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My Top 10 movers and shakers

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I learn so much from these people, and I dare say you will too. Click the image below to discover my Top 10 movers and shakers in the Asia-Pacific region… This is by no means an exhaustive list, but rather a hat tip to a small selection of generous education professionals who think out loud and work out loud.

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Constructive criticism of Coursera

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In other words, I completed the course as far as my personal learning needs are concerned, while still feeding the naysayers’ MOOCs-are-a-failure-because-their-completion-rate-is-low argument. I use the term completed loosely, because while I consumed all the content, I didn’t submit any of the assignments.

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Viva la evolution

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But L&D’s real and untapped value will be in the nurturing of learners, working with SMEs to provide digestible chunks of information, designing bite-sized resources and providing study guides and recommended personal learning plans so learning becomes more individual and task based.

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The grassroots of learning

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Other aspects of the subject (for instance, the rapid advances in technology, and the pedagogical shifts towards social and informal learning) could not be compared against any such canon. urbie Much of it still holds true, particularly the foundational concepts. Other stuff was out of date the next day :0P #lrnchat.

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Instructivism, constructivism or connectivism?

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In a previous article , I provided the following examples of potential information sources that the learner could incorporate into their personal learning network: Social bookmarks. At this point, a connectivist approach empowers the learner to extend their knowledge by proxy. News feeds, podcasts, blogs, wikis and discussion forums.

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Connectivism and the modern learner

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This is the new process of “learning&#. In a sense, connectivism is about self-organising our personal learning networks. In other words, we need to recognise meaningful patterns among distributed sets of information. We don’t have all knowledge in our heads right now, nor do we necessarily want it.

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