Only connect…

Connecting now to the massive open online course on connectivism and connective knowledge. I’m looking forward to participating and seeing how the facilitators ‘manage’ the numbers – over 1800 is the estimate but there are only about 350 in the Moodle space for the course. There is a Google Maps page, a Twitter space, a Facebook group, but no way of knowing at a glance who all of my ‘classmates’ are that I’m supposed to be connecting with …. ah well I’m sure something like a class list will emerge from the network as the 12 weeks progress. Maybe that’s part of the adventure – that your connections to the class increase the more you blog, tweet, post on forums, facebook, etc., and you gradually get a more connected sense of the whole. Still, the facilitators must have the uber-list somewhere and it would be good to see it ?

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Educlunk and edugunk

Edupunk took off across the edublogosphere this week – I guess we can now think about educlunk and edugunk!

Educlunk, (n): e-learning software that is, well, clunky! e.g the Blackboard interface, Powerpoint, …

Edugunk, (n): digitised learning material that just clogs up bandwidth and learners’ minds. e.g. Powerpoint slides of lectures uploaded onto the web, long screeds of text in .pdf for learners to download and printout, …

additions welcome.

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