A New Strategy for Higher Education and TrainingShirley Alexander Some intro stuff about the buildings being built for the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). – leads to questions about designing…
On 2013-10-12 9:02 AM, Matthias Melcher wrote: If we consider, on one hand, all the aggregated connectionpatterns that make up a simple concept or word in an individual,and OTOH, in…
Marc Clarà and Elena Barberà have advanced at least two articles now where they argue that there are three problems with connectivism. One of these is Learning online: massive open…
Questions 1. Please introduce yourself to our readers. I am a researcher for Canada’s National Research Council, the federal government scientific agency. I specialized on online learning, media and collaborative…
Response to David Wiley (his post) > Which initiatives that use “open” properly would you suggest the whole world read about instead of the Fauxpen Education Alliance? I don’t want…
“The notion of students as change agents is a relatively new concpt.” — Malcom Ryan Rachel Winston How we can shape the development of a new culture of learning by…
Making Optlists Preparing for the MOOC-REL course I filled in a full set of optlists. An ‘optlist’ is the information required to create a dropdown list. These lists create predefine…
This is from another site (more shortly) but I’d like to share he especially for people interested is messing around with gRSShopper but not being able to get it to…
David Wiley writes, “A careful reading of the post he links to, however, shows that this is completely wrong. The problems described in the post are the result of two…
I watched the City Council meeting via the live video coverage online Tuesday September 4 and followed all the debate on the downtown. I did not have access to the…
Keith Brennan writes a well-thought-out and evenly expressed criticism of connectivism as it is applied in connectivist MOOCs. It’s worth taking the time to read it in full before proceeding…
I was asked, I'm curious as to what you think the three most important things for newteachers to know about technology integration in k-12? 1. Community – teaching can be…
So today is the day Google Reader is vanishing from the web. What next? Well, I’ve done my duty and saved my Google RSS data, and now I’m looking for…
School for me was not really a pleasant experience. Oh, sure, it had its moments, but it was a struggle. On the one hand, we had the typical high school…
Right now, the government awards road-building contracts to large construction companies. But imagine the government decided to end these contracts, and to simply grant anyone who wanted to build a…
Responses to comments on my recent online talk, in preparation for my keynote in Caracas in a couple weeks. Commenter voices are in italics. The original forum and comments are…
I could probably obtain employment in the private sector, and it remains my back-up plan should the current gig at NRC come to an end (I continue to be ‘unqualified’…
As it was purchasing Tumblr, Yahoo was also quietly making changes to the Flickr photo sharing service. Flickr has been one of Yahoo’s few success stories recently, and this was…
In this presentation Stephen Downes addresses the question of how massive open online courses (MOOCs) will impact the future of distance education. The presentation considers in some detail the nature…
Texte de ma conférence a Edmunston – pour plus, svp voir http://www.downes.ca/presentation/317 Dans cette présentation, Stephen Downes aborde la question à savoir comment les MOOC (massive open online courses) influenceront…
