open thinking

George Siemens presented “Roots of Connectivism” to our EC&I 831 group on September 29, 2009. George provided a basic understanding of various theories of knowledge & learning (e.g., behaviorism, cognitivism, social constructivism, constructionism, neuroscience) as he led us toward a theory of connectivism. I warned my students beforehand that the presentation would be theoretically heavy, [...]

 

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Recently, I have been conceptualizing/personalizing the concept of open teaching as informed by my facilitation of EC&I 831 and ECMP 455. In my view, open teaching goes well beyond the parameters of the Free and Open Source Software movement, beyond the advocacy of open content and copyleft licenses, and beyond open access. For open teaching, [...]

While I do not agree with all of the assumptions regarding human connectivity in this article by Neil Swidey, the main point of this article has me thinking. Are our tools of ubiquitous connectivity “dulling our very capacity to ever be alone, or alone in our thoughts”? I know it’s not a new idea, but [...]

It was our great pleasure to have had George Siemens as our guest in EC&I 831 on January 20, 2009. As requested, George gave us an overview of the changing views of knowledge in society, talked about Connectivism, and described the recent CCK08 experience.
The full Elluminate session was recorded and is available here. However, I [...]

 Connectivism & CCK08 - George Siemens for EC&I 831-Winter2009 (mp3): Download

George Siemens delivered an excellent, information-packed presentation to the students of EC & I 831 this past Tuesday.

- Kyle took and shared some notes in Google Docs.
- I’ve wikied a session summary
- The Elluminate session is available here.
I also streamed a portion of my screen through uStream to a backchannel audience. Many tweeters came out [...]