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Photo CC licensed here: http://bit.ly/1sKGYNL (3 min read) Last night’s #ccourses webinar had some really inspiring moments, and several people picked up on Howard Rheingold saying “if you’re not falling off it, you’re really not exploring the edge.” (the full quote is below, and timestamps are from within the webinar for reference) This really resonated with me. […]

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De basis van de taalfilosofie klinkt redelijk economisch: communiceren kost energie dus doen we het maar als de baten minstens zo groot zijn dan de kosten. Dat geldt natuurlijk niet voor elk woord dat we zeggen maar wel in de bredere biologische sfeer, niet alleen bij mensen maar ook bij dieren of cellen. Waarom leert […]

’t Is zover: ik heb een les moeten missen. Twee na elkaar zelfs. Auw! Voor wie zich zorgen maakt: ik ben niet doodziek, verongelukt of erger. Ik heb zelfs goed nieuws: ik ben zwanger! Maar zoals iedereen weet is dat de eerste drie maanden soms geen pretje en ja, die drie maanden zijn nu bijna […]

As someone who has spent most my career as research faculty and not in the classroom, I don’t have the depth of formal instructional experience that most of my colleagues in the academy do. My formal “teaching” has largely been in the form of advising graduate students and mentoring graduate students and postdocs in interdisciplinary research projects. So although I am one of the hosts/facilitators I am doubly a n00b in the connected courses sense - new to cMOOCs as well as new to course design. Which means I am thoroughly enjoying taking the plunge as a learner in all of this and muddling through the why of my teaching as I go.

I feel very much buoyed by generous ways in which the connected courses participants have responded to the inevitable glitches in facilitating this course, and my thinking aloud in public as we go. This has encouraged me to keep thinking in public, and it feels like the best kind of trust fall exercise for someone who is used to pausing and polishing before sharing. It feels like that productive discomfort before you make a trust fall, or what my kids and I do every summer - jump off a tall ledge in a watering hole. I don’t really want to do it but it’s hella fun when you get enveloped by the cool water after you make that jump. I appreciated Maha describing how she both stays true to her interests and nature but also pushes herself to engage in different ways. Even with different dispositions that pull in different directions, I like that connected courses is pushing us both into productive discomfort and growth.

Mijn gedachten bij het begin van de les kunnen eenvoudig worden samengevat als: “Jean Paul Van Bendegem, die komt op tv! Dat wordt een makkie.” Tijdens de les had ik al snel door wat ik vergeten was, namelijk eens goed te kijken naar het onderwerp van de les: logica. Ik begrijp nu ook waaróm die […]

I loved the Daily Connect suggested by @dogtrax where we were invited to write something and various long-established writers would also contribute. It took me back to childhood days of playing on our Texas Instruments computer with a programme called Eliza. As far as I was concerned it was a great game where you had […]

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