Curtis Bonk led a session about MOOCs at Learning 2012. His slides are available at TrainingShare (this is the direct link). His presentation must have been one of the most insanely paced sessions I have ever been to. That is a compliment by the way. What is a MOOC? Start here: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc] Curtis' presentation consisted … Continue reading MOOCs, Motivation, and the Mass Movement toward Open Education
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Notes on the Monday Morning General Session at Masie’s Learning 2012
The first general session at Learning 2012 on Monday started with the two writers of the Webinar Manifesto (which is available for free as a Kindle e-book for the next two days and is a project by FranklinCovey). They discussed some of the seven principles of the manifesto: Connect or Die Don't Default Shut Down … Continue reading Notes on the Monday Morning General Session at Masie’s Learning 2012
Elliott Masie’s Learning 2012 – Opening Night
These few days I (and 1600 others) will be attending Elliott Masie's Learning 2012. I will be hosting a session with Marcel de Leeuwe and will be blogging about what I see. The opening evening started with Lisa Nicole Wilkerson singing Defying Gravity, one of the themes of the conference. Masie then made a comparison … Continue reading Elliott Masie’s Learning 2012 – Opening Night
Werken = Leren & Leren ≠ Werken
Today I keynoted the Dutch Moodlemoot (mootnl12). I talked about how current times force us to let go of curricula, why it is more important than anything else to teach students how to learn, what it means to work in a knowledge society (work becomes synonymous with learning) and what this might mean for a … Continue reading Werken = Leren & Leren ≠ Werken
Reflecting on South by Southwest (SxSW) 2012
It has been a few months since I attended SxSW in Austin. Time to do a bit of reflection and see which things have stuck with me as major takeaways and trends to remember. Let me start by saying that going there has changed the way I think about learning and technology in many tacit … Continue reading Reflecting on South by Southwest (SxSW) 2012