Reading Time: 2minutesNot long ago, I revisited an old idea with a friend at work: The Exquisite Corpse drawing game. We wanted to use it as a way to encourage some asynchronous play-activity among members of...
Reading Time: 3minutesBack in the late 80s and early 90s, there was a term called “The Computer Widow”. This referred to the wives who hardly ever saw their computer-obsessed husbands, except from the back. It’s a...
Reading Time: 3minutesThis post is the first in a new series of assignments for a free online course. This open course is called Why Openness in Education. The first assignment given in this course proposed: “Think...
Reading Time: 2minutesIn Week 4 of the MOOC E-Learning + Digital Cultures, one of the “Perspectives on Education” articles asks the question “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”. I must admit that I’ve sometimes asked myself a...
Reading Time: 2minutesMOOCs and UBC: Top 12 things you need to know now… In September 2012, UBC entered into an agreement with Coursera to deliver online web-based free courses as part of MOOCs. UBC has four...
Reading Time: < 1minuteEDCMOOC statistics These usage statistics were provided by faculty from Edinburgh University, who are running the E-Learning + Digital Cultures MOOC on Coursera: Total Registered Participants: 42874 Active Participants Over the Last 7 Days (“Active”...
Reading Time: 2minutesWeek 3 of the MOOC E-Learning + Digital Cultures explores the theme of “Reasserting the Human”. In the videos I’ve seen so far in Week 3, the idea of humanity is brought to the foreground...
Reading Time: < 1minuteA personal inventory… I am… Used to learning face-first, by experience. Sometimes outgoing, and sometimes withdrawn. Happiest when I have a project on the go (whatever it is). Grateful to learn from others. Grateful...
Reading Time: < 1minuteI find it difficult to contemplate learning in a group, or in a classroom. I don’t know where this reaction comes from, but I can say without hesitation that I’ve always treasured the time...
Reading Time: < 1minuteUnit 6: Colour in Nature Continuing with my self-directed study of colour by following the telecourse Colour: An Introduction. (Check out all my colour assignments here.) Here are my notes from completing this unit...
