Multilitteratus Incognitus

"Design Gold" badge Happy and Prosperous 2014 to anyone who is reading this :-) Since it's a new year, and the semester is starting in about a month's time, I've decided to spend the month-and-a-half between semesters thinking about the course that I teach: The Design and Instruction of Online Courses,  a course for graduate level instructional design students.  I was first assigned the course last year, and having been familiar with it (even though I had never been the instructor of record before), I wanted to start experimenting with badges then-and-there.  Of course, things weren't ripe just yet, so I decided to focus more on the day-to-day stuff for my first semester and have a look at the reading material each week.  I decided to put my creative energies into testing out a weekly recap podcast as a way of reaching out to learners in the course. With the course materials kinda set (still tinkering with a few learning modules), and the podcast id...

Even though this was a Week 3 activity, I took the opportunity to mess around a bit more with the Course Features Cards and actually snap photos of the outcomes. For this, I decided to focus more on the Blended version of the Introduction to mLearning , and not the MOOC version of the course since I wanted to focus on something I had a little more hashed out (the MOOC version will require a lot more thinking than I have time to right now :-) ) Activity 1 Directions: Choose a maximum of 12 cards from the pack which define key features of your course or module. The cards are grouped into four categories : Guidance and Support (marked GS / coloured Orange ) Content and Experience (marked CE / coloured Green  Communication and Collaboration (marked CC / Blue coloured  ) Reflection and Demonstration (marked RD / Purple coloured Now look at your cards you have selected: Are any colours of cards missing or less well represented?  If so, what might be the impact on...