In my recent blog posts I’ve been unpacking the methods I have been using to conduct my research – but to what purpose? My hypothesis is that the engagement in and study of MOOCs by learners does not replicate that of students in formal courses. Nor in many ways should it. Controversial I know. I’ve …
Earlier this evening I met with a good friend of mine after a day of meetings to put the world of educational technology to rights. The caveat of this post is that most thought provoking discussions I know have taken place in the presence of either caffeine or alcohol. In this case the latter as …
Learner engagement was at the heart of my doctorate research with my questions being: Why do people engage, and remain engaged in free open online courses? What elements of the design of the free open online courses increase or maintain learner engagement? I spent my time reviewing papers and research on how the course is …
Today’s blog post is a follow on from the previous, not only on the theories of learning design, but the learners perceptions of learning design and how this may impact on their motivation to learn. Review So far much consideration has been given to the academic viewpoint on the creation of learning design, in order …
Once again, the papers I have sourced relate to formal accredited for-fee study, though I will be drawing parallels wherever I can to informal non-accredited for-free learning and applying where possible. Review Learning Design has been a fairly recent noted emergence on the educational landscape, however Holden (2009) commented that design education at The Open …
I thought it was time to share with you my readings around learning design and considerations when applying it to informal learning. The concept of applying learning design to informal learning has started to grow due to the high numbers of registrations and dropouts for MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) whereas previously it only had …
This fortnight I have continued with my reading on motivation of students, again my frustration has continued with the limited papers available on the motivation of learners in a non/informal learning environment, so with the previous blog post I have been reading about motivation in formal teaching for students and applied it to non/informal learning …
The last few weeks I have been reading papers on motivation. Frustratingly there aren’t that many papers on motivation for non-formal study (not for credit), but there are plenty on formal study (for credit). So I have been reflecting on how to reframe the themes, theories, and issues from the papers that I have been …
In the last post I continued my look into gamification and its affect on goals and motivation on learners, this post I move more into motivation and its impact on learner retention in informal learning, linking back to my reading on gamification, more to follow on that later this week. Review Previously the activity of …
This week I turned my attention to gamification. The purpose of this interest is through reviewing papers on learning design whilst on holiday with the focus for me being on the thought process of the potential design of learning journeys and motivation in informal learning, gamification became a field of interest. Over the years I …
