Mc² = E Learning Reflections

"By 2002, Eppler and Menjis were identifying five causes of information overload: -multiple sources of information -too much information -difficult-to-manage information -irrelevance or unimportance of information -lack of time to understand information." (Open University, 2020) I was reading this the other day and it really got me thinking about learning and teaching.  I was thinking about myself as a teacher and how I've felt overloaded with information over the past 12 months and how much of this overloading  makes teaching more difficult?  Moreover, it got me thinking about whether or not we, as teachers have been guilty of overloading our students too?  So by extension I started thinking about what constitutes quality in online learning?  How can educators create a quality online learning experience without the need for overload?   ( "Information Overload"   by  DeaPeaJay  is licensed under  CC BY-SA 2.0 ) I know t...

Recently events happened in my life which changed the way I think about a lot of things. New people arrive in your life and you learn to cherish them in all their diversity.  Sometimes circumstances occur where you leave people behind but their impact stays with you forever.  But during the challenges of recent months I've never been more sure how important people are to me.   ( "Friends"   by  Marion Doss  is licensed under  CC BY-SA 2.0 ) That sounds bizarre, but I had always thought of myself as being inherently antisocial.  As a mathematician I always reckoned that numbers were easy to deal with because they behave in predictable ways and don't argue back like people do.  If an office party came up I would have other plans.  If I was invited out for dinner I would suddenly and conveniently find myself double booked.  Not because I didn't Iike going out but because I always felt like I didn't connect with others ...