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where we can: * Work out Open Source educational models, support and funding schemes, community relationships, and other issues. * Advocate for the changes that are necessary to further the goal of teaching Open Source.

This is what enabled the 'massive' part of 'Massive Open Online Course'. The software developed to support the course - called gRSShopper, written by myself - was designed to enable the use of open educational resources (OERs) and to aggregate student contributions nwritten using their own weblog environment (and later, discussion boards, Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, and more).

Laconica - The Open Microblogging Tool

free online learning connect with others

Social Learning Networks to Change the World. Learning is a social process, it occurs not as a response to teaching, but rather as a result of a social environment that fosters learning. Knowledge is situated in the social context of its acquisition and use. People acquire the skills they use at work informally - talking, observing others, trial-and-error, and simply working with people in the social construction of knowledge ... knowledge co-evolves with the knower and not as an outside, objective representation - Francisco Varela. A journey through theory, methods, praxis and resources - dialogical learning, collective intelligence, learning circles, learning networks, learning communities, communities of practice, learning organizations, learning regions, expansive learning, situated learning, action learning, participatory action learning, social learning and change, connectivism, e-learning, learning 2.0, social network learning platforms, open and flexible models of learning, media strategies, and more.

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