Which principles of groupwork, communities of practice and collaborative learning should a distributed group consider, when planning the design of an e-learning course?
On my opinion wikis are great tools when planning almost whatever. I´ve used wikis in a couple of different courses, with people from the same country and also "world wide". It works well. BUT to make the group work nice to all participants certain rules should be made. If not else, at least the group should decide who is in charge of what. And that everybody really makes their part, delivers something and comments when asked..
My experiences of these www-group works are quite different. On one course I ended up doing a huge workload almost on my own. It was very stressful time but I wanted to get a good grade from that course. On one course the team work was excellent, everybody did their part and was happy about the outcome. The rest of the courses have been/are something in the middle. I easily end up to be the facilitator and being a kind of perfectionist I also end up doing too much and get myself stressed. Now that I have my baby I´m forced to try out a bit different role in some of the courses. Feels weird to let the responsibility be in somebody else´s hands, or at least a bit of it.
SO wikis are great tools even when planning an e-learning course. And if some online conferencing tools is needed I´ve used for example Marratech, which is a videoconference tool with a whiteboard. With it you can hear and see each other and also create and edit documents, share pictures etc. But of course Skype and Messenger are also excellent tools.
(well, this went a bit off topic)
On my opinion wikis are great tools when planning almost whatever. I´ve used wikis in a couple of different courses, with people from the same country and also "world wide". It works well. BUT to make the group work nice to all participants certain rules should be made. If not else, at least the group should decide who is in charge of what. And that everybody really makes their part, delivers something and comments when asked..
My experiences of these www-group works are quite different. On one course I ended up doing a huge workload almost on my own. It was very stressful time but I wanted to get a good grade from that course. On one course the team work was excellent, everybody did their part and was happy about the outcome. The rest of the courses have been/are something in the middle. I easily end up to be the facilitator and being a kind of perfectionist I also end up doing too much and get myself stressed. Now that I have my baby I´m forced to try out a bit different role in some of the courses. Feels weird to let the responsibility be in somebody else´s hands, or at least a bit of it.
SO wikis are great tools even when planning an e-learning course. And if some online conferencing tools is needed I´ve used for example Marratech, which is a videoconference tool with a whiteboard. With it you can hear and see each other and also create and edit documents, share pictures etc. But of course Skype and Messenger are also excellent tools.
(well, this went a bit off topic)
2 comments:
Using wiki's might just be a good idea. The main thing I think we need at this moment is a single access point where we can start to do our work as a group. What I crave the most at the moment would be a simple forum where we could have discussions about the subjects and start to ponder about our proto. It might be an idea to create a wiki to wikispaces.com. Could you clarify what wikis you've used in the past because there's actually a quite a bunch them?
BTW, commenting to blogger.com is a bit acward because first off I needed to login with google account. My second concern is that other group members might have hard time on finding the comments e.g. when compared to traceback commenting.
But any who really nice work! Nice to see active people in our group :)
BR,
mikko
BTW:
1. Trackbacks work well on blogger. It has to be activated in blog settings.
2. It is enough to authorize the comment with OpenID (e.g. freom Wordpress
3. :-)
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