James Brunton

Reflecting on an Online Networked Learning course (ONL191)

Posted on May 10, 2019 by James Brunton

ONL191 is an Online Networked Learning that was developed as a response to a growing need for courses dealing with the use of digital tools for teaching and learning. The course design is based on open, collaborative and networked learning practices and participants explore how a problem-based learning format can be utilised for CPD in … Continue reading Reflecting on an Online Networked Learning course (ONL191) →

The Empathy Map as an Early Learning Design Activity

Posted on May 4, 2019 by James Brunton

Topic 4 for the ONL191 course focuses on how to support and design for learning, with a particular emphasis on accounting for emotional presence (in the context of the Community of Inquiry framework) in learning design. My problem based learning group decided to focus on an Empathy Map learning design exercise that would be used early … Continue reading The Empathy Map as an Early Learning Design Activity →

Topic 4 – Exploring an Empathy Map Design Tool

Posted on April 29, 2019 by James Brunton1 Comment

Given that Topic 4 for ONL191 focuses on how to support and design for learning, with a particular emphasis on accounting for emotional presence (in the context of the Community of Inquiry framework) in learning design, PBL group 1 decided to focus on an Empathy Map learning design exercise that would be used early in […]

The Value of Learning Communities

Posted on April 19, 2019 by James Brunton

Rather than try to answer the question myself of why there is value in being a member of a learning community, or even better several learning communities, I decided to ask some of the other participants at the marvellous OER19 conference that took place in beautiful Galway city, Ireland on the 10th and 11th of … Continue reading The Value of Learning Communities →

Digital Identity & Literacy: Who am I in the Digital Age?

Posted on March 15, 2019 by James Brunton

As a ‘third-space’ (Whitchurch, 2008) academic working in online learning, my digital identity is inseparable from my professional identity, and also deeply ingrained in my personal life (which I keep separate through the use of separate accounts for email, social media, etc.). I identify strongly with where I work, Dublin City university’s (DCU) National Institute for … Continue reading Digital Identity & Literacy: Who am I in the Digital Age? →

The MOOCs made me do it…

Posted on February 26, 2019 by James Brunton

Here is my shiny new blog, which I have created in response to the fact that two online courses, the Extend mOOC and the ONL 191 course, really want me to blog. So here I go.