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New Librarianship MOOC: Connecting Trainer-Teacher-Learners and Communities...
New Media Consortium Horizon Reports, meet the Salzburg Curriculum; Salzburg Curriculum, meet the Horizon Reports. And while we’re at it, let’s be sure to invite the trainer-teacher-learners in the...
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Connected Learning, Project-Based Learning, and Learners as Authors
“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog,” Peter Steiner suggested in his well-known The New Yorker cartoon two decades ago. And nobody would know that a recently-published book on connected...
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MOOCS: Additional Reflections on Great (and Not-So-Great) Expectations
We’re far from finished with our efforts to determine how massive open online courses (MOOCs) will fit into our learning landscape, recently published articles and personal experiences continue to...
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On Learning, Testing, and Being Tone Deaf
There are plenty of reasons to believe that multiple-choice and true-false tests are among the worst ways to measure whether learning is successful; in the best of circumstances, they tend to measure...
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#etmooc and #lrnchat: When Communities of Learning Discuss Community—and...
There was no need this week to read yet another book or article on how to effectively create and nurture great communities. Participating in live online sessions with colleagues in two wonderful...
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Malcolm Knowles, The Adult Learner, and Revisiting Cherished Resources
Reading the sixth edition of The Adult Learner (in which Elwood Holton and Richard Swanson further build upon what Malcolm Knowles wrote in the first four editions) reminds us why the book justifiably...
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Blogging, Connecting, and Learning
Looking for wonderful examples of connectivity in action leads us directly to “Personal Learning Networks: Knowledge Sharing as Democracy,” written and posted by Alison Seaman for the Hybrid Pedagogy...
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James Paul Gee, the Anti-Education Era, and Personal Learning Networks
You won’t find the terms personal learning networks (PLNs) or connected learning anywhere in James Paul Gee’s wonderfully stimulating book The Anti-Education Era: Creating Smarter Students Though...
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Power, Connections, Personal Learning Networks, and In-the-Moment Mobile...
The sight of flashing numbers on digital timepieces throughout our house yesterday afternoon was obvious evidence of a power outage while I had been away earlier in the day. But it wasn’t particularly...
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Time Travel, Personal Learning Networks, and Rhizomatic Growth
Let’s engage in some trainer-teacher-learner time travel; let’s revel in a wonderfully and gloriously circular learning moment whose beginning and end have not yet stopped expanding—and won’t if you...
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ALA Midwinter Conference (Postscript): She Has Toys
We now have a new, unexpected corollary to American Library Association (ALA) Strategy Guide Jenny Levine’s belief that ALA conference hallways provide an extensive network of informal learning...
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NMC Horizon Report 2014 (Pt. 1 of 6): Tech, Trends, and Challenges in Learning
If we wanted to design a course on the current state of technology in learning, we could easily adopt, as our online textbook, the latest Higher Education Edition of the New Media Consortium (NMC)...
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NMC Horizon Report 2014 (Pt. 2 of 6): Key Trends in Learning and Technology
We can easily see, in the newly released (2014) Higher Education Edition of the New Media Consortium (NMC) Horizon Report, a cohesive narrative that helps us understand what we and our learners face...
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NMC Horizon Report 2014 (Pt. 3 of 6): Opportunities Among Solvable,...
Any of us involved in training-teaching-learning might take comfort in the idea that we’re not alone in the challenges we face—something made abundantly clear in the latest Higher Education Edition of...
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NMC Horizon Report 2014 (Pt. 4 of 6): Flipped Classrooms and Learning...
With the confirmation of flipped classrooms and learning analytics as topics that are “very likely to drive technology planning and decision-making” in higher education this year, the latest Horizon...
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NMC Horizon Report 2014 (Pt. 5 of 6): Educational Technology on the Mid-Range...
With all the justifiable attention given over the past few years to 3D printing and gaming/gamification in learning, it’s not surprising to see these topics highlighted in the latest Higher Education...
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NMC Horizon Report 2014 (Pt. 6 of 6): Educational Technology on the Four- to...
When we move into the four- to five-year horizon (time frame) of the latest Higher Education Edition of the New Media Consortium (NMC) Horizon Project reports, we are at the dreamiest expanses of this...
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Scanning the MOOC and Open Educational Resources Environment in Libraries…and...
The potentially fruitful intersection of massive open online courses (MOOCs), Open Educational Resources (OERs), and libraries is nicely explored in a newly released environmental scan and assessment...
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Learning Social Media With Our Learners Revisited: Tweetorientations
Less than a year ago, Betty Turpin (librarian at the International School of Stuttgart) was completing a four-week online “Social Media Basics” course I had designed and was facilitating for ALA...
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Tactical Urbanism: Community, Collaboration, Innovation, and Learning
Sometime, in an effort to accomplish something in our communities, we move so quickly that we don’t even take the time to slap a label onto what we’re doing—until we come across a lovely term like...
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