Seeing Through New Eyes

I am so grateful for wonderful colleagues. As I watch daily the interactions and relationships among the amazing people I work with, I am amazed at my opportunity to be working with them. I am fortunate to be mentored by a group of people who are willing to support me along my journey. I hope I will be able to work with them for years to come. And I am looking forward to the laughs, hard work, and interactions.

The last couple of years I have signed up for and started a couple of open and online courses. Today these courses are called MOOCs, but I have found as a working professional who is finished with school that it is extremely difficult to prioritize my time so I can complete one of these free courses. Currently I am taking a course by Lloyd Rieber on basic statistics. It is a fairly short course (only 4 weeks) and on a subject that is always good to remember the basics. Now that we are starting week two, I am a little behind, but the videos are short and informative and the work we are doing (since I am already familiar with it) is fairly easy to complete. I am signed up for several more MOOCs in Coursera that begin in a few months and I hope I can devote the necessary time to completing them too. I have found that whenever articles cross my desk (or email) about MOOCs that I am drawn to reading them. As the newest shiny coin in educational technology, I find MOOCs fascinating, but am...