PLE Online Courses

Week 1: Cognition

This week provides an overview of issues related to cognition.

Presentations & Papers:

Monday 31st May: You will find resources related to 'Cognition' in the resources area and on the 1st of June the Daily newsletter in your inbox with details about how the course works .

Wednesday June 2th: OpenMeetings session with Stephen and Rita

11AM Atlantic Daylight Time (3PM London time).

You will find the link to OpenMeetings here and a user guide to OpenMeetings as well. We advise you to have a look at it a little in advance of the first session to familiarize yourself with it and to logon.

If you're not sure how your timezone compares to the one in Moncton where we are based, here is a link to to a Time Zone converter

Friday June 4th: Session with Grainne Conole and a roundup of the week by Stephen and Rita on OpenMeetings.

1PM Atlantic Daylight Time (5PM London time)

Readings

http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog/yes-50-scientifically-proven-ways-to-be-persuasive how to be persuasive

http://assets.cambridge.org/052100/9847/sample/0521009847ws.pdf critical thinking

http://files.harpercollins.com/OMM/StudentFREAKONOMICS.pdf studentguide to Freakonomics: rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything

http://science.howstuffworks.com/scientific-peer-review.htm How scientific peer review works

http://www.criticalthinking.org/articles/index.cfm The critical thinking community

Activities:

1. If you don't have a blog, you could try setting one up, eg. by using Blogger, which is simple to use.
   
2. Post comments and reflections on week 1 readings on your blog. Participate in discussions in the Moodle forum. Provide comments to blog posts of other course participants.