Enhancing teacher education through OER:
Your study notebook
You are asked to keep a study notebook (learning journal) for this MOOC. You may have kept one before or the idea may be new to you. Essentially, this is a notebook in which you note such things as:
•	your response to the activities in the MOOC 
•	ideas that may come to you when you are either studying or in the workplace, or at any other time
•	drafts of contributions to MOOC discussions 
•	notes about articles that you read that are related to (but not embedded in) the MOOC – these could be from professional journals, government policy documents or media stories, for example
•	reflections on your own learning trajectory through the MOOC. 
(Note that these are examples, and do not constitute an inclusive list.)
The last item here – reflection on your own learning – is one of the most important. It is helpful to identify how your own personal theories, ideas and beliefs change, or are reinforced, by your study. Sometimes this learning will be very clear to you; at other times, your learning will only become apparent over a much longer timespan – for example, when you introduce some ideas in your place of work or draw on some of your practice in your learning. 
Your study notebook is personal to you and it should be useful to you, even if you might be able to share parts of it with a friend or colleague. There is no particular formula for keeping a study notebook: some days you may write a great deal, whereas at other times only a little. However, you are advised to write notes in such a way that they are intelligible when you return to them months later. Throughout the MOOC there are regular prompts for you to note down a response in your study notebook.
You can keep the notebook in a format that appeals to you and is easy for you to maintain – it could be an ordinary paper notebook or on a desktop or mobile device.