This week in Change Mooc - I have particularly enjoyed reading Rory McGreal’s rant. It is interesting how a bit of passion can make a topic come alive. A short harangue by this week’s discussion leader: McGreal, R. (2009, October 21). Stop paying twice for education material: Online resources, open content make proprietary textbooks obsolete. [...]
Archive for October, 2011
OER Issues at first hand
Posted in ChangeMOOC11, tagged #change11, changemooc11, Creative Commons, education, Guidelines, Higher Education, OER, Open Educational Resources on October 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Selfish Blogger Syndrome
Posted in CCK11, ChangeMOOC11, tagged #change11, blogging, blogs, changemooc11, Cormier, coursedesign, downes, siemens, Tony Bates on October 26, 2011 | 16 Comments »
‘Selfish Blogger’ – This jumped out of the page of Tony Bates’ blog post . He has been bemoaning the fact that there has been little discussion around his presentation to Change MOOC – and that the discussion that there has been, has been distributed across people’s blogs and he has had to go out [...]
Autism and Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted in eLearning, tagged autism, education, ESRC, learning, technology on October 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Do new technologies transform or enhance teaching and learning? This is the question discussed by Paul Prinsloo in his interesting blog post . Next week (Tuesday Nov 1st), as part of the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) festival week, Karen Guldberg from the Autism Centre for Education and Research, School of Education, University of [...]
Is our Education System in Crisis?
Posted in CCK11, ChangeMOOC11, tagged #change11, change, education, eLearning, learning, teaching, Tony Bates on October 18, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Tony Bates – gave us an interesting presentation on Sunday evening – Managing Technology to Transform Teaching – http://change.mooc.ca/archive/11/10_17_newsletter.htm – which many of us who work in HE as teachers or as managers of technology could relate to. Tony asked us a lot of questions and provided us with access to his recent book, where [...]
Is a Virtual Choir a Learning Network or even a Choir?
Posted in Networked Learning Conference 2012, tagged learning, networked learning, networks, virtual choir on October 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This is an interesting question which has been discussed in the first Networked Learning Conference 2011 Hotseat. – http://networkedlearningconference.ning.com/forum/topics/examples-of-learning-networks-for-further-analysis and http://networkedlearningconference.ning.com/forum/topics/architectures-for-productive-networked-learning Peter Goodyear wanted us to stretch the boundaries of what might be considered to be a learning network by looking at The Virtual Choir and at some of the reflections the VC participants posted [...]
Networked learning, CoPs and connectivism
Posted in Networked Learning Conference 2012, tagged #change11, conference, learning, networked learning on October 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The first Networked Learning Conference Hotseat with Peter Goodyear has attracted a lot of interesting discussion. Most of the discussion has centred on what is meant by networked learning and there seem to be as many definitions as there are people in the forum. Most agree that networked learning is about connecting people and ideas, [...]
Response to David Wiley’s Challenge
Posted in ChangeMOOC11, tagged #change11, changemooc11, davidwiley, open education, Research on October 12, 2011 | 14 Comments »
I have responded to David Wiley’s request in ChangeMOOC 20011 – http://change.mooc.ca/post/237 that we post a video or concept map or both about the change that we would like to see in some aspect of education. I have never taken on this type of challenge before and hope I don’t get ‘egg on my face’ [...]
First Networked Learning Conference Hotseat is now open
Posted in Networked Learning Conference 2012, tagged conference, networked learning, Research on October 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Peter Goodyear has opened the first Networked Learning Conference Hotseat – in which discussion will centre on Architectures for productive networked learning Here is the link – http://networkedlearningconference.ning.com/forum/topics/architectures-for-productive-networked-learning He opens up by writing: As this is the first ‘hotseat’, we plan to open up three lines of discussion: 1) What is meant by ‘networked learning’ [...]
Finding and losing your voice in the collective
Posted in ChangeMOOC11, tagged #change11, #collective, allisonlittlejohn, binding, changemooc11, charting, collective learning, eLearning on October 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »
‘How do we find the knowledge that we need in the collective space?’ ‘What are the binding forces that bring knowledge resources and people together?’ These two questions have been raised this week by Allison Littlejohn – in Change Mooc 11 – and also discussed with Lou McGill . Reference to ‘binding forces’ made my [...]
Networked Learning Conference 2012 – Hot seats
Posted in Networked Learning Conference 2012, tagged conference, hot seats, networked learning on October 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Next week- Oct 10th – sees the start of the Networked Learning Conference Hot Seats. These were very worthwhile to take part in last time. See http://networkedlearningconference.ning.com/ for further details.
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