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September 23, 2011

Friday Wrap-Up

No live meeting for today as we figure out what we're doing for a synchronous conferencing solution. We'll be back next Wednesday at 12:00 Eastern time (5:00 London, UK, time) with Martin Weller.

In the meantime, we encourage you to coordinate your own activities. This week's speaker, for example, has been participating in the Facebook discussion. Create a Second Life site, discussion group, online game, video pool - whatever you want!

If you create something, email stephen@downes.ca and we'll post your item on the web-based activities page and put the link into the daily newsletter.

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Presentation

Mobile learning (m-learning) at the Open University Malaysia
This page contains the audio recording, video recording, and slides created to accompany the live session with Zoraini Wati Abas on the topic of Mobile learning (m-learning) at the Open University Malaysia. The session provided an overview of m-learning at OUM, some of the issues and challenges faced during the implementation and ideas for the future. #week2 [FUZE Recording] Presentation by Zoraini Wati Abas, #change11, , [Link]

Blog Posts

This is a list of the blog posts mentioning the change11 keyword or tag harvested from the list of blogs submitted by participants.
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Facilitator, invitation to join the MOOC and play with us
jaapsoft2, connectiv
Do facilitators just give a lecture and disappear from change/Mooc? Do facilitators shoot and run away from the game? Most facilitators do talk a lot. Time for questions out of the audience often is too short. If facilitators could enter the discussion on Facebook, Twitter, change.mooc.ca and answer questions, reply to blogs about their presentation [...] [Link] Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:17:29 +0000 [Comment]

Change Mooc Week 2 Content
dmaclean2011, dmaclean2011
http://change.mooc.ca/week02.htm Fascinating content relating to large scale mobile learning at the Open University of [Link] Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:43:07 +0000 [Comment]

MOOC migrants
wgreller, Reflections on the Knowledge Society
It’s fascinating to see yet another “massive open online course” (MOOC) shaping up. Having attended half a dozen MOOCs by now, I consider myself a veteran – and a migrant! That is moving from one MOOC to the next. I am not alone in this, as there is by now a substantial group of “hardcore” [...] [Link] Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:12:06 +0000 [Comment]

Twitter Updates for 2011-09-23
t.stafford, Desperately Seeking Fusion™
Join VMG today 1pm EST for live discussion about Week 2 topics. Call or join the chat http://ow.ly/6yB77 #change11 #VMG #tmstaffordllc # RT about Research: blended learning increases university student results: http://ow.ly/6Aykn #highered #elearning @tmstaffordllc # RT Top 20 Must-Have Educational iPhone & iPad Apps Used By Real Teachers in the Classroom http://t.co/lPLMFvfA #mlearning @tmstaffordllc [...] [Link] Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:00:00 +0000 [Comment]

"Or Equivalent" | iterating toward openness
Group members, Best content in change11 | Diigo - Groups
Comments:Badges as alternative to sheepskin -- will employers go there? - Tai ArnoldHighlights and Sticky Notes:The point is that there isn't currently a very good way to show you know what you're doing other than to have a branded piece of paper that claims you do.Tags: #change11, badges, MOOCby: Tai [Link] Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:00:35 -0000 [Comment]

mLearning is a fad!
AK, Multilitteratus Incognitus
Ha! Got you to look!OK! OK!, all juvenile attempts to get attention aside, I don't really mean what I wrote in the title! It was a not-so-clever ploy to get you to this post.  As a matter of fact mLearning is not a fad! Well, I guess if you consider Computers in general to be a fad, then mLearning and mobile devices are a fad too, I guess it depends on your world view.  For me, and for the mainstream mLearning is a nice extension to learning that should be explored and .... [Link] Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:35:00 +0000 [Comment]

Keeping up with the MOOC
Mary Lee Newman, Keeping up with change
We had our first live session in the Change 2011 MOOC yesterday.  It was a great experience as I'd hoped, but not for the reasons I'd expected.  One reason for  joining the MOOC was just to see how it worked, and the live session didn't "work," at least not at first. The session was held using Big Blue Button, an open source conferencing program.  When I tried to enter the conference, I kept getting an installation notice.  .... [Link] Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:46:00 +0000 [Comment]

Lessons in new media: don’t forget the old, simple stuff
rolandlegrand, MixedRealities
Interesting experience at the Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) #change11 during this week’s live session. One of the main lessons: do not underestimate simple tools. First, the presentation by professor Zoraini's project of implementing mobile technology in Open University Malaysia. It demonstrated how using good old sms helped motivating and guiding the students. On [Link] Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:41:19 +0000 [Comment]

#Change11 Pedagogy, Mobile Learning and Assessment in MOOC
suifaijohnmak, Learner Weblog
Should pedagogy come first? We are going to have an education system (VET) here in Australia where the learners decide what, who, when, where, how and why they are learning. So, it is no longer just about pedagogy or technology … Continue reading → [Link] Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:55:24 +0000 [Comment]

#change11 Double, double, toil and trouble ...
Sue Hellman, Small Changes; BIG RETURNS
I've been watching a video presentation about Doug Belshaw's 2010 about the importance of not taking a one-size-fits-all approach to implementing mobile learning (or any other educational reform for that matter). There's something about change in education that has concerned me for a long time, and I've been around long enough to witness several swings of the pendulum from traditional to reformist approaches. What starts out as a creative innovation that solves one .... [Link] Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:32:00 -0700 [Comment]

Communicating change in #change11
Terri Ann Guingab, Reflections of a Lifelong Learner
Fascinating to watch yesterday’s presentation on Mobile Learning by Zoraini Wait Abas. I was initially worried going in about the cost of mobile learning. Cell and network service is ridiculously less expensive in Asian countries than it is here in the States. But it seemed that there were only 31 messages sent throughout the length [...] [Link] [Comment]

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Life presentation on #change11
brainysmurf, 104 - connectiv, September 22, 2011.

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Thanks for this suggestion - perhaps one week we could have three live meetings in total? 1. a warm-up to discuss the theme and readings and develop questions 2. the scheduled speaker presentation 3. the review to discuss what we heard and [Comment]

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MOOCs are like Chinese Buffets
brainysmurf, 122 - Sylvia's Site, September 22, 2011.

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I like this...maybe the mooc is a buffet where you bring your own serving dish. It's as big or as small as you like. You might take a heaping pile one day, a smaller bowl the next and nothing but dessert the day after that. I've used the buffet metaphor recently in describing moocs to my superiors. I compared them to the fixed menu of formal learning that requires selection of one appetizer, one main course and one dessert, to be served in that order. A buffet is individualized, offers variety and choice, and usually a low inclusive price. You might even get insights from your fellow eaters who recommend one dish over [Comment]

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Metaphors for a MOOC
brainysmurf, 173 - The MOOCow, September 22, 2011.

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Really useful metaphors, Jennifer. Building on the library example, I can think of The Daily as my card catalogue (for those of us old enough to remember what that is). I can flip through resources by author, by title, by keyword, sequentially or randomly. Others are helping to 'categorize' the information exchange through bookmarks, tweets, etc. Thankfully, as of others have stated, it isn't a 'shush' library...it's more like a conference room with huge bookshelves and endless nooks where you can go off to read quietly or discuss with others. Some of the 'books' have notes pencilled in the margins for the next reader to ponder. Will have to ponder this a little more... [Comment]

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Big (blue) Bang
brainysmurf, 55 - WayUpNorth's Blog, September 22, 2011.

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Great synopsis, Jim! I just heard about geo-thermal energy discoveries in the Yukon so I'm thinking in parallel that those of us who hung in there yesterday were uncovering our own sources of energy deep beneath the [Comment]

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Comments

These are individual comments posted today to the discussion threads (for new discussion threads, see the list above).

VanceS, Re: Recording: Zoraini Wati Abas, We ARE a friendly group of testers. Personally ....
vheerme1, Re: Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia, My e-mail is vheerme1@unisa.ac.za Thanks,
hostbbb, Re: Recording: Zoraini Wati Abas, After looking at the BigblueButton Server Logs ....
Zoraini Wati Abas, Re: Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia, Dear vheerme1, I'll be glad to share the ....
Mariana Affronti Figari, Re: Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia, Hi, im going to write in Spanish. En mi país. ....
Mary Karpel, Re: Just a first question about learning #change11, Steve, what you say really resonates with me. I ....
Zoraini Wati Abas, Re: Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia, Dear Umair, I am so glad to be able to say that ....
vheerme1, Re: Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia, Zoraini, would you mind sharing your ....
Jasmin Hamadeh, Re: Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia, Thank you Prinsp / Paul for taking the effort ....
umair.qureshi, Re: Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia, I really like this article and thank you for ....
VCVaile, Re: Engaging (or not) in #change11, Yet as long as someone notices and comments, the ....
Michael Cenkner, Re: #change11.Steven Johnson (2010). Where good ideas come from., i'm with dan, above, on this one. i wouldn&#....
Trey Buchanan, Re: #change11.Steven Johnson (2010). Where good ideas come from., Cris: Thanks for suggesting Howard's ....
Steve Kashdan, Re: Just a first question about learning #change11, I have been reading through various posts but ....
Zoraini Wati Abas, Re: Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia, Dear Nikos, You are so very right. The ....
Nikos Aspiotis, Re: Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia, First of all thank you very much for sharing the ....
prinsp, Re: Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia, Dear all - several participants requested me to ....
Jasmin Hamadeh, Re: Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia, Dear Prinsp, might there be a chance of ....
Daniel Spielmann, Re: My learning experiences on MOOC in Week1, I am very interested in the question how ....
zoraini, Re: Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia, The Unisa experience shows that we can get ....
prinsp, Re: Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia, At the University of South Africa (Unisa), we ....
Cris Crissman, Re: #change11.Steven Johnson (2010). Where good ideas come from., "like crossing a bridge from the actual to the ....
zoraini, Re: Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia, Dear vheerme1, Good comment. We had a few ....
zoraini, Re: Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia, Dear Jasmin, We collected feedback via focus ....
zoraini, Re: Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia, Dear Chris, The cost for every SMS sent was MYR ....
zoraini, Re: Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia, Thanks Sylvia. We did spend a lot of time in ....
Sylvia Rogers, Re: Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia, I enjoyed reading the article. I'm ....
Sylvia Rogers, Re: Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia, I enjoyed reading the article. I'm ....
Chris Teplovs, Re: Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia, Interesting study. Some of us who are ....
Trey Buchanan, Re: #change11.Steven Johnson (2010). Where good ideas come from., Thanks for posting the link, Cris. Reading ....
simkathy, Re: #Change11 MOOC Digital Scholarship & Future of Learning, Yes you point to a seismic shift in authenticity, ....
kevin, Re: My learning experiences on MOOC in Week1, thanks for your encourage,i will try my best to ....