{"id":1635,"date":"2014-02-25T12:01:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T12:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2014-02-25T12:01:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T12:01:27","slug":"truly-taking-the-mooc-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2014\/02\/25\/truly-taking-the-mooc-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Truly taking the MOOC (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/?attachment_id=1487\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1487\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1487\" alt=\"uofs-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/01\/uofs-logo1.png\" width=\"275\" height=\"62\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s Week 6 and we&#8217;re just under half-way through our <em>Introduction to Learning Technologies<\/em> course with the University of Saskatchewan (UofS). Further to the call in the previous <a title=\"Truly taking the MOOC\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/?p=1484\">Truly taking the MOOC<\/a> post asking for other\u00a0colleagues to get involved, there are three of us based here at Loughborough University who now meet regularly in order to support each other&#8217;s learning and to work collaboratively.<\/p>\n<p>As part of our MOOC undertaking, we have to complete four assignments. The first of these \u2013 which is called a &#8216;Blog Assignment&#8217; \u2013 has seen us posting weekly to our individual blogs from Week 3 onwards, while the second \u2013 which is called a &#8216;Collaborative Paper&#8217; \u2013 has seen us working together\u00a0on a joint paper which is due\u00a0to be submitted\u00a0later this week.\u00a0Specifically created for the purposes of this MOOC, our blogs are available as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"How can we use Learning Teachnology in the Academic Registry?\" href=\"http:\/\/lboro-regweb.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">How can we use Learning Technology in the Academic Registry?<\/a> \u2013 blog maintained by <a title=\"Martin Ashby\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/08919674744777659848\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Ashby<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"SDAVISLBORO\" href=\"http:\/\/sdavislboro.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SDAVISLBORO<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 blog maintained by <a title=\"Sammy Davis\" href=\"http:\/\/sdavislboro.wordpress.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sammy Davis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"mauriziofitz\" href=\"http:\/\/mauriziofitz.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">mauriziofitz<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 blog maintained by <a title=\"Maurice FitzGerald\" href=\"http:\/\/mauriziofitz.wordpress.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maurice FitzGerald<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our imaginatively named\u00a0<a title=\"Collaborative Paper (UofS MOOC)\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/lboro.ac.uk\/document\/d\/1T-3Ev-lCjHMsHPOGTF6HxCixwOvaxmEKXRjG3SN6ZyM\/edit?usp=docslist_api\" target=\"_blank\">Collaborative Paper (UofS MOOC)<\/a> is also available online, that is even if it might benefit from\u00a0a little more tweaking before this Friday&#8217;s deadline!<\/p>\n<p>Building upon the Blog Assignment and Collaborative Paper, the third and fourth assignments for this UofS MOOC are a Media Project and Final Project respectively, so there should be at least two other outputs from this endeavour. In the weeks ahead, we&#8217;ll keep colleagues posted with our undoubted progress into this world of learning technologies, whilst also taking the\u00a0opportunity to reflect upon our experiences!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Week 6 and we&#8217;re just under half-way through our Introduction to Learning Technologies course with the University of Saskatchewan (UofS). Further to the call in the previous Truly taking the MOOC post asking for other\u00a0colleagues to get involved, there are three of us based here at Loughborough University who now meet regularly in order<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2014\/02\/25\/truly-taking-the-mooc-part-2\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,16,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cpd","category-informal-learning","category-teaching-room-technologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}