CCK11 Announcements and Posts

CCK11 Particiant Survey

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:28:51 -0400

The survey is an important part of a research to detect the experience made in CCK11, suggestions and personal view of participants and seek for information to qualify the PLE usability in a connectivist approach.

It includes 14 open/closed questions (in order to gather detailed comments and opinions), divided into three categories related to:
- the attendance of the course
- the used technologies
- the specific personal views

Take the survey here:

part I (questions 1-7): http://questionpro.com/t/AFqmyZJt5R
part II (questions 8-14): http://questionpro.com/t/AFqmnZJugz

I will share with you the final results of the survey.

Dr. Luisa dall'Acqua
Cognitive Scientist - Senior Knowledge Management and Instructional Design Researcher
GSi EDU-Research Group - Switzerland , , April 13, 2011 [Comment]

End of the Course

Fri, 8 Apr 2011 05:41:08 -0400

This is the last edition of The Daily for CCK11. We'd like to thank you for your participation. Please join us for the last online session (see below) as we wrap up and reflect on the last 12 weeks. , , April 8, 2011 [Comment]

Friday Live Session

Fri, 8 Apr 2011 05:36:45 -0400

Friday: Live Session in Elluminate. Click here to access Elluminate.

Time: 8:00 p.m. Moscow; 5:00 p.m. London; 12 noon New York; 9:00 a.m. Los Angeles; midnight Thursday Beijing. Check your time zone here , , April 8, 2011 [Comment]

Wednesday Live Session

Wed, 6 Apr 2011 05:16:42 -0400

Wednesday: Live Session: Location: Elluminate. Click here to access Elluminate. Special Guest, Stian Haklev.

PLEASE note changed time from regular sessions two hours earlier

Time: 6:00 p.m. Moscow; 3:00 p.m. London; 10 am New York; 7:00 a.m. Los Angeles; Check your time zone here , , April 6, 2011 [Comment]

Week 12: Changing Views

Sun, 3 Apr 2011 18:49:05 -0400

Overview

The last several decades have brought about significant change in the information cycle (creation, validation, sharing, repurposing) and in how people interact with each other. Each era creates institutions that reflect the information-based needs they face. Libraries in Alexandria, the Academy in Greece, churches in the middle ages, and schools/universities (~800 years ago). If we want to understand the institutions a society will create, we must first understand the nature and attributes of information of that era. And that's what we've been doing so far in CCK11.

Readings

George Siemens, New structures and spaces of learning: The systemic impact of connective knowledge, connectivism, and networked learning

Michael A. Peters,

Higher Education, Globalization, and the Knowledge Economy (.pdf)

Stephen Downes, The Future of Online Learning and The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On

Seminars

Wednesday: Live Session: Location: Elluminate Stian Haklev
PLEASE note changed time from regular sessions Time:6:00 p.m. Moscow; 3:00 p.m. London; 10 am New York; 7:00 a.m. Los Angeles;
Friday: Live Session: Location: Elluminate Facilitator's discussion.
Time:8:00 p.m. Moscow; 5:00 p.m. London; 12 noon New York; 9:00 a.m. Los Angeles; midnight Saturday Beijing

, , April 3, 2011 [Comment]

April 8 Audio Recording

Fri, 8 Apr 2011 12:11:45 -0400

April 8 Audio Recording Stephen Downes, CCK11, April 8, 2011 [Link] [Comment]

Patterns of Change

Wed, 6 Apr 2011 05:23:16 -0400

Change is with us every day. Life would not be possible without it. Change may seem chaotic and unpredictable, but most change occurs in patterns that we can see and recognize.

This post isn't an attempt to be the final word on patterns of change. Rather, it is an attempt to introduce the idea and encourage people to think systematically about it. Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, April 6, 2011 [Link] [Comment]

Networking Distributed Public Expertise: Strategies for Citizen Sourcing Advice to Government

Tue, 5 Apr 2011 11:58:40 -0400

This is a really good paper not just on learning but on governance in general. Don't skip this one. Bill Dutton gets this right. "The very notion of crowds and crowd sourcing is misleading.ii In order to capture distributed intelligence, networks of individuals must be cultivated and managed. As argued in this paper, they are not crowds. Networking platforms and management strategies must be carefully developed to capture the value of distributed expertise."

He makes a subtle point, which is masked a bit by the terminology. "Citizens are more than constituents, whose opinions are equally legitimate. Citizens also have the potential to be experts on particular issues... Citizens are not necessarily experts, but any given citizen might conceivably have expertise in some specific areas." If you just count people's opinions, you are ignoring the person's connection to the issue. You need to allow people with the interest, skills and expertise to contribute to a solution to connect with each other and to develop the solution themselves.

This kind of organization develops through three stages:
- Sharing - The ability to create linked documents, data, and objects within a distributed network
- Contributing - The ability to employ social networking applications of the Web to facilitate group communication
- Co-creating - The ability for individuals to collaborate through networks that facilitate cooperative group work toward shared goals

Via Seb Schmoller, who summarizes Hutton's nine strategies for for fostering bottom up initiatives to harness distributed public expertise. William H. Dutton, SSRN, April 5, 2011 [Link] [Comment]