The principles of connectivism are autonomy, diversity, connectedness and openness. Stephen has written and presented about this on a number of occasions. My experience of connectivism in MOOCs or even OOCs is that these principles are not straightforward to apply to course design or learning. My current interest is in autonomy, as I believe that [...]
Archive for January, 2011
CCK11 Characteristics of an autonomous learner
Posted in CCK11, eLearning, Networked Learning, tagged autonomy, CCK11, Connectivism, course, coursedesign, downes, learning, networked learning, opencourses on January 24, 2011 | 8 Comments »
CCK11 – Interesting start
Posted in CCK11, Networked Learning, tagged autonomy, Connectivism, learning, networked learning, opencourses on January 19, 2011 | 5 Comments »
An interesting start to CCK11 – which was marked by the synchronous Elluminate session tonight. I find these synchronous sessions critical to keeping a handle on what is going on and I noted that Sia Vogel (who I remember from CCK08) felt the same. CCK11 is not using Moodle for discussion as previous CCK courses [...]
Learner Autonomy – First thoughts about Stephen Downes’ model
Posted in CCK11, Networked Learning, Research, tagged autonomy, Connectivism, connectivity, course, coursedesign, downes, learning, opencourses on January 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
(Stephen Downes’ model in black font) Overall question which I shall come back to later is: How do the recent MOOC/open course designs foster learner autonomy and from the learner perspective, are they successful in this? A – Factors affecting epistemic states – empirical factors – external – past experience and memory – current experience [...]
CCK11 Learner autonomy
Posted in CCK08, CCK11, tagged autonomy, CCK11, Connectivism, learning on January 17, 2011 | 3 Comments »
In reflecting on my participation in the open connectivism courses (CCk08, CCK09), I realise that I am more interested in these than the other open courses on offer at the moment, because whilst they require technology to run, they are not so much about technology as about how learners learn and how teachers need to [...]
Open courses in January 2011
Posted in CCK08, CCK11, Networked Learning, tagged CCK08, CCK11, Connectivism, downes, ds106, eLearning, LAK11, learning, networked learning, opencourses, teaching on January 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The net seems awash with open courses at the moment. Three have captured my attention are: Learning and Knowledge Analytics (LAK11) Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2011 (CCK11) Digital Storytelling (ds106) Digital storytelling is already in its second week, but as Jim Groom (convenor) has pointed out it has been anticipated and discussed for many more [...]
Information overload and connectivity
Posted in eLearning, Networked Learning, tagged connectivity, informationoverload, networked learning, time on January 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
On one side we are urged to increase our connectivity – we are told that all learning starts with a connection, to learn we need to be well connected, to keep up in a fast moving digital age we need to know how to filter, select, aggregate, remix, repurpose, feed forward. We are urged to [...]
Connection is why we’re here
Posted in eLearning, tagged connectivity, networked learning on January 2, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I want to thank Heli for posting this video link to a talk by Dr Brene Brown. Brene Brown is certainly a gifted speaker and as Heli discusses with John Mak on his blog – vulnerability is inside everyone. I think this would be hard to deny – especially in relation to online connectivity. I [...]
My Blog – 2010 in review
Posted in Blogging, tagged blog, blogging, Wordpress on January 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This was a surprise in my inbox this morning. I think its interesting and helpful – something I would not have got round to doing myself. I also like the fact that the Worpress team emailed it to me and didn’t put it straight onto my blog, i.e. they didn’t interfere with my blog – [...]
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