This course is inspired both by “Wiley wikis”, and by “MOOCs”. One of the innovations that Stephen Downes brought in with his first MOOC back in 2008 was the concept of “The Daily”, a daily e-mail that would summarize the readings, the events, and some of the most interesting blog posts or other artefacts that [...]

It is very exciting to see the CSCL-intro course come to life! Monica and I have been imagining this for many months, and been discussing and planning intensely for the last few weeks. Suddenly, people are doing the readings, writing blog posts, and engaging! Which means we have to do it too, because one of [...]

Introduction I have had many opportunities to think about grading and assessment this term. I am currently running a course called Introduction to Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, and have thought a lot about incentive mechanisms and badges with Monica Resendes, who is co-facilitating the course with me. I am also preparing to design and teach a course in [...]

I have been intimately involved with P2PU since the first courses started in September 2009, working on supporting course organizers, designing and developing some of the technology, and thinking about the models of learning interactions that we wanted to support. However, I have still not taught a single course myself. Time to change that! I [...]

This term, I took a Knowledge Media and Design Institute class on values and design. Part of the class was a group assignment that had us choose a public venue, and do unobtrusive participant observation (this could be a public square, a museum or another place where people congregate). Based on what we found through [...]