Lessons Learnt in Wk1 – Engaging with fellow students

During my first week on H807 I have had an opportunity to explore different innovations in elearning and development my own definition:

My initial thoughts on innovation in elearning are influenced with my training experience within the Royal Navy and now a UK Defense wide organisation. For me it’s about finding new ways to use existing or new electronic methods and media to deliver a successful training or learning intervention which previously has not been exploited.

The activity which engages smaller groups of the main tutor group was very productive. We had a clear structure of questions to investigate and report back the findings. It helped, in our case, that the first student visiting this thread proactively offered guidance to others on how they could get involved with this activity. Nice touch Gavin. Although I probably did initially concentrate my efforts on answering the 2 questions I choose to explore I was mindful of the efforts fellow students were making to achieve our collective aim. This break off task enabled self managed activity which identified some very interesting findings and (I hope) the answers to the quiz were very successful.

Lessons learnt so far:

1. Limit my discussion forum posts to small nuggets which are easily digested by other students.
2. Engage with other students by responding to their posts and build a virtual relationship built on common goals and based on agreement or understanding of their point of view.
3. Where possible, include some of the written text references to the course resources and add interesting URL links to enable fellow students a chance to explore your ideas further.

Please feel free to comment on my thoughts.