Ton points to this free course on Action Research
I’ve looked at the course notes and they’re very impressive. Reading What is Action Research? I realised that an awful lot of what I do in my work loosely follows this model – no two projects are quite alike. Inevitably in a work environment, the focus is always on the “action” part of the cycle – not for the first time I’m thinking that more emphasis on reflection would be useful…
So what might I like to get from studying this course?
* A theoretical model to put a context around my project-based learning at work
* Practical tools to help me build in reflective thinking
* An opportunity to see if I can focus on a topic long enough for anything more than a shallow understanding (!)
* An opportunity to practice existing skills
Although mindful of Lilia‘s warning about the time involved I have emailed asking to sign up for the full (and still free!) email version of the course in February.
Update: I have set up some wiki pages for my course notes.
January 1st, 2004 at 08:45
Hi Julian,
We might take this course together in February? I see overlap in what you want to achieve with this course, certainly the last two points. Maybe we can strengthen our efforts by doing this together. And feed back our results into the Actionable Sense group?
January 1st, 2004 at 21:08
Sounds a good idea to me!
January 6th, 2004 at 14:57
Action Research
In the last months I’ve come across the term Action Research several times. It’s something that Dave Snowden of Cynefin put at the center of their activities, and I know Angela Nobre of the Quarere SIG at KnowledgeBoard is passionate…
February 9th, 2004 at 23:25
Reflection 2
Adding a loop to the learning cycle