Lines of Desire, Learner Agency and The Fork in the Road. Week 2: Inquire (#oldsmooc)

Posted by Briar Jamieson

This week 2: Inquire (#oldsmooc) introduced the importance of understanding learner context to inform learning design. Several tools: Scenario Based Design, Force Maps and personas, Ecology of Resources, and Lattice Model (left out of the activities) were introduced as mechanisms to help learning designers connect to the motivations and goals of anticipated participants. The purpose of these models is to help […]

Personal:Learning :: Environment:Design

Posted by Briar Jamieson

Did the title capture your attention? I thought the audience of #oldsmooc might appreciate a little logical analogy.  However, this blog is not a proof, so much as an exploration of my current understanding of learning design (an activity in Week 1: Initiate).  Suggested readings can be found in BibSonomy. In many of these suggested readings, I […]

Storming…Week 1 in #oldsmooc

Posted by Briar Jamieson

The weather in Winnipeg matches my navigation of Week 1 of the Open Learning Design MOOC: periods of snow (low -21C/high -10c), windchill warning, blizzard clearing overnight, sunny, sunny.  I realize I have just walked into a Canadian cliche of talking about the weather.  I am (in part) a product of my environment and with some application […]