I had the good fortune earlier this week to be invited to participate in a Google Hangout to explore the story of ETMOOC, a connectivist MOOC initiated in 2013 by Alec Couros, a professor of educational technology at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. The Hangout was a part of Week 5 of Connected … Continue reading Experimenting with cMOOC design and facilitation: The continuing story started by #ETMOOC
Category: Digital pedagogy & literacy
Teaching uncertainly #rhizo14
The topic for this past week in #rhizo14 was embracing uncertainty. A familiar topic in my work context. Kimberly Scott, the Director of the Master's Program in Learning & Organizational Change (my professional home), openly tells graduate students to get used to playing in the ambiguity sandbox. We joke about adding a course to the … Continue reading Teaching uncertainly #rhizo14
At a pub with 2,000 of your closest friends
Earlier this week I jumped into two Twitter chats that were happening simultaneously. One is an on-going reunion of participants from #etmooc. The other is part of a new, school-year-long professional development forum called Open Online Experience 2013 (#ooe13), a venture that also grew out of the #etmooc community. That #etmooc connection between the two … Continue reading At a pub with 2,000 of your closest friends
Personal learning networks – notes and resources
Some thoughts and partial thoughts as I work through a collection of readings and resources on personal learning networks (PLNs) as they apply broadly to professionals and learners of all types. These readings will be part of Exploring PLNs: Practical Issues for Organizations, an open online seminar I will be co-facilitating this Fall. Alison Seaman … Continue reading Personal learning networks – notes and resources
Half baked, revisited
I've been thinking a good deal lately about personal learning networks (PLNs) and their relationship to organizational knowledge sharing and collaboration. Or maybe not so much thinking as observing. Observing the emergence of new PLNs. PLNs are the result of an individual being a connected and effective digital, networked learner. For me personally, it's a … Continue reading Half baked, revisited
Jeff Merrell 