A Learning Experiment

The purpose behind this blog is to see how blogging and other social networking concepts can enhance and enrich the learning process. At present I am working through my master of education degree where I have chosen to focus on Christian Education and Leadership. It has been a tough road balancing full time work and study, so I needed something to motivate myself.  Furthermore, there seemed to be no use in doing postgraduate study if I was not going to benefit personally and professionally.

So the concept is easy…. I am basically going to post my study as a blog. Each unit of work I do has a series of learning modules that lead through the desired learning for the unit. Quite often it is tempting to skip the detail in the modules and just jump straight into the assessment pieces. It is not my intention to post my assignments and final assessment for the unit, rather to post the work I am doing in the modules. This will more than likely  include personal reflections on the reading I have been doing, hopefully raising issues of Educational Leadership from a Christian perspective.

It is my hope, that as I begin to share my learning journey (which is quite a scary thought) other educators and interested parties will begin to comment and add to the discussion. I have learnt so much from the contributions of others by running my Educational Technology blog. It is my hope that this proves to do the same. I understand this is a much more narrow audience of interest that I am appealing to, however, I am sure once a few folk begin to engage in the conversation and even challenge my thought we will not only learn together but demonstrate an effective and engaging method of learning in the 21st Century.  Commenting is not limited in anyway.  Anyone who is interested in the conversation at hand is welcome to contribute to the discussion.  As the study progresses there will be a number of varying topics and issues to discuss.