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Downes on Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 22 May 2012 | 05:08 am
Stephen Downes is a prolific writer. If you follow his work at OLDaily or on Half an Hour, you’re well aware of this. He covers an extremely broad territory: technology, learning, society, politics (s...
Change MOOC: Sensemaking and Analytics 24 Apr 2012 | 11:50 pm
The Change MOOC has been running since September of 2011. We’ve had the pleasure, in the past 30+ weeks, of many outstanding discussions. The archives of activity/readings/weeks are available on the m...
Sensemaking artifacts 15 Dec 2011 | 10:42 am
What do the following three items have in common? (source). CCK08: Instructional Design They are all examples of sensemaking artifacts. Teaching and learning in social and technical networks is dif...
Rhizomes and networks 11 Nov 2011 | 05:50 am
This week, for #change11, Dave Cormier is facilitating a discussion on rhizomatic learning. I’ve been aware of Dave’s thinking on this topic since his article in Innovate (.pdf). I was the guest edito...
Who are MOOCs for? Confused personal thoughts. 12 Sep 2011 | 02:36 pm
This post grapples with an idea that I’m still coming to understand, but that feels important: namely, who participates in open online courses, what are the elements of privilege that we overlook in p...
From knowledge to bathroom renovations 2 Jul 2011 | 10:16 pm
I’ve learned to run, frantically, from questions like: - How old do you think I am? - Does this outfit make me look fat? and - What is knowledge? (I’m soon going to upgrade “how is connectivism d...
Do open online courses have a role in educational reform? 23 Jun 2011 | 01:58 pm
A few days ago, I posted a link to an upcoming open online course on my elearnspace site being run by the University of Illinois Springfield: eduMOOC. The Chronicle picked up on the U of I course and ...
Peak Social 18 May 2011 | 10:21 am
Social is one of those lovely words that can be added to anything to make it better. Media? Nah. Social media. Learning? Nah. Social learning. Networks? Nah. Social networks. And the list goes on....
Why does information flow in networks? 7 May 2011 | 04:17 am
People like Barry Wellman and Caroline Haythornthwaite have contributed significantly to advancing the analysis of the impact of networks on society. Well before Barabasi, Watts, and Strogatz arrived ...
Moving beyond self-directed learning: Network-directed learning 2 May 2011 | 02:16 pm
We just wrapped up our third offering of the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Open course: CCK11 (readings, recordings, and archives of the Daily are available on the site). The course is offere...
