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It may seem like a cheesy website to include, but Amazon is extremely good at creating a highly effective online network. Amazon is the "World's largest bookstore" - largely because of clever use of online networks I believe.

This is a very well done diagram of social networks from the New Testament

Hi Brainy. Good post on lurking. I "lurk" when I listen to radio, download podcasts, watch TV, and read the newspaper. Works for me. A live session where "presence" and group dynamics is central to the activity is a bit different (if the name of everyone "in the room" is displayed, lurkers are visible to others, even if they say nothing). In live MOOC sessions, most people lurk most of the time. That doesn't mean they are not engaged, they may simply feel that sitting at the back of the room suits them better. Mark McGuire

Hello Brainy Smurf, Guess I've been lurking in #cck12, but I don't see it as much different from face-to-face classrom behaviour. Not everyone comments no matter what the forum--eliciting participation is part of the "dark art" of facilitation, no?

Hi, Sandra, thanks for weighing in. I agree that lurking online is essentially the same as a classroom, it just might not be as obvious since the online facilitator (if there is one) can't see body language or eye contact. The more I play around in moocs (currently in my 3rd, 4th and 5th at the moment), the more the idea of eliciting participation (or 'engaging' participants) is starting to make me cringe. I'm becoming more confident that learning doesn't need to invite engagement as explicitly as we think it does. Participants will decide how much/little to interact for a million different reasons on any given day (e.g., fatigue, boredom, illness, distraction, reflection, synthesizing, doodling) and I think we should let them own those choices.

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Morningside Analytics discovers and monitors online networks that form around particular ideas and identifies thought leaders with standing in these audiences. M.A.'s focus is blogs (short for weblogs), the Internet's fastest growing information source. Morningside Analytics discovers emergent communities of bloggers and readers attuned to similar information.

A network topology describes the configuration of a network and the physical and logical arrangement of the nodes that form the network. To know all about the different types of network topologies, read on... A topology describes the configuration of a communication network. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_topology

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Connectivism occurs in nature, as demonstrated by bacteria, insects

Graph Theory Glossary.  From a standpoint of math/computer science rather than social theory.

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Without structure, nothing works. Not even an open course.

a dictionary

Insight: While one can be present in a traditional classroom by sitting there, online courses require some kind of action that involves thinking.

I am learning very slowly, just a little bit at a time