Mc² = E Learning Reflections

I don't know how often I've tried drafting and redrafting different versions of this post because, I try to use my blog as a space where I can collide different thoughts, ideas and experiences in an effort to find out something new.  In doing so I find myself asking the question: "How authentic is this?  Are you being honest with yourself?  Are you being honest with your readers?  So, I find myself adopting different voices. ( " Speak up, make your voice heard " by  HowardLake  is licensed under  CC BY-SA 2.0 .) Sometimes I find myself using the objective, scientific voice.  Like the kind you might find in Critical Incident Analysis (Tripp, 1993 as cited by Mohammed, 2016) where you step out of yourself and out of the situation and look at it from an observers standpoint and by relating the context of the situation to literature and knowledge you arrive at some transformational realisation (Szenes et al., 2015).   Other times I try to ve...

Starting my journey as a post graduate researcher has been something of a shock to the system.  It's changed the way I see myself and may change the way others see me in time.  But a question I get asked all the time is, "Why? Why would you devote such large proportions of your time to a Doctorate?  It's a big commitment and it's expensive."   All of that is true.   (" Why? " by  BuzzFarmers  is licensed under  CC BY 2.0 .) The answer lies in my research.  I'm planning to look at the impact of hybrid learning and hybrid pedagogy.  But I don't want to investigate the impact on the student-teacher relationship - there's already a lot of work going on in that area.  My interest relates to the impact of hybrid learning and hybrid pedagogy on the teacher-teacher relationship within educational communities of practice.  I was struck recently by a tweet where the author commented that, "Online learning has no imp...