Tony Ackroyd Learning Journal

Week1

What have I learnt about Learning Design?

• A way of communicating the organisation of a session or course
• Not sure if technology is essential
• It is pedagogy agonistic
• A lot is up in the air

Felt I’ve learnt more about myself than about learning design.

• I need structure (and so I think do my students)
• Reminded me how scary it can be starting a new subject
• Too many new ideas (could argue that perhaps they shouldn’t be new) for my brain to process and make a model out of.
• This is the first time I’ve done an online course, and I feel disconnected (it’s the lonely in a crowd scenario)
• Need to chat about ideas in real time, not on a forum, which is far too exposed and asynchronous.
• Too many technologies to learn make it hard to think

Tony Ackroyd
17:42 on 20 January 2013 (Edited 18:05 on 20 January 2013)

Week 2 http://www.olds.ac.uk/the-course/inquire

more acronyms EOR ZPD ZPA ZAA

need to find how context works alongside diversity

Seems useful but  a lot of work to find out EOR, how fixed is it?

how about getting each student to examine their own EOR during induction each year?

Tony Ackroyd
17:45 on 20 January 2013 (Edited 19:33 on 20 January 2013)