When I was a small girl, my family regularly drove over the Story Bridge in Brisbane, Australia to visit our cousins. I was fascinated by the stairs I could see up the sides of the steel structure and wished I could climb right up to the top. My parents told me it was impossible: those were maintenance steps and only the bridge workers could go up there.
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How does a book about dance relate to online learning? On the surface, it doesn’t. But dig a bit deeper and you will see that the author of Frou Frou to Fruition has never stopped learning, even though she has not taken any online courses.
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Around six months ago, online course provider Coursera established a platform-wide discussion community. I wrote about it in February for Class Central, and mentioned it briefly in my March 19th post for Online Learning Success. In January, while researching the community for these posts, I joined up and posted in some of the topic threads.
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Although I have completed more than 100 courses, they haven’t all needed deep concentration or memorization. I am embarrassed by how little I can remember of some of those courses. Some others, though, are still clear in my memory even years later. Why? And how can we improve our recall of what we learned after a course has finished?
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Released by Stepik in February 2019, this free short course teaches the basics of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). It achieves its stated aim of educating the layperson in CPR so they might have some confidence to attempt it if they ever witness a cardiac arrest. The victim then has a better chance of surviving until medical assistance arrives. So far, 104 people have signed up for this course.
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The last few months have seen several announcements of changes in the online learning sphere.
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Several weeks ago, I read an inspirational quote from Mahatma Ghandi which set me thinking about how we can be inspired to improve ourselves by learning from each other’s words.
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Several MOOC providers have introduced
Readers of Online Learning Success may already know I am a big fan of Learning How to Learn, an online course created by Barbara Oakley and Terrence Sejnowski. The same instructors are behind Mindshift, another encouraging course created to help people take the plunge into new careers.
I was excited in early December to discover Learning How to Learn for Youth, a new offering from Drs Oakley and Sejnowski, alongside Gregory Hammons. Motivational speaker is just one of Hammons’ talents, and his enthusiastic style fits in beautifully with the other presenters.
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During or after many online courses, you can join social media groups and/or receive emails from course providers or the course creators. Most course provider emails are marketing type correspondence, encouraging learners to enroll (and hopefully take the paid certificate option) in new or popular courses. These emails also often extol the benefits of online learning, particularly for your career prospects. Emails sent from course creators are more likely to contain information on topics or resources of more specific interest to that particular field.
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