Nearing the end

Well I have learned a lot from this course so far.
A lot of educational theory.
Before doing this course I had seen lots of examples of attempts to produce student centered learning. While these always seemed to resonate as logical and useful, I really never had a clearly defined learning paradigm to explain them. That I guess is one of the main things that this course has given me (FET5601).
I have often found the actual work of reading, note taking, analysing, associating, and then synthesising new understanding into a comprehensible project/assignment to be a challenge. Even overwhelming at times. This has certainly got me focused and kept me away from hobbies and pastimes. But I would say that it is worth it.

One really beneficial thing that has come out of all this recently have been discussions with my colleagues here are work. I was really impressed with Paul McLeod in his understanding of this material. He had a brief look and one of my assignments and pointed out that I had spelled one of the author's names wrong. Now Paul is a DEd. student so I guess he has done a good deal of reading around the topic of learning design etc. But he actual knows the authors by name and more or less has a handle on their positions on various learning paradigms etc. I thought that was quite impressive. This was also a nice motivation to me. It made me realize that with time these things will no doubt become quite second nature to me. If I keep up the studies.

I am just about to hand in my final project for FET5601. This time I made sure to have a good look at the rubric before passing it in. That is something that I learned from a previous assignment.