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Connectivism and the Primal Scream 26 Jul 2013 | 03:33 am
Keith Brennan writes a well-thought-out and evenly expressed criticism of connectivism as it is applied in connectivist MOOCs. It's worth taking the time to read it in full before proceeding with this...
Technology Integration in K-12 4 Jul 2013 | 04:48 pm
I was asked, 1. Community - teaching can be a lonely profession, and it's easy to think you face problems nobody else faces. One of the greatest aspect of the internet is its ability to connect peopl...
RSS Changeover Day Experiences 2 Jul 2013 | 12:29 am
So today is the day Google Reader is vanishing from the web. What next? Well, I've done my duty and saved my Google RSS data, and now I'm looking for a new reader. Digg RSS Reader - http://www.digg.c...
What I Wish I Had Learned in School 15 Jun 2013 | 01:13 am
School for me was not really a pleasant experience. Oh, sure, it had its moments, but it was a struggle. On the one hand, we had the typical high school curriculum, which was about as exciting as past...
The Open Road 12 Jun 2013 | 10:22 pm
Right now, the government awards road-building contracts to large construction companies. But imagine the government decided to end these contracts, and to simply grant anyone who wanted to build a ro...
Ongoing Digital Citizenry Training 11 Jun 2013 | 12:04 am
Responses to comments on my recent online talk, in preparation for my keynote in Caracas in a couple weeks. Commenter voices are in italics. The original forum and comments are all in Spanish; I'm wor...
On Being in the Public Service 10 Jun 2013 | 10:00 pm
I could probably obtain employment in the private sector, and it remains my back-up plan should the current gig at NRC come to an end (I continue to be 'unqualified' to obtain employment at a universi...
What's Ours 3 Jun 2013 | 11:59 pm
As it was purchasing Tumblr, Yahoo was also quietly making changes to the Flickr photo sharing service. Flickr has been one of Yahoo's few success stories recently, and this was the first major revisi...
MOOC - La résurgence de la communauté dans l'apprentissage en ligne 30 May 2013 | 10:49 pm
Texte de ma conférence a Edmunston - pour plus, svp voir http://www.downes.ca/presentation/317 Dans cette présentation, Stephen Downes aborde la question à savoir comment les MOOC (massive open onlin...
MOOC - The Resurgence of Community in Online Learning 30 May 2013 | 10:47 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE In this presentation Stephen Downes addresses the question of how massive open online courses (MOOCs) will impact the future of distance educatio...
