Who’s Dave?
Well… a matter of a certain debate. I’m a father of two little critters and the partner of a very cool blogger. I’m a person who thinks about the variety of ways in which the world is changing and tries to make sense of it. My primary interests are how technologically mediated communities affect learning and how knowledge can be created by real folks when what we mean by knowledge is always what we mean by knowledge. I try to keep this CV reasonably up to date. http://davecormier.wikispaces.com/
I work for UPEI as their Manager of web communications and innovations… I’m not sure what this means, but i do do a variety of different things there that include the web. I’m also a (insert dreaded word) consultant that works on a variety of educational/community projects. I’m the manager of the Edtechtalk community of practice and am a member of a variety of other projects around the intertubes.
I like to discuss, I like to deconstruct and I like to find very simple, elegant solutions to problems. I firmly believe that most of the answers to our ills are already in our hands and that when you get the right people working in the right direction, just about anything is possible. I like to work on the ‘final version’ at the same time that I’m figuring out root causes to problems. I think, essentially, that things are interconnected, and that linear solutions to problems work in small, isolated ways, but that real change happens when you move an entire project at the same time. I am, however, also more and more of the belief that this kind of change requires very firm deadlines.
Probably the best example of my writing is from this article http://innovateonline.info/?view=article&id=550.
If you are looking to hire me for a project or to speak just send me a note. My consulting practice is something I do outside of my day job so i have to be pretty choosy… but i do like to chat 
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dave
I run this site... among other things.
[...] hopeful that CCK09 will develop its use of guests and the explicit role of the external voice that Dave Cormier provided. I am keen to participate in CCK09 and to be part of the evolution of a very special [...]
[...] 3, 2009 · No Comments Dave Cormier, a Web Technology Specialist for the University of Prince Edward Island, weighs in on OER as it [...]
[...] Dave Cormier, a Web Technology Specialist for the University of Prince Edward Island, weighs in on OER as it applies to textbooks in the most recent EdTechTalk podcast. An accompanying post can be found at Cormier’s blog. From his blog: Freeing knowledge is a good thing. Freeing content, on the other hand, is a bit sketchier. When something is ‘packaged’ into an ‘educational resource’ we’ve left the straight path (however straight you might think that is) of the research process and enter the realm of contextualization. When you design a particular course, you need an audience in mind, a skill set, a number of literacies, goals… you make any number of decisions about how to frame and scaffold that knowledge so that a particular group will assimilate it in whatever way you see fit. If we turn these into tradeable cultural capital, we will, in a sense, not be changing anything at all. [...]
[...] Dave Cormier, a Web Technology Specialist for the University of Prince Edward Island, weighs in on OER as it applies to textbooks in the most recent EdTechTalk podcast. An accompanying post can be found at Cormier’s blog. From his blog: Freeing knowledge is a good thing. Freeing content, on the other hand, is a bit sketchier. When something is ‘packaged’ into an ‘educational resource’ we’ve left the straight path (however straight you might think that is) of the research process and enter the realm of contextualization. When you design a particular course, you need an audience in mind, a skill set, a number of literacies, goals… you make any number of decisions about how to frame and scaffold that knowledge so that a particular group will assimilate it in whatever way you see fit. If we turn these into tradeable cultural capital, we will, in a sense, not be changing anything at all. [...]
[...] Dave Cormier and I will be hosting the next social media session (no charge) with AACE on Tuesday, September 8. Information is available here. [...]
[...] our LearnTrends conference last week, I experimented with the Cormier Live Slides method. Dave would say I went a bit soft – I had an established structure for the slides, instead of free [...]
[...] isn’t Wikiversity, it isn’t the Massive Open Online Courses that Siemens, Downes, and Cormier (amongst others) have been running, it isn’t the for pay video-based courses at EduFire, [...]
[...] di Prince Edward Island.» Facilitatori del corso sono George Siemens, TEKRI; Stephen Downes, NST; Dave Cormier, UPEI; Kop Rita, [...]
[...] for some and perhaps great professional development for others. I also encourage you to check out Dave Cormier‘s videos that shares “What is a MOOC?” and how to be successful in a [...]
Hi Dave,
Noticed you were using BigBlueButton at
http://change.mooc.ca/about.htm
Nice! We’re working towards a final release of BigBlueButton 0.8 that will let you record and playback your lectures from within Moodle. See
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=185675
Regards,… Fred
BigBlueButton Developer
[...] we had the privilege of listening to and discussing with Dave Cormier on Rhizomatic education. He began by asking us why we educate students. My answers were: we educate [...]
[...] Art Another inspirational session last night, lead by Dave Cormier! I have had a raging headache all day and into the night….I think I am learning too much! [...]
[...] like to suggest that our learning spaces should absolutely encourage nomadism as Dave Cormier describes it, but allow for and encourage those who are, by nature, workers, to metamorphose. There [...]
[...] is supposed to be about? Fueled by this week’s ECI 831 discussion on rhizomatic education led by Dave Cormier, and his recent Blog Post Workers, Soldiers, Nomads – what does the Gates Foundation want from [...]
[...] projects that I have taught, and the students buy into it hook, line, and sinker! When Dave Cormier was speaking to us last week on Rhizomatic Learning and teaching students as nomads rather than [...]
[...] website is dedicated to teachers who are ready to take on the challenge of becoming as Dave Cormier suggests gardeners in a landscape of roots and shoots, what he calls Rhizomatic Learning, or one [...]
[...] the course I also experienced small diversions. After Dave Cormier spoke to our class about Rhizomatic Learning, I was intrigued. After discovering through Dave that [...]
[...] you are new to MOOCs, take a few minutes to view these brief videos by Dave Cormier that answer the questions “What is a MOOC?” and “What is ‘success’ in [...]
[...] you never heard of MOOCs as a new way of (networked) learning, I encourage you to have a look at Dave Cormier’s videos “What is a MOOC?” and “Success in a MOOC“. You also might want to [...]
Hi Dave, Nice to see your blog. I got here because I’m thinking about the rhizomatic nature of American Sign Language.
Here’s a posting on my blog you might be interested in: http://dygertthinkingoutloud.blogspot.com/2012/06/rhizomatic-vs-aborescent.html
I’m just starting to think about this, and it looks like you have a lot of good stuff on your blog. Thanks for being here!
Hi Dave,
I work for the Book Industry Study Group. We’re planning a conference for higher ed publishers in Feb 2013 in NYC and someone suggested a presentation on MOOC might be interesting. I’d love to explore the idea with you. Perhaps there’s something we can do that would make sense for our audience of 125-150 higher ed publishers.
Thanks in advance!
Angela Bole
Deputy Executive Director
Book Industry Study Group, Inc.
[...] listening to Dave Cormier’s session yesterday afternoon on rhizomatic learning (video below) I was trying to pay attention to [...]
[...] innovantes qui manquent aux bonnes volontés. N’oublions pas en effet que, si Dave Cormier, Stephen Downes etGeorge Siemens ont pu donner un tel éclat à leurs MOOC, c’est parce [...]