Most of the courses I deliver have a reflection component to the assessment regime. My students are currently completing their reflections on their 15 week courses for me, so it seemed a good idea for me to undertake the same process to close my 10 week experience.
My reflection contains what I have processed and what I think I have learned from the ANU team, the MOOC environment, and the platforms used, thus far. It can be found here.
There were so many great people on the MOOC, and I learned a lot about the vast doctoral and post-doctoral community on the planet. Thank you all for the sharing of knowledge.
As well as being a teacher and a scholar, I am also a career practitioner, and a member of the New Zealand professional career community (CDANZ). Fellow CDANZ member, Tui Needham, commissioned a waiata for CDANZ from her brother, Dr Teriu Lemon, in 2011.
I was lucky enough to be part of the CDANZ team who aided Teriu to bring the waiata into being. Teriu created a taonga for our organisation that we trust will last beyond us (Lemon, 2011):
Ma te whakaatu ka mohio From discussion there will be understanding
Ma mohio, ka marama By understanding there will be light
Ma te marama ka matau Ma matau, ka ora e From light there is wisdom and from wisdom there is wellbeing
I love that link between the concepts: discussion | understanding | light | wisdom | wellbeing. That encapsulates what I have gained from undertaking the MOOC: a sense of wellbeing.
Debsnet, a fellow #survivephd15-er and aka the édu flâneuse, posted a challenge to those who have undertaken the blog: to "connect with others and develop ourselves". She suggested that we who choose to participate in her challenge write a post and share it.
This is my contribution :-)
Sam
References:
- CDANZ (2011). Waiata: Te Wharenui He Mohiotanga by Teriu Lemon. Retrieved 7 November 2015 from http://www.cdanz.org.nz/about-cdanz/cdanz-waiata/
- Mewburn, Dr Inger (2015). How to Survive Your PhD: Activity Description | Final Activity. Retrieved 7 November 2015 from https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:ANUx+RSIT-01x+3T2015/courseware/db2b871a078e455cb2fa43f78e5b362e/771699afb7244bc787923d85be817b01/?discussion_page=1
- the édu flâneuse (2015). The Research Student Blog Challenge – #HDRblog15 – November 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2015 from https://theeduflaneuse.wordpress.com/2015/10/22/hdr-blog-challenge-2015/
