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What Makes a MOOC a MOOC?

ID Reflections

When George Siemens , Dave Cormier and Stephen Downes came up with the concept in 2008, they had a vision of how a “learning design” based on Connectivism could change the face of learning and collaboration. The OER movement was the trigger for the MOOCs then. Refer to Harold Jarche’ blog for a deeper understanding of PKM.

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Uberizing Organizational Learning – Thinking Beyond Courses

ID Reflections

We have to think agile, instant, accessible, contextual, micro-sized, real time… We need to uberize organizational learning. Curate from existing sources – Tap into MOOCs, and other existing OERs. Note that content creation – so far the forte of most L&D folks – is not a part of this.

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Top 40 eLearning Articles and 5 Hot Topics for Early March

eLearning Learning Posts

Learning powered by technology - elearnspace , March 12, 2010 The National Education Technology Plan reads like a somewhat random mix of concepts that have been discussed in various blogs and forums over the last decade: connected learning, 21st century skills, data-driven improvement, learning networks, life-wide learning, etc.