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• The CCK08 MOOC - Connectivism course, 1/4 way

  Posted: October 2nd, 2008, 3:02pm GMT

  To the best of my knowledge, the term “MOOC” comes out of a skype chat conversation I had with George Siemens about what exactly he would call this thing he and Stephen Downes were doing so I could call it something for the ETT show were were planning on the subject. We threw a bunch of possibilities around, and I dropped MOOC into the connectivism wiki, and, yesterday, someone asked me to do a presentation on the topic. 3 months. crazy. I’m not going to dial down into specifics of how the cour

  
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• Open courses, certificates and accreditation

  Posted: October 2nd, 2008, 1:45pm GMT

  This article by Jeffrey Young started a quite large discussion about open courses, more or less hacked certificates, accreditation of informal learning etc. I feel so much implicated, since Jeff specifically mentioned me as a case of a person who, after having attended the almost famous (or should I say notorious? ) OpenEd2007 course, received a home-made certificate from the instructor (with some doubt, as Jeff says, also on the legitimacy of this act…), put it in his/her CV and/or used it

  
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• CCK08 Short Paper 1: Your position on Connectivism

  Posted: October 2nd, 2008, 9:29am GMT

  To read about connectivism is somewhat funny for me. Something like … { learning { what I was feeling to know { that knowledge is not propositional } in some non-propositional way } in propositional form } My position on connectivism is in some way instinctive. With a physical sciences background it is difficult to cope with all the discussions focused on accepting conne

  
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• My Position on Connectivism

  Posted: October 2nd, 2008, 1:25am GMT

  What follows is my submission for CCK08 Short Paper 1 Connectivism is a new theory of learning and knowledge that seeks to explain how the scale and scope of information, depth and levels of discourse and interaction, and technological opportunities that have emerged in the wake of the Digital Age have affected the learning process. Connectivism can be classified as a learning theory due to its embodiment of five key principles (Siemens, Sept. 2008): We have a need to externalise to make sen

  
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