Reflection on Online Courses

While I’m thinking about the two courses I’ve just finished, I want to reflect on one I finished five months ago: e-Learning and Digital Cultures.

The focus of this course was on what is meant by digital cultures and how are they affecting how we interact with our world. In actual fact, I found the course itself boring, I wasn’t really interested in exploring utopian/dystopian views of technology, what it means to be human, and how these ideas have relevance for education and learning.

What did interest me was the final project which asked us to bring together in some kind of digital artifact the ideas behind the course. Now that caught my attention – I gave it quite a bit of thought before one day sitting down and browsing the web for ten interesting ideas I could find. In the end I created a Pinterest Board on which I pinned these ten ideas. If you’re interested click here to view my artifact.

This was an example of a course which didn’t capture my interest but a final project which did.