EducatorVirtualPD - Classroom Blogging. Joichi Ito - Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants. Almost 20 years ago, I installed on my computer a tiny piece of software called MacPPP, which connected the programs running on it to the Internet.
The program immediately transformed my computer from a fancy telex machine to a device running a very early version of the graphical Web. I was working in entertainment at the time, and I remember thinking that this connection was going to change everything. I left to join the first commercial Internet service provider in Japan, PSINet Japan, as its first chief executive. Our first serious challenge, oddly enough, was a battle over an obscure information-sharing computer protocol called X.25. Most of us laboring to build the new Internet preferred the less regulated and simpler Internet Protocol.
Albert Bandura. Albert Bandura (born December 4, 1925) is a psychologist who is the David Starr Jordan Professor Emeritus of Social Science in Psychology at Stanford University.
For almost six decades, he has been responsible for contributions to many fields of psychology, including social cognitive theory, therapy and personality psychology, and was also influential in the transition between behaviorism and cognitive psychology. He is known as the originator of social learning theory and the theoretical construct of self-efficacy, and is also responsible for the influential 1961 Bobo doll experiment. A 2002 survey ranked Bandura as the fourth most-frequently cited psychologist of all time, behind B. F. Skinner, Sigmund Freud, and Jean Piaget, and as the most cited living one.[1] Bandura is widely described as the greatest living psychologist,[2][3][4][5] and as one of the most influential psychologists of all time.[6][7] Personal life[edit]
A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work.m4v. #etmooc - Connected Learning Session - January 21, 2013. Connected Learning Infographic. Happy Birthday Alec Couros. Guerrilla Connectivism: 10 Tips for Taking Control of your Education. I recently had the misfortune of taking a week-long training course on project management.
Is blogging on the decline in 2013. Corporate blogging is on the decline as reported here: Study blogging in decline as social media takes over.
Here is a post relating to the decline of blogs. Here is an update in 2012. Blogging declines for the first time among the Inc. 500. Fifty percent of the 2010 Inc. 500 had a corporate blog, up from 45% in 2009 and 39% in 2008. In this new 2011 study, the use of blogging dropped to 37%. I think 2013 would see further decline in blogging, as I have shared my findings in 2011.
Blogs went largely unchallenged until Facebook reshaped consumer behavior with its all-purpose hub for posting everything social. My observation was that many bloggers in the past few years have slowed down in blogging, and have shifted to Twitter, Facebook and Google + in the posting of links. What Makes a MOOC Massive? Responding to a LinkedIn Discussion.
When people ask me what makes a MOOC 'massive' I respond in terms of the *capacity* of the MOOC rather than any absolute numbers. In particular, my focus is on the development of a network structure, as opposed to a group structure, to manage the course. In a network structure there isn't any central focus, for example, a central discussion. Different people discuss different topics in different places (Twitter, Google Groups, Facebook, whatever) as they wish. The internet is happening to education. “How did you go bankrupt?”
“Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” -Hemingway I’ve been involved in higher education for fifteen years. Thoughts on Innovations in Education. Rhizomatic Learning – Why we teach? It’s my week at #change11.
My topic? Rhizomatic Learning. A True History of the MOOC. Online Courses Look for a Business Model. Response to critiques of Open Course Educause article and the free economy generally. Earlier this year, while George Siemens and I were working our way through teaching the Edfutures course, we were contacted by the fine folks at the Educause review and asked to contribute an article on ‘the open course.’
I’ve been fortunate enough to run a few open courses now, some inside and some outside of the academy, and while we’ve yet to do formal research on the topic, I felt pretty comfortable taking a run at what is, in the sense that we mean ‘open course’ a very recent development. The article has recently been published, and while there has been some positive response ( willrich45and courosa for instance) one particular blogger has raised some valid concerns about some issues that may have been taken as read for that particular issue of educause… I thought i might address them here. Dave Cormier talks Openness. What is a MOOC? Peer-to-Peer Learning Handbook. All Things PLN. Session Login. #etmooc reflections. What is #etmooc? And why you should join us… #ETMOOC is an opportunity.
The very worst thing that could happen to you if you join #ETMOOC is that you could learn a few new things, and connect with a few new learners, like yourself. It’s free.