Comments for E1n1verse http://einiverse.eingang.org WoW, Learning, and Teaching by Michelle A. Hoyle Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:38:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Comment on Coursera, Pedagogy, and the Two Faces of MOOCs by Robert McGuire http://einiverse.eingang.org/2012/10/19/coursera-pedagogy-and-the-two-faces-of-moocs/comment-page-1/#comment-1236 Robert McGuire Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:38:41 +0000 http://einiverse.eingang.org/?p=844#comment-1236 Giulia and Michelle. I, too, am eager to see the learner's perspective -- not to mention the learner's needs -- as part of the experience more. I'd love to talk with you more about a project I'm working on (without spamming up your comments section). Will you be in touch with me at robert at moocnewsandreviews dot com? I hope to talk more with you soon. Yours sincerely, Robert McGuire Giulia and Michelle. I, too, am eager to see the learner’s perspective — not to mention the learner’s needs — as part of the experience more. I’d love to talk with you more about a project I’m working on (without spamming up your comments section). Will you be in touch with me at robert at moocnewsandreviews dot com? I hope to talk more with you soon.

Yours sincerely,

Robert McGuire

]]> Comment on About by Mike Arsenault http://einiverse.eingang.org/about/comment-page-1/#comment-1176 Mike Arsenault Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:23:12 +0000 http://einiverse.eingang.org/?page_id=153#comment-1176 Dear Dr. Hoyle I stumbled across your "Computers: From the past to the present" lecture. You offered teachers the following: "Teachers, this lecture is available to be used on a stand alone machine in a classroom. Drop me some mail if you would like a copy for use in a classroom, museum, or kiosk." I am hoping to take advantage of your generous offer for my grade 10 Computer Studies course. Thank you for your consideration. Mike Arsenault Dear Dr. Hoyle

I stumbled across your “Computers: From the past to the present” lecture. You offered teachers the following:

“Teachers, this lecture is available to be used on a stand alone machine in a classroom. Drop me some mail if you would like a copy for use in a classroom, museum, or kiosk.”

I am hoping to take advantage of your generous offer for my grade 10 Computer Studies course.

Thank you for your consideration.
Mike Arsenault

]]> Comment on Coursera, Pedagogy, and the Two Faces of MOOCs by Eingang http://einiverse.eingang.org/2012/10/19/coursera-pedagogy-and-the-two-faces-of-moocs/comment-page-1/#comment-1151 Eingang Thu, 22 Nov 2012 19:21:30 +0000 http://einiverse.eingang.org/?p=844#comment-1151 Thanks for stopping by, Giulia. I have on my (always lengthening) list of things to do to write a follow-up or two to this article. In the second part, I wanted to discuss what aspects both share that I think don't work very well and why. I also meant to write one about the content of the gamification course and how aspects of the presentation method worked or didn't work for that. I was really pleasantly surprised how "balanced" the instructor's approach was. So much of the focus always seems to be on the really easy and extrinsic motivating methods of using points, badges, and leaderboards. Thanks for stopping by, Giulia. I have on my (always lengthening) list of things to do to write a follow-up or two to this article. In the second part, I wanted to discuss what aspects both share that I think don’t work very well and why.

I also meant to write one about the content of the gamification course and how aspects of the presentation method worked or didn’t work for that. I was really pleasantly surprised how “balanced” the instructor’s approach was. So much of the focus always seems to be on the really easy and extrinsic motivating methods of using points, badges, and leaderboards.

]]> Comment on Coursera, Pedagogy, and the Two Faces of MOOCs by Giulia Forsythe http://einiverse.eingang.org/2012/10/19/coursera-pedagogy-and-the-two-faces-of-moocs/comment-page-1/#comment-1149 Giulia Forsythe Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:26:00 +0000 http://einiverse.eingang.org/?p=844#comment-1149 Michelle, I found this post through Flickr image link back. I'm glad you used that Blob remix poster. I just wanted to say I appreciate reading your reflections as a student. I'm getting a bit sick of reading about monetization and business plans from the administrative perspective. It's refreshing to actually read a learner perspective. cMOOC folks like Sui Fai John Mak are prolific and wonderfully reflective, considering millions are signed up for these xMOOC courses, I would think there'd be more student reflections about them but I've not seen that many. I hope you do get a chance to write a bit more about your learning in the course. I read your other post about this course and it's unfortunate that the coursera videos are locked away, (so much for the Open part of MOOC). Finally, I wonder how you feel about this course, now, a month later. Are there any salient learning moments that seemed to have stuck with you? Michelle,
I found this post through Flickr image link back. I’m glad you used that Blob remix poster.
I just wanted to say I appreciate reading your reflections as a student. I’m getting a bit sick of reading about monetization and business plans from the administrative perspective. It’s refreshing to actually read a learner perspective. cMOOC folks like Sui Fai John Mak are prolific and wonderfully reflective, considering millions are signed up for these xMOOC courses, I would think there’d be more student reflections about them but I’ve not seen that many.
I hope you do get a chance to write a bit more about your learning in the course. I read your other post about this course and it’s unfortunate that the coursera videos are locked away, (so much for the Open part of MOOC).
Finally, I wonder how you feel about this course, now, a month later. Are there any salient learning moments that seemed to have stuck with you?

]]> Comment on Coursera, Pedagogy, and the Two Faces of MOOCs by Muvaffak GOZAYDIN http://einiverse.eingang.org/2012/10/19/coursera-pedagogy-and-the-two-faces-of-moocs/comment-page-1/#comment-1092 Muvaffak GOZAYDIN Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:26:55 +0000 http://einiverse.eingang.org/?p=844#comment-1092 cMOOC has nothing to do with the concept called now xMOOC. It should be called just Free ONLINE by elite universities . FOC = Free online courses cMOOC has nothing to do with the concept called now xMOOC.
It should be called just Free ONLINE by elite universities .

FOC = Free online courses

]]> Comment on Coursera, Pedagogy, and the Two Faces of MOOCs by Muvaffak GOZAYDIN http://einiverse.eingang.org/2012/10/19/coursera-pedagogy-and-the-two-faces-of-moocs/comment-page-1/#comment-1091 Muvaffak GOZAYDIN Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:23:18 +0000 http://einiverse.eingang.org/?p=844#comment-1091 Since 2001 to 2012 there have been 6,000,000 students taking online courses from 1,000 or so colleges at a price of usually $ 1,000-1,500 per course for credits and for degrees nobody complained about the quality of teaching and learning . One universğity made $ 1 billion profit in one year with 600,000-700,000 students . Nobody complained . Now elite universities are providing the same education free people started complaining of quality . Pedagogy etc . Where were you sleeping until now for 10 years. Where were you before. ? PEOPLE ARE FUNNY . Since 2001 to 2012 there have been 6,000,000 students taking online courses from 1,000 or so colleges at a price of usually $ 1,000-1,500 per course for credits and for degrees
nobody complained about the quality of teaching and learning .
One universğity made $ 1 billion profit in one year with 600,000-700,000 students . Nobody complained .

Now elite universities are providing the same education free people started complaining of quality . Pedagogy etc .

Where were you sleeping until now for 10 years.
Where were you before. ?

PEOPLE ARE FUNNY .

]]> Comment on The Ecstasy and Agony of Primitive Learning Analytics by Eingang http://einiverse.eingang.org/2012/10/13/the-ecstasy-and-agony-of-primitive-learning-analytics/comment-page-1/#comment-917 Eingang Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:18:36 +0000 http://einiverse.eingang.org/?p=821#comment-917 Hi Trandafir. The Open University's Moodle user base is huge. They're supporting tens of thousands of students and staff and they've invested substantial effort into linking everything up with their other backend systems. Some courses, like the one I was talking about, were deployed on an earlier version of the Open University's Moodle system. That's based on Moodle 1.x. Some newer courses, which I'm also involved in, are based on the newer Moodle 2.x. My role is in presenting courses and/or working with students enrolled in courses that are hosted via Moodle, not in deciding IT strategy or in installing and supporting the IT. I don't really know much about the innards of Moodle 1.x versus Moodle 2.x and why it would be better to migrate or work with Moodle 2.x. I'm also not familiar with RED5 or PoodLL or what they can or can't offer me as an end user. The Open University has been making efforts to make their content more mobile-device accessible. I think that's mostly done, however, through the design of the site and not through additional plug-ins. That is, AJAX, HTML, and CSS are being used to make a "responsive design" rather than needing to either dynamically stream the content in an appropriate format by running it through a converter or caching different versions. Going back to the idea of data analysis, one of my frustrations is that, because the OU is such a large organization and there's a tendency to lock things down, getting at the kinds of data for performing useful analytics of the behaviour of students on course forums or on course pages can be quite difficult. I do have access to logs on Moodle 1.x-hosted courses I work on at our organization but not on the newer Moodle 2.x one. Even when you have access to the logs, sometimes the detail you want isn't there. For example, I can tell someone downloaded a file, but the Moodle 1.x logs I get don't tell me which file the student downloaded. I know a student added a reply in a forum but I can't tell to which thread from the log entries. That's not to say the log files I have are useless. I certainly can (and have been) determining all kinds of things. I'm hoping to write more about these topics in later entries! Thanks for stopping by. Hi Trandafir.

The Open University’s Moodle user base is huge. They’re supporting tens of thousands of students and staff and they’ve invested substantial effort into linking everything up with their other backend systems. Some courses, like the one I was talking about, were deployed on an earlier version of the Open University’s Moodle system. That’s based on Moodle 1.x. Some newer courses, which I’m also involved in, are based on the newer Moodle 2.x.

My role is in presenting courses and/or working with students enrolled in courses that are hosted via Moodle, not in deciding IT strategy or in installing and supporting the IT. I don’t really know much about the innards of Moodle 1.x versus Moodle 2.x and why it would be better to migrate or work with Moodle 2.x. I’m also not familiar with RED5 or PoodLL or what they can or can’t offer me as an end user.

The Open University has been making efforts to make their content more mobile-device accessible. I think that’s mostly done, however, through the design of the site and not through additional plug-ins. That is, AJAX, HTML, and CSS are being used to make a “responsive design” rather than needing to either dynamically stream the content in an appropriate format by running it through a converter or caching different versions.

Going back to the idea of data analysis, one of my frustrations is that, because the OU is such a large organization and there’s a tendency to lock things down, getting at the kinds of data for performing useful analytics of the behaviour of students on course forums or on course pages can be quite difficult. I do have access to logs on Moodle 1.x-hosted courses I work on at our organization but not on the newer Moodle 2.x one. Even when you have access to the logs, sometimes the detail you want isn’t there. For example, I can tell someone downloaded a file, but the Moodle 1.x logs I get don’t tell me which file the student downloaded. I know a student added a reply in a forum but I can’t tell to which thread from the log entries. That’s not to say the log files I have are useless. I certainly can (and have been) determining all kinds of things. I’m hoping to write more about these topics in later entries!

Thanks for stopping by.

]]> Comment on The Ecstasy and Agony of Primitive Learning Analytics by Eingang http://einiverse.eingang.org/2012/10/13/the-ecstasy-and-agony-of-primitive-learning-analytics/comment-page-1/#comment-916 Eingang Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:00:34 +0000 http://einiverse.eingang.org/?p=821#comment-916 Thanks for stopping by, Simon. The same weekend I wrote this piece, I did automate my process somewhat to scrape things. I intended to write a follow-up but it's on my to-do list. I got distracted by… delving into automating parsing of OU Moodle logs, importing them into a SQLite database, and then seeing what kinds of useful queries I could run on that. That has a planned blog post as well. If I have time today, I'll try to squeeze in at least one of those before tomorrow's #SolarSLA learning analytics symposium (http://stadium.open.ac.uk/2065) Thanks for stopping by, Simon. The same weekend I wrote this piece, I did automate my process somewhat to scrape things. I intended to write a follow-up but it’s on my to-do list. I got distracted by… delving into automating parsing of OU Moodle logs, importing them into a SQLite database, and then seeing what kinds of useful queries I could run on that. That has a planned blog post as well. If I have time today, I’ll try to squeeze in at least one of those before tomorrow’s #SolarSLA learning analytics symposium (http://stadium.open.ac.uk/2065)

]]> Comment on The Ecstasy and Agony of Primitive Learning Analytics by Trandafir http://einiverse.eingang.org/2012/10/13/the-ecstasy-and-agony-of-primitive-learning-analytics/comment-page-1/#comment-908 Trandafir Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:01:06 +0000 http://einiverse.eingang.org/?p=821#comment-908 I think the better qsuteion to ask is, What do the developers feel they can support as they move to Moodle 2.0? It seems to me that your asking the qsuteion means you want to move in a new direction because of some technical issues you are encountering. I am new to poodLL application and I am very interested in getting this setup on my 2.1 box. Setting up RED5 is not that bad, but I think if you could do without it you might pick up some additional users. I would say stop and think about what would be best long term. What is going to allow for poodLL to grow as needs or requirements change? If not going with Red5 gets you access to use this on an iPad, I would say DROP Red5. My district is buying iPads left and right for classrooms instead of netbooks I think the better qsuteion to ask is, What do the developers feel they can support as they move to Moodle 2.0? It seems to me that your asking the qsuteion means you want to move in a new direction because of some technical issues you are encountering. I am new to poodLL application and I am very interested in getting this setup on my 2.1 box. Setting up RED5 is not that bad, but I think if you could do without it you might pick up some additional users. I would say stop and think about what would be best long term. What is going to allow for poodLL to grow as needs or requirements change? If not going with Red5 gets you access to use this on an iPad, I would say DROP Red5. My district is buying iPads left and right for classrooms instead of netbooks

]]> Comment on Pet Peeve: Sore Dominion Losers by Eingang http://einiverse.eingang.org/2012/05/05/pet-peeve-sore-dominion-losers/comment-page-1/#comment-894 Eingang Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:11:49 +0000 http://einiverse.eingang.org/?p=625#comment-894 I should have added this earlier as I've known about it for a few months, but better late than never: Correction: I should have realized this myself, but Donald Vaccarino is the creator of the board game. The iOS version I played was developed by Hammer Technology. It's also, unfortunately, no longer available for download because the <a href="http://play.goko.com/Dominion/gameClient.html" rel="nofollow">"official" client from Goku</a> (http://play.goko.com/Dominion/gameClient.html) was launched summer 2012. I should have added this earlier as I’ve known about it for a few months, but better late than never:

Correction: I should have realized this myself, but Donald Vaccarino is the creator of the board game. The iOS version I played was developed by Hammer Technology. It’s also, unfortunately, no longer available for download because the “official” client from Goku (http://play.goko.com/Dominion/gameClient.html) was launched summer 2012.

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