Multilitteratus Incognitus

Just before the spring semester starts and I start getting really busy with the day-job, teaching my class, working on a couple of conference presentations and working on the FutureLearn course on Corpus Linguistcs, and P2PU course with Dave Cormier, I thought I should really jump into a couple of Udacity course offerings to give the platform a real try out. In years past I stayed away, as a learner, because none of the content was interesting. While I do come from a computer science background, the things that pique my interest tend to be in the style EDCMOOC or  CCK. Now, however, that Udacity has "Introduction to the Design of Everyday Things," it was an opportunity to test that out, as well as a more technical Statistics course. If I were taking a n exit survey, I would probably say that I took "Introduction to the Design of Everyday Things" because I liked the topic and I knew the author, and I signed up for "Statistics" to see how a math course wo...

This week, on OLDSMOOC, the subject was prototyping , and all has been very quiet in the MOOC. I am not sure if people are busy prototyping (and thus not talking a lot), or if people have taken a small break from the MOOC :-) Since I decided to focus on the Blended version of my mLearning course (and not try to make a MOOC out of it just yet - mostly due to time issues), I took the stand-back and see approach to this week. I did read the materials (which reminded me of my User Interface Design course - that was a lot of fun!) but I didn't have a ton of time to prototype anything. Instead, I decided to help out and test other people's prototypes. If you need a guinea pig, let me know ;-) Here is (one of) the presentation for this week: OLDSMOOC week 5: Simple prototyping techniques by Diana Laurillard from OLDSMOOC