Organizations aren’t thinking about the ‘networked individual’ – the networking choices and patterns of individual Internet users. They’re still focused on their own organizational information systems and traditional institutional networks.…
I posted this: The conundrum of creating an open course in a closed site – Storyboard OOC updateGabi Witthaus, Art of e-learning, Dec 22, 2014 So this, I think, is…
Reusable Learning Resources The initial development of online learning technology began at scale with the development of the learning management system (LMS) in the mid-1990s. These systems were modeled on…
Alan TaitFrom Distance Learning to Open Education – ICT is now normal – we don’t talk about distance learning, but ‘technology enhanced learning’– students learn as much outside the classroom…
Summary of a debate at Online Educa Berlin. Note that the debate format is not serious and that participants to not necessarily agree with the points that they are making.…
These are summary notes of the presentations at Online Educa Berlin, 2014. If the text uses the first person, it is the presenter speaking, not me. Aida Opoku-MensahE-Learning AfricaI’ve seen…
E-Portfolio Workshop, Online Educa Berlin: These are content summaries; if written in the first person it is the speaker speaking, not me. Some comments in parentheses are my own. Launch…
Hiya Steve, I’m not religious and I don’t celebrate Christmas. That’s my choice and I don’t expect or require anyone else to do the same. So far as I’m concerned…
This is an assignment for a grade 12 philosophy course. Proposition Most theories of knowledge depict knowledge as a type of belief. The idea, for example, of knowledge as ‘justified…
A few months ago Fred M Beshears and I discussed Constructivism and Materialism. He compiled the conversation and posted it here. ——————————————–Stephen Downes We don’t reason over perceptions or construct…
This is an outcome of a conversation with Rita Kop regarding the article The View from Nowhere. She writes, data scientists use their quantitative measure, as positivists do, by putting…
Responding to Linda Harasim’s comment, here: To Mohsen Saadatmand: there is indeed significant overlap between communities of interest and cMOOCs and the underlying mechanisms are the same. The difference between…
For those who are on audio, I want to acknowledge Samuel Noekowsky, who just spoke. This talk is basically what he said, except he said it in the French way…
Bader A. Alsaleh (Professor, Instructional Design and Technology, King Saud University) @ba_alsaleh On 40 minutes, will present a number of ideas. Why are we interested in social media? What is…
The Mayflower Steps. When we talk about the future, we step out into the unknown. Macy’s, in New York. Immigrants couldn’t imagine so many people, buildings so large. They wondered…
Diego Leal – Creating online learning networks Think of networks = nides + connections + signals – related to what I said yesterday How to make possible cooperation in online…
This is a place-holder post to set up syndication for the Connected Courses course.
It has been months – maybe more than a year – since I’ve been in the local bookstore. We only have one in Moncton, an Indigo-Chapters store, at Crystal Palace.…
by Stephen Downes Introduction: What learners Need Sorry, I forgot to turn on the audio recording. That’s how you start a broadcast, with dead air. Thank you very much it’s…
John Spencer thinks that education is filled with paradox, and lists a number of sources. I couldn’t help but notice that I didn’t see the paradox in any item on…
