LiDA100: Learning in a Digital Age

Stimulus Resources

Support Resources on Reflective Writing

• Reflective Writing (or pdf version) from the Learning Centre at the University of New South Wales. Remember to read the subpages of this resource.
• Reflective Writing in Education from Monash University. Remember to read the subpages of this resource.
• Examples of Reflective Writing from the University of New South Wales.

• Dr. Melissa Wehler's "How to Write a Reflection Essay" video.

Purpose

The purpose of this learning reflection challenge is to:

• provide evidence of your learning on a selected dimension of openness by clarifying the connections between your experience (what you already know) and what you have learned during this learning pathway.
• become a reflective practitioner.

Tasks

The following actions will help you in preparing your written learning reflection.

1. Consult the stimulus resources on reflective writing.
2. Select one of the following dimensions of openness for further investigation:
   • Open Access
   • Free and Open Source Software
   • Open Textbooks
   • Open Policy
   • Open Business Models
   • Open Educational Practices
3. Conduct a search for published research on your chosen dimension of openness and share links to valuable resources on bookmarks.oeru.org. Remember to tag your post using the course code: lida103 as well as additional descriptive tags, for example: open access, open policy, open business models etc.
4. Use the suggested activity on the respective sub-page of this learning pathway for your investigation or choose an alternate focus based on the resources you find online.
5. Generate a bullet list of your prior experience and knowledge of the dimension of openness before your online investigation of the topic.
6. List WHAT you have learned but also HOW you learned it.
7. Think about your response or reaction to the new knowledge and insights derived from the literature you have studied.

Outputs

1. Prepare and publish a blog post of about 400 – 600 words reflecting on your learning on your chosen dimension of openness.
2. The openness dimension component of your blog post you selected for investigation (about 200 words) should cover the following aspects:
   • Reason why you chose the dimension
   • Succinct summary of the dimension and your most important findings supported by references using the APA citation style.
   • List of the three most important implications of the dimension for learning in a digital age.
3. You learning reflection component of the post should cover the following aspects:
   • Description: Provide your reader with specifically what happened?
   • Evaluation: What was “good” and “bad” about the experience?
   • Analysis: What did you learn from it? How do you feel about it now? Did it change you? How?
   • Conclusion: What alternatives did you have at the time or what else could you have done?
   • Plan: What new knowledge or skills do you have and how will your experience inform future learning?
4. Remember to include the course tag (lida103) for harvesting your blog post for the course feed.
5. Post a comment on one or two blog contributions.