Category Archives: Networks

Business meets connectivism

Gary Harpst defines a business as a fit between a purpose and its execution. The purpose explains the organization’s existence. It informs strategies and objectives and is generally defined (or refined) by a sub-group within the organization over a relatively brief time period. Execution, then, is … Continue reading

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Power structures

Some discussion this week on this George Siemens article. (See Graham Attwell, Stephen Downes.) He asks if the power structures in our education system are willing to fully embrace the network and the adoption of the PLE. He believes they will not, and … Continue reading

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Waking up to the economics of networked learning

  Via Stephen Downes, Judy Breck believes, and I agree, that the economic crunch will speed the advent of network learning. Getting a college education in the US is absurdly expensive, but like property, or the stock market, the education bubble … Continue reading

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Is ChinesePod setting industry standards?

   There are lots of blogs on the subject of learning 2.0. They tend to focus on what is theoretically or pedagogically desirable in the New Learning, as well as the new understandings that emerge from our experience of learning on the network. This discussion remains … Continue reading

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Networks and learning

   Although they come in an infinite variety, all networks are ultimately about nodes and connections with things (like data, for example) passing through them. (The flow can be two-way, such as on the internet, or a cell-phone network, or … Continue reading

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