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George Siemens was gracious enough to be our guest in EC&I 831 on January 20th, 2009 where he gave us an overview of the changing views of knowledge in society, talked about Connectivism, and described the recent CCK08 course.

Presentation slides from George Siemens on Connectivism

George Siemens and Stephen Downes will co-facilitate the course. The support wiki for the course provides additional information.

he Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008

hat tip g siemens

George Siemens, Stephen Downes, and Dave Cormier - have had over 10,000 participants in the various courses we've run since 2008. The learning experience has been terrific. We've refined our pedagogical approaches, improved the software (well, actually, just Stephen did that), and developed a research agenda around learning in networks in open online courses... If you are interested in joining, please register for the course. We will be posting more information over the next few months.

Some thoughts on participatory pedagogy and MOOCs...

The findings, published August 16 in Public Library of Science One, document the minute-by-minute interactions and locations of 232 children aged 6 to 12 and 10 teachers.