Thanks and see you at: MobiMOOC knowledge gathering March 2013

[Ignatia/Inge de Waard]

Dear all,

Thank you so much for all your additions, the time you willingly put in and the effort to follow, start and maintain discussions in MobiMOOC this year.

I hope you did get some extra ideas out of it and that it offered some new insights. For me it was an wonderful learning experience. I know more about organizing, instructional design, technology and social interactions for motivation and support than before. I hope you had inspiring moments as well.

The webinars, course wiki and central discussion group (mobimooc2012)  will be kept up for future reference. It would be good if they could become known Open Educational Resources for mLearning. As such, any ideas you might have are welcomed. I will keep you updated on possible plans from my end.

Some people have suggested ways to shift this course into more of a Community of Practitioners, or something long-term focusing on mLearning. I would love to see this happening, so I started thinking about this for the last few days.

Creating central resource spaces focusing on specific mLearning topics as Larry and others have proposed would be lovely. Dropbox was suggested, but also other options. I would suggest we start building out the course wiki and make it into an Open Educational Resource (OER) on mLearning.

This year MobiMOOC resulted in networks getting started or tightened, new insights into emerging mLearning developments, collaborations and partnerships to team up for projects and all sorts of exchanges which were – in my view – very enlightening and inspiring.

The alternative approach of MobiMOOC using the tree or branching approach had some positive, but also some negative results on the learner dynamic: on the positive side it generated a lot of content on different mLearning topics and it did get people thinking and debating. On the negative side the original idea that participants would choose one or two topics did not happen. Instead they choose to follow all the topics, resulting in less discussions due to time constraints. I had not anticipated this absorption overload, but … this idea got me thinking and gave rise to the idea of a ‘MobiMOOC knowledge sharing festival’.

The importance of having time to exchange ideas and information to enhance each other’s knowledge is so important for expert or experienced mLearner’s I want to set up a two week open floor for the MobiMOOC community somewhere in March 2013. No specific facilitators, only all of us coming together, exchanging what keeps us busy in the mLearning realm, and me as a master of ceremony to make life easy on all of us.

So what is next: a cool down period, enabling all of us to get on top of our regular work. If anyone feels up to it for adding topics/bookmarks/resources on one of the mentioned mLearning topics in MobiMOOC or other, let me know. That way those who want to can start adding resources that can be shared openly at all times, and specifically during the gathering in March.

MobiMOOC knowledge sharing festival, a two week online gathering scheduled in March 2013. Open to all (not sure which two weeks yet), with just one aim: getting us all into a conversation. A bit like a MOOG, Massive, Open, Online Gathering.

Best wishes and hoping to meet/see/hear you soon,

Inge

 

[Geoff Stead]

Thanks, Inge for your awesome energy, creativity and enthusiasm in pulling this together

you rock!

[Elizabeth Torres-Russell]

Ditto...You are a total inspiration.
ET

[Nick Kearney]

Look forward to it.
Thanks for everything Inge. It was great.
And thanks to all
Nick

El 04/10/2012 13:33, Ignatia/Inge de Waard escribi�:

Dear all,

Thank you so much for all your additions, the time you willingly put in and the effort to follow, start and maintain discussions in MobiMOOC this year.

I hope you did get some extra ideas out of it and that it offered some new insights. For me it was an wonderful learning experience. I know more about organizing, instructional design, technology and social interactions for motivation and support than before. I hope you had inspiring moments as well.

The webinars, course wiki and central discussion group (mobimooc2012) �will be kept up for future reference. It would be good if they could become known Open Educational Resources for mLearning. As such, any ideas you might have are welcomed. I will keep you updated on possible plans from my end.

Some people have suggested ways to shift this course into more of a Community of Practitioners, or something long-term focusing on mLearning. I would love to see this happening, so I started thinking about this for the last few days.

Creating central resource spaces focusing on specific mLearning topics as Larry and others have proposed would be lovely. Dropbox was suggested, but also other options. I would suggest we start building out the course wiki and make it into an Open Educational Resource (OER) on mLearning.

This year MobiMOOC resulted in networks getting started or tightened, new insights into emerging mLearning developments, collaborations and partnerships to team up for projects and all sorts of exchanges which were � in my view � very enlightening and inspiring.

The alternative approach of MobiMOOC using the tree or branching approach had some positive, but also some negative results on the learner dynamic: on the positive side it generated a lot of content on different mLearning topics and it did get people thinking and debating. On the negative side the original idea that participants would choose one or two topics did not happen. Instead they choose to follow all the topics, resulting in less discussions due to time constraints. I had not anticipated this absorption overload, but � this idea got me thinking and gave rise to the idea of a �MobiMOOC knowledge sharing festival�.

The importance of having time to exchange ideas and information to enhance each other�s knowledge is so important for expert or experienced mLearner�s I want to set up a two week open floor for the MobiMOOC community somewhere in March 2013. No specific facilitators, only all of us coming together, exchanging what keeps us busy in the mLearning realm, and me as a master of ceremony to make life easy on all of us.

So what is next: a cool down period, enabling all of us to get on top of our regular work. If anyone feels up to it for adding topics/bookmarks/resources on one of the mentioned mLearning topics in MobiMOOC or other, let me know. That way those who want to can start adding resources that can be shared openly at all times, and specifically during the gathering in March.

MobiMOOC knowledge sharing festival, a two week online gathering scheduled in March 2013. Open to all (not sure which two weeks yet), with just one aim: getting us all into a conversation. A bit like a MOOG, Massive, Open, Online Gathering.

Best wishes and hoping to meet/see/hear you soon,

Inge

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[hambr...@gmail.com]

Its sounds great. I may not have participated in the MOOC as much as I would have liked to, but it was a great experience to be part of a MOOC and also seeing where mobile learning is in a global context.

It really is a privilege to be part of this MobiMooc community. And thanks to you Inge for developing, facilitating and keepin g it going the way you did.

Many waves:) from
Helga

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[Javier Gallego Diéguez]

Hello all,

Thanks all participants MobiMOOC 2012, it's my first MOOC, it was a great experience. But specially thank to Ignatia, your dynamism and facilitating has been very rewarding. 

The course has allowed me to better understand connectivism, when Siemens says: "Our expertise lies in the connections we form - either with others or with information sources such as databases". The chaos, the multiplicity of approaches, and sometimes perplexing arises motivation and the need to create new links.

I´m interested in new iniciatives in e/m-learning, specially in my field about health promotion

Best regards

Javier Gallego

[Norbert]

Thank you for all who contributed to Mobi Mooc. I have learned a lot and now want to spend time to come back to the sessions I was not able to watch.
AR is the area I would like to explore a bit better.
Ignatia thank you for your huge work.

Best regards
Norbert

[Nadi Kaonga]

Yes, Thank you, Inge.  Although I was more of a lurker due to my current schedule, I believe this was an excellent initiative and have enjoyed and been impressed with the diversity and depth of the discussions and lessons.

Most sincere appreciation,

Nadi

[judith...@googlemail.com]

Hi there,

I really like the idea of a MOOG in march :-)

Thanks to Inge

Best wishes,
Lutz

[Tuulia Kiilavuori]

Hi all, This is unbelieveable, thank you Inge. I'm looking forward to my first MOOG in March.

Tuulia

[Rebecca Hogue]

Love the MOOG idea. I always did see cMOOCs as short term communities of practice and the MOOG would actually make MobiMOOC a MOOCoP - a massively open online community of practice :).

Inge, Thanks for bringing us all together. You are awesome. I hope to meet you in person next week at mlearn!

Cheers
Rebecca

[Dorothy Hadfield]

Ditto for me. I was disappointed by my inability to keep up because of my schedule (and getting used to following Google groups on my iPad took more time than I had to invest), but hope to participate further in ongoing conversations.

 

And I echo all the votes of admiration for your efforts, Inge!

[Gary Greenberg]

All,

This was a really wonderful introduction to mobile learning on the global stage. Thanks to everyone who participated and, of course, to Inge who so brilliantly facillitated.

Next time any of you are in Ohio, please look me up!

Best,

Gary Greenberg

[Alice Bedard-Voorhees]

Can't wait for the MOOG, Ignatia! Thanks so much for all your work!

Alice

[Alice Bedard-Voorhees]

On Monday, October 8, 2012 9:37:54 AM UTC-6, Alice Bedard-Voorhees wrote:

Can't wait for the MOOG, Ignatia! Thanks so much for all your work and thanks to this great community!

[Osvaldo Rodriguez]

Hi All

Perhaps you might find of interest the following recent post in my blog related to MobiMOOC2012:

"MobiMOOC 2012 a new tree structure for the delivery of connectivist MOOCs".

http://cor-ar.blogspot.com.ar/2012/10/mobimooc-2012-new-tree-structure-for.html

 

Osvaldo

Osvaldo Rodriguez
cor...@yahoo.com

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[Ignatia/Inge de Waard]

Working on the badges. I was a bit behind on work, but they will come. Hoping to get them out by the end of next week.
Cheers

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Carolyn Nandozi <nsca...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Inge, Looking forward!
But how do we get our budges?

kind regards

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[Ignatia/Inge de Waard]

Thanks Osvaldo!