences" could be looked at above and beyond those that had already been covered.  However, given recent experiences with offering our courses to Chinese students and their differences in expectations from the online course, this seemed like a good option to look at and easily gave me 500 words.

As with TMA01, the main problem with the TMA seemed to be keeping to the word limit given the amount of papers we have looked at to discuss, plus the fact they encourage us to include references to forum posts and also wider reading (using the magic extra time we can all summon up from nowhere).

Finding relevant forum posts to include with this one was a lot harder than TMA01, as the forums have been a lot quieter in this block.  There were some useful points raised in a recent elluminate session though, which I included.

Made more of a start at thinking about TMA2 this evening (still have activity 4 from weeks 13/14 to look at, but I think that is now going to wait until next week).

At the moment I'm aiming to look at:

• Week 10 Activity 5 - Blogs
• Week 12 Activity 5 - Face to Face vs Online Tutorials
• Week 13/14 Activity 3 - Wikis

Spent this evening skimming through the relevant readings from the activities and jotting down ideas for learner & practitioner choices.

Also went through the relevant forums for each activity and the recent elluminat session and added some notes from them, plus a few from some of the other readings from blocks 1 and 2.

The result of which is 3 entirely illegible sheets of paper with lines going everywhere.

Think there may be a way to go before these turn into a submittable TMA...