Participating in Facilitating Online Communities 08
I came across the new “Wiley wiki” course facilitated by Leigh Blackall called “Facilitating Online Communities” a while back, and blogged about it. At the time, I was considering participating in it, but was worried about both time committments, and lack of internet access. During the next month I will be travelling through India and China, with very intermittent access to internet, and after that I will be beginning my new MA in Toronto, which will undoubtedly take much of my time.
However, I have decided to try. I might not spend as much time as I did on David Wiley’s course last year, where I often spent a whole day each week on doing the readings, and contributing my blog reflections, but I will try to keep up, hopefully learning a lot both from the readings, from Leigh, and from all the participants (who seem to be a wonderfully diverse and interesting group!). The topic is certainly near and dear both to my own interests, and to my future research on open learning, the transformation of higher education, OERs, etc.
I am looking forward to someone creating an OPML of all the participants’ blogs, so that I may easily add them all to my Google reader. The wonderful Google gears now allow me to read blogs offline, and I often take advantage of this when travelling, so if I can just find a wifi cafe once in a while during my travels, I should be able to keep up with participants blogs in the privacy of my guesthouse.
Stian
