The Argument from Theft
The argument from theft once again rears its ugly head, this time in an OER discussion forum. On 01/11/2012 6:44 PM, Jacky Hood wrote: There is an alternative: stop forcing…
Downes
Knowledge and Recognition
Responding to x28, ‘Lower Levels of Connectivism‘ First, it is probably more accurate to speak of ‘domains’ of connectivity rather than layers. The use of ‘layers’ suggests some sort of…
Data
Responding to Cooperative Catalyst, Metrics and “Success” I think data is important (it’s the only evidence we have!) but I think that people take a very narrow view of data,…
Memory and Memorization
From my post titled ‘Wrong’: I get where Gary Stager is coming from. Learning is not the same as remembering. By the same token, I made myself a set of…
Creating the Connectivist Course
Originally posted in One Change a Day, January 3 When George Siemens and I created the first MOOC in 2008 we were not setting out to create a MOOC. So…
Wrong on Education
Before addressing editorial writer Norbert Cunningham’s concerns about the dropout rate at Canadian schools, let’s look at the actual data. Here are the statistics from Human Resources and Skills Development…
Where the Future Lies
Responding to Durff’s Blog In a post today I summarized Bill Cushard in Mindflash as follows: If I had to summarize the best advice I could give to e-learning developers,…
Taking Responsibility for the State of Society
What has been most offensive about the media coverage of the Occupy movement has been the misrepresentation of both the issues that have prompted the protests and the response of…
Replacing Email?
In response to Brian Kelly, The (Technology) Ghosts of Christmas Past and Present and Christmas Yet To Come While my perspective is admittedly limited, and while I can almost be…
A Little Space for Me and Mine
A local writer and editor of the teen section in our newspaper, Isabelle Agnew has gotten herself into hot water in the letters section of the newspaper by penning a…
Musability
This morning I read a short item from Mashable describing some predictions being made for the next five year by IBM. Among more workaday predictions we’ve heard elsewhere – that…
Online Newspaper Software
Drupal & Hosted Drupal Newspapers Running on DrupalThis is a demo site showcasing newspapers running on Drupal, a popular open source content management system. These are sites set up using…
The Right Mix
My response to Jon Dron, And so it ends… Interesting reflections and I appreciate the comments and the participation. It’s easy enough technically to implement some sort of collaborative filtering…
How to Get the Most out of a Conference
EDUCAUSE has this habit of creating placeholders for its posts and then sending RSS feeds composed solely of those placeholders. Maybe the content will be filled later, maybe it’s just…
Engagement and Motivation in MOOCs
From Col – see also Beer, Clark, Jones, Indicators of Engagement, which has much of the same content Most of the research into measuring student engagement prior to the widespread…
BlogForever Interview
This is an interview of me conducted by Karen Stepanyan for the the BlogForever Consortium, a project co-funded by the European Commissionwithin the Seventh Framework Programme. An audio version of…
MOOCs and the OPAL Quality Clearinghouse
I have submitted the following responses about #change11 and MOOCs in general to the Open Education Quality Initiative (OPAL) survey of OER practices (I love how the email said it…
MOOC Statistics Thus Far
Here's what we have for participation rates in the #Change11 MOOC this far.'Persons' are people who have registered for the course. The gap between persons and subscriptions is the number…
The Role of Open Educational Resources in Personal Learning
Presented to the Best Practices in Upgrading Online,Calgary, via Adobe Connect, March 29, 2011. Presentation slides and audio.The very first thing I want to do is to counter thedisclaimer that…