This document summarizes a student's reflections on participating in an online course (MOOC). The student discusses deciding to create a blog to document their experience, focusing on learning how to use social media and MOOCs rather than course content. They reflect on completing assignments using online tools like GoAnimate and PicCollage, and struggling to integrate various parts of an assignment into a cohesive artifact on a tight deadline. Overall, the student feels they learned more about the process of participating in a MOOC than the course content itself.

1. Reflections on completing Coursera's
E-Learning and Digital Cultures Mooc (#edcmooc)
*

2. *
Decisions
http://moocingaroundin2013.blogspot.co.uk
Which blogging tool?
• Blogger
Structure of blog?
• Reflective journal on home page
• Videos and resources on other pagesMobile
blogging
helped
But I needed
to stop
learning how
set up blog
and do some
work!!!!
Typical
student!
Bit the bullet
and set up a
blog that
others could
view!

3. *
"My learning from the first
week has not really had
anything to do with the
course content. It has had
more to do with personal
skills in using social media
and a beginning
understanding of how a
Mooc works."
"My primary reason
for coming on the
course was to find
out what it is like to
participate in one.
Course content was a
secondary reason but
I do hope to learn
something about
this."

4. *
Where did
week 2 go
to?
"I am currently
trying to multi task
and watch Steve
Fuller's 2009 lecture
on Defining
Humanity whilst
writing this blog
post."
Defining Humanity
• Humanity not necessarily good for
all humans
• Humanity costs too much and it
delivers too little
• Not even human beings want to be
with other humans any more
• Nothing wrong with trying to move
in a trans humanist direction
• Info rich and info poor
Saturday
evening - and I
actually
participated!

5. *
"For the last few
days, I have been
focusing on the
assignment which
has to be
submitted by
midnight
tomorrow."
"This has been a
great impetus
to try out / get
better
acquainted with
some online
tools."
GoAnimate
Pic Collage

6. *
"Now I had the three components
of my artefact. I only needed to
put them altogether, host the
final artefact somewhere and then
post my link to submit my
assignment. Doesn't sound much
does it? That's what I thought
then!"

7. *
"Modifying my video to provide
an introduction to the artefact
was easy but getting it
together with my two images
to make a cohesive artefact
proved to be a little more
problematic!"
"I needed to
find a better
solution by
tonight! It was
late so
decided to
sleep on it".
I am human!
I can be
you!

8. *
"I'm really glad I
decided to devote
most of the
morning to
sorting out my
artefact. It took
quite a bit longer
than I had hoped."
"Submitting my
assignment link
was a breeze
after
everything
else!"
"Finding a site with creative
commons licences music
wasn't difficult but finding
appropriate music is time
consuming and frustrating
when you know you have
very little time before
heading off for a meeting" ""In no time at all I had
my first video out there
available to public
viewing. Mind you it
wasn't the public I was
worried about but my
peers on the Edcmooc
course who might just
find it."
http://youtu.be/s1K3HX_rsZw

9. *
"I realised then that I could
have just submitted my
PowerPoint as my artefact! I
hope though that what I
eventually produced is
actually better than this. I
think so, and to be honest
what matters most to me
isn't the final product but
my journey to get there."
"I'm not sure
exactly how much
I have learnt
about the content
of the course but I
sure have learnt a
great deal by
being involved in
this MOOC."

10. *
"Found time before leaving work
to start assessing the three
artefacts I have been assigned.
Have written comments for two
so far. They are quite different.
One is a thinglink and one a
Prezi. Both are good and I have
enjoyed assessing them and
think this is continuing my
learning on this course."
I passed!