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In Part 1 I look at the learning experience from the course as well the new concepts with which I now find myself familiar.
Computer Conferencing & Netiquette
In this section I cover the principles that I learnt which would prove vital for the rest of the course, primarily communicating effectively with others about issues raised by the course, something I often found particularly frustrating.
Being familiar with working in structured hierachical groups I really thought that group working would be interesting, and anything but challenging. However the asynchronous, non-hierachical, remote nature of the groups for this course proved anything but easy to work with.
I found concepts maps a particulary useful learning tool after doing this exercise. This concept map was perhaps a little too detailed and may have detracted from the key concepts, but I have learned from this.
Although I classed myself a relatively experienced web surfer I had not actually looked at websites from a particularly analytical point of view, yet enjoyed looking closely at these 2 sites which I perhaps would not normally have visited.
I selected the issue of who if anyone deserved the title of "The Father of the Internet", and despite assessing intellectually that I should not identify any one individual, my conclusion proved otherwise, probably for none intellectual reasons. J.C.R. Licklider just seemed a nice guy.
Reflection On Learning Experience through the Course
Only once having completed this section have I actually realised just how much has been covered, and how much I have learned. Admittedly it has not been easy for various reasons. However, i now look forward to my next course, knowing that I will approach it in a better way with the benefit of the experience from this course.
