The Circular Economy MOOC course provided by EdX, summing up the most important parts and approaches in CE was overall a beneficial chapter in our MUEC Master’s curriculum. Luckily, not all notions tackled during this course were new to me, but I appreciated the approach and the structure of the course that was easy to follow and helped to organize my knowledge. The most interesting part of the course was the ‘Thinking in Systems’ chapter, where the importance of demand stabilization and increase of recycling rates were pointed out by the case study of aluminium. I will most certainly add the EdX platform in my PLE as a learning tool and source of information, especially for the purpose of life-long learning experience after the end of my studies.
Edita’s MOOC I: Personal Branding
The Personal Branding MOOC course provided by Coursera, served me as a well-structured guide for defining my personal brand by summing up my aspirations and goals. Starting with the Myers-Briggs personality test followed by understanding of the importance of authenticity while creating my mission statement, I have been able to organize the goals for my personal brand. A summary of pros and cons of selected social media validated the vision I have had while working on the PLE assignment during previous classes. This course also included a chapter about digital privacy directly linked to the DIP activity, and only highlighted the importance of taking control over my digital footprint. Finally, I was able to establish my personal brand and I am now following the step-by-step procedure of implying this personal brand in my social media and overall digital presence. I will also consider adding Coursera to my PLE by researching courses that might interest me in my personal, academic and professional future.
About Edita Dvorakova
Edita’s personal learning environment
While preparing the structure for my initial PLE, I decided to organize the tools I usually use in 8 categories, chronologically and clockwise, with the optional preliminary inspiration/guidance step.
Today, a lot of social media platforms can serve as tools for inspiration, organization, learning, creation, sharing and communication purposes at the same time. I use several resources such as Pinterest, Instagram, Linkedin and Quora in multiple ways. Thus, to classify them for this PLE, I placed them in a category reflecting on the most frequent personal use.
My target PLE has not drastically changed from the initial one, since I really enjoy the resources that I already use. Nevertheless, I have reorganized the categories and added Twitter as a new source of information that I am currently working on setting up.
After seeing the presentations of my peers, I wrote down a short list with platforms/tools (Mendeley, Spark, Flaticon) that I would like to try out and maybe implement in my future PLE if they can further simplify my life.
Thank you, dear reader, for your time and all the best,
Edita Dvorakova
Edita’s digital identity plan
Creating my DIP was for me the most important aspect during this course. Not only I have been planning to do so since some time now, but also now more importantly than ever before applying for a PhD position I would like to have a full image of my existing digital identity and transform it into the one that I believe is presentable online. This exercise (although it scared me at first), made me step by step do a research about my digital footprint and finally, after 23 years of my life, made me realize how CRUCIAL it is to have as much ‘privacy’ on the internet as you can. Despite the fact that this task was meant specifically for academic and professional purposes, it has also helped me to develop on a personal level.
A big thanks to all my current fellow students for creating such a positive and supporting learning environment and the best of luck to all future MUEC students,
Edita Dvorakova
