Today we have launched our research survey and sent this message by email, to as many CCK08 course participants as we could find email addresses for.
Dear CCK08 Participant,
Did you prefer to interact in the Moodle forums or in the blogs during the CCK08 course? Or did you do both? Or neither?
We warmly invite you to respond to this survey, in which we investigate these choices.
Currently few online courses allow participants this type of choice. The CCK08 course offers us a unique opportunity to explore the reasons for these choices. We would be extremely grateful if you would help us to do this by completing the survey.
The survey is relevant and open to all CCK08 participants whatever your level of engagement with the course. All responses will be regarded as confidential and your anonymity will be preserved. Please click on the link below to access the survey.
In order to ensure that only CCK08 participants complete the survey, we have not included the link on this open site. If you have not received the link to the survey by email and would like to take part in the survey, please contact John, Jenny or Roy. We will provide the contact details by early next week.
The survey will remain open until 12.00 pm (GMT) on April 30th 2009.
With many thanks in anticipation of receiving your response.
Jenny Mackness, Sui Fai John Mak and Roy Williams
Learner Weblog 
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I interacted in both the Moodle and the blogs. I was interested in the conversations that took place in theMoodle forums. I was interested in how people were making sense of the course content and also the group process. I found it difficult to get a sense of the people behind the words in the moodle, so I started following Stephen’s Daily, then I started following the blogs. I was intrigued with how people were selecting people to connect with and using various tools to gather and organize information. It was remarkable to see the range of strategies people used to create coherent understanding of the information and using various technologies to establish their ‘PLEs’. I am interested how people put the new learning to use. It intrigues me how far formal knowledge travels into the informal learning networks and how it is transformed through use.
Thanks Mary for your valuable comments. I share your interests in how people learn through the networks and their PLEs.
Looking forward to be connected to you.