Responding to an email enquiry – what is your opinion/ vision regarding the application of the CONNECTIVISM theory at present ? I see it being widely applied both online and offline. I recently wrote a paper called ‘Recent Work in Connectivism‘ where I describe this work. It’s important to note
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Half an Hour: My Meaning and the Parrot’s
Image: Quotes A while back I read an article titled ‘My words have meaning, your parrot’s do not. Wittgenstein explains‘ and commented: For me the key message of Wittgenstein’s slogan ‘meaning is use’ is that the meaning of a word or sentence is not inherent in the word or sentence,
Continue readingHalf an Hour: RSS and the Browser As Social Network
Google Reader – source Responding to Mark Berthelemy. RSS was essentially disappeared because there wasn’t a good business model for commercialization. Centralized social networks work much better for user tracking and link promotion. But they lose this advantage if they support RSS. That’s why, for example, when Google was trying
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Recommendations for Good Practice Using AI in Learning
Image: Forbes General Design for Humans The application of AI should be based on a human-centered approach. This means that the design should be based on actual human use, and not an idealized model. For example, not everybody is going to be able to ask exactly the right question using
Continue readingHalf an Hour: How It Could Work
I’m just going to offer a short post today as I develop some aspects of gRSShopper. In particular, I now have the gRSShopper MOOC environment up and running in a Docker environment – all the instructions are here if you want a copy for yourself, plus there’s a video showing
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Future Learning Environments
This is an unedited AI transcript of a conversation I had with a group of people at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. Please note that the AI does not distinguish between speakers; in all, sever different speakers spoke. To hear the audio please see https://www.downes.ca/presentation/548 Sure. Before I present you our part
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Connectivism
Unedited AI-generated transcript of a talk given online April 27, 2021. So, hello everyone. As was stated in the introduction, my name is Stephen Downes and it’s a pleasure to be here. It’s April 27 for me April 28th for you in Malaysia and this presentation is simply called ‘Connectivism’.
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Supporting Everyday Learning
This is an unedited transcript of my workshop. There we go, so now I’m recording. That would have been interesting so welcome to the session called supporting everyday learning you probably saw the the advertisement for it so you have some idea of what to expect but overall what I’ll
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Sympathy for the Devil: Criticizing and Criticalizing the Media
These are notes taken during Shirley Steinberg’s CNIE keynote, Sympathy for the Devil: Criticizing and Criticalizing the Media: Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil – accomplishments of the devil, listeners as audience are complicit in these accomplishments. Media is the devil We need a “socially aware media pedagogy”
Continue readingHalf an Hour: What Does it Mean to Enrol in a Course?
I guess the answer seems pretty obvious: you provide your personal contact information, maybe pay some money, maybe show you’ve satisfied a prerequisite, such as admission to an institution, and provided there’s room in the course, you’re registered. Behind the scenes a bunch of things will happen: you’ll be assigned
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Change in Education and What Needs to be Done
Published as Change in Education and What Needs to be Done, 15 pages, 2020, Maysan Center for Future Studies. In recent months we as a global community have experienced a hard lesson about the nature of change. While it is common to plan for the normal ebb and flow of
Continue readingHalf an Hour: More Open
[source] “We should pause and ask the question,” says David Wiley, “is more open always better?” The answer, of course, is “it depends”. I don’t keep my house open for just anyone to drop by. I keep my bank account PIN a secret. I work for the government and have
Continue readingHalf an Hour: OER and User Pay
Thanks to Jeff Rubenstein for a thoughtful comment. I agree that the division between ‘content’ and ‘paper + ink’ isn’t always the best way to approach the discussion, and should note here that it was generated as a metaphor to frame a response to a commonly raised issue. Jeff
Continue readingHalf an Hour: A Message About Learning from the Shop Floor
Dear Boss, Thank you for your email about e-learning, titled ‘A message about learning from the C-suite’ which was reprinted in Chief Learning Officer. You asked some questions and made some comments, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to reply. Thanks for asking how I’m keeping up my skills
Continue readingHalf an Hour: On the Indieweb
I’m going to take Daniel Goldsmith’s excellent post Praxis and the Indieweb as a point of departure for this post. Like Goldsmith, I am a fan of the Indieweb, or at least, the concept of the Indieweb. And I’ve been involved, at least around the periphery, in its development for
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Remote Comments
I’ve had an idea in the back of my mind for a long time now, and as I get closer to a real-world gRSShopper other people can actually use I began to ask around is anyone had seen an implementation. In a word, the response was “no”. So I decided
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Upcoming Webinars
Webinars for the new year. I did the first one last week and the rest are upcoming. All in cooperation with Maskwacis Cultural College. See https://continuingeducationi.blogspot.com/ January 18, 8:30-9 am MT Edmonton Description Join the National Research Council’s Stephen Downes, a specialist in online learning technology and new media, for an
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Institutional Support for Personal Learning
Unedited Automated Transcript, December 14,2020 All right, um, so hello everyone. This is Stephen Downes again, this is personal learning taking ownership of learning online parts seven now to get the best benefit you want to see what I’m sharing here fullscreen rather than and what they call gallery view
Continue readingHalf an Hour: What’s Next for MOOCs
Hi, I’m Stephen Downes videoing in from Casselman in Ontario, Canada. My talk today is called What’s Next for MOOCs. Now that might be a bit of a surprise for you because you probably read last year or maybe the year before or five years ago, that moocs are
Continue readingHalf an Hour: A Personal Learning Platform
This is an unedited auto-generated transcript from my talk today to Creative Commons Lightning Talks. Hi everyone, it’s Stephen Downes here from Casselman Ontario Canada. This presentation is for a personal learning platform and I want to advise ahead of time that I know this isn’t something like expect you
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