There are eight of us on the course Psychological and Social Contexts of E-Learning. Most of us are on our last module for the MSc but I only have 'met' one of them before. Mostly everyone had logged in and introduced themselves on the first day but one person very clearly emerged as a 'leader' in the sense of initiating ideas both on the content of the course and raising questions on how we should work together. She also started a thread on the risky nature of a group assessment but ended with her reasons for feeling positive about it. We as a group are also responsible for deciding what areas the course would cover. As I am getting back into the MSc after a terms break my own ideas were rather fuzzy and initially I felt rather uneasy about carving out my own area or someone claiming an area I would like before I got round to it. In the end, that didn't happen as I quickly participated in putting out my fuzzy ideas and after some reading and help from our tutor I realised that what I am interested in looking at is augmented cognition. I even started brainstorming about it on bubbl.us but haven't connected it to the group wiki yet due to technical issues when I tried to do so last week.
As a group we are still getting to know one another - although several people had already participated together in earlier modules. I feel that I have done my share of collective work - suggesting how we might work together through the discussion threads. Most people haven't decided on their topic areas yet but it is early days.
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