Dear all,

We are currently working towards the start of the next course round, starting on November 7th.

We will be updating and improving this course website over the next 4 weeks, based upon the the feedback we have been receiving from all of you!

The times of the modules are scheduled as follows:
• How this course works - 07.11 to 08.11
• 1: Tools for collaboration 10h / 3 weeks - 07.11 to 25.11
• 5A1: What is the question? 30h / 3 weeks - 14.11 to 02.12
• 5P1: Enterprise functions 25h / 3 weeks - 14.11 to 02.12
• 4: Personal skills 20h / 2 weeks - .05.12 to 16.12
• 3 weeks break - clean start
• How this course works - 09.11 to 10.01
• 3: Project management 10h / 3 weeks - 09.01 to 27.01
• 5A2: Data Analysis 30h / 3 weeks - 09.01 to 27.01
• 2: Searching for information 10h / 3 weeks - 30.01 to 17.02
• 5P2: Project management II 15h / 2 weeks - 30.01 to 17.02
• 6: The ethical organisation 10h / 1 week - 20.02 to 24.02
• 5P3: Change management 20h / 2 weeks - 20.02 to 02.03
• Final Presentations & Wrap up – 27.02 to 02.03

Looking forward to seeing you at this new course round and make sure to check the timetable to learn about the times of chats or last minute changes!!!

All the best,
Andreas

Hi Andreas,
just to confirm... I am supposed to start in this round nov 7th, right?
Regards,
Ana Salles

Hello Ana,

Yes - that is correct!

Com os melhores cumprimentos
Andreas

Hi Andreas,

Can I be a part of this course again?

Kula

Hello Kula,

Hope you are doing well!

Off course, you are more then welcome to be a part of this course!

Cheers,
Andreas

Dear Andreas,
Good day!
I had taken up the couse in previous session and completed all modules. This time I would like to provide the services of Facilitator/Moderator of the course. May I join as Facilitator/Moderator of the course this time? If yes, what I need to do--kindly advice me.
With warm regards,
Pray

Dear Pray,

Equally a good day to yo!

You are very welcome to join the course team and to provide facilitation and moderation services!

To be frank: this type of Open Course is also new to us! We do have some ideas on how such global open course might work out, and we tried hard to put a good infrastructure in place - but ultimately we all need to learn together how this can be working out "by doing it".

To answer more precisely your question: You are free to decide if you want to offer facilitation and moderation services "for free", or "against fees", or both.

If you want to provide facilitation and moderation services "for free", you could co-moderate or organize IRC chats (every user of this course page can place announcements at the timetable - this is not limited to the current course team). In addition to this we also welcome any help on overseeing the forum posts and to guide learners.

If you want to provide facilitation and moderation services "for fee", you can actively promote them through the "Additional Services Directory". Having said this, you equally can promote facilitation and moderation services "for free"through this "Additional Services Directory".

Also, we have been putting some guides in place within the box at the left hand side named "Partnering Opportunities". As initially said, ultimately we all need to learn together how this can be working out "by doing it" - and therefore we highly welcome any suggestions and support to improve the guides, structures, processes and day-to-day practices!!!

Further, be also welcome to introduce yourself to the other facilitators/moderators within the forum board called "educators hub" - this would help facilitators/moderators to connect to each other

And finally - please do not hesitate to "ask" if things just not make sense to you - very likely you would be right in such case as often the devil is in the detail.

All the best & a nice weekend,
Andreas

Dear Andreas,
Good day!
Thank you prompt response. I would be happy to provide moderation and facilitation services "for free" and I am ready to co-moderate and help on overseeing the forum posts and to guide learners.
As suggested, I will introduce myself to the other moderators/facilitators within "educators hub".
With warm regards,
Sincerely,
Pray

Dear Andreas,

I am so excited and can't wait to start this program.

The modules are full of wonderful packages and feel it will take me places.

Regards.

Michael

Dear Michael,

Welcome to the course and I sincerely hope you will take something away for you!!!

All the best,
Andreas

Hello,
I have registered with the OpenED platform quite a few months back and have been waiting for the next course start. As I returned, found that the next course will start from 7th November. But the platform is confusing me how to step by step register courses for myself and proceed, is there anyone who have already done some modules and therefore lead me in the right direction step by step? Any help will be appreciated, Thank You.

Hi Afzal1989. Thank you for registering with the openED course. When you register, you will have been asked which modules you'd like to study. The Course Modules link towards the top-left of your screen will give you a summary of each module. You can login at any point and update your profile should you want to express an interest in different modules.

If you are new to open online distance learning, I suggest you read through Module 0: An introduction to how to learning with openED (the links to Modules are in the left navigation menus). This includes advice on how to work through a module.

Perhaps once you have worked through Module 0 you could let me know how useful it was for you?

Hello everyone,
I registered for the upcoming course and just wanted to say "Hi".

Kind regards and looking forward to be collaborating with you over the upcoming weeks / months,
Martin

Thank You SimonC, I will let you know if I face any problem.

Hello martin.rehm, what are the modules you are taking this time? may be we will be able to share each others experience along the way to completing the course, take care.

Hello SimonC, I went through the Module 0 that enabled me to get a grasp of how studying for the course is going to be. As I have decided to register for upcoming courses, I would seek some suggestion about which course is appropriate for me to take for the first time bearing in mind that, I have chosen all the modules to do one by one and I don't want to take too much pressure at a time as I might not be able to give enough time to it. I want to take time and go easy.

Hello Afzal1989,
thanks for your reply.
I also registered for all modules. Time will indeed be an issue, but that is already the first common thing we have established as a group.
Sahring experiences is certainly going to be one of my major goals in following the modules. Looking forward to it.
Kind regards,
Martin

Hello,
I am newly registered in the upcoming Course of 7th November 2011 and I am happy to say hello to every body!For the time being I don't know what to say to which person, this is just to introduce myself to you all. And I appologize if this is not the right way.
Many thanks to Open-ED team and all learners, let us keep in contact to enjoy our Course time.
Regards.

SORO

Hello Soro,

Welcome to the course!
You did all fine and I hope you get to know the other course participants too!

All the best,
Andreas

Hi Andreas,

As a student I registered some modeles and waiting for the coming of the first course.

I will also introduce it to some friends of mine so that more chinese can get involved if you like!!

thank you for your work.

wang meng

Hi wang meng,

A warm welcome to you and off course also to your friends, just bring them along!

All the best,
Andreas

Dear Participants,
Good day!
Let me extent a very warm welcome to you all in this unique learning forum of "openED". You may address your queries and problems related to course materials/understanding subject to me also.
Wish you a very happy and fruitful learning experience.
With regards,
Sincerely,
Pray

Just a quick word to say hello to all of you. Looking forward to begin the course and to share this educational experience with you all.

Dear Friends,

Good Evening,

I am just new , and need your kind support ! I wish to start Module 1.

Many regards,

Munawar Hameed

Hello nestoruriel,

A warm and quick welcome back from this end!!!

All the best,
Andreas

Hello Munawar,

Welcome to the course!

May I recommend that you take a look at the course introduction module “0: An introduction to "How to learn with openED".

If you still have any questions that this course introduction module did not address, then please be welcome to post those questions to the Technical issues and general support board.

If you have questions specifically on the module 1, then please be welcome to post them to the module 1 board.

Finally, there will be a module 1 introduction chat next week. More info on this you can find at the timetable.

Hope this helps!

All the best,
Andreas

Hello, i'm From Venezuela. I really am interested for this course. I have many expectation. See you soon. Thanks!

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Please note: introductions and related pre-course disucssion has now moved to the Meet and Greet Fall 2011 forum thread:

www.open-ed.eu/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=42&func=view&catid=25&id=1160

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I am glad to have this opportunity to be a part of this. I shall be coming into this programme from Nigeria and from a University background. I hope to share my experiences with others. Although I hold postgraduate degrees in technology of education I still think I have a lot to learn and share.

Hello

Just register for all 10 modules, seem like will be a busy few week, hope everything goes well

Regard
Bernard Leong

PS: i just found out that there is a chat Session for 5P2 on 10 november, which on the tabletable above it should be only starts on 9 January, can anyone help Clarify this? Thank Alot.

Hi, Good question. The appearence of the 5P2 session was a mistake on the system.

To clarify: The MODULE 1 session will certinaly take place the evening of the 10th November at [6]pm.

In respect to 5P2. The system problem has been fixed now. The module starts in January and the correct dates for 5P2 chat sessions that will take place during the period will be added to the timetable shortly.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention and apologies for any confusion caused.

hi my friend, you on line , right?

Hello!
I am a new one too,
I come from Madagascar and I live in Paris now.
Greater succes for all of us!
Erika

Hi Nestoruiel Pray,

Greetings,

I wish you get this mail in good health.

Are you using IRC chat ? Please let me know that how to have it on my pc ? And how to use it as well ?

Thanks,

Regards,

Munawar Hameed

Hi everyone!

I'd like trying to finished the modules I couldn't last round...

Shall I register or is it enough to follow the course when those modules begin?

I want to finish modules 5 and 6.

Best regards,
Carina

Hi Carina,

Welcome back to the course!

Within your profile you can set the modules that you are currently taking and just mark 5 and 6, as well as you can update the course round to the latest one - changing all of those information is not mandatory, but aims at allowing your peers to connect to you.

Hope this helps!

Best,
Andreas

Hi Carina, great to have you back, will look forward to catching up at module session at some point. Module 5A1 and 5P1 both start next week.

Thanks Andreas and Simon

Dear All,
Greeting from Vienna. Nice to meet you all.
Let's try for this course well.
Best wishes,
Kaung Myat

Hi and welcome to the course.

This thread is probably the best to use to post your initial message and say hi, however, I've seen a few other recent posts (last 12 hours) by people saying hello. For example:

Umenuel: www.open-ed.eu/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=42&func=view&catid=25&id=1350

Daniel and Denver: www.open-ed.eu/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=42&func=view&catid=25&id=1284#1347

The work load in week 1 of the course is intentionally low (3 hours for Module 1 this week) so I hope you're finding there's enough time to read all these posts and meet others.

Dear Munawar and other participants,
Good day!
To acess the chat room, you may follow either of the following two options (A & :

A. Using IRC Chat with a client (client = software to be installed at your PC)

1. Install an IRC client if you don't have one installed already (for example: Chatzilla for Firefox, pidgin for Windows, konversation or xchat for Linux, or limechat for Mac)
2. Choose a nickname: Choose any name you feel like
3. Connect to freenode. You will need to connect to the following server: irc.freenode.net
4. Join the channel openEd by adding a new channel named: #openEd[/ol]


B. Using IRC Chat over Browser (no software to be installed at your PC)

1. Go to the Freenode Webchat at webchat.freenode.net
2. At the field “nickname” enter any name you feel like
3. At the field “Channel” insert: openEd
4. Fill in the word you read at the Captcha box
5. Hit the connect button

If you still have any problem, please don't hesitate to contact.

With regards,
Sincerely,
Pray

Hi all

I did post an intro in this thread but Chrome managed to lose it last week - I'm Lesley, I'm hoping to follow this course and am interested to see how the open model works out in practice. I've been working for myself for quite some time as an independent consultant and trainer - I was inspired by the writer and business guru Charles Handy to follow a 'portfolio' life. Having been living in South Africa for the last 15 years, we have just relocated back to the UK to live in Milton Keynes - the home of the Open University! Now back 'home' myself I'm planning my next career move and going back into a 'proper job'!!

Looking forward to working together on the course - how is everyone doing with it?

Cheers

Lesley