Reflection & next Steps
Congratulations, you have now completed the first Unit of this Care-full Scholarship MOOC.
By way of a recap on what you have already covered and achieved (including also with hyper-links should you wish to re-visit any of components again), this has included:
- introductions to some of the original core contributors, and also had the chance to introduce yourself and explore who else is part of the current cohort of this MOOC
- a short presentation on the focus and intention of the course, together also with the Intended Action and Learning Outcomes
- a simple user guide to how this MOOC platform works and its connectivist design
- a note about the importance of building and retaining the CoP as a safe and appreciative space
- an introduction to the transformative pedagogy of Theory U which underpins its design and also to the notion of the Embodied Researcher, both of which we return to at various points throughout this MOOC
- a brief description of the RECOMS project from which it has grown and with which Jingjing and a number of the other contributors you will meet in later Units are affiliated
- and, we have introduced and invited you to comment on our Charter of Aspirations and Invitations
Alongside, we have also invited you to:
- contribute to our Wall of Fame and Participant Map
- share your Hopes and Fears in connection with the Care-Full Scholarship subject matter of this course
- reflect on your own pathway to date, as well as that of others, as part of a Timeline of Change
- and, using the metaphor and image of the Embodied Researcher as a reflexive tool, to map your own self-perceived strengths and needs in order to grow as a care-full scholar
We hope that have enjoyed completed these opening exercises and the accompanying lesson content and that you are feeling settled and ready to continue. But also hope that you are feeling alert to your own needs in relation to this care-full scholarship MOOC and inquisitive as to it and your place in this learning community may take you – not just in relation to the Unit and lesson content, but also the social connections that you will hopefully make along the way with other community members.
Later in the next Unit (Unit 2), we will explain the Learning Journal technique which we invite you to use to document, and therefore help to deepen your reflective learning journey as you work your way through this course.
But first, we invite you – when you are ready – to turn the opening Lesson of Unit 2 in which devote our attention to providing an overview to a Feminist Ethics of Care, which acts as the primary theoretical foundation for this course.
