Is this course chaotic or complex?

George has a great way of making what could be very confusing, easier to understand. He also manages to do this with concise papers. His Complexity, Chaos and Emergence paper is an example of this.
There is also an interesting post on  Patrick McAndrew’s Padded Thoughts blog about chaos in relation to learning.
George has posted two [...]

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Taking stock

My understanding is that by ‘connectivism’ we mean that knowledge is distributed across a network and that learning is the ability to access that knowledge through navigating the connections in the network. I think that’s the essence of it.
This assumes that we know what knowledge means, which is in doubt judging by the forum discussions. [...]

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Emotion and networked learning

There is a lot of research (from John Dewey onwards and probably even before) about the relationship between emotion and learning. The centrality of emotion to the process of learning is recognised. So it’s not surprising that so much emotion is evident in this course. What is surprising for me is the intensity of the emotion, [...]

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The purpose of the forest

I’m still trying to get my head around what it is about connectivism as a learning theory that is different. Can’t put my finger on it, but something seems to be missing. I think its something to do with the status of people as individuals in the learning process and to do with learning as [...]

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Can’t see the wood for the trees!

Well, we’re moving on to Week 2 and I haven’t even got ‘What is connectivism?’ sorted yet. I was beginning to despair but have just come across this – posted in one of the forums and probably elsewhere – An interview with George Siemens on Connectivism
So here are my notes and some questions:
The learning process [...]

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Discussion via Ustream (120908)

This was more enjoyable and productive than the Elluminate meeting earlier in the week.  I attended both simply out of curiosity about how the technology works, particularly the Ustream session – since I haven’t attended one of these before.
I nearly abandoned the Elluminate meeting in the middle. I’m afraid I got bored. There was a lot of [...]

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What’s the unique idea in connectivism

An interesting and helpful presentation by gsiemens.  Key points for me

constructivism doesn’t quite fit the bill any more in providing a theory for learning (I’ll have to think about this)
connectivism may more accurately describe learning in the 21st century
learning can now be thought of as forming new networks. In the past education has viewed knowledge [...]

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