Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

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About blogging, tunneling visions and knowledge entrepreneurship

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Julie is doing research for the university of Amsterdam (VU) into (micro-)blogging as part of her PdD research about knowledge and power in the development sector. She interviewed 7 professional ICT4D bloggers (used interviews to identify those) and analysed their blogs. I had the pleasure to attend a presentation by Julie Ferguson.

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Scaling up: working with large groups online

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

This results in 20 groups of 10 people working towards the ultimate assignment to write a blog. The best blogs are judged by an expert jury and published. The course has a focus on collaborative learning. People sign up for group challenges. Some 60-70% of participants remained involved throughout.

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Large-scale online course design? Use collaborative learning for high engagement

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

In this blog I motivate my experiences with the food system e-course. This consisted of group assignments with the ultimate assignment to write a joint blog. An expert jury selected the best blogs and the three best were published. The assignments worked towards a clear final assignment: writing a blog.

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Do you morph? About professional identity and the importance of doing new things

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Read blogs from dissenters Make an appointment with someone that annoys you Meditate 2 x 20 minutes every day Provide "fiddle time" Do something you never dared Listen podcasts Travel to an unknown destination (sprs.me) An example of staying prepared are the people in Netflix who developed a chaos monkey.

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Tool of the month: online brainstorm wall Padlet

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Often when I blog about tools I put a new tool in the spotlight. If you have one of your own, it would be nice if you add it in the comments to this blog post. However, online learning can be rendered more effective by smart use of 'old' tools. That's why this time the tool of the month is good old Padlet.

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A new generation of tools for meeting and networking online

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

In this blog I will list a number of them and hope to make you enthusiastic to start experimenting. There is a new generation of tools that enriches the toolset of online facilitators. The first one I discovered was Wonder Me.

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Various ways to use social media as a facilitator or trainer

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

His blog post is worth a read. You may do so through an online survey, a blog post with the question to participants to share their questions and expectations or invite participants to tweet about their experiences related to brain learning, using a unique hash tag for this group. Online Learning Network : You want to help people blog.