As we work towards having our Minjet setup fully working…we may wish to use that functionality to help develop some of our core concepts.
For example, “MOTIVATION” is such an important part of learning, and of making it through a “DLE”… that it could, all by itself, make the difference between a successful online course/ training/ DLE and one that is a el floppo.
But as we know, MOTIVATION is different for different folks in different situations at different times, and consists of “list of contributing ingredients” more than just one driving force.
To fill out the details of the various factors we should know about and address with MOTIVATION, it might be good to do a little crowd sourcing or collaboration…to accumulate various motivation components that various people might be aware of…whether from their personal learning experience, the education or professional training, or their psychological insight.
We might be able to give “our contributors” a skeleton or framework with a Mindjet that they could add their ornament to…until we have a fully decorated tree, if you will.
Not sure how to proceed exactly, but we would probably first create the framework, and then invite others to add their pieces to it, incrementally over some period of time…
I agree that we can use “crowdsourcing” to get responses to our core concepts, and perhaps mindjet could play a role.
I’m not sure that MOTIVATION is a core concept by itself. My thought is that each of our core concepts contain a motivation for learning.
I know we have the TED.com video by Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y
As I recall Pink talks about autonomy (time slices), mastery (DLE interactivity, adaptiveness, fun), and purpose (SLC to enable learning for all). All of these are ingredients for why certain people may act in a certain way.
If you want to drill down further, we could describe each core concept in a mind map or a table and then ask for input on the motivation an individual finds in that concept.
For example, the SLC motivation will vary for individuals, as the previous Wired at Heart post descibed in the “8 types of online engagement”.
http://www.wiredatheart.com/2013/02/20/8-types-of-online-engagement-you-must-be-aware-of-in-your-online-courses/
IMO, our best bet for ultimate MOTIVATION for all is offering as many options as we can within each core concept. Of course, that would take a huge amount of analytics and personalization.
Thanks for reminder on TED motivation Dan PInk link.
I know there’s some confusion here re core concepts and what we mean by those words and DLE/ DLP etc…and what with all the other things going on haven’t had a chance to talk more about this “core concept” stuff, and what we hope to put in Keynotes for our site.
I’m fried for today, but we can spend some time on that tomorrow, amongst other stuff. CU then.