Archive for the ‘Emergent Training Communities’ Category
Saturday, August 11th, 2007
I've always been very fond the the 'habitat for humanity' concept... at least what follows from the title itself. The idea that humanity thrives given the right kind of habitat... and that the bequest of habitat is a charitable... indeed a community even that should be participated in in order ...
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Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
Preamble
I was struck by how difficult it is to choose the wording for questions like the one that George Siemens tossed out to get people thinking about education and the future.
What do you think learning will look like in ten years?
There are a bunch of qualifications I would like to ...
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
I'm in ur nowlige, spukin' ur mind.
This post is my first shot at developing the ideas that I want to talk about at the futures of education conference. I've spent bunches of my time recently writing and talking about communities and digital ecologies, and I thought I would do something ...
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Saturday, October 28th, 2006
There have been some really solid objections coming around to my idea of emergent training communities (see attached paper from NMC poster session). Some people have asked me how communities can ever get started. Others have suggested that a deus ex machina is pretty much necessary in order to get ...
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
I've been thinking about how to design online textbooks that are intrinsically collaborative, can be 'authoratative' where necessary and don't revolve around a central, linear narrative. It's a concept, this lack of linear narrative, that is coming up more and more. People are talking about having websites, groups, communities... all ...
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