Foreign Workers and Employment in New Brunswick
Here’s David W. Campbell: This is not an academic question. It happened this week. Now, I suspect there would be folks lined up to tell us everything that was wrong…
Stephen Downes
Focus on the Words
I’ll return to my other flow of posts in a bit, but in the meantime Dron has responded to my last four, and there are some things worth addressing. In…
Networks, Information, and Complex Adaptive Systems
Under the heading “A believable theory? Actually, yes it is. But…” Jon Dron offers a longish paragraph in two parts. In the first part, he outlines a view of my…
On Death and Dying: Evolution and Networks
As he makes clear in a comment on his recent post, part of Dron’s motivation for depicting connectivism as a ‘family of ideas’ is so that he, too, can be…
Networks and Systems
Let’s move up one paragraph in Jon Dron’s post. We’ve seen already Dron’s notion that connectivism should be thought of as a family of ideas. In this paragraph, Dron states…
Is Connectivism a Broad Family of Ideas?
I think it is worth looking at the end of Jon Dron’s long post to get to the heart of what he finds so wrong about my work. I reserve…
Bell / BellAliant: Get your act together
Long story short: I tried to access CTV online. It wouldn’t accept my login and sent me to a password recovery page. But this page rejected by email address because…
Response to Dron
I don’t want to restate the theses of connectivism as I understand it but it may help readers of Jon Dron’s to identify where his exegesis leads him into misunderstanding.…
Connectivism as Learning Theory
I think the students in the Building Online Collaborative Environments Course has an almost impossible task. Here is their effort to prove that connectivism is a learning theory. “Connectivism has…
OLDaily Over the Years
Still messing around with statistics. Here’s the graph of the production of posts on OLDaily over the years since the first posts in 1995: Until 1999 the only posts produced…
Measuring MOOC Media
Here’s the information I sent Steve Kolowsich for his Chronicle article on the (possible?) decline of MOOC mentions in the media: My data measures news articles from selected (and reasonably…
MOOCs for Development – Day 2
The Challenge of MOOCs Panel Stephen Downes Please see my presentation and audio here: http://www.downes.ca/presentation/339 N.V. Varghese – view from developing countries – largest expansion of the system in this…
Notes from: MOOCs for Development
Welcoming Intro Ezekiel Emmanuel – MOOCs ‘democratizing’ education? (vs? ‘socializing’) – but – access, language, etc – MOOCs – equalize opportunity for elites in developing countries – may widen inequality…
The MOOC of One
I want to talk about the MOOC of one. What I mean by that is I want to talk about the development of the MOOC or the Massive Open Online…
Like Reading a Newspaper
I’ve stated this in many times in talks and interviews, but I can’t find it anywhere in my actual text-based materials, so let’s get it on the record so people…
REL 2014
C’est avec grand plaisir que je vous annonce l’ouverture des inscriptions à notre cours en ligne ouvert et massif portant sur les ressources éducatives libres.L’inscription est à l’URL http://goo.gl/PeqkU0 Notre…
Economists and Education
Fred M Beshears writes, “Here’s an upcoming panel discussion that might address some of the issues we’ve been discussing. It will be interesting to see if the idea of ‘Open…
Where Government Money Comes From
Jacky Hood writes, > All government grant money comes from taxpayers. Unless this means, trivially, “all money comes from someone”, then the statement is false. A certain amount of money…
The OU Did Not Invent MOOCs
Responding to Fred Bershears, who writes: Here are some quotes from Berkeley professor David L. Kirp on the British Open University. They were offering MOOCs long before the term was…
Juergen Rudolph Interview
Stephen: This is an interview with with Juergen Rudolph. And it’s January 8th, 2014. Juergen: Excellent. Well so so first of all I feel very honoured that you have agreed…