A description of personal knowledge management and how it looks

Excellent review of connectivism and how to decide if its a theory.

THis site is the product of a class taught by Stephen Downes in which his students had to discuss connectivism and decide if it was a learning theory or not.

I like this description of connectivism.

Thanks for posting your resources this way. Much easier to review them and find ones I don't already have. Very nice summaries

Excellent blog post in which the author ponders what a PLN really is. He asks for a definition and compares PLNs to PLEs. Worth a read and review of the comments.

A way too long video describing connectivism but the most useful part is around the 23:30 mark an interview with George Siemens begins and he provides good answers to some interesting questions.

Howard Rheingold (hope some of you know who he is and follow him on Twitter) writes this useful post on how to get the most out of your PLN. The key is to be active and share.

This is an overview of connectivism but what is most useful is the GREAT infographic on connected learning.

This paper is most useful for the discussion of how social media can help students develop self regulated learning skills in a PLE. A useful table is near the end of the article showing how teaches can use social media at 3 different levels of complexity for knowledge management.

This video provides a good overview of a PLN. What I like about it is that tools that can be used for a variety of activities are discussed.

I really like the learning theories section of this paper and how the author relates the different theories to CoP. Thanks for posting this

This study evaluated the CoPs in State Farm Insurance to study various variables and their impact on the effectivenss of CoPs. SOme of the varialbes include level of trust among members, connectedness, member committment, community leadership strength, perceived impact on job performance, and perceived community effetiveness.

This background paper reviews the limitations of common learning theories in the digital age. Siemens then describes connectivism.

Networked learning is a subset of connectivism. This background article by George Siemens describes how networks are actually formed. He also discusses 8 attributes of networked learning.

This site contains a lot of information about COP and is organized as answers to FAQs. Importantly it covers tools that can be used to facilitate CoPs

This overview from 2015 is written by one of the anthropologists who coined this term when studying apprenticeships. It describes the 3 crucial characteristics: domain, community, and practice; its origin; its uses in a variety of settings; and refutes various myths about COP. A pdf is available.

Pretty good blog for learning about online education. Check out her 3rd post on using social media to create meaningful learning assignments.