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• CCK08 Weekly Chat #4

  Posted: October 3rd, 2008, 10:25pm GMT

  CCK08 Weekly Chat #4 Submitted by admin on Fri, 2008-10-03 22:25. Other Shows cck08 59:04 minutes (27.04 MB) Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Online Course Week#4 Discussion October 3, 2008

  
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• CCK08 - Prerequisites, or Advance Organizers?

  Posted: October 3rd, 2008, 5:31pm GMT

  I listened to the CCK08 ustream discussion this morning, moderated by Dave Cormier.  Dave mentioned his recent blog post about his thoughts on the course at the quarter mark.  He discusses the need for Prerequisite Literacies: Prerequisite Literacies I think this kind of course needs a very specific description of what people are goign to need to know in order to be able to participate effectively. This might also include go forward models in terms of how people might go about doing that. For

  
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• CCK08 - Short Paper 1 - Position on Connectivism

  Posted: October 3rd, 2008, 2:37pm GMT

  Well, it ’s time to write the first short paper. I take this assignment as a welcome advice from the facilitators because, despite I found nothing interesting to say regarding the issues of weeks 2 and 3, I now need to verify where I am.. So, my position on connectivism… Easy! I feel literally immersed in connectivism! But it’s a feeling, something “instinctive”, as Andreas says. Perhaps it is natural, since I am a professional in networking, communication, education. It’s easy for me to be c

  
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• Innovate: Downes on MOOCs and CCK08

  Posted: October 3rd, 2008, 1:39pm GMT

  Over the last several weeks, we have seen a substantial amount of conversation on open education, open teaching, and accreditation. Rather timely then that Stephen Downes' article in the latest issue (free registration required) of Innovate is focused on our Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course. He details how the course is set up, technologies used, participant contributions, language translations, and other delivery modalities (in Second Life, for example).

  
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• Online Professors for Free

  Posted: October 3rd, 2008, 6:21am GMT

  New York Times has an article about the best of online professors. Now that many universities are making their lectures available online for free, sometimes directly and sometimes through services like iTunesU, the next logical step is to separate the wheat from the chaff. Who are the best? Read the article.

  
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