{"id":1309,"date":"2013-12-11T16:55:43","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T16:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/multidisciplinary\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2013-12-11T16:55:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T16:55:43","slug":"reflecting-web-science-mooc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/multidisciplinary\/2013\/12\/11\/reflecting-web-science-mooc\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on the Web Science MOOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of excitement recently about the University\u2019s first MOOC (massive open online course) in Web Science, run in partnership with Future Learn. I signed up to the MOOC several months ago, when it was first announced, and I was working in the Student Recruitment and Outreach Team. The use of MOOCs to promote Higher Education, and Higher Education Institutions to prospective students is an interesting idea, and I was determined to have first-hand experience of this type of course when promoting it to students. Since then, I have moved roles within the University and now find myself looking after a number of University Strategic Research Groups, including the Digital Economy group (which has close links to the Web Science MOOC).<\/p>\n<p>I have found the MOOC to be interesting and informative, but have probably not been the most dedicated student on the course. I\u2019m not sure that matters, however, as I have still taken quite a bit of new information away from the experience. There is a small group of us within the team who are currently enrolled on the MOOC, and we have enjoyed quite a few discussions about the various topics over the past few weeks. I have even seen how some of the topics have informed people\u2019s working \u2013 after week 2 quite a few network diagrams appeared around the office.<\/p>\n<p>The latest instalment of the Web Science MOOC focuses on the Digital Economy and so is closely related to my daily duties. Even so, I have found the material to be interesting, engaging, informative, and above all thought-provoking. Lisa Harris describes the use of social media to build a professional profile. This is something I\u2019ve never really done before, as I\u2019ve moved around the University using contacts that I\u2019ve made over the years, with changes in role that suit my changing skillset. I hadn\u2019t really considered the idea that a complete absence of information would be a bad thing, and have spent quite a lot of time locking down information that appears on my own social profiles (and cringing at the types of updates my parents put on Facebook). A quick play with some of the tools provided on the course (mainly <a href=\"http:\/\/socialmention.com\/\">http:\/\/socialmention.com<\/a>) proves that there is very little information about me (from social media) in the public domain. Information does get returned though, and interestingly it\u2019s information about other people. I\u2019m fortunate to have an unusual name, so we don\u2019t share names but I still found some of the returned information to be quite alarming. So there is a lesson for me: I can\u2019t stop information being associated with my name, but I can influence what kind of information comes back by putting more of my own details out there.<\/p>\n<p>My journey through the MOOC so far has been really interesting. I\u2019ve thought about several things that I hadn\u2019t considered before. 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