The End is NIGH (NIGH I SAY) CCK08 tick tock
We are approaching the final days of the grand
experiment of Connectivism, and I are starting to fray at the edges. I
will admit I am tired, this course plus my other responsibilities has
been at times a little too much, so I feel it is time to reflect on the
course and hopefully myself.
I will state that I think the class was too large, they capped the
registration of the course for a limited number of credit learners,
unfortunately for them they did not cap the non-credit learners.
Looking for clear responses and advice is sometimes difficult, and
makes my personal learning questionable. Am I on the right track?
This is a tough area for me, self assessment within a course that
relies on a network approach. So who is right, the developers of the
course or the network that has developed its own meaning of the
material and applying it as they see fit?
Also, I know this goes against open-source
and everything
else I have heard, but as a credit learner it is easy to get lost in
the noise no matter how hard you bang your drum. I personally banged pretty loud, I wanted to be heard
because I wanted to learn. But did I? Did I learn about connectivism,
or did I learn to have my views heard easily in a group? I think a
little bit of both. I think it is important to learn how to work the
crowd as one might say, but also in those moments ensure that the crowd
hears you. We have heard many times the conflicting views of nodes,
and their strengths and such, but I have learned that no matter what
some will have more power than others. When @courosa speaks from
Twitter many listen, when I speak... I might be heard. I am fine with
that, he has built his social credit and has the cred's to back it up...
This class has also shown the emergence, spastic growth, and rapid
decline of a network. Or is this an artificial network or group, only
being held loosely by the bonds of our time limit in this course. Or
does that matter, I think not. I think that networks like any
organization comes together as needed and disbands as such.
Also I will admit I am tired of writing, I have experimented with the
sharing process and that was exhausting. Because of that my creative
exploration while writing has decreased to a trickle. I just am
lacking the motivation. This is resolved by balancing out the
assessments more, not have 90% of the course due in 3 weeks time, my
students would kill me if I did that...
I hope to write some more thoughts down in the next couple of days. I
am not being critical of the course. I have enjoyed it most days, but
I feel personally that nothing is perfect and that improvement can
always occur. However how will anyone know what to fix if no one says
anything...
So I will end by asking you:
