E-Learning Provocateur

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The grassroots of learning

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I had read a few blog posts by Dave Cormier (the godfather of the philosophy) and I follow the intrepid Soozie Bea (a card-carrying disciple), but unfortunately I missed Dave’s #rhizo14 mooc earlier in the year. Since I’ve been blogging about the semantics of education lately, I thought it high time to dig a little deeper.

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My 1-liners from ElNet 2011

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Aside: Tom’s insight reminds me of one of my earliest blog posts, Text ain’t half bad , and aligns with thoughts I’m having currently about mobile learning. Stay tuned… ;o). Aside: What happened to online courses? They died , that’s what.

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Social networking is king

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Kate Albright-Hanna , the Director of Video for the 2008 Obama presidential campaign. Over 5000 enthusiastic members chat online, comment on the blog, post messages, upload photos, and keep track of their calendar of events. Kate described a similar approach in her session How was new media a game-changer in the 2008 US elections?