Week 5 Initial Reaction
My initial reaction to this lesson was quite abrupt. I received an email from a fellow student and I had not yet researched the topic to thoroughly answer the question. Of course, this made me all the more eager to find an answer for her and I about the usage of open learning environments. My initial consultation was the textbook which was very thorough in providing an overview and explanation which tends to generally be the purpose of compiled text. Each author tends to give an overview, generic information, and then provides examples. However, the tool that I find most useful in open and online environments is the web, internet, databases, encyclopedias, and online learning community that help clarify the information. This is one of the purposes of open and online learning environments.
For example, in my researching the answer for the other student and myself, I went to the Walden University database and typed in the following search words, "open and online learning environment". I placed the open on one line and online on the second line and learning environment on the third line. Through this search in the database, I was able to obtain the literature that I have posted on the discussion board. I also downloaded the open source material that my classmate gave but I have not been able to use it as of yet. This is one of the things the Richardson text mentions in the Read/Write web is that learners must know how to scan and read literature if there will be feeders on your blog. Through my doctoral studies I am greatly improving this skills, although I do tend to thoroughly read if the scanning does not provoke my understanding.
My initial reaction to this lesson was quite abrupt. I received an email from a fellow student and I had not yet researched the topic to thoroughly answer the question. Of course, this made me all the more eager to find an answer for her and I about the usage of open learning environments. My initial consultation was the textbook which was very thorough in providing an overview and explanation which tends to generally be the purpose of compiled text. Each author tends to give an overview, generic information, and then provides examples. However, the tool that I find most useful in open and online environments is the web, internet, databases, encyclopedias, and online learning community that help clarify the information. This is one of the purposes of open and online learning environments.
For example, in my researching the answer for the other student and myself, I went to the Walden University database and typed in the following search words, "open and online learning environment". I placed the open on one line and online on the second line and learning environment on the third line. Through this search in the database, I was able to obtain the literature that I have posted on the discussion board. I also downloaded the open source material that my classmate gave but I have not been able to use it as of yet. This is one of the things the Richardson text mentions in the Read/Write web is that learners must know how to scan and read literature if there will be feeders on your blog. Through my doctoral studies I am greatly improving this skills, although I do tend to thoroughly read if the scanning does not provoke my understanding.
posted by nia | 6:09 AM
4 Comments:
Sometimes I think I spend too much time researching my answers. It's almost a question of how much do I need to do to be able to adequately and thoroughly provide an answer. I do believe it is important to understand the literature and be able to analyze, synthesize and evaluate all claims. I try and find connections between what I have read in the past and what I'm reading now. The connections are the important parts, I believe. If I'm to make a contribution to the literature, and to the body of knowledge, research is key.
Nia,
I get a bit obsessive about researching for class, for school, and just general questions that arise throughout the day. I am not sure what I ever did before the Internet....though I do recall spending hours on end at the library.
Karen
Karen,
This is simply amazing that the internet has become the mobile library of the future. I find myself often telling my pastor's wife that everything is online. If it's not online, then its not happening or taking place.
David,
I agree because as I often say to those in my immediate surroundgings as the saying goes, this is what separates the men from the boys; so this is what separates the scholar practitioner from the average student. As undergraduate students as I posted in one of my discussion boards, or perhaps it was one of the KAM's but as an undergraduate student one is trained for a profession. In any event as an undergraduate student you just gain skills as a practicing profession. As a graduate student you are trained to research, manage, and make decisions about the information that has been gathered and about the profession. You are trained to see things within a certain scope or parameter. Research is good and as we learned in our very first Walden University foundations class, every researcher knows when to quit, you could spend hours of endless time gathering more and more information and believe that you never have enough. But one has to determine what is the cut off period.
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