Peer-to-Peer Learning Handbook. Dave Cormier. Stephen Downes. George Siemens. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age December 12, 2004 George Siemens Update (April 5, 2005): I've added a website to explore this concept at www.connectivism.ca Introduction Behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism are the three broad learning theories most often utilized in the creation of instructional environments. These theories, however, were developed in a time when learning was not impacted through technology. Over the last twenty years, technology has reorganized how we live, how we communicate, and how we learn.
Learners as little as forty years ago would complete the required schooling and enter a career that would often last a lifetime. “One of the most persuasive factors is the shrinking half-life of knowledge. Some significant trends in learning: Many learners will move into a variety of different, possibly unrelated fields over the course of their lifetime. Background Driscoll (2000, p14-17) explores some of the complexities of defining learning. Conclusion: John Daniel. Google docs - virtual school. Wiki. Team EDC. Twitter #edcmooc. Guardian Higher Ed. Edudemic. Wired Campus. Bonnie Stewart. Andy Mitchell. Sian Bayne.
Prezi (Knox Running ‘aMOOC’) Jeremy Knox. Hamish Macleod. Jen Ross. Christine Sinclair. Amy's EDC MSc blog. Often when trying to understand an online phenomenon, looking to the non-online version (if applicable) is a useful tool to start with for comparative purposes later of how the entity has changed in its online guise. “Online communities” – topic of exploration this week Task: Find an online community and study it. Instinctively, I felt I knew what a community was – a network of support, usually coupled with a sense of belonging, of like-minded or similarly experienced people e.g. a sports society or local mother and toddler group.
However, despite using all three terms synonymously in my definition, I had absolutely no idea what made a group or a society or a community what it was and whether there was any distinction between them – a useful definition for choosing an ‘online community’ to analyse. So I went browsing on the internet to find out what ‘community’ meant… A body of people or things viewed collectively. – OED (#1) Two interesting elements here: size and values. Phil's EDC MSc blog. Steph's EDC MSc blog. Christian Reuter QL. Martin Weller. Blog. Maddie's blog. Ary's blog. A few months ago, I stumbled upon MOOCs. Immediately, I was hooked. I found Coursera, was intrigued by the EDC-MOOC course description and signed up in seconds flat. In November, I notice a rapid growth of Twitter followers. Surprised, I investigate and lo and behold, the new tweeps were course mates in this MOOC I had almost forgotten about. A few weeks later, I receive a Facebook invite from a fellow classmate, Eric Clark, and here's where my EDC-MOOC story begins to unfold.
I'm not a FB fan, but I do have a FB page for sharing ed tech. This is my last pre-course blog post to go down memory lane and show some of the new members where we started, and where we've been. Take a look at EDC MOOC's Digital Culture-A Retrospective. Angela's blog.
Scoop.it. Catherine Cronin. Hybrid Pedagogy. Peter B. Sloep. Qualilangues. Digital scholarship. Networked learning. Paper.li. Pinterest. Storify. Voicethread. Flickr. Frainger. YouTube. Google+ Apps for Ed G+ Tech in Ed G+ Etmooc G+ Edcmooc map 10.12.01. Emily's G+ Facebook. Hybrid Pedagogy. OnlineUniversities. ThingLink. Anando's data vis of EDC on FB. Can you imagine free web hosting service that has 99.9% uptime? Too good to be true? No more! 000webhost.com has made the revolution, forget the stereotype that free hosting is unreliable.. Here is the proof: uptime stats of 20 servers. We beat your paid hosting provider! 1500 MB disk space, 100 GB data transfer! Our free hosting service is supercharged with over 60 features, just like paid hosting. Need unlimited premium hosting that is really UNLIMITED? Signup with www.hosting24.com - unlimited disk space, unlimited data transfer, host unlimited domains for just $4.84 1500 MB Disk Space, 100 GB Data Transfer Every account receives 1500MB space and a whopping 100GB bandwidth, made possible by the unmetered connections our servers utilise.
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