David Weinberger

AUGUST 22, 2014

The Web was social before it had social networking software. It just hadn’t yet evolved a pervasive layer of software specifically designed to help us be social. a new class of application, unsurprisingly called “social software.” But what sort of sociality were we looking for? The two talks, especially Clay’s, serve as reminders of what the Internet looked like before social networks. Of course this is completely unremarkable now.

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Getting Ready Connectivism is based on the idea that knowledge is essentially the set of connections in a network, and that learning therefore is the process of creating and shaping those networks. The MOOC environment is designed to support both types of learning.

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George Siemens

JULY 4, 2011

In fall, we (TEKRI, NRC, UPEI and possibly a few other organizations) are hosting an open online course. The course will run for about 35 weeks and credit options will be available for students in the Athabasca University MDE program and with Georgia Tech. Over the last decade, I’ve extolled the value of social/technological networks as a means of extending learning opportunities. Since 2007, numerous people have offered some version of open online courses.

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Ross Dawson

APRIL 5, 2011

Last Friday I gave the keynote for the first breakfast seminar run by CADRE , a leading elearning design company, for senior executives of its clients. Learning in a social network world: the new opportunities. • One of the distinctions I brought out in my book Living Networks (and many others have made in various guises) was between Collections and Connections. Keynote speaker Social media Social networks

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

JULY 15, 2009

The Future IMS Learning Design What is the future of learning design? Joel Greenberg My own personal view: maybe the world is moving on, and maybe the idea of 'design' is a bit old fashioned. I have been looking at the world of social networking, and my mind is moving away from the model where we are the experts and package the knowledge and sequence it. The idea is to lead academics to a lightweight narrative, and having them design around it.

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

OCTOBER 7, 2005

Re: Why Intelligent Design Is Going to Win This must be comedy Friday at Tech Central Station. Sure, the United States may well turn to a religion-dominated policy and social agenda; it has happened before. intelligent design people! intelligent design people! The point is, intelligent design is a religion-driven anti-intellectual position adhered to (and directed toward) mostly uneducated people, and it is Not Science. Intelligent design and all, you know?

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Harold Jarche

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Organizational learning is no longer about courses, which are artifacts of a time when information was scarce and connections were few, because that era is over. As with knowledge artisans , many learners now own their knowledge-sharing networks. Courses are stock.

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Charles Jennings

JANUARY 3, 2013

If a chemical engineer is looking to design a new process or parameters for distillation in a chemical plant she may be able to identify the volumes and sequences that produce the highest amount of pure distillate.

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Dave Snowden

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

And of course once blame has been allocated we end up with a visitation from the cultural change specialists with their tool kit of communication plans, key drivers, motivational posters, games and the like. Such cultures are tacit in nature: networked, tribal and fluid.

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Harold Jarche

APRIL 27, 2015

Professor Lynda Gratton at the London Business School outlines five forces in The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here , that will shape the future patterns of work. But our organizations are not designed for complexity.

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George Siemens

JUNE 16, 2012

We will be running an open online course from Oct 8-Nov 16 , 2012, addressing some of the concepts in this post. The patterns of change in higher education are surprisingly similar and global. As a result, they have not developed systemic capacity to function in a digital networked age.

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Massive Open Online Courses Views & Research – The Conversation. They’re especially worried about having to compete with free courses from some of the world’s most exclusive universities. Open Education & Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs).

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Luis Suarez

JUNE 1, 2013

and Social Business, the social evangelists, were starting to become rather scarce and very rare to be seen out there on the Social Web. It is only through understanding that evolution that one can design and justify a means of effectively changing it.

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Jay Cross

MARCH 3, 2012

Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. Working smarter embraces the spirit of agile software, action learning, social networks, and parallel developments in many disciplines.

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Jay Cross

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Working Smarter Daily points to ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 In networks, cooperation trumps collaboration .

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Dave Snowden

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

As interaction happens over time patterns form, and as those patterns stabilise they create irreversible pathways. Now of course Seddon's wider complaint that It people offer things that people don't want, needlessly complicate large projects etc.

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Mark Oehlert

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Don''t silence your cell phone"/Hierarchies of expertise/Narrate your work/Fear Control Trust/Saying the wrong thing/Saying "bad" things/Fog of systems/All learning is socially-mediated/Transmission Loss/Inevitability/Consumerization/Blurring line between work/life/Intuitive situational awareness/No more courses. No more answers – only questions/Pattern recognition/Curation/Be human/Field Independent v.

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Beth Kanter

APRIL 25, 2014

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. Ari Sahagun , a consultant who works with social justice groups on network visualizations, called for a group to discuss Network Mapping and Visualization.

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

AUGUST 24, 2014

The talk is called "Beyond Institutions Personal Learning in a Networked World" and I want to begin with a story that came across the wires recently and I thought was very appropriate for this venue. Not getting the point that learning today is about play and socializing.

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

APRIL 29, 2014

We''ll discuss this too. -- Let''s let Dron introduce connectivism: The Connectivist account of individual learning, in which the nervous system is understood as a neural network with emergent properties and behaviours resulting from its connections that we describe as ''learning'', is certainly compelling. There is one trivial sense in which every theorist agrees that learning is based on a neural network as described - they agree because they have to. If course there is.

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

( 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. During the development of this second generation we saw theconsolidation of computer-based software and content, and the commercializationof the network itself. You can begin to see a pattern developing here.

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John Hagel

JANUARY 18, 2011

  Videogames become so quickly engaging for participants in part because game designers have figured out how to sequence quests so that early ones are relatively easy to accomplish and the expectation of future successes releases more and more dopamine, motivating participants to become more deeply immersed in the game and to engage in more and more challenging quests. The brain over time evolves its wiring patterns. 

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John Hagel

MAY 2, 2007

Andriani and McKelvey focus on the desperate efforts of social “scientists” to fit social phenomena into Gaussian distributions. But it is not just social scientists who fall prey to this temptation to adopt a Gaussian view of the world. Here's to patterns that connect!

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

MAY 30, 2013

In this presentation Stephen Downes addresses the question of how massive open online courses (MOOCs) will impact the future of distance education. slide 1 – MOOC Wordle] My objective in this talk is to address how the massive open online course (MOOC) will impact the future of distance education, and in particular, strategies and examples of the use of MOOCs to promote cultural and linguistic diversity. That gives us four terms: ‘massive’, ‘open’, ‘online’, and ‘course’.

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

On the one hand, there is the xMOOC - this is a formal course created in a site like Coursera or EdX. But there''s another type of MOOC, called the cMOOC, which is based on connection rather than content, which looks more like an online community than a course, and doesn''t have a defined curriculum or formal assignments. One major criticism of the cMOOC is based on the free-form nature of the course. Not everyone is a part of the network. There are two types of MOOCs.

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Ross Dawson

AUGUST 10, 2010

Content partner for the event is Future Exploration Network , which is currently preparing a website and report on iPad and media. Mobile ad networks such as iAd and AdMob will not generate as much revenue as in-house sales. Design and navigation. Social media and social news.

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David Weinberger

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Look at user needs to design services. We should reinvent our spaces, from social spaces to high-tech knowledge commons. We generate lots of data, which allows us to be strategic, looking for patterns of use. Where are we in the economic, social, and cultural changes occurring now? Presence on social networks is very important. But the technology I mentioned is free, although there are training courses.

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Kevin Wheeler

MARCH 3, 2011

Most corporate learning remains traditional, formal, and follows patterns laid down decades ago by firms such as GE and IBM. Instructional designers and professional presenters spend thousands of hours designing training that should, in theory, transfer the needed skills to leaners as fast as possible. They also tap into their social networks such as Facebook or LinkedIn for advice, guidance and practical information.

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George Siemens

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Health insurers combine social media and existing data (credit ratings, location, employment) to more accurately, and cost effectively, assess risk. and social media configurations) has resulted in new modes of connecting with others and generating and sharing information.

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Jay Cross

JULY 30, 2011

Working Smarter Daily draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. The Smart Worker : learning continuously with social media - Jane Hart , July 25, 2011.

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Web 2.0 Personal Knowledge Management Facebook Complexity 109

David Weinberger

MAY 15, 2011

We are not as mobile as we think, and our patterns are more routinized than we’d like to believe. Even if we are well-plugged in to a social network, we’re not going to learn about that which our friends do not know. While social filters are powerful, if they only filter your own network, they are likely to hide more than they show. We should learn from cities when designing Web spaces that enable and encourage serendipity.

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John Hagel

JUNE 14, 2010

People and place rarely are front and center, unless of course the entrepreneur is trying to configure the right management team to go make a pitch to a VC firm on Sandhill Road. The history of Great Resets He has just written a compelling new book, The Great Reset , that takes a longer term historical view of changing patterns in the settlement of people and places. Here’s a paradox.    Silicon Valley’s success hinges on an explosive mix of people and place. 

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Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Working smarter draws ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 Social signals. That’s determined by social factors.

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

OCTOBER 20, 2013

To me, the theory is and always has been ‘learning networks’. This is a play on words: it is in part a theory about using networks to support learning, and in part a theory about how networks learn. It led me to propose content syndication networks in education, and to embrace social media in education. I outlined my theory in the paper ‘Learning Networks’ in 2004 [link] and George wrote his important paper also in 2004.

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Result: Open Social Web Apps Case Study - principle innovation of xMOOCs - studented content in 15-minute chunks - cMOOCs and xMOOCs in social media - two student spresenting to each other - group projects - peer evaluation Context Go-Lab - Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School - mass access to: - scientific data - virtual experiences & simulations - actual scientific labs and instruments - as a means of access applications - eg.

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Harold Jarche

JUNE 1, 2010

Social Bookmarks. Perhaps the simplest way to start sharing organisational knowledge is with social bookmarks. Enter the social bookmark. Social bookmarks are web sites that let you create an account in order to save web pages. Blogging is Networking.

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Tony Karrer

MAY 26, 2009

eLearning Learning Hot List - May 15, 2009 to May 22, 2009 Top Posts The following are the top posts from featured sources based on social signals. Choose the Right Pilot Group - Kapp Notes , May 22, 2009 Presentation: Social Bookmarking with Delicious - Don't Waste Your Time , May 15, 2009 Discovering Instructional Design, Part 1 - The E-Learning Curve , May 19, 2009 Meeting icebreaker-How to get a group to acknowledge differences in perceptions.

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

JANUARY 5, 2015

Organizations aren’t thinking about the ‘networked individual’ – the networking choices and patterns of individual Internet users. They’re still focused on their own organizational information systems and traditional institutional networks. -- William H.

Education 220

Education Patterns Network Resources 220

John Hagel

APRIL 1, 2007

Of course, few of these ventures were actually virtual communities and even fewer had any real understanding of what was required to build sustainable virtual communities. As a result, much of this investment was wasted, consistent with the broader pattern of the dot com bubble.

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We''ve discovered in recent offerings of online courses, people started out enthusiastically, but are unable to finish the course because they''ve run out of time. This is something that does not come from the online course, or even the online environment. Learning looks at the online course, as a course. What I mean by that is the traditional college/university course. learning in many respects begins as a set of course tools for web support.

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Is open online learning or the MOOC, the massive open online course, or informal learning in general doing the sort of thing that we need? People aren''t completing their courses. It''s the basis for instructional design. You start with what you want them to learn, design an experience, cause them to learn it, build in some checks, and see that this has all happened in the end. Of course, the publisher will provide some financial backing. It''s a pattern?recognition

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Of course, he is right. There are different ways of describing this turn; I'll pick one that works for us, though of course we could talk about it in a lot more detail if you wanted. There is a third option, of course, and it is the option that only the mental is real.

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Tony Karrer

MARCH 3, 2008

It was designed to be a small to medium size group discussion, but because the room was large it was very challenging to do that successfully. I discussed the fact that there was a common Adoption Pattern that went from personal adoption to work groups to organization. Question 1 - What are the most likely ways / places your organization might or does use Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking or Collaboration Tools?

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