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October 10, 2011

Welcome to Week 5: David Wiley

Welcome to week 5 of the Change MOOC!

This week, David Wiley will facilitate a discussion on the history, and future, or open learning.

We haven't scheduled a live session yet, but we are attempting to arrange a session on Wednesday.

On Friday of this week, we're going to try something a bit different with the crew of DTLT (http://blip.tv/dtlttoday). More info will be posted as the week progresses.

week05 [Comment]

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Feature Article

David Wiley
Introductory essay by David Wiley for week05 summarizing his contribution to the field. He writes, "I would like to invite students to reflect on the practical impact on people they would like to their educational technology / educational research work to have. What kind of change do they want to see in the world? What will they have to do, personally, to create that change?"

David Wiley, October 9, 2011 [Link] [Comment]

Facilitator Posts

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Discussion Threads on #change11
Various Authors, #change11, October 7, 2011.

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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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Fragments
T, lúcidaTranslúcida
Yes, .....! Fragmentation of knowledge is different of fragments of knowledge.Fragmentation means that the more separate than united.But we used fragments of our knowledge with others we will be expanding our collective learning.Connect the fragments of knowledge in the ecosystem of open and participatory learning enables the creation of meaning.The strength of bond that unites us is the social [Link] 2011-10-09T17:35:00.000-07:00 [Comment]

Digital Resilience : The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice : Bloomsbury Academic
Group members, Best content in change11 | Diigo - Groups
Highlights and Sticky Notes:George Siemens (2010) has argued that academia should take ownership of the open education debate before it is hijacked, and given the above history, I would agree.The loss of ownership of some of these core academic functions occurred not because of the technology but rather because the scholarly community failed to engage with itcommercialisation of education did indeed occur, but not because academics went along with it unwittingly but because insufficient .... [Link] Sun, 09 Oct 2011 23:04:49 -0000 [Comment]

The Medals of Our Defeats : The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice : Bloomsbury Academic
Group members, Best content in change11 | Diigo - Groups
Highlights and Sticky Notes:Nicholas Carr's (2008) article 'Is Google Making Us Stupid?' struck a chord with many people. Carr's (2010) argument, which he fleshes out in his book The Shallows, is that our continual use of the net induces a superficiality to our behaviour. He says this is felt particularly when trying to read a complex piece:The issue of quality is perhaps more keenly felt when we consider teaching. I raised the idea of pedagogy of abundance in Chapter 8, .... [Link] Sun, 09 Oct 2011 21:29:30 -0000 [Comment]

Publishing : The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice : Bloomsbury Academic
Group members, Best content in change11 | Diigo - Groups
Tags: scholarshipby: Rob [Link] Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:47:52 -0000 [Comment]

Reward and Tenure : The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice : Bloomsbury Academic
Group members, Best content in change11 | Diigo - Groups
Highlights and Sticky Notes:you have to do social media to get social media. Given that many senior managers and professors in universities are not people who are disposed towards using these tools, there is a lack of understanding about them at the level which is required to implement significant change in the institution.Tags: scholarshipby: Rob [Link] Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:12:49 -0000 [Comment]

Network Weather : The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice : Bloomsbury Academic
Group members, Best content in change11 | Diigo - Groups
Highlights and Sticky Notes:the use of digital, networked open tools and approaches will have an impact on some areas of scholarly practice, which in turn will affect all scholars, regardless of whether they themselves use the technologies or not.Network weather - Rob ParsonsTags: scholarshipby: Rob [Link] Sun, 09 Oct 2011 19:20:43 -0000 [Comment]

MOOC Discussion #change11
dmaclean2011, dmaclean2011
http://ht.ly/6RPWI Came across an interesting discussion (sorry, lost the original user on Twitter) about the connectivism MOOC, which raised many comments about the validity of moocs. Some people disagree with the concept, some are obviously entrenched academics with an axe to grind. The most useful comments (for me) came from those who have taken part in [...] [Link] Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:48:26 +0000 [Comment]

Openness in Education : The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice : Bloomsbury Academic
Group members, Best content in change11 | Diigo - Groups
Highlights and Sticky Notes:Anderson (2009) suggests a number of activities that characterise the open scholars, including that they create, use and contribute open educational resources, self-archive,From my own experience I would propose the following set of characteristics and suggest that open scholars are likely to adopt these.Leslie (2008) comments on the ease of this everyday sharing, compared with the complexity inherent in many institutional approaches:citation levels of articles that .... [Link] Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:15:51 -0000 [Comment]

Main Articles: 'New Schemas for Mapping Pedagogies and Technologies', Ariadne Issue 56
Group members, Best content in change11 | Diigo - Groups
Tags: conole, ariadne, pedagogy, web2.0, learning, e-learningby: Rob [Link] Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:54:22 -0000 [Comment]

References : The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice : Bloomsbury Academic
Group members, Best content in change11 | Diigo - Groups
Highlights and Sticky Notes:Link doesn't work. Copy and paste the url - the document's worth reading. - Rob ParsonsTags: scholarshipby: Rob [Link] Sun, 09 Oct 2011 10:16:32 -0000 [Comment]

FlipSnack | WebTool Mashup
Group members, Best content in change11 | Diigo - Groups
Comments:Blooms Taxonomy vs Intelligences - in a mashup of Web 2.0 - Allan QuartlyTags: change11, blooms, mashup, web2.0, Intelligences, technologyby: Allan [Link] Sun, 09 Oct 2011 12:13:19 -0000 [Comment]

A Pedagogy of Abundance : The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice : Bloomsbury Academic
Group members, Best content in change11 | Diigo - Groups
Tags: scholarshipby: Rob [Link] Sun, 09 Oct 2011 11:57:46 -0000 [Comment]

Public Engagement as Collateral Damage : The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice : Bloomsbury Academic
Group members, Best content in change11 | Diigo - Groups
Highlights and Sticky Notes:'Public engagement' involves specialists in higher education listening to, developing their understanding of, and interacting with non-specialists. The 'public' includes individuals and groups who do not currently have a formal relationship with an HEI through teaching, research or knowledge transfer.As exemplified by the currently difficult area of "public understanding of science", which is a very good example of where academics need .... [Link] Sun, 09 Oct 2011 10:12:18 -0000 [Comment]

#Change11 The challenges of technology on education system and the wicked problems
suifaijohnmak, Learner Weblog
Here is my response to Bonnie’s comments on my previous post. Thanks Bonnie for your insights. Yes: “we seem both more connected and fractured, to me, at a global society level, than we know how to deal with.” The more connected … Continue reading → [Link] Sun, 09 Oct 2011 07:54:22 +0000 [Comment]

Twitter Updates for 2011-10-09
t.stafford, Desperately Seeking Fusion™
RT How do you use Google Earth in the classroom? Send us your thoughts: http://t.co/l6z1tZSn #edtech #learning @Virtualismg @tmstaffordllc # RT @hpteachexchange: The Right Tech Tool at the Right Time http://t.co/KDDG85uP #k12 #education @Virtualismg @tmstaffordllc # RT Free Technology for Teachers: http://ht.ly/6Qdje #education #edtech #elearning @Virtualismg @tmstaffordllc # RT "Technology may be the best way [...] [Link] Sun, 09 Oct 2011 06:00:00 +0000 [Comment]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-10-09
t.stafford, Desperately Seeking Fusion™
RT How do you use Google Earth in the classroom? Send us your thoughts: http://t.co/l6z1tZSn #edtech #learning @Virtualismg @tmstaffordllc # RT @hpteachexchange: The Right Tech Tool at the Right Time http://t.co/KDDG85uP #k12 #education @Virtualismg @tmstaffordllc # RT Free Technology for Teachers: http://ht.ly/6Qdje #education #edtech #elearning @Virtualismg @tmstaffordllc # RT "Technology may be the best way [...] [Link] Sun, 09 Oct 2011 07:58:00 +0000 [Comment]

Collective Learning Explained
George, Educational Technology - Insights
(#change11)This is Allison Littlejohn's presentation on Collective Learning, described in terms of her research of the use of this in an international company (with colleagues).This was not a topic that I initially had much interest in, but the MOOC has really thrown light on something I would not otherwise had considered.The model that Littlejohn describes (see previous post Tools for Collective Learning) shows that this is a discipline in development and she provides a credible model of .... [Link] 2011-10-08T17:50:00.000-06:00 [Comment]

#change11 yet another MOOC posting!
Cathy, Cathy Anderson
I can remember being quite excited a few years ago by some of the ideas, challenges, and strategies I discovered being presented by John Seeley Brown.   He is the author or coauthor of several books and articles including:  A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change  and The Power [...] Related posts:#change11 or what is a MOOC? Yesterday I started participating in a MOOC. What is a... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts .... [Link] Sat, 08 Oct 2011 23:16:43 +0000 [Comment]

Collective Learning and Expanding Knowledge Spaces
Paul Tracy, Getting (r)Smarter
Week four of the Change MOOC was about Collective Learning. It was moderated by Allison Littlejohn, Chair of Learning Technology at the Caledonian Academy of Scotland. This segment has been the best organized in this MOOC so far. Run from her personal website, Littlejohn made the effort of treating this as a traditional learning platform and gave the week some structure even providing assignments as tasks. The week focused on how we use collective knowledge to learn; particularly in the .... [Link] Sat, 08 Oct 2011 09:47:00 -0700 [Comment]

#Change11 New model for Higher Education created through Organizational Learning Contract | Learner Weblog
Group members, Best content in change11 | Diigo - Groups
Tags: contract, education, #change11by: Константин Бугайчук [Link] Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:14:10 -0000 [Comment]

Quality assurance in Asian distance education: Diverse approaches and common culture | Jung | The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
Group members, Best content in change11 | Diigo - Groups
Tags: asian, distance learningby: Константин Бугайчук [Link] Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:20:05 -0000 [Comment]

Finding and losing your voice in the collective
jennymackness, Jenny Connected
'How do we find the knowledge that we need in the collective space?' 'What are the binding forces that bring knowledge resources and people together?' These two questions have been raised this week by Allison Littlejohn – in Change Mooc 11 –  and also discussed with Lou McGill . Reference to ‘binding forces’ made my [...] [Link] Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:24:30 +0000 [Comment]

Two days of global learning in Barcelona ….
Sigi Jakob, School-Networking
Yes, I was in Barcelona for 2 days, and yes,I  strongly felt beeing there and if you don’t believe me go to the twitter timeline on #eLChair11. In reality I was sitting at my desk in my Italian home and connecting via streamed video and twitter to the VIII INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR OF THE UNESCO CHAIR [...] [Link] Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:26:42 +0000 [Comment]

#Change11 The MOOC experience and some propositions
suifaijohnmak, Learner Weblog
In this post on Why Universities should experiment with Open Online Courses(with recording here), George was surprised (and disappointed) to read some of the comments left here. Photo: Google Image Here is part of my previous post in response: May I put these … Continue reading → [Link] Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:22:11 +0000 [Comment]

#change11 No such word as Kant
shukie, Shukies Web
Well, what a conundrum, I feel that I have truly had a revolution, not Copernican but as substantial in its impact - looking at Connectivism, I have had an illuminating journey, and there is no doubt, one that was experiential as much as one based on theoretical reasoning.  I found the MOOC an exciting adventure, much of the time, depsite being lost contsantly, and swamped by the requirements of new networks, and forms of connecting, it was 'just .... [Link] Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:36:00 +0000 [Comment]

#change11 Courses for Horses
shukie, Shukies Web
Hi Marklink to the Mooc is here - http://change.mooc.ca/index.htmlI think over the last few weeks I have considered the point of you that you describe, and I feel it is changing. the academic community is in fact academic communities - there are peer reviewed journals online and the peer reviewing takes the form of active, real-time, visible discussion - I think it is richer for that, not least because of the visibility of it - the hidden, reified mystery of the journal is less and less .... [Link] Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:35:00 +0000 [Comment]

#Change11 New model for Higher Education created through Organizational Learning Contract
suifaijohnmak, Learner Weblog
I came across this New Model for Higher Education created through Organizational Learning Contract. Photo: Google Image I will need to peruse the book so as to better understand how it works.   It sounds useful for preparing students for … Continue reading → [Link] Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:17:54 +0000 [Comment]

The evolution of the web - Summify
Group members, Best content in change11 | Diigo - Groups
Tags: web, evolution, web2.0by: Константин Бугайчук [Link] Sat, 08 Oct 2011 06:53:54 -0000 [Comment]

Twitter Updates for 2011-10-08
t.stafford, Desperately Seeking Fusion™
RT The Net Generation and Teacher Training http://t.co/NPlxy9OG #connectivism #net #education #elearning @Virtualismg @tmstaffordllc # RT Wow! An interactive look at the creations of Steve Jobs and Apple: http://ow.ly/6QiDH @Virtualismg @tmstaffordllc # RT Teachers learn to embrace technology instead of putting it up: http://t.co/UKGjqooS @Virtualismg @tmstaffordllc # RT The E-learning Daily is out! http://t.co/JUF8abFh ▸ [...] [Link] Sat, 08 Oct 2011 06:00:00 +0000 [Comment]

#Change11 Can children educate themselves? Of course!
suifaijohnmak, Learner Weblog
This post on how children educate themselves sounds interesting.   Can children educate themselves.  Of course.  However, what does it mean by education by themselves? This led me to ask more questions than having answers to how children educate themselves.  My … Continue reading → [Link] Sat, 08 Oct 2011 02:49:47 +0000 [Comment]

Blog content distribution as social literacy: repurposing/distribution across learning communities (#Change11)
Michael Sean Gallagher, michael sean gallagher
See the full gallery on Posterous I was reading a chapter called Looking from the Inside In: Academic Blogging as New Literacy by Julia Davies and Guy Merchant from the New Literacies Sampler and enjoyed the take on academic blogging and the multimodalities that come along with blogging. The new literacies involved in crafting and interpreting these multimodal works as visual constructs. A lot of this was fostered by my recent participation/lurking with the #Change11 MOOC, which .... [Link] Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:54:47 -0700 [Comment]

Gnawing on the Bone: Recognizing and Accrediting Emergent Learning
Tai, Tai MOOCing About
I keep returning to to the connection between prior learning assessment methodologies and abundance of content. Abundant content is insufficient in creating the conditions for learning, but it does significantly change the ecology for learning. The notion that people design and engage in their own self-directed learning was well documented by Allen Tough in 1971 in his book Adult's Learning Projects: A Fresh Approach to Theory and Practice in Adult Learning. (The full text is .... [Link] Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:03:00 +0000 [Comment]

Seeking Meaning to Collective knowledge
Greg Walker, Open Learning Connections
I am currently working with faculty from 7 different  community colleges to create authentic online learning experiences.  We meet weekly in  a synchronous environment using Blackboard Collaborate . Each member has a Google document they use to  share, brainstorm and provide feedback … Continue reading → [Link] Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:46:16 +0000 [Comment]

On being subsumed…
Lou Mcgill, loumcgill
Yesterday during Allison Littlejohn's talk for change11, I mentioned something I have been thinking about as a result of conversations with Allison about collective learning, openness and literacy. I'd like to outline the thinking behind my question in this blogpost. Background Allison talks in her learning ecosystems post about the relationship between OERs,  literacies and [...] [Link] Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:34:50 +0000 [Comment]

#Change11 Why Education is Difficult and Contentious?
suifaijohnmak, Learner Weblog
In this Why Education is Difficult and Contentious by Dr. Kieran Egan: Education is conceived as comprising of three general purposes: - Socialization - Academic - Developmental “It is generally assumed that these ideas are essential components of any reasonable educational program, … Continue reading → [Link] Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:33:11 +0000 [Comment]

#Change11 Collective Learning – Reflection
suifaijohnmak, Learner Weblog
Allison Littlejohn posted in the Change MOOC “The aim of this week is to introduce collective learning. By 'collective learning' we mean how people learn through sourcing, using and making sense of the collective knowledge – the knowledge stored in … Continue reading → [Link] Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:59:35 +0000 [Comment]

Criticism of MOOCs – add-on
jupidu, ZML Didaktik / Innovative Learning Scenarios
In his ELEARNSPACE George Siemens comments  the reaction to his on innterview on Why Universities Should Experiment With 'Massive Open [Link] Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:06:11 +0000 [Comment]

Do we need to know one another when sharing?
AK, Multilitteratus Incognitus
The other day I came across a recent #change11 post by Jaap on his blog and there was an interesting question:Do we need to know each other when we are sharing knowledge and collaborating?This is a case where I had an immediate response, then I thought back to my own personal examples of sharing...and then I ended up with no answer at all, but rather I was left with a giant question mark (i.e. this needs some research)My initial answer, without giving it much thought, was: of course we need to .... [Link] Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:18:00 +0000 [Comment]

Twitter Updates for 2011-10-07
t.stafford, Desperately Seeking Fusion™
RT Teaching information literacy online http://t.co/Onj6eZ1x #elearning #ICT #digitaliteracy @Virtualismg @tmstaffordllc # RT The History of #Online Education http://t.co/9cuZceOG #eLearning @Virtualismg @tmstaffordllc # RT Online-Learning Growth Is Confirmed by Education Dept. Report http://ow.ly/6OAwD #edchat #elearning @Virtualismg @tmstaffordllc # RT Future Perceptions of Distance Learning | @scoopit http://t.co/zmKy4lN4 #elearning @Virtualismg @tmstaffordllc # Powered by Twitter [Link] Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:00:00 +0000 [Comment]

task5
Allison, littlebylittlejohn.com
COLLECTIVE LEARNING: reflections This is the last day of the week on collective learning, we hope you have enjoyed thinking about some of the issues we have presented and discussed. In our work, we have tried to define the knowledge actions underpinning collective learning as described in the post (http://littlebylittlejohn.com/collective-learning-and-charting/): connect, consume, create, contribute. Using [...] [Link] Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:58:56 +0000 [Comment]

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Comments

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

Rainbowhill, Re: Frustrated with the #change11 RSS feed. Technical difficulties, I haven't checked since moving to the OPML ....
Claudia LAmoreaux, Re: The A-Z Dictionary of Educational Twitter Hashtags - Edudemic, Irenshaw, I wanted to respond to your comment on ....
sphinney, Re: Frustrated with the #change11 RSS feed. Technical difficulties, No, I hadn't noticed because I had been ....
Matthias Melcher, Re: Frustrated with the #change11 RSS feed. Technical difficulties, Have you seen that Stephen fixed