Working towards a focus

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The initial focus for my digital ethnography was to analyse how participant behaviour changes when the tutor is present within the feed.  However, after getting further into the forum discussions, a more interesting angle might be particpants (who are new to online learning platforms) feel the need to vent their unease  in the forums.  I have found a couple of intriguing comments from novice MOOC… Read more →

Initial digital ethnography ideas

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Some key questions are beginning to emerge around my digital ethnography such as what is the main focus of the study?  My inital thoughts were something around the idea of how participant behaviour changes when the course tutor is part of the thread, do participants become more accomodating to others in a bid to impress the tutor?, does the appearance of the tutor within… Read more →

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Week 4 recap

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Over the last week, I have been focusing my attention on Digital Ethnography including different ideas and methodologies associated with the area.  Knowing little about the concept of ‘ethnography’ at the beginning of last week, I was able to research various methods of analysing online cultures, from the early days of the web to todays communication era and see how the process has developed.… Read more →

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MOOCs and Digital Ethnography ideas

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After dipping in various MOOC offerings, I ended up choosing the EdX Vocal Recording Technology course delivered by Berkeley University in a bid to pick up a few singing pointers whilst conducting my digital ethnography.    Having participating in a few MOOCs from a learner pespective, it will be interesting to be a ‘fly on the wall’ and observe participant behaviour.… Read more →

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Week 3 recap

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Moving on from cyborgs and cyper-punk culture this week, I aimed to gather further understanding of the relationship between posthumanism and education from  the arguments and challenges displayed in the Bayne and Miller readings.  Alongside these notions, new questions began to emerge such as, ‘Is the posthuman educable? and How do we educate the posthuman? Early in the week, I worked on… Read more →