{"id":913,"date":"2018-12-02T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/?guid=e60ba2e233e06d9a93c244e97b49e465"},"modified":"2018-12-02T10:17:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T10:17:03","slug":"topic-3-learning-in-communities-networked-collaborative-learning-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hhk3.kau.se\/onl181-blogposts\/2018\/12\/02\/topic-3-learning-in-communities-networked-collaborative-learning-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Topic 3: Learning in communities \u2013 networked collaborative learning"},"content":{"rendered":"
This week’s topic is one that I have already broached a bit in one of my first comments (“Introduction week 2”). Also, the one time in the course that the group is supposed to delve into collaborative learning of different kinds, I cannot participate. The irony is not lost on me and these weeks, I remember seriously considering quitting the course. Not because it seemed like a waste of my time, but because I did not have the time to take full advantage of it – and I let my group down. So what makes me stay on? One reason is that I don’t want to leave the group in a lurch any more than I already have. The other reason is that I am still hoping that the course will begin to make sense, that is, that the hours I have after all invested in it will begin to pay off. Possibly, indeed very likely, that investment has still been too small and that is why I am not feeling the rewards yet.<\/div>\n
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One suggested topic for this week’s blog is to account for an occasion when collaborative learning took place, that moved my thinking forward. This one is simple. A number of times when I have sat as a student in a seminar, I suppose. Occasionally also as a teacher in class, but those occasions are quite rare, unfortunately. What I take from this is that I need to create situations where students have the opportunity to collaborate, or at least co\u00f6perate. I talk about this difference at length in my second blog post, so I won’t do it here. <\/div>\n
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Another suggested topic is to account for one’s own Personal Learning Network. So what is mine? At the moment, my PLN consists mainly of publications, printed and online; MOOCs, although not recently; university online courses that I am taking, such as this one; blogs I read by other people in my profession; or, as Oddone says, “a constant cycling and remixing of ideas and knowledge and information … constantly changing”. At times in my life, my PLN has consisted of what I have felt to be the best and the brightest, sharing the most exciting ideas and participating in the most stimulating fora. But to be honest, at the moment I feel a bit starved. Still, breaking it down (inspired by Oddone) here is what my current PLN looks like, I suppose:<\/div>\n
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P – Personal : Yes, it all begins with me and my passions, interests etc. They determine the direction of my learning, the focus and the motivation.<\/div>\n
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L – Learning: Much of my learning is connected, online courses not the least. But not all of it. The kind of learning I do in isolation, on my own, is much harder and I often feel more lost. This is partly because it is a kind of synthesizing as well as learning, which requires more of me than the kind of learning I tend to do when I am connected. <\/div>\n
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N – Network: It is easy for me to be overwhelmed when I pursue my own PL. Where to start, which direction to pursue (at the expense of other directions) and when to end it etc. Looking at this experience as a “network” rather than a loss of control might actually make it easier for me to accept this aspect of that experience and navigate it with more confidence.<\/div>\n
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Oddone, K. PLNs Theory and Practice, parts 1-2.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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