Emotions are to be sublimated. YouTube often gets more at the learning aspect for me as I tend to go there when I want to do something (fix a dish washer, repair a garage door, make a slingshot) rather than Wikipedia where I tend to look up a fact (Where senators went to college, casualty numbers of various wars). And also, what of the lessons of these courses if they have a key person dependency? He is also known as ‘apathetic’ or ‘indifferent type.’. Lots for me to think about. It ensures the impulses of Id are … Something that hasn’t come up here, that’s increasingly warping the way higher education institutions talk about themselves: brand personality. Character includes our sentiments and habits in the widest sense of the term. That sounds like education to me! […], […] The Role of Personality in Education – Martin Weller calls out the elephant of personality in the room in regards to Massively Open Online Courses. While they look … They include: Sorry about length, manner of comment. […], Your email address will not be published. Here they are, in a nutshell. I think at this end is the stuff that makes us want to see live music because it’s, you know, the actual person right there in the room. One course that highlighted gender issues and shared the limelight was #DOCC13, a Distributed Open Collaborative Course on “Dialogues on Feminism and Technology” (http://goo.gl/TLOzB8). While the course materials we produce are written in an accessible manner, they are not imbued with one person’s personality. Also see their white paper (http://goo.gl/zOvntg). I was saying in the rhizo Facebook group where i found this link that i thought charisma was gendered. Thanks for this post, it’s joined some dots for me in a really helpful way. It is a result of social- interaction. Excellent course, but Arthur Marwick had clearly been a strong influence on a lots of the choice of what to cover, and how it was presented. There are several different self-report inventories that have been developed to measure the Big Five traits, most with 50 or more questions. They are the emotions, the intellect, and the will. Indeed in most later 106s he’s not actually been involved! I accept that many other people came to the fore, Alan being the obvious case. All types of education and all agencies of education have to carry out the function of cultural transmission in an earnest way by teaching the elements of culture like literature, history, art, philosophy, etc. How could a module with a title like that be engaging or exciting? 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Ancient Taoists reduced the universe to 5 basic elements which could be used to describe the character of everything from the organs in the body to landscapes to times of year.Each person has all 5 elements in their personality.However, most of us have a dominant element. It is true that there can be a relationship between physical development and certain personal attitudes, especially in the case of deviates. They also determine whether a person will be liked in the society or will be treated as a nuisance. Any large course (like at the OU and MOOCs) isn’t ‘taught’ by one person but rather the learning hopefully occurs within a social setting. Repressed emotions give us complexes which further lead to disintegrated or maladjusted personality. MOOCs with multiple facilitators) – does the collaboration itself take on a personality different from the sum of facilitators’ personalities? Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that studies personality and its variation among individuals. Ha, you’re quite right Mark, and in one draft I did mention humour. Great post Martin, thanks to you and everyone else for their contributions. TOS4. Hi David, I’ve written a response to this post at musicfordeckchairs.com because I’m still unentangling the gender question in my own mind. Personality can also be described as an individual's hidden feelings about the external world. This is true to an extent, but less so when you adopt a deliberate policy of writing from a collaborative perspective and specifically looking for cultural bias (this is always one of the aspects of peer review that we ask people to comment upon). Our vast Universe and all that it contains is built from four fundamental building blocks of existence. Hi bosses, you know about me already. Someone like me is seen as lovable/obnoxious by diff ppl but since i am just one facilitator in some of those spaces, they could easily ignore me or engage with me at will. I would argue that the OU, a Check box or a full stop have “personalities”. That may or may not be an aspect of your point. […] a return to the good ol’ days of educational blogging, Martin Weller wrote a blog post that has generated 49 comments as of this writing (which comes about 72 hours after he posted). Can I share the link to Lesley Gourlay’s recent paper while I think about it: http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/index.php/rlt/article/view/21438 These elements generally stated are: –, Image source; whatables.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/personality-feature-image.jpg. Look at other great courses like #ccourses #clmooc #edcmooc #moocmooc – rather than REMOVING personality, you distribute personality among multiple facilitators. I am in Italy right now… I’ve been promising to learn Italian all year… Did I? This is just my feeling and not based on research. I’m in the process of thinking about the last 20 years in higher ed tech (it’s 20 years this week since I set up my first web server). Maybe this is less exhausting to the people who’ve been involved for several iterations. I am sorry you say u were excommunicated (woah, really?) I wouldn’t disagree with any of those myths Frances. In some research, I am currently doing with others, we are finding some interesting side effects of ‘binary thinking’, that the social setting for learning can become a veritable forest of unnoticed binaries. Jim’s personality is much more prevalent in his blog space, his Twitter feed & his webinars. Being a deviate lessens the feeling of confidence and personal worth. I would celebrate that but not attempt to scale based on it. But like you I get stuck too. So some factors which are essential to this development process are given below: * Ideological bases. Whilst I agree that DS106 does perhaps contain some personality traits of the originator I wonder whether this is being confused with Jim’s online presence across the web? PublishYourArticles.net is home of thousands of articles published by users like YOU. Intelligence is an inborn capacity to perceive the right thing, at the right place, at the right moment. Content Guidelines 2. This doesn’t mean that our interests should dominate the class; we can just better lead students in their learning and skillfully start conversations before merging into the background. I’m interested specifically in the ironising of gender in academic personality compared to, say, leadership profiling of corporate CEOs. It appears to me that we like to imagine that we are talking about the same concepts when using ‘the same language’. Privacy Policy3. Is it possible that we are just exchanging the ‘personality’ of OU for the personality of Jim Groom? Freud’s Stages of Psychosexual Development. Personality seems to be a continuum in interpretive terms. So for example, innovative open learning spaces that are striving (inclusively) to include the voices of all ‘selves’ may be inauspicious to the inner landscapes of reflection, conversations with our thoughts. Or maybe i am stereotyping science based on my undergrad experience). I blame Martin for what started as a […], […] past week has brought conversation and debate prompted from a single blog post about The role of personality in education. Temperament is partly physical and partly mental. Although one academic may write them, they go through multiple reviews, and editing. So the post that responds to yours, Martin, is at musicfordeckchairs.com. It is the general mental adaptability to new problems and conditions of life. There is that serendipitous trail in wikipedia that I love. I’m just sharing my pondering here, not making a call one way or the other. Frances, I think you have something there. I think about that quite a bit. Hi Leigh – I am not sure how you propose to remove the negative connotations of cult and celebrity? And from there my thinking got to Shrek! I couldn’t find a term for the USA and Canada. I need a term that captures US and Canada…. Intelligence. Does making every academic use twitter, or make it seem they have to use twitter work? Interestingly, and I hadn’t really thought about this, but the portions of DS106 I liked the most were the ones most divorced from the traditional idea of course- the things most like learning in the wild. That may be overly mapping my own use of the two though. Jonathan D. Becker, J.D., Ph.D. – Personality, personalization, and teaching in higher ed. The Balance - The Elements of Personality and Their Equilibrium Mike was special among the specials. An emotion is thus noting but an intense and violent feeling. Meaning of Value-Education 2. https://news.ncsu.edu/2014/12/macnell-gender-2014/ An interesting read if not for the debate the follows in the comments. But that’s just me, now, at this phase of my life. Education helps the improvement of the characteristics of an individual, for example, his physical, mental and enthusiastic make-up just as his demeanor and character what is called character. In Australia we are under increasing pressure to depersonalise curriculum so that anyone can teach it. * Sincerity in intentions and actions. It’s midnight. Understand the core elements … All that we depend on each person at a particular time. M882 Managing the Software Enterprise. Similar to Wikipedia is Youtube, where the platform as a whole becomes a very valuable learning space, made up of the contributions of the many, and left to the myriad ways any one person uses it. Course units are often attributed to the “The Module Team”, or “written by X on behalf of the Module Team”. (don’t answer that). And yes, the objectivity in materials is a myth. the myth of ‘innovation’ There are certain personality traits that help teachers and students succeed. In some ways I wanted to highlight the issue of making personality central if it reinforces some of them. Perhaps I’ve changed and pushed myself (with prodding from others) to be more active, more visible and louder than I was before (not possible I think) and have developed a thick pair of rose coloured glasses. I have also conducted research into ‘good, inspirational teaching’. I did this post and then about twenty different aspects arose from comments. And what of those who take the course after this person goes? Personality and authenticity, I think, are closely related to this ontological idea of learning. Indeed it is all about that, which is exactly why it’s fun. I also suspect this is may be about machismo and loud, dominant personalities. Now i have lost my train of thought. He was an ant-hill in the glass jar. - High expectations for every student are reflected in curriculum content, though instructional strategies may vary. I’m not stopping there so perhaps I won’t be fired soon. While they both left UMW, they’re now working with lots of universities. I think what makes this hard to define is that a chunk of Jim’s personality is being open and rolling with other people’s ideas. Dave Cormier and rhizo are exceptions. Many thanks Maha for taking so much time to respond. They make us feel alive, connected, accepted, and human. What do u think so far? It enables easy adjustment even under difficult circumstances and thus helps in building up personality. I think having academic freedom and personality in class (presence?) If you enact your discipline you come to learn stuff. I know i went from a twenty-something teaching grad students my age and older to a thirty-something teaching undergraduates and it made me both delighted but also made me feel older in some ways, younger in others. the myth of the lone creator He was devoid of any etiquette. Will see Pat’s link now. I do think about whether what Jim and Tim are doing now is moving away from the institution as much as I initially thought. Big names can run cMOOCs, can little names? Most interesting to see this topic arising again. Information in our minds is organized in networks, called schemas. What a rich discussion to re-read more closely. I don’t even think your comment here does that But you make some excellent points. As personality is the combination of emotional, attitudinal and behavioral reactions of the individuals. The idea is that this is an objective view, created through collaboration to distill clear teaching material. I think what you feel as the reaction people have to you is also the reaction people have to many of these very collaborative, alternative MOOCs – ie they either really like them or hate them. It’s a common mistake to ascribe ds106 to Jim’s personality. But happy to reflect upon it in a bumbling, incoherent fashion. There are several factors that contribute to our personality. Granted, I only really participated in the early days. Jonathan Worth explains that Phonar and Phonar Nation are about “enabling people to participate in their own representation . Nevertheless, some of the more successful MOOCs in terms of numbers have a clearly identifiable author/designer or, in the case of connectivist MOOCs, a charismatic leader. I mean, who wouldn’t want my personality stamped all over their units on Artificial Intelligence, right? for what surely couldn’t have been THAT offensive a viewpoint? My concern was about inclusivity in open learning environments – will we continue to exclude some (learners and teachers) and, if so, what did this say about the future of innovative open spaces. I’ve since been most interested in the idea of ‘Wikipedia as MOOC’, akin to ‘ the Internet is the platform’. If I turn my notes into plain text I still get Courier. It is not a criticism of the men I have mentioned (and others who come to mind easily) but I wonder if some of this plays to male characteristics. I’m just not sure that the best answer is to restore what is at heart a romantic ideal of the academic persona. Identity becoming professional identity is a key dimension for any learner.content and knowledge are relatively cheap and accessible. I don’t want to call it personality driven, maybe personality enabled, but there’s something major in how all this plays out that reflects the individual (individuals sometimes- but that’s much harder, like a group blog with personality) who make it happen. * Fortitude. In some contexts I do mean personality, in others identity, in others network, etc. What is more important are the interactions, this is where the personality is fundamental in making connections between learners & teachers. I was also wondering about collaboration where no one personality is foregrounded (e.g. This has an element of personality and a risk of reinforcing biases. The course then went on to run without him. Really . I do agree that the personality of the players matters a great deal. There’s lots to say about this, but I see this as a space where multiple options are available. Is gender playing a role here? What assumptions are we all making—and reinforcing—about personality in this exchange? I think you’ve raised a lot of stuff for me to think about. (OMG he’s a genius, what’s for dinner, I’ll have chips, I feel important studying with OU. There is even talk of actual rock stars (or film stars anyway) presenting MOOCs. Some ppl have stronger personality and presence (Howard Rheingold, alan Levine, Mia Zamora, Jesse Stommel) and become more strongly associated with a MOOC. Man may be rational animal, but at times he is extremely emotional also. I didn’t mean to belittle anyone else’s contribution to DS106. Most of the people here have their own blogs, or are part of the KILL THE LMS Bastille capturing mob (as opposed to my Defargist Knitting pacificism). The trouble with making them based around a personality is that this can be a barrier to accessing the content, if you don’t respond well to that particular personality (but the opposite is also true, it can be a boost if you do like that person). When it was raised it a few years ago, I was blunt and dramatic about it, causing serious offence and my own excommunication from the North American open education network. If we think about animated films: they are produced by a team. I’m thinking a bit about this too, in relation to academic charisma (specifically, at the moment, as this is a factor in face to face lecturing). Throw in social media, and then the personality is amplified (akin to event amplification) to another level. A person who is very small, very tall, too fat or too thin is a deviate. Metal: Righteous and go by the book, straightforward. Does it need to? Disclaimer Copyright. I am not sure if we could say it was the personality of the authors shining through, because I am still not completely sure of who in the module team wrote which bits, but it was written really well, in a way that was engaging and made you think. It doesn’t erase their personality but makes their personality conducive to other people finding/doing what works for them, rather than being directed by the facilitators. And the bland “run a script for learning” idea sounds appalling. Which one speaks to you? No offense taken on my end. He loved food, attention and sex, and would make no sophisticated plans to meet his needs. And I have other science friends! You could imagine taking an OU academic out of any particular OU course and the resulting course might not be too different. That power play still exists in fed wiki, because there is limited benefit in having my own version if it’s not read by any/many. Is it, per say, personality, or presence? I am not completely sure those happenings completely eclipse personality, tho of course focusing on collaboratively developed content about a subject is different from writing a personal blog. Martin Weller’s blog on open education, digital scholarship & over-stretched metaphors. 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