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…first try with Diigo auto-blogging feature works nicely, even if format aesthetics leave something to be desired so I tidied up the format, added images, page break and a head note -- and with it, more value.. I'll try to "fix" next week by post a few images during the week , especially toward the end of it. The post is long so I need to come in Sunday morning to add a head note, page break, whatever...at least one image if the "fix" doesn't work

"for #rhizo14 Rhizomatic Learning (which has its own board that I will pin from) but mostly because I like the images and the tangled root system of associated concepts in philosophy, education, SNA, network and communication theory, design, etc."

Maureen collects lots of stuff from rhizo14 here

"Dave Cormier, the mind behind Rhizomatic Learning 2014 (#rhizo14), just posted thoughts on his blog about creating a wonderful learning experience that went from a 6-week course to a self-propelled learning community.  The challenge as Cormier articulates it is how to bring in new learners into this community. His original plan - create a new course, but what about the energy of the existing learning community?  Connect the new course to the first course or simply bring the new learners into the existing community?"

from Dave's Educational Blog: "this course came back to life without a 'head' as it were. After my last goodbye was sent out to the participants, a week 7 popped up on the website. The participants continued the course, but without any 'teacher' filling the role as guide or decision maker. They continued on like this for another 6 weeks, and while activity is now only active in the facebook/twitter/gplus realm (that i know of), the communal learning process continues. The course (now called #rhizo14 by all involved) has refused to die. It has become that individual/community space that i was hoping for when the course started. People post ideas, challenges and thoughts and others bring their perspective to it… we learn, often in vastly different ways, from each interaction. And then this post shows up on the original P2PU course today -"

Keith's Google Plus page for Rhizo14

So I kinda got sidetracked from #rhizo14 by #ds106 Daily Create

Chrissi would love comments on this blogpost.

Cathleen Nardi's Pinterest board for #rhizo14. Focus include links to posts and rhizome related links rather than primarily images of rhizomes (.e.g. rhizomes in nature). The page serves as a visual #rhizo14 aggregation I started a rhizome pinboard too but intend to focus more on images, including ones less course related one.

Pingbacks:I found: http://uncontente.weebly.com/2/post/2014/01/bonus-but-not-yet.html http://jennymackness.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/the-community-is-the-curriculum-in-rhizo14/ http://nomadwarmachine.wordpress.com/2014/01/24/the-privilege-of-academia/ http://fearlesstech4teachers.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/a-jagged-little-pill/ http://x28newblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/d-g-and-connectivism/

more: http://jennymackness.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/the-messiness-of-rhizomatic-learning-words-steal-my-intent/

Really helpful post about the rhizome metaphor with outstanding RSA talk by Manuel Lima on networked learning. Encourages a new look at rhizomes and what might lead to diversity (you know they are clones). Bacteria?

"being a lifelong learner is something you just have to take on personally"

"being a lifelong learner is something you just have to take on personally"

Mooc research, antrhopology study on a mooc as a tribe: new roles in the tribe; communication patterns; language used, neologisms; subgroups in the tribe; central and peripheral places; roles, rules and what ever. Might be the first anthro research on moocs and online communities ever. Participatory research, living among the natives is a accepted qualitative research method.

"Anyone interested in doing research about the different forms of community interaction and its effects on learning in ‪#‎rhizo14‬? How would we go about that? (I assume it has been done for other cMOOCs but this could take a rhizomatic angle)."

For #rhizo14 "This future wasn't created by the Bill Gates of the world. It was created by the Pete Seegers" via @oldaily

I understand Downes' rhetorical purpose here, but I think that all of us are midwives to the emerging future otherwise we get trapped in paradigms like "the great man" theory of history. And I mean that literally--the paternal bias and the bias toward what are conceived of as "large" acts.

I'll preface with Stephen Downes's commentary in Feb 14 OLDaily. His question about what kind of undergraduate degree is needed for today and the future and how we might best prepare students has #rhizo14 all over it ;-) This came out about a month ago but according to my logs I haven't mentioned here yet, so here goes. First, let me quote Laurillard's five myths: the idea that 'content is free' in education that students can support each other that Moocs solve the problem of expensive undergraduate education that MOOCs address educational scarcity in emerging economies that Education is a mass customer industry The essence of her criticism is that "a course format that copes with large numbers by relying on peer support and assessment is not an undergraduate education... it requires personalised guidance, which is simply not scalable in the same way." I think we both agree that MOOCs - even cMOOCs - are not an undergraduate education. The question, though, is broader. Is an undergraduate education what we need in order to meet the social and economic challenges of the day? If we started our students off differently, could they succeed in a technology-rich environment wihtout the need for so much personal attention and hand-holding? A lot rides on the answer to this question. And the MOOC - even the xMOOC - is an attempt to look at some possible answers.