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The beginning of MOOC is always the same: what to read, what to do, how to participate? I have lived through about ten moocs, but these feelings of disorientation don’t leave me. That’s why I was very...
View ArticleTrying to define my expertise in fslt13
I was very eager to begin my participation in fslt13 week 0. I wrote two blog posts and commented on some forums. I enjoyed the first sessions. Then came a pause: I began to think about my expertise....
View ArticleOpen education or opening minds?
What is the quality of learning on online open courses, can it be defined or described or understood? This question has been in my mind many years or always. When I try to understand my ongoing open...
View ArticleAre there any laws for open participation?
Now I am writing about a topic which I hardly understand myself. Let’s begin with a story. When the course CCK08 was ending and I told in Finland that 20 students were commenting at the end of the...
View ArticleThe funnel of open participation
I want to continue with the theme open participation. I read the slideshare of Doug Clow and want to show one of his slides : The registration is the first step to participate, you can be a lurker...
View ArticleOld and new steps into digital life
Some discussion in the fslt13 course has aroused memories in my mind. I want to check my writings at the beginning of my online teaching. I used to write in Finnish, of course, so I try to translate...
View ArticleMy blog during fslt13
This is the next day after the last session of fslt13. I have gathered information from Google Analytics in order to understand what happened in this blog, which lives its life on a border of fslt...
View ArticleExpert participants in fslt13?
Open online courses are full of possibilities to learn from each other and to network. Some of us participants in fslt were invited to participate as experts, because we had a some studies and MOOC...
View ArticleExpert participants in the fslt13 syllabus
When I explored the history of the department of Psychology (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) I noticed that the first professors had some voluntary assistants around them. They helped in many ways...
View ArticleFive days after ending fslt13
When a MOOC comes to an end, the activity may go up. That happened to me on these five days 13.-18.6. I have tried to comprehend the expert participant role better and analyze the life around this...
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