Reflection is considered a crucial philosophical activity which enables an individual to consider an experience, analyse and appraise it, and prepare for future actions based on the insight gained by this new perception.

I judge I will gain a deeper awareness in my learning practice as I work through each module of the Masters in Applied eLearning.

I believe achieving course aims and objectives will help me develop the required knowledge and skills to become an eLearning practitioner.

Gibbs model of reflection maps out this process, by providing a structure it allows reflections to develop a cycle based on, description, thoughts and feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and future action.

Final Reflection, safaashaaban.wordpress.com,

"the reflective cycle" (Gibbs 1988)

Anfuso, J. (2014). "Reflexive and Reflective Learning" PowToon.

This video examines how reflective practice can be used to critically examine teaching methods. Explaining that teaching methods may reflect a teacher’s attitudes and assumptions, good reflective practice will seek to continually question attitudes and assumptions, ensuring they are not hindering good practice. Reflective practice justifies the inclusion of student feedback in resource development.

Leamon, J. (2011). "Reflective Practice and Reflection".

A light hearted introduction to reflective practice, two novice students of reflective practice discuss what it maybe about and what they would like from it, namely for a practical structure providing useful lists, prompts and structure, so they can work out what they need to learn next and not theory driven content, and deliberate that keeping a journal will help the learning and development of your practice.

Atherton, J. Hadfield, P.(2010). "Reflection on Reflection". University of Lincoln.

Using a variety of media in my reflective blog, such as video, images, text, mindmaps, and animation to represent the objectivities of reflective practice.

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Resource Development

Posted by Mark Maguire on Monday, August 31, 2015, In : Resource: research, design, development & methods

The process of creating an eLearning resource, can look relatively straightforward at the planning stages, my experience is that programs and the their limitations, such as the 30 day trail period for using Articulate, can have big effects on the flow of resource development, the developer often has to use multiple platforms, streamlining these platforms to work together sharing files in different formats causes further complications. It certainly had the effect of slowing down my rate progre...
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eResource Design and Development

Posted by Mark Maguire on Monday, August 31, 2015, In : Resource: research, design, development & methods

The applied project and journal paper, should showcase a summation of the knowledge gained throughout the course, I enjoyed the construction and design phase of the elearning resource, applying software applications to produce a polished functional learning resource. The area that challenged me the most, was getting the correct type of apps for the resource, and embedding them, so that they would open seamlessly across multiple platforms, much back and forth effort was required, to eventually...
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Creating a website on Yola: June 2015

Posted by Mark Maguire on Tuesday, July 7, 2015, In : Resource: research, design, development & methods

Had some issues publishing the resource to a Yola website and getting the apps to open, after much correspondence and numerous attempts, created a website: http://markmaguire.yolasite.com/ Everything opens, the apps open from Learning bus.com and link to my dropbox site.

Hi Roisin,

Hope your keeping well,
I am having a lot of difficulty putting my eResource and WIP presentation ( both are made in Articulate) on Yola, I know it’s possible to do it because th...

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