After a few months off to attend to family, I am excited to be back and learning again. Week 1, for me, is off to a delayed start because during the first week I was out of the country. I was invited to present at an international conference in Lyon, France and spent Week 1 of our course “across the pond.”
As I dive into the course expectations, I am excited to see that Netflix was added as a required course resource. There is so much educational content produced within a variety of platforms, that it is refreshing to see that the course modality is utilizing various resources. Education does not have to be boring, and so I look forward to discovering the new Netflix content that will be relevant to this course.
In the Week 1 Activity Video, the simplicity of the short explanation and the basics of the block visualizations set a robust example of what Systems can incorporate. The example of the elephant explains the common silos found within the higher education setting. Understanding the silos and learning how to break those down will help with the future implementation of technologies. It is important to understand the bigger picture, and all of the stakeholders must communicate; without this, the bigger picture is often misunderstood and resources are wasted on a problem we do not fully understand.
I look forward to learning more.
