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Brendan Murphy

The challenges to connectivist learning on open online networks: Learning experiences d... - 0 views

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  • People learning on an informal network will choose the subject they want to learn about or the activity they want to engage in, but in a connectivist environment they have to make other choices as well.
  • For instance, they have to manage time, set their own learning goals, find resources, and try out new tools and make them work.
  • Research shows that the Internet and the Web are not value-free and do not act as non-hierarchical networks
  • These free agents do not have a responsibility or an obligation to provide a critical point of view.
  • need for critical literacies
  • level of presence.
  • critical literacies, such as collaboration, creativity, and a flexible mindset, that are prerequisites for active learning
  • Other benefits were seen in the form of the extension of personal networks and in new blogs and Twitter participants to follow. Participants highlighted the need for a sense of trust and feeling comfortable and confident to be able to participate, a sense of presence and community that some participants found on the PLENK Second Life site.
  • it is impossible to sustain the high level of reading, thinking, and engaging with materials and people that happened at the beginning of the course.
  • building identity and reputation is being developed over time
  • critical ability to not only use network resources, but also to look at them critically in order to “appropriate them and redesign them,
  • for networked learning to be successful, people need to have the ability to direct their own learning and to have a level of critical literacies that will ensure they are confident at negotiating the Web in order to engage, participate, and get involved with learning activities.
  • confident and competent in using the different tools in order to engage in meaningful interaction.
  • takes time for people to feel competent and comfortable
  • level of learner autonomy
  • four major types of activity:
Rhonda Jessen

Tools for the Trade - 0 views

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  • Rhonda Jessen on 19 Aug 13
     
    A comprehensive list of Digital Storytelling tools from the DS106 Mooc, includes free, commercial and online tools.
Michael Walker

Google+ Using Google Apps as a Free LMS - 1 views

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    My first semester teaching college, before I gained access to the ANGEL LMS that the school was using at the time, I used Google Sites for my composition classes and Google Docs for certain submissions.
Michael Walker

MOOCs: Too Much Hype, or Not Enough? | Innovation Insights | Wired.com - 0 views

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  • The next generation MOOC (I’ll go ahead and coin ngMOOC now — you’re welcome) will have to employ more of a feedback loop to the student. Understanding the issues with social learning at scale, most progressive MOOC providers are finding ways to utilize graduate students, or simply more advanced students, like Seniors, who have already taken a course, to help push conversation and assessment. By seeding courses with large clusters of “more knowledgeable others” (as Vygotsky would call them), providers theorize they can get at the kind of learning communities desired to make a MOOC work at scale. So, essentially the next generation of MOOC combines the worlds of the xMOOC and the cMOOC, by using computers to do as much simulated instruction and assessment as possible, while making up for communication and community flaws through social construction. Wait, maybe the next generation MOOC should be an “xcMOOC” — you’re welcome again.
  • For instance, as I’ve noted before, a number of schools are working to crack the $10,000 Baccalaureate degree. To do so, it is likely that these schools and programs will need to employ the MOOC concept (whether their solutions need to include “massive” courses is yet to be determined). That means using reusable, self-paced, socially networked courses to free up typical administrative or teaching overhead. That means using more machine learning for grading, adaptivity, and personalization.
  • Are MOOCs over-hyped and dying? I don’t think so.
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  • We don’t need a new letter in front of a MOOC. Maybe we just need a new name for a MOOC. You know, something like: eCourse. Because at the end of the day, these massive courses may just be another way that any student can learn at any time.
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