Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 9
The RSS Feed The course isn’t truly distributed until it has an RSS feed. We’ll use the course newsletter as our RSS feed, except we’ll publish the output in rss2…
Stephen Downes
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 8
Syndication Syndication is the core of the cMOOC approach to learning and we haven’t talked about it at all yet. It’s pretty easy to get caught up in things like…
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 7
OK, I’ve put on some Cœur de pirate and am set for today’s work. Feeds One of the key attributes of gRSShopper is the harvester. This application scans websites for…
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 6
Ethics I’ve just finished sending off the ethics review board (REB) documents for research ethics review. This is something I should have done in August, not October, and something that…
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 5
We launched the course this week and I did a bunch of things to get ready. This summarizes them in no particular order (except that they were all done in…
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 4
Activities Each week of the course will feature some events. These are mostly live video conferences with guests. I also want to be able to show slides and to include…
E-Learning 3.0 Course Synopsis
-1. Getting Ready Connectivism is based on the idea that knowledge is essentially the set of connections in a network, and that learning therefore is the process of creating and…
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 3
I have the basic structure of the course in place and now I want to fill it out with some content. The course starts in a couple of days and…
Assessing Evidence in CPD: Meeting Standards and Missing Goals
This is a summary of the talk “Assessing Evidence in CPD: Meeting Standards and Missing Goals” (aka Baffled, Befuddled and Bemused) by Michael Allen, at the 10th National CPD Accreditation…
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 2
In the previous segment I decided to create a course with modules and sections, and set up the modules. I’ll fill out the actual content of those modules over time.…
Designing E-Learning 3.0 in gRSShopper – 1
One of the fun things about working with software I wrote myself is that I get to try new things. For example, instead of creating a course simply by filling…
Approaching E-Learning 3.0
Who is this course for? If you’re reading this, then this course is for you. You’ve demonstrated the main criterion: some degree of interest in the subject matter of the…
Dan Pontefract: Open Thinking
Notes from Dan Pontefract’s talk at Focus 2018, Montreal Beginning with the idea of being distracted, rather than ruminating in thought. We have accepted that. That’s what’s happening in society…
An Emoji Language
Reading this month’s First Monday, which was a special issue on the emoji, inspired me to a creative thought, which I document here. The thought has two parts: – first,…
The Fabrication that is OER
OER stands for ‘Open Educational Resources’ and as readers know I have been a long-time proponent of free and open learning resources. So why would I call them a fabrication…
12 Deeper Tips for Great Public Speaking
Steve Wheeler posted a nice article called 12 Tips for Great Speaking today.He’s had a lot of experience on the public speaking circuit and there’s no doubt his tips hit…
What Peace Means to Me
I read today in an article that “Modern liberals have no working theory of authoritarianism. Of its causes. Its spark. Its fuel.” I’m not sure that this is true, and…
What’s Interesting
We have a new organization and a new manager, and one of the questions we as staff are being asked is “what’s interesting?” with responses to be at least one…
The Morality of the More Powerful
My own sense of morality has always been from the perspective of the more powerful. This is not because I am the most powerful person in the world; far from…
Critical Thinking for Educators
“Pick any article from the newspaper,” I would say to my students. “Bring it in and we’ll analyze it.” This was one of my favourite – and my most effective…