I have now had the chance to read The Edupunks' Guide and can now form some opinions based on what I've seen. And if I were forced to summarize my critique in a nutshell, it would be this. Edupunk, as described by the putative subculture, is the idea of 'learning by doing it yourself'. Let me explain. Suppose a person wanted to learn Thai cooking. MORE >>

Don't get too excited by the title. But I do want to share a few thoughts. It was running through my head just now, the work that we were doing here in Moncton to work on an e-learning cluster. And I was thinking about some of the things that didn't go so well in our first few years. The whole Web 2.0 thing. And they weren't interested. Can't work. MORE >>

( version française ) In recent years I have been working on two major concepts:first, the connectivist theory of online learning, which views learning as anetwork process; and second, the massive open online course, or MOOC, which isan instantiation of that process. These generations span more than a 20-year period. But it didn't take hold. Web 2.0 MORE >>

Presented to the Best Practices in Upgrading Online,Calgary, via Adobe Connect, March 29, 2011 The very first thing I want to do is to counter thedisclaimer that frightened me as this session opened, it was very loud, andsaid all kinds of things about how this was all private and cannot be shared.You can share this presentation all you want. Not so. MORE >>

I intended this to be a comment to Dave Warlick's post on the subject, but his comment system won't accept my submission. think that this post shows the futility of anyone trying to claim credit for the term. link] This use, although dates, is consistent with uses of the term today. link] Milton Ramirez (tonnet) uses the term on June 10, 2003. MORE >>