LearnHub

lechuck disagreed:

I’m not sure I get your confusion kaitomono, you may have to explain your issue in more detail.

I’m also a very experienced internet user. I have no trouble discerning between what is a “lesson” and what is a “course”. Nor have I found this is the case with the general LearnHub population. The only other variation of learning on the internet is the “tutorial”. Which is just another word for lesson.

A course is a unit or a package of individual material that guides the learner through the process. It has a specific subject and it’s lead by a instructor. This doesn’t vary between the educational world and the internet world, it’s standard terminology. Our courses follow the exact same guidelines.

On LearnHub a course is a unit of lessons, tests, debates, discussions and is run by an instructor. Students may enroll in variety of ways when the course is ready.

LearnHub offers a variety of “lesson” formats which include pages (or articles), videos, and presentations. All which you can publish privately within a course. You can also publish your lessons publicly outside of a course in a community for anyone to enjoy. Our goal is to have an open platform that allows the creator and student to determine how they want to publish their content to the world. How you use it, or how I use it, or how the next person uses it can vary a great degree.

Does that make more sense to you?

kimrothwell disagreed:

Learning objects are becoming a hot topic – a piece of pedagogical material that can be repackaged and combined with other pieces to build a learning experience for a student. For example, a video explaining how to make an ant farm might be a learning object, while a learning experience (I call them modules usually) can be not just the video, but an introduction, instructions, assessment materials, and the video.

The way I see these concepts applied in LearnHub is the lessons are the individual pedagogical pieces, while the courses are collections of individual pieces (collections of modules). However, I could also see a “lesson” as a module.

But yes – because there is so much information on LearnHub it is hard to focus. I am still working on finding my niche – which is where I find the communities particularly helpful.

gloriaarze-bravo disagreed:

As somebody who is in graduate school and has had extensive internet experience, I could not disagree more. If anything, the access to knowledge and information in a learning community makes it possible for individuals who might not otherwise have the opportunity to access shared knowledge from all colours in the spectrum (be it extremely practical, applied subjects or highly theoretical quests for philosophical answers).

The way I see it, to get reliable information on the internet, you have to know what you are looking for, or at least develop a sense of discernment for what is valuable and relevant to your needs. A learning community is what members make of it (diverse and rich, I would hope), but your experience will be most rewarding if you have a starting point on what you seek. The Age of Information requires a certain level of engagement on the part of the education seeker, no matter what the background.

kaitomono disagreed:

While I do agree on your comments, I don’t think we are addressing the same issue. My comments were directed to confusion on the setting up of courses, lessons, tutorials which to me seem very similar but disjointed here.

Rather, I think it would be more intuitive to have them set up, as Kim suggested, like what most people think of as ‘modules’ so that you start a course, you devise tutorials, which lead to the lessons and then on to assignments, discussions and feedback in one tidy package.

It is not the community aspect I was talking about, it was the way things are set up in that particular way that leads to some confusion when setting up your courses or lessons or whatever.

I don’t think people should be setting up lessons called lessons unless they are offering a course and the lessons are included in that type of setting. If they want to just do one ‘lesson’ maybe it should be only called a tutorial.

lechuck disagreed with:

How to: Pro Editor for how to create HTML lessons.

kaitomono disagreed:

Thanks Chuck, I’ve already read that several times, my account is set up to do the html version but I am not getting that version when I try to create a lesson. I keep getting the quick editor and my html is showing up on the page, I must be doing something wrong so will try again.