myedna POC sought to address issues educators have managing life and learning online, and what has been delivered is a bare-knuckled prototype which demonstrates how this could be done.
edna-myedna-logo.png

Project Blog

Lessons Learned

What went well - project outcomes Team work and shared vision

This team of strong personalities, who each brought their own background to the group, came up quickly with a shared vision of what to do. Having a clear vision: ‘watch me learn’ was the motivation and reference point throughout the project.

myedna conclusions

This is the last in four blog posts to summarise the first 'proof of concept' innovation project. The POC team feel they have successfully prototyped a coherent vision for a myedna personalised learning space for educators, showing how educators can manage their own learning journey and digital identities.

myedna discover and create

This is the first in four blog posts to summarise the first 'proof of concept' innovation project. Phase 1: Discover and create my learning identity Approach The first stage of the myedna POC aimed to create a personal learning environment. This allows educators to aggregate their edna contribution and resources as well as from any other website. For example it could include content from email lists, RSS feeds, blogs, flickr, and numerous other online services.

myedna share my learning journey

This is the third in a series of four blog posts to summarise the first 'proof of concept' innovation project. Approach The final stage of the project focused on social networks: putting the 'watch me learn' into myedna, developing an environment where people can quickly and easily find others interested in the same resources and topics. What we did

myedna express my learning journey

This is the second in a series of four blog posts to summarise the first 'proof of concept' innovation project. Approach The second stage of the project created a means by which an educator can create and publish their own custom learning identity for others to view and use via the myedna feed-stitcher. They can thus manage their many digital contributions and resources from websites, forums, lists, LMS, flickr, del.icio.us into a variety of aggregated RSS feeds. What we did

Vision

Watch me learn: discover, express and share my learning journey

Objectives

  • I can discover useful things using myedna. I can create my own learning identity
  • myedna helps me make sense of an online educator's life myedna comes to me and you wherever we're digitally connected
  • My learning journey interconnects with others Others can discover and share in my learning journey

Key Issue

The team sought to show how educators can manage their own learning journey and digital identities in a personalised learning space.

Audience

  • ACE
  • ECE
  • HigherEd
  • Schools
  • VET
  • International
  • Other