After a rest of one week based on a time lack I am back again. Unfortunately so I missed the discussion about evaluation and assessment - for me an important and exciting topic - but I will try to catch up the readings and discussions in the next days.
The topic for this week is reflection. As activities we got the following questions to answer: "How has your understanding of PLE/Ns changed throughout this course? What role can they play in your teaching and learning? What new practices are you considering undertaking?" Therefore I'd like to take these questions to note some of my thoughts and learnings.
Requirements for an effective participation:
This week we discuss learning theories. A topic which make a lot of participants problems - me too. In my mind theoretical texts are often not easy to read and it becomes even harder in a foreign language. Furthermore we didn’t get some proposed blog posts or articles for reading as in the weeks before. We got lists, very long lists with links to loads of texts about learning theories in which we have to take a choice.
In this week we got the activity to "post expressing trends and patterns that you feel are most significant in their impact on teaching, learning, and education." Therefore I read the proposed blogposts from Rita Kop "PLEs and the Extended Web", George Siemens "The xWeb" and Steve Wheeler "Web 3.0: the way forward?".
Some quick thoughts about my personal learning environment.
I am still reading and thinking about all the stuff we had given. This week the discussions point out the differences between Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and Personal Learning Networks (PLNs).
The first text I have read was "Developing Personal Learning Networks for Open and Social Learning" by Alec Couros. It's a short text about his (teaching) experiences with his first MOOC. But instead of a conclusion or discussion I`d just like to list some - for me important - sentences. Therefore this is just a note for me.
I am really excited - this is my first blogpost in English and I really hope it will be understandable ;-) If not - please apologize my bad English. When I decided to join the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) "Personal Learning Environments, Networks and Knowledge 2010" provided by George Siemens, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop and Dave Cormier I was motivated in two ways: First I wanted to learn more about learning settings for huge groups and second I saw a possibility to improve my English.