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Open Education Week and the Open Movement: A Tribute
In writing recently about concepts of time, collaboration, and learning, I could have sought formal publication with payment and traditional copyright protections as I’ve done for some of the other...
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MOOCS: Additional Reflections on Great (and Not-So-Great) Expectations
We’re far from finished with our efforts to determine how massive open online courses (MOOCs) will fit into our learning landscape, recently published articles and personal experiences continue to...
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On Learning, Testing, and Being Tone Deaf
There are plenty of reasons to believe that multiple-choice and true-false tests are among the worst ways to measure whether learning is successful; in the best of circumstances, they tend to measure...
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#etmooc and #lrnchat: When Communities of Learning Discuss Community—and...
There was no need this week to read yet another book or article on how to effectively create and nurture great communities. Participating in live online sessions with colleagues in two wonderful...
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Time Travel, Personal Learning Networks, and Rhizomatic Growth
Let’s engage in some trainer-teacher-learner time travel; let’s revel in a wonderfully and gloriously circular learning moment whose beginning and end have not yet stopped expanding—and won’t if you...
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#etmooc: Singing Happy Birthday to a Course
It’s not often that I’m invited to attend a birthday party for a course—but then again, it’s not often that I find myself immersed in a learning opportunity that produces the sort of sustainable...
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Learning When No One Is at the Center of the Room: Connected Courses MOOC...
Frequent flyers, at one time or another, have the disorienting experience of having to consciously look for reminders of where we are; our minds simply can’t keep up with the frequent leaps between...
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Co-learning, #ccourses, and Keeping the Lights On: #etmooc and the Connected...
We may have a new corollary to one of the most famous lines from the movie It’s a Wonderful Life (“Teacher says, ‘Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.’”): Every time #etmooc is mentioned,...
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Alan Levine, #etmooc, and the cMOOC That Would Not Die
We can cut off its head, fill its mouth with garlic, and drive a stake through its body, but we apparently can’t kill a well-designed, engaging, dynamic learning experience and the community of...
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Alan Levine, #etmooc, and the cMOOC That Would Not Die
We can cut off its head, fill its mouth with garlic, and drive a stake through its body, but we apparently can’t kill a well-designed, engaging, dynamic learning experience and the community of...
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