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Emergent Learning and Learning Ecologies in Web 2.0
Oct 05, 2011 11:00 AM Mountain Time (Canada) Emergent Learning and Learning Ecologies in Web 2.0 – online research seminar for Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research (CIDER) at Athabasca...
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Embodied Learning
At what point do we forget or cease to think about intelligence as being embodied and think of it only in terms of our brains and minds. Little children naturally use their bodies for learning. Most...
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Footprints of Emergence in CPsquare
We had a great discussion about our recent paper Footprints of Emergence in CPsquare’s Research and Dissertations Series of presentations last night. By we I mean, Roy Williams, Simone Gumtau and...
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Emergent learning: the designer’s role, the learner’s experience
Discussions about our recently published paper, Footprints of Emergence, continue, particularly with respect to the relationship between curriculum design intentions and the learner experience. We...
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Engestrom, Wenger and Emergent Learning
In a recent great discussion in CPsquare about the changing role of the learning facilitator, Brenda Kaulback posted this video of Yrjo Engestrom being interviewed about his work by Chris Jones This...
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OLDSMOOC Design
Despite the launch hiccup, OLDSMOOC appears to be off to a flying start. There is a lot of activity in the Google group discussion forums and on Cloudworks. These are the links I have so far gathered:...
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Describing open learning environments and emergent learning
Recent work on developing our framework for describing emergent learning (see Footprints of Emergence and Emergent Learning and Learning Ecologies in Web 2.0 ) has been taxing our powers of...
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Returning to Emergent Learning
Following our (Roy Williams, Simone Gumtau and me) last publication in IRRODL – Footprints of Emergence – we have continued to think about the factors which influence the potential for emergent...
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ALT-C 2013 Learning in the Open
Earlier today I attended the online platform preview webinar for ALT-C 2013. The platform is impressive and easy to navigate. The webinar was useful because it prompted me to get organized and to blog...
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Almost ready for ALT-C 2013
ALT-C 2013 is now less than a week away and I think we (Roy Williams and I) are almost ready for our workshop on Tuesday 10th Sept at 3.00 pm – Learning in the Open. There’s nothing like having to be...
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Full Circle to Stephen Downes at ALT-C 2013
Stephen Downes is the final keynote speaker at ALT-C this year. His session will be broadcast LIVE on Thursday 12 Sept at 2.00 pm (See the programme here ). Unfortunately I won’t be there, but it will...
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Footprints in Frankfurt – GMW2013
Photo by Claudia Bremer – https://twitter.com/clbremer/status/375864881255170048 This is a photo of Jutta Pauschenwein at the GMW2013 conference in Frankfurt, where Jutta and her colleagues Gudrun...
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Emergent Learning at ALTC2103
ALT-C is in its second day. I am no longer there and am trying to follow what’s going on via the Twitter stream, but it doesn’t work for me. It’s like being in a crowded room and catching snippets of...
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Footprints of Emergence – so what?
I anticipated that we would get this question at our ALT-C workshop, Learning in the Open, and we did get it. Or rather, we got the comment – ‘I can’t see the point of all this’. I anticipated the...
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Emily Dickinson and Emergent Learning
Source of image – Wikipedia I would never have suspected that two separate activities this week could come together so closely. At the beginning of the week I was at the ALT-C conference with Roy...
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Progress in Learning – lessons from painting and poetry
I am once again amazed by how I keep coming across poems (in the ModPo MOOC) that resonate with the research I am currently working on with my colleagues Roy Williams and Jutta Pauschenwein. This week...
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Openness, constraint and emergence
Openness does not mean that anything goes. Even openness of mind does not mean this. In our work on emergent learning, we (Roy Williams, Simone Gumtau, Regina Karousou and I) have in the papers we have...
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What is Emergent Learning? Why is it relevant?
This week and next week we will be discussing these questions with the SCoPE community and others. See below for details. In his Ted Talk earlier this year, Sugata Mitra explained that we now live in a...
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Questions about Emergent Learning
We had a great webinar on Emergent Learning on Tuesday, courtesy of Sylvia Currie and the SCoPE community at BCcampus. It’s really stimulating to discover others ‘out there’ who are as interested in...
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Lassoing the coltish concepts of Emergent Learning and MOOCs
Why is it that when we find something wonderfully creative, emergent and innovative, we often try to ‘capture’ it, constrain and contain it, package it, order it, thereby effectively destroying what it...
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