H818 - The Networked Practitioner - New for Autumn 2013
Saturday, 8 Dec 2012, 06:08
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Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Tuesday, 21 Oct 2014, 07:50
Fig. 1. The Digital Scholar
Martin Weller's Digital Scholar becomes the basis for H818 - The Networked Practitioner
This new e-learning module from the Open University uses Martin Weller’s book The Digital Scholar is part of a wide range of open access material used for the module and Martin is one of the authors of the module content.
Over the last couple of years I have said how much I would like to 'return' to the traditional approach to graduate and postgraduate learning - you read a book from cover to cover and share your thinking on this with fellow students and your tutor - perhaps also a subject related student society.
Why know it if it works?
Fig. 2. The backbone of H810 Accessible Online Learning is Jane Seale's 2006 Book.
Where the author has a voice and authority, writes well and in a narrative form, it makes for an easier learning journey - having read the Digital Scholar participants will find this is the case.
As in the creation of a TV series or movie a successful publication has been tested and shows that there is an audience.
The research and aggregation has been done - though I wonder if online exploiting a curated resource would be a better model? That e-learning lends itself to drawing upon multiple nuggets rather than a single gold bar.
There are a couple of caveats related to this tactic:
Keeping the content refreshed and up to date.Too often I find myself reading about redundant technologies - the solution is to Google the cited author and see if they have written something more current - often, not surprisingly from an academic, you find they have elaborated or drilled into a topic they have made their own in the last 18 months.
Lack of variety.Variety is required in learning not simply to avoid the predictable - read this, comment on this, write an assignment based on this ... but this single voice may not be to everyone's liking. Can you get onto their wave length? If not, who and where are the alternative voices?
H818 - The Networked Practitioner - New for Autumn 2013
Fig. 1. The Digital Scholar
Martin Weller's Digital Scholar becomes the basis for H818 - The Networked Practitioner
This new e-learning module from the Open University uses Martin Weller’s book The Digital Scholar is part of a wide range of open access material used for the module and Martin is one of the authors of the module content.
Chapter 1 - Read it here on the Bloomsbury website
Over the last couple of years I have said how much I would like to 'return' to the traditional approach to graduate and postgraduate learning - you read a book from cover to cover and share your thinking on this with fellow students and your tutor - perhaps also a subject related student society.
Why know it if it works?
Fig. 2. The backbone of H810 Accessible Online Learning is Jane Seale's 2006 Book.
Where the author has a voice and authority, writes well and in a narrative form, it makes for an easier learning journey - having read the Digital Scholar participants will find this is the case.
As in the creation of a TV series or movie a successful publication has been tested and shows that there is an audience.
The research and aggregation has been done - though I wonder if online exploiting a curated resource would be a better model? That e-learning lends itself to drawing upon multiple nuggets rather than a single gold bar.
There are a couple of caveats related to this tactic: