Connectivisme. Massive Open Online Support for Education (MOOSE) [All Presentations] Massive Open Online Support for Education (MOOSE) May 6, 2013 Seminar presentation delivered to University College of the North, Thompson, Manitoba via Google Hangout. Discussion of the concept of Massive Open Online Courses as they evolved from the development of open online learning and evolved into a means of offering social and immersive learning online. The context was a discussion of officials from the University College of the North in Manitoba, which is mandated to provide learning to numerous communities scattered across a large northern environment.
[Slides] [Audio] Collective intelligence 2.0. Blog. Collective Intelligence? Nah. Connective Intelligence ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes. This is exactly right: "(Surowiecki) makes the point that people do not think together in coming to certain conclusions, but rather than people think on their own and the value of the collaborative comes in the connection and combination of ideas.
Each person retains their own identity and ideas, but they are shaped and influenced by the work of others. The concept here is related somewhat to Stephen Downes' discussion of groups vs. networks. At stake in these discussions (Surowiecki, Downes, de Kerchove) is how we are to perceive the individual in a world where the collaborative/collective is increasingly valued.
" That is why I, too, prefer the concept of connective (not collective) intelligence. I also agree with Siemens that the difference will become more vital over the years: "For reasons of motivation, self-confidence, and satisfaction, it is critical that we can retain ourselves and our ideas in our collaboration with others. Connective intelligences permits this. Web 2.0 ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes. Friends:Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services: <strong>The Horizon Report 2008: Social Operating Systems.</strong> Horizon Report 2008 is available now for download. Although the report will officially announced on Monday at Educause in San Antonio, the Horizon 2008 Report is available now for download and the Horizon Project wiki is available for viewing. We're planning some new amazing things for the April/May Horizon Project (see last year's project.) In addition to analyzing the MetaTrends of the last 5 years, this report outlines the major emerging technologies for college level education in the next 5 years including: 1 year or less Grassroots VideoCollaboration Webs2-3 yearsMobile BroadbandData Mashups4-5 yearsCollective IntelligenceSocial Operating SystemsWhat I love best is the tagging standard -- you can add examples of your own using delicious.2008 tagged items do I del.icio.us it?
How they wrote the report Who should read the report? We have got to get in the habit of change This seems counterintuitive, however, the only constant now is change. I look forward to discussing these trends more in the future. John Connell » Blog Archive » 2008 Horizon Report. And now ….. a Webtrend map for 2008 « HeyJude. Here’s an interesting find from the Information Architects Japan. This is sort of appropriate given the release of The Horizon Report – a fun way to map trends for 2008! This time we’ve taken almost 300 of the most influential and successful websites and pinned them down to the greater Tokyo-area train map. Knowing Knowledge: Blog. Groups networks and collectives - more! Scott Wilson notes some concerns with the “lack of clarity” between the three entities of the Many that Jon Dron and I have been discussing and blogging about.
An educational taxonomy or a model gains its pragmatic value by the extent to which it helps practitioners and online learning researchers develop, implement and assess learning contexts, environments and activities. This value is enhanced by clarity and lack of overlap and redundancy in the elements of the model. I won’t argue that our work is the “definitive work” but, I continue to believe that it is useful to think of social and networked learning to be contextualized by these three broad domains. A quality learning experience might be focussed at one level of the many, but learners gain greatest value by exploiting the affordances of all three.
Other tools are used by many different levels of the many. Bounded networks such as elgg, nicely span all three levels of groups, networks and collectives. Welcome to Connectivism! — Connectivism.