Re-reading some of the older posts from this Term, I came across a blog post by David. I have often missed David's posts, as they don't come up in my Feedly feed like student posts do. I have to deliberately go into David's posts by clicking on his name in the blog list. It was interesting to reflect on this post as it was written in early August. Since then, even more students have withdrawn from EDU8117, leaving just 5 of us in the 2016 class. So, in view of the statement below, there are some obvious reasons why students in the 2016 class have questioned why they have missed out on marks for links to student blogs from previous semesters. With fewer participants, there is a good chance that the interaction traffic is slower, so students this year may have felt compelled to look at previous year's blogs for stimulus. In 2014, there were 17 active students in the course; in 2015, there were 10 participants. As mentioned above, there are 5 in 2016. It would be a shame to see this course disappear, as it has so much meaning for the future of teaching and learning. Interestingly, this has only become an issue this year. Only this year have students been asking why they missed out on marks for links to other (“old”) student posts. Leaving aside why it’s only started this year, this post documents the move to valuing the residue of experience. I think students will always prefer to interact with other students in the "here and now", whether it be online or face-to-face. Interacting with a post, where there is little chance of a response, has limited appeal. It has a somewhat "creepy" feel; but I can understand how in the absence of course participation and interaction, "residual experience" provides a substitute. Therefore, these older links should be considered in the same way as an interaction with a current student's post. References Valuing the residue of experience a bit more. (2016). The Weblog of (a) David Jones. Retrieved from https://davidtjones.wordpress.com/2016/08/05/valuing-the- residue-of-experience-a-bit-more/
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10/3/2016 09:12:44 pm
That particular post was in connection with the undergraduate course I teach. A course that uses a similar collection of technologies, but with a larger cohort (~300 in S1, ~100 in S2).
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