Well Sunday was the first day of the week I got to sit down and actually get to some serious business, NFL Sunday Ticket, Ed800 Readings and catching up on my 831 by registering and starting my MOOC experience.
As the title indicates I decided to cave in my choice of MOOC. I'm already up to my neck in PD this year, and taking four classes this school year to finish up my masters degree. I chose the MOOC with in an area of great interest, and that is Sport and Society, offered on coursera by Duke professor Orin Starn. I always enjoyed anthropology in school and learning more about the history and the culture of sport was an easy choice for me. He had me hooked with his video entry.
The website hosting the course is easily accessible and signing up took minutes. The layout of the online course is very well done and each week's lessons, videos, and quizzes are clearly laid out. I loved the week one content on the introduction to sport and the origin of sport.
The presentation was 5 videos totalling about an hour of content. The required readings for week one were only about 15 pages. Once finished you are finished the readings and done watching the videos there is a small homework assignment, again all done online in your account. After that you take on online quiz to "pass" that section. Pass all the sections and you are on your way to a coursera credit!
I learned quite a bit in the couple hours it took to complete week 1. Topics such as what makes something a sport, what are modern sport characteristics, and why do people love sport were all addressed in great detail.
I really liked the setup of week one and I look forward to the future lessons. It's really crazy to think about how many people can take courses in this format and how much "free" learning people can do in today's world!
Sunday 28 September 2014
Friday 12 September 2014
MOOC's....so many choices
After the initial online session I was pretty sure I wanted to take the MOOC course project route and blog about that experience....well here is my first entry!
I was hesitant to sign up for another online course. I have taken one online course in my first 6 masters classes and it was an extremely heavy workload. Between reflection, research and analysis that online course had almost 75 pages of formal writing that had been submitted. While technology was the focus of the class, and the content interactive and well presented, I just didn't have the time for another class like that while taking two courses in this term.
When I realized that a major part of the course evaluation would be MOOC inside of a MOOC so to speak (sounds much dirtier than it really is) I really was happy with the freedom of choice.
I decided to start with coursera and https://www.coursera.org/course/sports was right on the home screen for me. I read the course and loved the intro the Duke professor put together and the content of the course is intriguing to me to say the least.
The next day at work talking with my principal about the course she loved the concept of how the course was set up. Also knowing that I want to get into admin she suggested I look at taking a MOOC based on education leadership to add to my resume and PD.
So I have a decision to make this weekend, satisfy my curiosity and delve into a topic near and dear to my heart, or upgrade my resume........hmmmmm......I suppose I have decision to make this weekend!
I was hesitant to sign up for another online course. I have taken one online course in my first 6 masters classes and it was an extremely heavy workload. Between reflection, research and analysis that online course had almost 75 pages of formal writing that had been submitted. While technology was the focus of the class, and the content interactive and well presented, I just didn't have the time for another class like that while taking two courses in this term.
When I realized that a major part of the course evaluation would be MOOC inside of a MOOC so to speak (sounds much dirtier than it really is) I really was happy with the freedom of choice.
I decided to start with coursera and https://www.coursera.org/course/sports was right on the home screen for me. I read the course and loved the intro the Duke professor put together and the content of the course is intriguing to me to say the least.
The next day at work talking with my principal about the course she loved the concept of how the course was set up. Also knowing that I want to get into admin she suggested I look at taking a MOOC based on education leadership to add to my resume and PD.
So I have a decision to make this weekend, satisfy my curiosity and delve into a topic near and dear to my heart, or upgrade my resume........hmmmmm......I suppose I have decision to make this weekend!
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