I participated CCK08 a year ago (this blog is made for it) and I have followed research about happenings during the course. Most of them deal with external actions: how many connections, discussions, writings and so on. It is not an easy job, you have to develope new methods for it. We have much framework knowledge about our course. Thanks to Google Alert it has been easy to follow :
- moodle forum discussions in graphical network models are more effective than scanning forums
- presentations about all the vehicles and an example of products given by Mike Bogle slideshare
Mike presents Wendy’s video about networked student, I suppose we all liked it very much. But now I see that it deals only with external actions: student does this and this etc. An interesting attention to me was now the concept American Psychology, I did’nt notice it earlier. Do they really study American Psyche only?
I am waiting for results about the research (questionnaire and interview) made by Jenny M, John and Roy. They are comparing people who chose to use a blog or Moodle forums, what are the factors behind those choices. I liked to answer their questions myself and it was a good opportunity to learn to understand better. It is not simple to say what I was waiting for when I decided to participate in a global course like CCK was .. and what happened to my focus during the course period.
External factors are good to know but they are not enough – I am interested in what happens in human minds, what is learning actually. I found an dissertation Passion at work: blogging practices of knowledge workers and it helped me to understand my decisions: what are the needs that make my blog necessary. Blogging means ‘everyday grounded theory’. The cultural schift is great:
- personal passions have a legitimate place at work ( I love this, I need this)
- transparency is here to stay
- everyday routines matter (it is stupid to say I have no time to write a blog)
- authority becomes fluid (I love this, too)
- visibility can turn into information overload (but this is nice I suppose and helps to develope further)
This is the way I want to proceed in my research and my thinking. Lilia Efimova who wrote the dissertation, had one workplace and Knowledge Management bloggers community in her research .. I am perhaps interested in case studies. The entity must be a human being if I want to understand what happens inside human mind.
I appreciate the possibility to global interaction again, CCK09 is beginning and I have to decide how to participate this time…
