Category: MOOC Courses

Introduction to Personal Branding

As an overall idea, the MOOC has helped me to visualize my future personal brand. It has given me ideas to understand different topics and some tools for improving my PLE so I can achieve that personal brand.

I found the part of defining my mission statement and choosing my three cornerstone words quite interesting. To look introspectively in order to define better your personal brand is essential and it helped me a lot. Besides, thinking about my “board of directors” gave me an idea about who I wanted to have next to me.

Very related with the development of the PLE, specially with how to inform about the content I can create, was the part of social networks. This helped me to visualize that part of the PLE and how I could manage it, focusing on possible maintenance plans for my brand. Also, if paying for digital tools was worthy or not. In this way, I can improve my LinkedIn page, for instance.

Apart of that, it gave me an overview about the reputation management and how to manage the online identity. It made me aware of the importance of digital privacy, because I had not thought about it before.

At the end of the MOOC, I had clear which tools and apps I could use for boosting my personal brand at this moment. In line with my objectives of the DI plan, which are finding an internship and learning more about Circular Economy, I have added some new tools to my PLE like Coursera. Being a basic course, it contains some parts that are very useful.

Circular Economy: An Introduction

This MOOC is very complete, and I have enjoyed it a lot since it reviews all the general ideas that we have been studying in the Master. I like how they explain little by little the butterfly diagram, which has made me better understand it.

Bringing all these experts of different fields gives you an idea of how broad is the Circular Economy and all the efforts that many players are carrying out. I have found very appealing the Remanufacturing part, with all the business values it brings and the challenges that are introduced between original products vs. remanufactured ones.

In regards of my PLE, I am sure I will start using EDX for more courses like this and thanks to all the additional content that they give, I can start diving on papers, webs and video platforms.

Introduction to Personal Branding

University of virgina

Personal branding is the virtual technique of grasping public attention. An individual intends to prove that they are credible in their field. In this course, I have learned how significant it is to know yourself before creating your personal brand. I learned how to be authentic and express your core values.

The Myers-Briggs Test was also very interesting:

“The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator is an introspective self-report questionnaire indicating differing psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions. The test attempts to assign four categories: introversion or extraversion, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, judging or perceiving.”

During this course I had to develop my Mission Statement which is:

Another topic was Reputation Management:
– We use search engines to know about people or other entities all the time.
– We want to see the reviews of restaurants, doctors, teachers and products, etc.

And that is why Reputation Management is important, and the course showed how to monitor it. I also learned about a trick on google that let’s you know if someone searched your name or email or any data you add. And it also alerts you when it happens.

Finally, Digital Privacy:
Barker pointed how we lack privacy on the internet and that you should take care of every tweet, post, publication, etc and put in mind that your “worst enemy” can see it. She also stated than when you agree to use free wi-fi you give consent to the provider to lurk into your internet activity and personal data.

Circular Economy: An Introduction

Delft University of Technology

The MOOC of circular economy made me realise that I can be: an industrial ecologist, an economist, a designer, or an entrepreneur. It was incredibly interesting to understand the potential of such an economy. After this MOOC, I can say that I am way more confident about choosing this field.

I feel very motivated and I already had ideas waiting for execution, so they can come to reality. The MOOC gave me many insights on how to relate all of my ideas together, and precisely where to start. It was very enlightening and I learned A LOT!!

The following images are proof of completion of the assigned MOOC courses.

1. Personal branding

Note: This course is short and helpful. The videos can be sped up to be more time-efficient.

2. Introduction to Circular Economy

Note: Due to unsolved technical issues of the edX websites, some completed content of the course were not recorded accordingly.

On the other hand, some new concepts and economic models and examples have been acquired.

During the subject of Training for Professional Digital Competence, I was following two MOOCs which were presented by the University of Virginia about “Personal Branding” and by TU Delft about “Circular Economy: An Introduction”. Here I’m going to tell you a brief explanation of my experience from these courses.
Personal Branding: This course teaches us how we can create our own brand on the internet by using different applications and the reason for the importance of enhancing our knowledge about personal branding. It has helped me to know some significant details that affect digital identity and the ways for improving our brand which can vary depends on our objectives as we have learned and discussed it during the sessions of class. I understood that just creating a brand is not all, but also how it should be maintained by our treatments and try as far as we can to make positive impressions. According to my objective which is finding a proper job and internship and also improving my knowledge about the circular economy, I learned how I can update and improve my CV in LinkedIn as my PLE and also I got familiar with Coursera as another my new PLE which can be used to participate in many related courses to CE.
Circular Economy – An Introduction: One of the most interesting online courses that I have participated in was the Edx course. It explained why a circular economy is needed and we have to imply it in all aspects of our lives especially the businesses. Probably, the reason that why I have been really fond of this Mooc is because it was related to this master and I had known enough subjects for the introduction of CE and this courses added another spectacular knowledge which somehow completed my previous information. Introducing the types of business model, business values creation, butterfly diagram analysis, biomimicry, and a lot of details for the circular economy. The thing that I really admire about this course and made it most useful for me, was that explaining the theories by a wide range of real example in industry and markets that made the lessons more understandable. Concerning my PLE, I have known and experience one of the sources of online courses in the circular economy and during this course, I found many interesting videos on YouTube and papers from other pages.

INTRODUCTION TO PERSONAL BRANDING – University of Virginia

In this MOOC, I found very useful the introduction of concepts that I personally have never reflect about such as reputation, schedules and different types of social media, but the most useful thing for me was the personal work to do to define a personal brand. I found out that first it is important to know yourself, your personality, what statement of life you have, what people inspire you personally, to be able to know which is the best version of yourself that you want to be and the feeling you want to transmit to other people.

In consequence, this MOOC has helped me to know myself better than before. On the Internet I used to act by intuition, not really reflecting on the image I was giving, but knowing that what you publish on Internet, will be there forever. It taught me how to differentiate from others, which are the mean qualities that make me unique and how to be authentic online too. This was also possible thanks to the Myers Briggs personality test, which helped me understand how I am and how to apply it to my digital identity

I have improved my PLE, adding applications such as Coursera and Twitter.

CIRCULAR ECONOMY: AN INTRODUCTION – Delft University of Technology

I find this MOOC very interesting and complete. For me, the most useful part has been all the experiences and interviews with experts about different fields of the circular economy concept. I really made me reflect on all the aspects that are part of the circular economy, including all the stakeholders. It was very motivating also to see the attitude of all these experts working hard to achieve the transformation of the actual system.

As well, the assignments are very interesting due to the fact that they made the participant analyze different problems and be creative to find solutions and answers to those problems. For me, one of the most interesting questions that they analyze is the manufacturer responsibility in the end of use of a product and the conflict between the original manufacturer and the remanufacturer of a product.

I have improved my PLE by adding the application of EDX, but also discovering new platforms of information such as the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the webs of many other companies I did not know before, based on this model of economy.