Building a better rhizome
This past week, there have been several references made to how the long debates over what knowledge is, what we mean by knowledge and what we are trying to do with learning is, well, garbage. This has lead me, naturally, to dig in further. I decided to dig back into my Deleuze and Guattari and … Continue reading “Missing the point – why a philosophy of learning is everything.”
There is nothing, i think, that leaves me feeling more frustrated than ‘tools’ that are supposed to be easy to use. I think in the rush to explain to people that a tool is useful, the teller often forgets that they struggled with inferior tools before they found this New Awesome Tool. They forget that … Continue reading “Slacker’s guide – week 4 TOOLS!”
I just watched the quite excellent documentary by Kate Ray on Web 3.0. While I went into the video expecting a celebration of the awesomeness of a smarter web, what i found was a nicely balanced review of the upsides and downsides of the conversation and some quite dissenting viewpoints from the people she interviews. … Continue reading “Web 3.0 video review, and some PLENK thinking”
As PLENK2010 moves into week two we are taking on the debate between Personal Learning Environments and Learning management systems. My next post will address the differences between the two, but there is a major point that I’d like to address that digs into my distaste for the use of the word ‘personal’ in education. … Continue reading “PLE vs. LMS – disaggregate power, not people.”
This is a moodle book I’ve put together to give people an introduction to open learning at UPEI… It still needs some work… but there it is. This topic considers the concept open learning and explores how being open as an educator can increase the chances for collaboration, access to knowledge and promote lifelong learning … Continue reading “Open Learning – leveraging the web for collaboration”
Well… I expect the title might be a bit of a surprise. About six months ago, I sent in an application to an ‘innovation forum’ in new brunswick on the possibilities of the MOOC or, what I would now call an open course (a mooc being something that happens to you rather than something you … Continue reading “The Open Course: Brand and Community ROI”
As you might imagine, I did not choose the term ‘digital economy’ that is in the title of this post. It is the result of some boundary stretching that I’m experimenting with this fall. I have too activities, one a SSHRC grant on the digital economy and the other a presentation at an ‘innovation forum’ … Continue reading “Open Learning (M)OOCs supporting the Digital Economy. Draft thinking”
Earlier this year, while George Siemens and I were working our way through teaching the Edfutures course, we were contacted by the fine folks at the Educause review and asked to contribute an article on ‘the open course.’ I’ve been fortunate enough to run a few open courses now, some inside and some outside of … Continue reading “Response to critiques of Open Course Educause article and the free economy generally”
This article will be published in the December 2009 issue of Educational Developments, SEDA’s Magazine (see http://www.seda.ac.uk). Many thanks to James Wisdom and Co. for their help, patience and excellent suggestions. Introduction I am not, in any sense, an opponent of openness. I think that an open sharing of ideas is healthy for the thinker … Continue reading “Open Educational Resources: The implications for educational development (SEDA)”
10. Blogging is dead http://cogdogblog.com/2008/11/10/blogging-dead-after-all/ Proclaimed and recinded. Here it is ladies and gentlemen the end of the first era of blogging. Far fewer are the blogs that tell us “just how exciting it all is”… According to Alan Levine, who quoted Nick Carr who quoted Technorati “they’ve been tracking 133 million blogs since 2002, … Continue reading “Top 10 Edtech News etc thingers of 2008”
