Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2009
George Siemens on Jul 5th 2009
Given the interest in the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course Stephen and I delivered in 2008, we’re pleased to announce an open version of the same course for fall of this year.
You can register to receive course information here. The course will be delivered in the same method as last year: content and conversations will be open. Learners that would like formal credit as part of the Certificate in Emerging Technologies for Learning can enroll through University of Manitoba’s Extended Education Faculty.
The course will begin on September 14, 2009.
If you were registered for The Daily last year, you will need to register again (the archives from last year are still available, but we are starting with a new subscriber base).
What will we be doing differently this year?
We will again open up the course so participants can take the course in any direction/space/mode that they find useful. Our goal is to provide a starting point for participants to build a distributed infrastructure for innovative conversations.
The content of the course will change somewhat, and we’ll bring in a new group of guest speakers.
Two areas of interest personally:
I would also like to see a greater focus on research. If you are interested in conducting research on the course, please contact us.
Given advancements in “messing with data”, I would love to see the the creative genius of people like Tony Hirst applied to producing innovative constellations of patterns of conversations.
Over the next few weeks, we will update the course site/wiki, schedule, and speakers list. Suggestions, as always, are welcome…
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Round 2: Connectivism and Connective Knowledge - elearnspace Jul 5th 2009 at 04:25 pm 1
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Mike Bogle Jul 5th 2009 at 05:43 pm 2
Best of luck with the course guys. Should be a great time!
Cheers,
Mike
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Roel Cantada Jul 6th 2009 at 06:56 am 4
Great news!
I was enrolled in CCK08 last time as a non-credit student. I am interested in conducting a study of the CCK09 Moodle discussion by using something like an SNA Analysis tool here http://www.randomsyntax.com/blackboard-forum-social-network-analysis/ or something that could be developed in the future here http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=114490 .
I’m thinking of tracking the development of ties in each forum.
Is this possible, and what are the requirements for allowing such a study?
gsiemens Jul 6th 2009 at 09:01 am 5
As the data is open (i.e. it is an open course – not password protected), analysis can be performed on the course forums and blogs. Conducting and SNA on blog conversations would be more difficult, but equally valuable. The course is not centralized as most courses are. This presents some difficulty in identifying contributors/participants and tracking how they relate/connect to others.
Mike Bogle Jul 6th 2009 at 08:12 pm 6
One suggestion/request I forgot to mention, last time around there was a tremendous amount of reading material available for offline consumption (which was great), but not much in the way of podcasts or vodcasts. If there is anyway to make these sorts of materials available [for long commutes into Sydney for example
] it would be fantastic.
I don’t believe tools like Elluminate support this sort of thing, but Blip.TV does (which was used a couple of times). Even something like PDF copies of the weekly presentations + MP3 of the audio portion would be great.
Cheers,
Mike
Benjamin Jul 7th 2009 at 05:41 am 7
After taking CCK08, I’m looking forward to CCK09. I am particularly interested in the new focus this year on research!
ruthdemitroff Jul 7th 2009 at 01:49 pm 8
Last time everything was new for me so I was cramming info like crazy. Maybe it’s my age but I like the idea of taking a course twice – the first time for the information and the second time for greater appreciation and a broader view.
Michelle Jul 8th 2009 at 05:07 am 9
It would be really interesting if this years CCK09 were to coincide with the launch of Google Wave due later this year!
Maybe the timing would be off…but GW does look promising for the kind of connectivity/conversation aspect of learning on the web you guys attempt in the CCK.
At least – it does on the surface of things anyway.
m.
liz renshaw Jul 11th 2009 at 01:33 am 10
I’ll be giving this course a go again. 2008 was my first venture into Connectivism and I spent much time trying to find my way around. I feel better prepared this go. Looking for to the second time round for greater appreciation and opportunity to engage more fully in different forums.
David M. Jul 13th 2009 at 10:03 am 11
Is there any way to give K12 educators a unique space to have discussions about the implications of connectivism in the K12 classroom? The conversations last year were very academic (and thoroughly interesting) but I felt that a few of us K12 folks felt a little lost in the waves of collegiate discussions.
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Roland Jul 14th 2009 at 11:59 am 13
I must admit I felt a bit overwhelmed while I tried to participate in 2008. Like @Liz I feel better prepared now.
A practical question: how will we use Twitter? Using a hashtag (I guess #CCK09)? Do we refer to a connectivism account? (last year we used http://www.twitter.com/cck08).
Fernando José Capeletto Jul 15th 2009 at 08:59 am 14
Hi teatcher George, i sent you a email about cck09 to same email which you send us the elearning resources.
thanks.
George Siemens Jul 18th 2009 at 08:08 pm 15
Thanks for your comments:
David – appreciate the suggestion. We’ll see how we can better incorporate the k-12 sector. In the past, we’ve left things open. i.e. – if you feel something is needed, pick up the ball and run with it
.
Roland – CCK09 will be the course tag…not sure how we’ll use twitter. We might just use our existing twitter accounts (mine is gsiemens, stephens is downes).
Mike – we’ll try and do more with podcasts/vodcasts. Good suggestion.
George
Ignatia/Inge de Waard Jul 27th 2009 at 05:35 am 16
Dear all,
Great that the CCK09 is launched. I will gladly attend this years course after having been a non-credit student last year.
@Mike and @George: an easy way to turn some of the blogposts into a podcast (audio) that can be downloaded, is to include odiogo (http://www.odiogo.com/) into a blog-site. It is free and I have been using it for some time and I like it. The blogposts are transformed to an audio post after having posted them (it takes approx 1 hour depending on the amount and length of posts needed to be transformed). The odiogo can also be added to a feed URL, so nice, free and easy option.
Hope to hear/read/see you all this fall.
Cheers
Mike Bogle Jul 28th 2009 at 06:37 pm 17
@Ignatia – I actually had that plugin installed on my blog for a while. It’s a pretty handy tool, though it sounds like Stephen Hawking did the voice recording
Mary Rearick Aug 9th 2009 at 05:11 pm 18
I am returning to CCK09. I am delighted that George and Stephen have again invited people to experience and explore teaching and learning in a massive open online course and to conduct inquiry and research into eLearning (and teaching). I enjoyed the dialogue and the intellectual stimulation during CCK08. I feel appreciation for so many of the participants, having read their blogs and visited their websites. I was able to gain insights into the manner in which the evolution of the online ecosystem is influencing the manner in which people communicate and share data and information, thanks to Jay Collier. I was able to get some first-hand experience participating in the world of cloud computing, thanks to Stephen Downes and those CCK08 participants (Mike Bogle, Lisa Lane) who provided assistance so I could gain access to the learning environment. I appreciated Graham Atwell’s and Stephen Downes’ Slide Share presentations, particularly the explanations of the Personal Learning Environment. I was familiar with George Seimen’s theorizing about Connectivism prior to the course. I realized during the course that this living theory of learning and teaching is being tried and tested and applied and problematized by participants and critics. Graham Conole and Nancy White provided me with insight into how to design the learning environment and learning in online/hybrid format course in ways that were welcoming to and supportive of learners. I was intrigued by the way participants, like Wendy Drexler, used the experience to create content (The Networked Student) that is useful to others. I appreciate discussing research design and methodology with Sui Fai Mac John.
I am reflecting on how I made sense of the experience as a participant in CCK08. I will continue to document and reflect on my learning in CCK09. My goal is to improve teaching and learning in literacy education. The questions that drive my inquiry and research are aligned with those of researchers who contributed to the Handbook of Research on the New Literacies, Coiro, Leu, Lankshear (2008).
Additionally, I am interested in the manner in which data and content from the Internet is used by researchers. I read Christine Hine (Virtual Ethnography, 2000) and Annette Markam and Nancy Bahm (Internet Inquiry, 2008) in an effort to gain their perspective on internet inquiry. I know some participants from CCK08 who have formed research teams and are writing up their results. Since people are conducting research, using data from the course, I wonder what designs principles, ethics, issues, and methods are people using? Where are they sharing the work? Personally, I am interested in documenting specific instances, performances or objects that provide me/us with access to the technological, intellectual and rhetorical space and my/our understanding of literacy practices and processes that might help me and others to learn on our own and with others.
I am pleased to see that CCK09 is open to non-credit learners. A colleague, who will be a credit learner, has decided to take the course with me this time around. He may be able help me with technical issues so that I can participate more fully in the experience. I would like to set up a PLE and to join some of the groups, but most of them require user names and passwords, and it is difficult to keep them all straight. I need some help. Recently, I learned of something called an Open ID. What is Open ID? Will the Open ID replace all of the names and passwords that have already been created?
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