{"id":770,"date":"2016-06-30T18:29:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T18:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/?p=770"},"modified":"2016-06-30T18:30:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T18:30:39","slug":"starting-a-new-course-digitalscholar-and-discovering-a-new-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"Starting a new course #DigitalScholar and discovering a new platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/cd861-lecture_in_progress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-149 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/cd861-lecture_in_progress-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"cd861-lecture_in_progress\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>This evening was my first introduction (or &#8216;live learning moment&#8217;) to the new #DigitalScholar course. If you want to take a look at what this course run by the Geneva Learning Foundation is all about, have a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/learning.foundation\/2016\/06\/10\/call-for-applications-open-access-course-to-develop-your-own-scalable-digital-learning-course\/\">course announcement<\/a>\u00a0(course starts on Monday, 4th July 2016).<\/p>\n<p>This course is a new adventure for me, a new opportunity for CPD but also a chance to discover a new platform: <a href=\"https:\/\/cgscholar.com\/\">Scholar<\/a>. I haven&#8217;t tried this one before &#8211; but the course community will also be using <a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/\">Slack<\/a>, a tool I&#8217;ve only recently started using and found quite useful even for a complete novice.<\/p>\n<p>My aim is to make the most of this course by designing a new course outline in Scholar, hopefully focusing on reflection as part of CPD and aligned to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alt.ac.uk\/certified-membership\">CMALT framework<\/a> that I help develop in my day job for ALT. I like the idea of starting a course with a clear aim in mind already &#8211; that works for where I am in my thinking just now. Also, the organisers are very clear about me, as a participant, making a clear commitment to spend time actually working on the course. It feels very transparent and engaging and I really want to try and support this kind of peer-based learning as a participant.<\/p>\n<p>So, I am at the brink of jumping into this new community. I&#8217;ve set up my account, signed up for the platform and started making a few connections &#8211; but largely this is a leap into the unknown. I can&#8217;t wait for Monday \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening was my first introduction (or &#8216;live learning moment&#8217;) to the new #DigitalScholar course. If you want to take a look at what this course run by the Geneva Learning Foundation is all about, have a look at the course announcement\u00a0(course starts on Monday, 4th July 2016). This course is a new adventure for me, a new opportunity for CPD but also a chance to discover a new platform: Scholar. I haven&#8217;t tried this&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/?p=770\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starting a new course #DigitalScholar and discovering a new platform<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,18,21],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cpd","category-learning-technology","category-moocs","category-open-practice","tag-digitalscholar","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7wa4N-cq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marendeepwell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}