Brainstorm in Progress

I have never been comfortable with proclamations by educators or scientists (and yes, there is a difference) about how the brain wor...

A social network diagram ( Wikipedia ) I have been looking at social constructivism and the social generation of knowledge over the...

Internet Penetration (% Population). Red indicates no statistics available. ( Wikipedia ) I read an article this week that I found v...

Stephen Downes There is an article in the Boston Review by Thomas Leddy called " Are MOOCs Good for Students? " In this arti...

Debate Chamber of the Oxford Union Society ( Wikipedia ) Everything Old is New Again In my last post I pointed o...

I love all the arguments from the 1990s that were leveled at online teaching and learning that are now being leveled at MOOCs. I re-read a...

I have just moved to Humboldt State University . The college is fairly rural but we get a lot of folks from urban areas. I over heard a ve...

Stephen Downes (Photo credit: WordShore ) Educators who have not taken a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) and do not un...

George Siemens (Photo credit: heloukee ) I am very interested in the instructional design of MOOCs. While I was worki...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) What does the "open" in "open education resources" mean? What it should mean is ...

George Siemens at TEDxNYED. ( Wikipedia ) A few of us from today's NGLC presentation " MOOCs: open online courses...

E-learning (  London College of Fashion ) An editorial piece in the New York Times on July 19th by Mark Edmundson attempts to tel...