#change11 Open Space Binary Participants?
Do open space participants either consent or vote with their feet/ walk away? If the open space is a group, this is probably true. In a network, it is different. Read more…
#change11 Lower layers of connectivism?
In the beginning, connectivism was considered on three layers: neural, conceptual, and social/ external. What has become of the former two layers? For me this is a problem because I cannot grasp that societal knowledge is similarly residing in connections as individual knowledge. Read more…
Repurpose
This is interesting: Repurposing morphs into creativity.
Repurpose is a powerful concept. It allows to pick up the emphasis on one thing and utilize it for the emphasis on another thing which is somehow related to the original thing. So the emphasis on repurposing itself can be (creatively) repurposed into the emphasis on creativity. Can “repurpose” even be repurposed into “morph” such that “repurposing” [...]
Learning as By-Product
Remix of links and quotations about happiness and learning as by-products, and induction vs. transmission. Read more…
#change11 Slow Learning Visualized
Connectivism talks about conceptual connections of varying strength, and learning involves gradually strengthening connections. I visualize these slowly growing connections like ridges emerging from the ground, and I think the time lapse video of ebbing tide shows them nicely.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/suraky/4230976574/
#change11 Decreasing Engagement in MOOCs
Course facilitators and critics are unsettled about the increasing drop-out rate in MOOCs. Being far from active this time myself, I want to share my speculations about the reason for this. Read more…
#change11 Abundance for Diversity and Breadth
I think the main point for abundance is that it may foster diversity. Under certain preconditions, it offers the best chance to generate a true, authentic, random statistical kind of diversity which can finally lead to a representative, exemplary breadth of learning, because is destroys the illusion that one could still gain some comprehensive core knowledge, or some unbiased curated selection. Read more…
#change11 Massiveness and Diversity
Can lacking massiveness be somehow compensated? For example, can the consequential lack of participants’ diversity be compensated by a diversity of resources? I doubt this. Read more…
#change11 Moodle Forum or gRSShopper
Responding to Rita Kop who said in a comment at Tony Bates’ blog:
“Perhaps the decision to leave out the learning management system from the Change MOOC has not been a wise one”.
I once supported this decision and I still do. Read more…
#change11 Change from within
Responding to Tony Bates’ question “Can universities or colleges change from within…”: I think, yes, All the most promising technological benefits that I can think of, leverage some new middle way/ in-between, some new gradual possibility, or some new mixture/ combination — that are all well compatible with incremental embracing. Read more…