Change Mooc, Week 18: Richard DeMillo, Ashwin Ram, Preetha Ram, and Hua Ali Social Networks, Learning Communities, and Web Science – http://change.mooc.ca/ See also Web Concepts: Change in Education and the Laws of the Web Updated pdf available for download from Rich DeMillo, Mike McCracken and Ashwin Ram’s first #change11 session for week 20. Social [...]
Archive for January, 2012
The place of ‘the teacher’ in relation to open content
Posted in ChangeMOOC11, tagged #change11, changemooc11, Georgiatech, opencourses, Research, teaching on January 29, 2012 | 16 Comments »
‘Open space rewards consensus and punishes dissent’
Posted in ChangeMOOC11, tagged #change11, complexity, creativity, davesnowden, innovation, MOOC, opencourses, openspace on January 21, 2012 | 23 Comments »
Dave Snowden made a number of provocative statements in his presentation to Week 17 of ChangeMooc, but ‘open space leads to consensus’ and ‘consensus is rewarded, dissent is punished’ were two that caught my attention. As with all such statements, they have to be taken in context. He was arguing that spaces that lead to [...]
Dave Snowden on The 21st Century University
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged #change11, changemooc11, complex adaptive systems, complexity theory, davesnowden, education on January 19, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Notes from Dave Snowden’s Presentation to Week 17 of ChangeMooc, 18-01-12 Recording of his presentation Learning and the Human Brain The assumption that the human brain is a computational device has led to an information focus in learning. There is a dominance of machine-type metaphors. We have been seduced by machines, leading to an education [...]
Ontology, epistemology and pedagogy of networked learning
Posted in Networked Learning Conference 2012, tagged conference, epistemology, hodgson, hotseat, McConnell, networked learning, ontology, pedagogy on January 16, 2012 | 6 Comments »
This was the subject of one of the threads in the 4th Networked Learning Hot Seat last week. Teresa’s request in a comment on my last post - that I write something about this has prompted this attempt – but I am writing this as notes to myself and therefore am only including here the [...]
Wenger-Trayner new website – new BEtreats
Posted in Communities of practice, tagged betreat11, CoPs, course, Trayner, Wenger on January 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »
In 2011, I was very fortunate to be able to attend BEtreat, in the home of Etienne and Bev Wenger-Trayner in Grass Valley, California. This was a unique and unforgettable experience and one that I am still reflecting on and learning from. What is BEtreat? This is what was written on the website last year: [...]
Balancing technology and pedagogy in learning music online
Posted in ChangeMOOC11, eLearning, tagged #change11, changemooc11, davidrees, music, online, opencourses, pedagogy, technology on January 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Last week I was contacted by a past student – David Rees. Any teacher will know what a thrill it is to be remembered by a past student. In the intervening years, since I taught him, David has graduated from Cambridge University and now works at the Royal College of Music. His interest is in [...]
Educating the under-privileged
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged drama, education, India, Kattaikkuttu, learning, schools, theatre on January 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Last week, I was privileged to visit the Kuttu Kalai Kudam or Centre of Performing Arts in Punjarasantankal Village, eight kilometers from Kanchipurum town in the southernmost Indian State of Tamil Nadu. This small school was founded in 1990 by P. Rajagopal and his Dutch wife, Dr. Hanne M. de Bruin. It is an inspirational [...]
The Role of the Service Sector in the Indian Economy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chennai, economy, India, servicesector on January 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
On a recent trip – 2-9th January 2012 – to Chennai (formerly Madras) in India, I attended part of a small conference, which focussed on the role of the services sector on the growth of the Indian economy. This conference was organised by Lancaster University’s India Centre The opening speaker was Dr D.K. Srivastava, Dean [...]
4th Networked Learning Hot Seat is underway
Posted in ChangeMOOC11, Networked Learning Conference 2012, tagged #change11, assessment, autonomy, changemooc11, erikduval, networked learning on January 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
This year’s fourth Hot Seat discussion in the area of networked learning (in preparation for the 2012 conference) runs from January 9-13. Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Vivien Hodgson, and David McConnell are facilitating a week-long asynchronous discussion, Exploring the Theory, Pedagogy and Practice of Networked Learning. The Hot Seat discussion has 3 parts: History of Networked Learning in the UK [...]
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