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  • Jamal Habash published a blog post Learning Diary: Unit 0 in the group COMP 266 May 24, 2018 - 5:22am
    Hey All!My name is Jamal, I'm a final-year Computer Engineering student at McMaster University. I'm taking this course as an elective to learn about web development and about the process of designing a website! The goal of 'Unit 0' was to...
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  • Elizabeth Eckert replied on the discussion topic Counsellors with Disabilities; Benefit or Hinderance? May 13, 2018 - 1:04pm
    Thank you very much, Megan, for your insightful, understanding and informative response! I honestly, had not considered an online/sykpe based counselling setting. How excellent! I can see this as being an immense benefit to the counselor if a...
  • Elizabeth Eckert replied on the discussion topic Counsellors with Disabilities; Benefit or Hinderance? May 13, 2018 - 1:04pm
    Thank you very much, Megan, for your insightful, understanding and informative response! I honestly, had not considered an online/sykpe based counselling setting. How excellent! I can see this as being an immense benefit to the counselor if a...
  • Elizabeth Eckert replied on the discussion topic Counsellors with Disabilities; Benefit or Hinderance? May 13, 2018 - 1:03pm
    Thank you very much, Megan, for your insightful, understanding and informative response! I honestly, had not considered an online/sykpe based counselling setting. How excellent! I can see this as being an immense benefit to the counselor if a...
  • Nice. I recognize some of those book titles/topics, but don't believe I've read any of them as of yet. Thank you for the suggestion -- it's really thoughtful of you. :) And now I'm trying to decide whether next to take COMP306 (as I'm currently...
  • Thanks Jennifer. Daniel Pink uses self-determination theory a lot in his writing. My personal favourite writer and speaker on the topic is Alfie Kohn. His book 'Punished by Rewards' should be required reading for all parents, teachers and...
  • >>...because it is very rare for two people to be at the same point and working at the same pace.  Ah that makes sense with my experience so far as well as it's not just students having different start times, but also some may do five...
  • Megan Batchelor replied on the discussion topic Counsellors with Disabilities; Benefit or Hinderance? May 10, 2018 - 4:05pm
    Hello, Elizabeth! This is a fascinating and complex question; thank you for sharing it with us. One of the thoughts that immediately comes to mind is that a counsellor who has a disability that impacts their ability to present an image of neutral...
  • Elizabeth Eckert added a new discussion topic Counsellors with Disabilities; Benefit or Hinderance? May 10, 2018 - 12:34pm
    -Hello everyone! I am introducing a topic that has strong personal meaning to me as I am studying to be a counsellor and am diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and Fibromyalgia. Being a counsellor with a disability has the potential for many...
  • Thanks Jennifer! The cooperative teaching pattern involves people doing things for their own benefit and sharing them, as distinct from a collaborative pattern in which a group works together for a common goal. It's the only way to do the social...
  • Hi Jon, First, thanks for posting your presentation slides. Aside from being interesting, they give me content to use during future job interviews where I explain pros of AU distance learning when my major competition is University of Waterloo CS...
  • Mark A. McCutcheon posted to the wire May 9, 2018 - 8:31am
    The Medium Is The Monster, new book out with Athabasca UP: http://aupress.ca/index.php/books/120275 #OpenAccess #McLuhan #Frankenstein200
  • Sure, Daryl - A traditional LMS course is quite static. Apart from in limited microhabitats like FAQs and forums, mostly the environment reflects the teacher's (or course team's) own design decisions. If it changes, it is because the design team...
  • Jon, can you expand on what you mean by the environment learning.
  • Jon, I was able to access thepresentation at last. I really enjoyed it and appreciated the informal nature of the presentation, which seemed really appropriate to talking about a learning environment that learns. I found this piece  earlier...
  • Terrible network problems, sorry - if this fails, try https://t.co/lPcC8U73Qq - works for me.  
  • Reposted after technical difficulties first time round... Slides from my talk at the International Federation of National Teaching Fellows World Summit 2018 in Halifax, NS, May 2018. In this I discuss the motivational strengths and weaknesses of...
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    • Jennifer Davies May 10, 2018 - 6:08pm

      >>...because it is very rare for two people to be at the same point and working at the same pace. 

      Ah that makes sense with my experience so far as well as it's not just students having different start times, but also some may do five courses a semester taking 4-6 months whereas some may try to complete one course every month or two.

      >>If students are doing things that interest them and are not being too overtly manipulated, rewarded or punished (which is death to intrinsic motivation)...

      So agreed. I really enjoyed Daniel Pink's talks years ago on the limits of carrot and stick motivation as well as a couple of his books I read during a post grad certificate in Career Development.

      And likewise, I've especially been enjoying project-based courses such as COMP444 and your COMP266. Being able to choose a project and focus of research/learning (providing we map to the learning objectives) is much more satisfying and engaging than, for example, courses where the exams are 100% multiple choice requiring regurgitating facts rather than applying knowledge or doing any real thinking.

      Also, thank you for the links. I have bookmarked them for now, but will surely read them once I've made more progress on COMP266. :)

    • Jon Dron May 10, 2018 - 8:30pm

      Thanks Jennifer. Daniel Pink uses self-determination theory a lot in his writing. My personal favourite writer and speaker on the topic is Alfie Kohn. His book 'Punished by Rewards' should be required reading for all parents, teachers and educational administrators, I think, but virtually all his work is brilliant.

       
    • Jennifer Davies May 10, 2018 - 8:50pm

      Nice. I recognize some of those book titles/topics, but don't believe I've read any of them as of yet. Thank you for the suggestion -- it's really thoughtful of you. :)

      And now I'm trying to decide whether next to take COMP306 (as I'm currently doing a Lynda.com course on C++) or get Punished by Rewards and take EDPY200 Educational Psych for my Learning Tech minor.

      (C++ will probably win out due to timing...unless I go with a 3rd option and work on some core CIS courses. hehe)

      Edit: I'm going to sign up for that C++ course now. As I'm already working on the Lynda.com course, it will be nice to have the assignments for COMP306 to work on at the same time. :)

  • Hi Jon, I am having the same problem with the file.