Thoughts. EdTech Focus on Higher Education: Campus Technology. The Innovative Educator. The Development of Connectivism and MOOCs (Diagram) I ran a short workshop for colleagues on the topics of connectivism and the rise of MOOCs earlier this week . As part of the workshop I wanted to show the relationship between connectivism and the first MOOCs in a diagram. I also wanted to show some of the ideas and theories that formed the basis for connectivism and for the first open online courses. Lastly, I wanted to show some of the outcomes from the first MOOCs and from George Siemens paper on connectivism . The resulting diagram is below and it’s available under Creative Commons license for re-use and, preferably, improvement.
I created the original in Visio and the file is available here for download. Hack Education. Free Technology for Teachers.