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"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?"

"This is the fourth and final post in a series which outlines the thinking and planning Frances Bell and Jenny Mackness have been doing in preparation for our presentation - The Rhizome as a Metaphor for Teaching and Learning in a MOOC - for the ALTMOOCSIG conference on Friday 27th June. The first post was - The Rhizome as a Metaphor for Teaching and Learning in a MOOC The second post was - Making Sense of the Rhizome Metaphor for Teaching and Learning The third post was - Principles of Rhizomatic Thinking This final post will cover some of the issues that are emerging from our research data."

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 -"

Sarah breaks out the strings and makes a song remix about Dave ... nifty.

The highlight in the article makes me wonder where the power to learn rhizomatically comes from in the classroom. We can tell students to empower themselves but they can't "move, think, or act without you."

example of carrying rhizomes beyond course and connecting to other areas --

@Cris2B If #DLMOOC metaphor is #tree & #rhizo14 is #rhizome…what happens if you combine them? #CelticTree 

Ary, this is a great bookmark. I like the footnotes in this blogpost, very useful for study on rhizomatic thinking.

If the question concerning where technologies come from must be understood within a political context, how are we then to understand the agency of technology? Should it be approached from a deterministic point of view or are we, since it's a question about political processes, still in control?

it is about rhizomatic education,

Seems to me that building agency and self-efficacy in a rhizomatic learning environment is understanding what your want to learn about. What is your line of inquiry and what is your goal. I love this organization because it focuses on that very simple step of knowing how to ask a question and then figuring out how to answer it.

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/

the real headless mooc

Dave Cormier book

Impressive words to visuals

"Subsequently, the presence of electronic media for creating, distributing and communicating information, knowledge and meaning has grown more widely and more dramatically than perhaps even he could have foreseen. Within this context, I want to try to stitch together a few concepts, perspectives and examples with which I am more or less familiar and perhaps update the core implication of McLuhan's famous phrase."

For several years, there has been a rule-of-thumb, called "90-9-1″, that 90% of online participation in groups/communities consists of "lurkers" or more politely, "passive participants", and only 1% are active creators. Jacob Nielsen's 2006 post on Participation Inequality provides a good overview of this phenomenon. A recent BBC survey of 7,500 people shows significantly different results. Here we see that passive lurkers make up only 23% of participants; active (intense) participants have increased to 17%; and there is now an "Easy" group in the middle who, " … respond largely to the activity of others. This includes replying, 'liking' and rating, all activities where there's little effort, exposure or risk."