"…the connections that enable us to learn more are more important than our current state of knowing.” George Siemens In this piece George Siemens argues for a ...
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Universities Reshaping Education on the Web As part of a seismic shift in online learning that is reshaping higher education, Coursera, a year-old company founded by two Stanford University compute... 
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I have been reading articles lately written by educators who have not participated in MOOCs but nonetheless seem to have some pretty strong opinions about them such as the "What's the Matter With MOOCs" by Siva Vaidhyanathan from the august (Latin for "dusty, old, and conservative") Chronicle of Higher Ed.
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I'm not sure, but I do have a connectivist/rhizomatic explanation for it that turns me back to my own discipline of writing. A newly-minted theory (and Connectivism is still rather new in the history of educational theory) is like a ...
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Interesting diverging points of view about MOOCs. I'm not sure what the author says in the post this scoop leads to entirely convinces me in dismissing what the author of the original article (on Chronicle.com) points out. One thing though, MOOCs are work in progress.
Thank you for sharing. 
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July 17, 2012 12:21 AM
@ Lelapin Thank you for your taking the time to read in-depth, this post. I concur, "we ain't seen nothing yet". As i have been an active participant in 4 MOOC's now (from over the past year), I have personally seen immense growth in myself technologically, through adept use from facilitating technology into educational practice. I believe the essential take away from this is the "Puppet master", which is the new "Instructor" model... To facilitate a worthwhile and effective MOOC. I invite you to 'Join us' See my posts on Scoopit, from the experiences had from P2PU & MOOC.
Also, I commend your great Curation Blog here "Things I pick up"!.. Following the really insightful golden nuggets! -Jack
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I’m lucky that my first experience of participating in a mooc was the fabulous University of Mary Washington UMW ds106 Digital Storytelling course. I spent most of my non-work time last summer and autumn immersed in creative projects that really stretched my existing skills.
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The Beginning of the Entrepreneurship Education Movement for High School ...Huffington Post (blog)Steve Mariotti. Founder, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship. GET UPDATES FROM Steve Mariotti. Like.
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As I recall, I was thinking about networking as part of the DNA of connectivism, and the DNA comment elicited a comment from Stephen Downes about my confused attempt to reconcile connectivism and essentialism.
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Alt-Ed is devoted to documenting significant initiatives relating to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), digital badges, and similar alternative educational initiatives.
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Learning is a process that occurs within nebulous environments of shifting core elements — not entirely under the control of the individual. George Siemens Several of the learning theories ...
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See the ironic thing is that after having taken multiple classes on learning theories, my grasp and understanding for them is minimal at best. The congitivist frame of thought would explain this phenomena to the fact that I have failed to find learning theories relevant.
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Networks are central to meaning, culture and evolution. They define the community and the circulation of meaning within a community – from a connectivist perspective they define knowledge and...
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Here it comes, what I have once also liked to express: “AH, you’re a professor. You must learn so much from your students.” This line, which I’ve heard in various forms, always makes me cringe. Do ...
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Active learning, while a contentious term, stands against what Paulo Freire calls the “banking model” of education. At one time it was enough for the professor to stand at the front of...
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The acronym MOOC is frequently used but has grown to include models that differ significantly from the original versions launched by people like George Siemens and Stephen Downes several years ago.
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As I recall, I was thinking about networking as part of the DNA of connectivism, and the DNA comment elicited a comment from Stephen Downes about my confused attempt to reconcile connectivism and essentialism.
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A video about how Aboluay see Connectivism based on three perspectives: philosophical, generational and Psychological.
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Even if you've seen the Leap Motion before, this is a demo you've got to watch.
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Susan Bainbridge's Connectivism; Peter Sloep's Networked Learning; Robin Good's Content Curation World; The Digital Rocking Chair's Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age.
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There are two kinds of massive, open online courses around (MOOCs), the Downes-Siemens kind and the kind that mostly (uniquely still?) universities in the USA offer. The archetypal example of the former is PLENK10, a course on personal learning environments networks and knowledge, which ran in September 2010.
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Campus Technology 2012 keynote George Siemens offers his perspectives on the challenges facing higher education and the corresponding changes to higher education practice.
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