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A serious examination on learner participation in open information communities.
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Learner Participation In
Open Information Communities
a.k.a. “Dear goodness, where art thou Higher Ed?”
So dudes and dudettes, E-learning should finally evolve
from mere content uploading to earn a name, ‘E-learning 2.0.’
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Stephen Downese-Learning Guru
True, bro.
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But why are the usual comments that I hear with e-learning still like “How can I
upload my content and design my quizzes?”
And sure Stephen, the Internet has evolved, 2.0 and whatnot, but isn’t the majority of e-learning still quite badly
designed and just plain …
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So, there’s like a media revolution or something happening on the Web x.0. I hear people are ‘inter-acting’ in big
numbers and stuff.
Zie Internet is full of stuff to learn from, and people to learn
with.
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Isn’t the Internet opening whole new ways of connecting the students with the world?
What he said, but in writing (and with a couple
of thoughts of my own)
Dudes, I think there’s logic in this. The world is growingly online, let us then empirically observe
and experience ‘online’.
Hee hee, a funny comment that the learners could use open web platforms
1. with often better usability, 2. which they already use to interact,
also for learning (with a capital L)!
How funny is that?!
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Like, totally not happening!
They try to kill me, but I ain’t goin’ away!
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Alas! New enemies lurk in the East…(errm, actually the West)
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…the question of open access learning…
So people, “to MOOC or not to MOOC”, or is that even the question?
We need to be rigorous!
We’ll just stare away, perhaps it goes away!
I’m ready for some MOOCin’ if you are:
“MOOC, MOOC, MOOC!”
MOOC? I don’t have anything to say, but… MOOC!
Did someone just say “money”?
OMG, we are already late!!!!
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I’m here just for the picture, man.
…human learning is no longer just text.
Downes 2.0, re-visited…
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OMG, now they are coming for the libraries too!
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Damn, once again they misunderstood something.
Where’s the poisonous chalice this time?
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in
politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
Why just interact with the ‘text’ when we can
interact in various ways?
…students no longer expect or want predigested information and
prestructured learning events.
Don Tapscotta Guru
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…and the burning question of personalized learning
Who said that?!
Who dares to question the assembly line?!
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References:Bonk, C. J. (2009). The World is Open. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.Downes, S. (2005). E-Learning 2.0. Retrieved from http://www.downes.ca/post/31741
Kudos for Stephen, and thanks Curt for the inspiring
source material.
