Archive for October, 2008

Teaching the second little pig - rhizomatic knowledge, MOOCs and other open things

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

As previously mentioned here... I was asked by Steve Warburton (congrats on the (nicely named) new project steve!) to do a presentation on MOOCs for the evolve community. This has sent me off on a wild tangent trying to come to grips with the implication of open education and the ...

Edtechtalk - ‘Managing’ a Community of Practice

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Some initial comments... Kind of a funny thing to say isn't it? Managing a community of practice... but that is exactly what I'm going to be doing over the next 14 months. Edtechtalk is an organic community that has grown from a single, live, interactive webcast in June 2005 to 12 ...

The CCK08 MOOC - Connectivism course, 1/4 way

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

To the best of my knowledge, the term "MOOC" comes out of a skype chat conversation I had with George Siemens about what exactly he would call this thing he and Stephen Downes were doing so I could call it something for the ETT show were were planning on the ...