“Tools are extensions of humanity, increasing our ability to externalize our thinking into forms that we can share with others.” -George Siemens Completing this week’s blog assignment for Mathieu ...
Stephen's Web, the home page of Stephen Downes, with news and information on e-learning, new media, instructional technology, educational design, and related subjects (RT @sheilajbhudson: OLDaily: What Connectivism Is
George Siemens, together with Bonnie Stewart and Dave Cormier have agreed (and been contracted) to write for Johns Hopkins University Press. George Siemens launched the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in ...
I’ve been involved in higher education for fifteen years. Most of that has been as a faculty member, researcher, and (to a lessor extent) administrator. While fifteen years seems like a short period of time, in the language of the internet, it is a lifetime.
Terry Anderson speaks on the subject of Living, Learning, and Researching in a Networked Era.
His focus is on openness as a scholar and the evolution of different learning approaches over the last few decades related to this openness. It was an interesting presentation, also of interest from a MOOC perspective.
In starting a new MOOC this week, I was reflecting on the Change11 one that I participated in last year. I never really continued with it, and thought I would document a bit about why. One reason i...
Network learning (FL) is working together in a relational way to enhance student’s learning (Wikipedia). It allows for groups of students to work collaboratively together regardless of their physicality. de Laart (2006) defined networked learning as: “how internet-based information and communication technologies are used to promote collaborative and co-operative connections: between one learner and other learners; between learners and tutors; between a learning community and its learning resources, so that participants can extend and develop their understanding and capabilities in ways that are important to them, and over which they have significant control” (p.8).
My EdTech543 assignment this week certainly stretched my creativity, but since I’m a wanna-be chemist at heart, I had to try it. The assignment was to non-linguistically represent the dense c...
What are some of the issues of mass education, based on video lectures or lectures in Future Education? In this who-would-choose-a-lecture-as-their-primary-mode-of-learning? by Jackie Gerstein, Ed....
In this post, I am seeking to further my understanding of this new theory, examine its limitations, and consider its relevance to both classroom teaching as well as knowledge management practices within organizations.
"I feel extraordinarily strongly that you should not have to register or give away any information about yourself to have full access to all the content of anything that wants to describe itself as an open online course (whether 'massive' or not)."
“There’s a seventh C too, you know” my neighboring seat-mate, the excellent educator Larry Kahn, leaned over to whisper to me. “Really,” I said, “what?”...
The next steps are where connectivism or rather somewhat controlled connectivism comes in to play. Students were encouraged and given time to explore the various projects in Scratch (there are many demo projects to learn from ranging from basic movement to space invader style games).
This was, by far, one of the most challenging assignments I have completed. All of the creative ideas that I have had this week have relied too much upon words to convey the messages of connectivis...
According to these levels of interactivity you can determine how interactive you want your eLearning courses to be. It is important to have highly interactive training . (Levels of Interactivity in #eLearning: Which one do you need?
In the spirit of the NMC Horizon reports, a group of scholars at the Open University has prepared a thorough and thoughtful analysis of what is coming in pedagogy. The 36 report is available he...
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