{"id":1399,"date":"2014-10-18T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2014-10-18T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T14:00:43","slug":"dalmooc-my-first-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":"DALMOOC &#8211; My first steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official start of this MOOC on &#8222;Data, Analytics and Learning&#8220; (DALMOOC) is on Monday 20th, but a lot of activity has already taken place, e.g. two Google hangouts &#8211; at not such perfect times for Middle Europe&#8230; Therefore I watched the archive of the Course Design Explanation session (October 17th) on YouTube <a title=\"YT\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/b2gSd6oxEBM\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/b2gSd6oxEBM<\/a> which was quite intereresting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why I joined this course<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0 Mainly, because of an introduction to the topic &#8222;Learning analytics&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 Because of the course concept experience &#8222;2 MOOCs in one&#8220;: Guided Learner Path (Blue) &amp; Social Learning Path (Red)<br \/>\nSome time ago, I bookmarked these resources : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elearnspace.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/06\/multiple-pathways-blending-xmoocs-cmoocs\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.elearnspace.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/06\/multiple-pathways-blending-xmoocs-cmoocs\/<\/a> (May 6th) \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edugeekjournal.com\/2014\/09\/26\/visual-flow-of-learner-tools-in-the-dual-layer-mooc\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.edugeekjournal.com\/2014\/09\/26\/visual-flow-of-learner-tools-in-the-dual-layer-mooc\/<\/a> (Sept 26th)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I already looked at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/course\/utarlingtonx\/utarlingtonx-link5-10x-data-analytics-2186\" target=\"_blank\">the course in edx.org<\/a> (whose user interface I already know very well) and was surprised that the first thing I saw in the Courseware section was a special DALMOOC Course agreement about participation in a study &#8211; I am still not sure what&#8217;s the difference if I say yes or just ignore it\u00a0 (which I did for now). Afterwards I watched the &#8222;How DALMOOC works&#8220; video which emphasized on &#8222;<strong>It&#8217;s about connections &amp; creation not content<\/strong>&#8220; and that it might be a little disorienting at the start for someone who has taken MOOCs that were more structured. For DALMOOC in edx.org, 4 points were mentioned to help orientation: the visual syllabus, a daily email, hangouts\/recordings and edX forums.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course Tools<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the course, many tools beyond edX will be used &#8211; for my orientation I add these URLs in the blog post:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/linkresearchlab.org\/dalmooc\/tools\/all\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/linkresearchlab.org\/dalmooc\/tools\/all\/<\/a> (it&#8217;s nice that in edx.org you also get the links to the tools&#8216; privacy statement websites)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/linkresearchlab.org\/dalmooc\/tools\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/linkresearchlab.org\/dalmooc\/tools\/<\/a> (graphic chart for different pathways)\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dalmooc.prosolo.ca\/prosolo\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/dalmooc.prosolo.ca\/prosolo\/<\/a>\u00a0 (especially relevant for the red path)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/linkresearchlab.org\/dalmooc\/assignments\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/linkresearchlab.org\/dalmooc\/assignments\/<\/a> (especially relevant for the red path)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/linkresearchlab.org\/dalmooc\/tools\/social\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/linkresearchlab.org\/dalmooc\/tools\/social\/<\/a> (Social learning guide for DALMOOC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am looking forward to the official start of DALMOOC on Monday. I don&#8217;t know yet how much time I will spend, because the course is parallel to the busiest time of year with the beginning of the winter semester at our University. Besides the edx.org course portal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/course\/utarlingtonx\/utarlingtonx-link5-10x-data-analytics-2186\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.edx.org\/course\/utarlingtonx\/utarlingtonx-link5-10x-data-analytics-2186<\/a> I will have a look on what happens on Twitter (#dalmooc\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dalmooc\" target=\"_blank\"> https:\/\/twitter.com\/dalmooc<\/a> ) and maybe Google+ <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/106806974410074176435\/posts\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/plus.google.com\/106806974410074176435\/posts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official start of this MOOC on &#8222;Data, Analytics and Learning&#8220; (DALMOOC) is on Monday 20th, but a lot of activity has already taken place, e.g. two Google hangouts &#8211; at not such perfect times for Middle Europe&#8230; Therefore I watched the archive of the Course Design Explanation session (October 17th) on YouTube http:\/\/youtu.be\/b2gSd6oxEBM which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/?p=1399\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eDALMOOC &#8211; My first steps\u201c <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dalmooc","tag-dalmooc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idethloff.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}