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Twitterbots – something more than just scale
I’ve got to admit, I’d always assumed twitterbots were just the platform’s version of spam. I’ve used twitter fairly regularly over the past 2-3 years so, while no expert, would assume I’m one of their more savvy users. Sure, I’d had the occasional tweet from a ‘bimbot’, but assumed bots were being used for little…
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Week 1 takeaways
So week 1 is already over! Wow that went quick. The case studies on ‘constructing community’ have provoked some real food for thought, particularly given the polarised situations in the examples. A few key points and thoughts from the first week: Whether the student environment is online or offline, the complexity of community doesn’t really…
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Feeling swamped – MOOC perspectives
We’ve been posed some very interesting scenarios this week on the topic of ‘constructing community’, and it’s been fascinating to read the different takes from fellow students on these on the forums. I was particularly intrigued by some of the points raised about the sense of feeling ‘swamped’ in a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)…
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Constructing community and the workplace
Week 1 on the IDEL course is all about ‘constructing community’. Naturally the discussions around this will help us forge our own community as part of the course. This is one of the key reasons why I embarked on the MSc, it’s very much ‘learning by doing’. I think one of the key things to…
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Week 0 – quick thoughts
I imagine it’s a rarity to have a blog post summarises key thoughts when the course hasn’t actually started, but best to start as I mean to go on… There’s an awful lot of learning environments, both within the Uni of Edinburgh circles and outside of this (e.g. Minecraft) that are going to be used…
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“The ledger”
So we aren’t even at week 1 of the IDEL course, and the University of Edinburgh team are already serving up some real food for thought. We were given some links to video content to peruse – I’m guessing as a way of getting the juices flowing and priming us for some of the content…
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A step into the unknown
Well some 13 years after graduating from an undergraduate degree in Economics, here I am back in the realm of formal education! Yet the motivations for doing so could hardly be more different. It’s a real maelstrom of feelings, particularly in the last week when it’s moved from being just an exciting project in the…