Comments on: My early reflections on the module https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/25/my-early-reflections-on-the-module/ Just another Education and digital culture 2015 site Fri, 03 Apr 2015 15:22:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: sbayne https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/25/my-early-reflections-on-the-module/#comment-51 Thu, 29 Jan 2015 16:52:49 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/?p=249#comment-51 Hi Jin – I understand – this format can feel quite ‘rudderless’ and fragmented but as you say it has different pleasures from the more discussion-board oriented courses. I enjoy both, but I find the tapestry-like nature of this design on balance more enjoyable. I think it’s to do with feeling you can dip into and out of a stream of ideas: in this sense it is often less pressured than discussion-board courses which can feel like you are always frantically swimming to try to stay afloat .

I really like Clare’s metaphor of a symphony – all the various elements do seem to build to make the course space. For me that’s something quite different from other course designs in which the Moodle space is more of a pre-defined container within which stuff happens.

]]> By: jdarling https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/25/my-early-reflections-on-the-module/#comment-48 Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:25:27 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/?p=249#comment-48 Hi Clare, I agree with your book analogy. I haven’t read The Road but I have read some ebooks that have lost part of the formatting in the conversion process and they are difficult to follow. It is exactly that type of feeling that I am experiencing. It also helps to know I’m not the only one :) And I really must do more with Twitter. Thanks for the reply :)

]]> By: Clare https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/2015/01/25/my-early-reflections-on-the-module/#comment-47 Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:31:19 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/jdarling/?p=249#comment-47 Hi Jeannine, I understand what you mean about the disjointed nature of the course. I’ve found the weekly summaries useful to weave together the random posts in my lifestream and the Twitter feed is helping me feel more connected to everyone. I’ve been reflecting on the fluidity of the course in the last few days and the best metaphor I can think of is that it feels like a symphony rather than a soundtrack (in the sense of a continuous piece of music rather than separate songs). The other analogy that came to mind was a book without chapters and punctuation like Cormac McCarthy’s The Road – hard to get used to initially but once you get into it you really enjoy the style of writing :)

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