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• Connectivism & Connective Knowledge Blog
• CCK08 Participants (Technorati search)

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• Dekita Kitchen - Getting to know each other
• Dekita Kitchen - Recognition of skills and experience
• Dekita Kitchen - How will you engage in the course?

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• Janet Hawtin : Weblog
• My Connectivism Blog
• adVancEducation
• Connectivism by the Nile
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CCK08 Participants (Technorati search)

• The Pre-Grading Golden Age

  Posted: October 1st, 2008, 11:23pm GMT

  [photo by Thomas Levinson] I couldn’t find the thread George mentions, but questions about our grading system and the invocation of William Farish are interesting to consider. The history of grading as we know it, as laid in the article that George links to, can use some expansion. In that article, we learn that Farish instituted his grading system in 1792 or later. But there is an interesting parallel (?) development outlined in a 1993 Educational Forum article: The history of grading in

  
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• Community

  Posted: October 1st, 2008, 7:21pm GMT

  In 1993, Howard Rheingold referred to a "virtual community'' as a place where community members meet, collaborate, and support one another emotionally. I wonder in how many virtual communities are you considered a member?I am a member of the Edtechtalk community (a rather annoying one at that), a member of a Twitter group, a member of The Bloggers' Cafe in Second Life, as well as several other SL groups, and a member of the NECC virtual attendees badge-carrying club (ok, just kidding).I have h

  
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• CCK08: Who owns the knowledge?

  Posted: October 1st, 2008, 11:58am GMT

  If my experiences in open courses like 'Facilitating Online Communities' and 'Connectivism and Connective Knowledge' are anything to go by, I could be forgiven for saying that online open access education had well and truly arrived. Indeed, educators such as Graham Attwell, who has talked about the 'explosion of open learning' in his latest blog post, appear to agree. And my own boss, Phil Ker has recently announced that my institution, Otago Polytechnic, will be anchoring an International Centr

  
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• Open Learning is here - where next?

  Posted: October 1st, 2008, 9:10am GMT

  First we had open educational resources. This was a step forward but the resources were variable in quality, hard to find and were often tied to courses which made them hard to use for self study. Those issues haven’t gone away but improvements in search technologies and a wider general conciousness about the value of self publishing open resources means it is increasingly easy to find what you want. And now we are witnessing an explosion in open learning. Of course there are the big publicity

  
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