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Daniel Spielmann

Rhizomatic Education : Community as Curriculum » Dave's Educational Blog - 2 views

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      Daniel Spielmann on 26 Sep 11
       
      True, this reminds me of the recent discussion about the role of academic publishers... http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist
Cris Crissman

The Digital Promise - It Must Be Sustainable « Educational Technology and Cha... - 3 views

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  • Cris Crissman on 29 Sep 11
     
    The MOOC as part of the "digital promise" all we educators can make and keep
markuos morley

Digital, Networked and Open : The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Schol... - 4 views

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martin weller digital scholarship book mooc change11

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      markuos morley on 27 Sep 11
       
      What is Martin's definition of a social network here?
    • markuos morley
      markuos morley on 27 Sep 11
       
      Surely scholars could use email distribution lists and Usenet Newsgroups for such activities commonly back in the early 1990's?
    • Rob Parsons
      Rob Parsons on 07 Oct 11
       
      They could but it wasn't that common.
  • Are they central or peripheral to practice?
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  • Blogs are also the epitome of the type of technology that can lead to rapid innovation. They can be free to set up, are easy to use and because they are at the user's control, they represent a liberated form for expression. There is no word limit or publication schedule for a blog
  • ‘Scholarship’ is itself a rather old-fashioned term.
  • How do we recognise quality?
  • Prior to the Internet, but particularly prior to social networks, this kind of network was limited to those with whom you interacted regularly.
  • the advent of social networks that is having an influence on scholarly practice.
  • Should bloggers use institutional systems or separate out their blogging and formal identities?
  • Dunbar's (1992) research on friends and group size suggests that it has a capacity of around 150. It necessitates keeping in touch with a lot of people, often reinforcing that contact with physical interaction.
  • for those who have taken the step to establishing an online identity, these networks are undoubtedly of significant value in their everyday practice.
  • openness
  • Tim O'Reilly (2004) calls ‘an architecture of participation’, an infrastructure and set of tools that allow anyone to contribute.
  • It is this democratisation and removal of previous filters that has characterised the tools which have formed the second wave of web popularity, such as YouTube, Wikipedia, Flickr, blogs, Facebook and Twitter.
  • Openness then refers not only to the technology but also to the practice of sharing content as a default.
    • markuos morley
      markuos morley on 27 Sep 11
       
      Significant point for me.
    • markuos morley
      markuos morley on 27 Sep 11
       
      The Philosophy is the important thing.
  • Fast – technology that is easy to learn and quick to set up. The academic does not need to attend a training course to use it or submit a request to their central IT services to set it up. This means they can experiment quickly.
  • Cheap – tools that are usually free or at least have a freemium model so the individual can fund any extension themselves. This means that it is not necessary to gain authorisation to use them from a budget holder. It also means the user doesn't need to be concerned about the size of audience or return on investment, which is liberating.
  • Out of control – these technologies are outside of formal institutional control structures, so they have a more personal element and are more flexible. They are also democratised tools, so the control of them is as much in the hands of students as it is that of the educator.
  • Overall, this tends to encourage experimentation and innovation in terms of both what people produce for content services and the uses they put technology to in education.
  • ‘the good enough revolution’
  • This reflects a move away from expensive, sophisticated software and hardware to using tools which are easy to use, lightweight and which tie in with the digital, networked, open culture.
  • there seems to be such an anxiety about being labelled a ‘technological determinist’ that many people in education seek to deny the significance of technology in any discussion. ‘Technology isn't important’, ‘pedagogy comes first’, ‘we should be talking about learning, not the technology’ are all common refrains in conferences and workshops.
  • While there is undoubtedly some truth in these, the suggestion that technology isn't playing a significant role in how people are communicating, working, constructing knowledge and socialising is to ignore a major influencing factor in a complex equation.
  • entirely unpredicted, what is often termed ‘emergent use’, which arises from a community taking a system and using it for purposes the creators never envisaged.
  • markuos morley on 27 Sep 11
     
    I've made some annotations and floating comments here. Possibly Martin would like to respond in situ?
markuos morley

Udacity - Educating the 21st Century - 1 views

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  • markuos morley on 16 Feb 12
     
    udacity Open Teaching
Lone Guldbrandt Tønnesen

Authentic Learning ~ #change11 - 5 views

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Change11 Jan Herrington learning

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  • We know that people learn best by being actively and collaboratively involved in learning but in universities, we continue to use lectures and other one-way, vessel filling, sage-on-stage, methods to tell students what they need to know
  • An authentic learning approach enables educators to design tasks and assessments that are based on the kinds of activities that are performed in the so called ‘real world’.
  • An authentic learning pedagogy focuses on students collaboratively creating genuine products that are polished and professional, and that are shared and published.
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  • realistic
  • think in the same ways as professionals
  • Technology-based cognitive tools
  • the creation of real products and artefacts, and are more worthy of the investment of time and effort in higher education than decontextualised exercises and tasks.
  • The creation of genuine sharable products ensures that authentic learning is in a position to capitalize on the participatory culture afforded by social media.
  • our model to guide your design: http://web.me.com/janherrington/AuthenticLearning/
James Mackenzie

Using mLearning and MOOCs to understand chaos, emergence, and complexity in education |... - 5 views

www.irrodl.org/...2026

ChangeMOOC

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  • James Mackenzie on 13 Dec 11
     
    ChangeMOOC
  • James Mackenzie on 13 Dec 11
     
    what is a self-organising system? They don't define. In a strict sense there cannot be such a thing - if any thing is in touch with its environment then it is being organised by its environment as much as by itself. Alternatively, "self-organising" is an unnecessary tautology - it doesn't add anything to the idea of a thing being a system. At best, chaos/complexity is a very loose analogy, not very helpful - because this learning network process is not shown to behave in exactly the ways prescribed by Prigogine etc (the makers of chaos theory). At best it suggests that the learnings gained by the participants are not initially foreseen (as they are supposed to be in a more formal education programme). In principle chaos/complexity theory could be used to explore the trajectory of learning in the system, if not that of individual participants.
roland legrand

Tenured Professor Departs Stanford U., Hoping to Teach 500,000 Students at Online Start... - 2 views

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professor stanford teach online higher education

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  • roland legrand on 24 Jan 12
     
    professor gives MOOC about AI and cannot return to business as usual
Keith Hamon

Knowmads in Society 3.0 | Education Futures - 10 views

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John Moravec knowmads education knowledge learning #change11 mooc elearning

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  • Keith Hamon on 14 Jan 12
     
    In the pre-in­dus­trial age, no­mads were peo­ple that moved with their liveli­hood (usu­ally an­i­mal herd­ing) in­stead of set­tling at a sin­gle lo­ca­tion. In­dus­tri­al­iza­tion forced the set­tle­ment of many no­madic peo­ples… …but, some­thing new is emerg­ing in the 21st cen­tury: Know­mads. A know­mad is what I term a no­madic knowl­edge worker -that is, a cre­ative, imag­i­na­tive, and in­no­v­a­tive per­son who can work with al­most any­body, any­time, and any­where. In­dus­trial so­ci­ety is giv­ing way to knowl­edge and in­no­va­tion work.
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