How are things shaping up in CCK08?
Hinter „CCK08“ verbirgt sich das Lernabenteuer, auf das sich George Siemens und Stephen Downes seit Anfang dieser Woche eingelassen haben. Ein offener Online-Kurs über „Connectivism & Connective Knowledge“, unterstützt mit allen Möglichkeiten der Information und des Austauschs, die das Web heute bietet. Zeit für ein erstes Resümee. By the way, es scheint viele Teilnehmer zu geben, die sich ganz auf dieses Projekt einlassen, in Foren, in Lerngruppen vor Ort, in ausführlichen Beiträgen. Ich schaffe leider nur sporadische Blicke. Aber ich habe voraussichtlich die Gelegenheit, Stephen nächsten Dienstag über seine ersten Erfahrungen und Erlebnisse in diesem Projekt zu interviewen! Als Einstimmung auf seinen Beitrag auf der SCOPE 08 im Oktober. Wer mir also noch eine Frage mitgeben möchte, sei hiermit herzlich eingeladen!
„I’ll speak a bit from how I’ve seen things unfold. I’m overwhelmed. Email, Moodle, Google alerts, and live conversations have been abundant. But it has been most interesting to observe how different participants are engaging around content: Second Life communities, language translations, different aggregations, meetups, and more.
Part of the challenge this week has been to actually get into the discussion about connectivism. As can be expected in the first week of the course, we’re all trying to get oriented. In a sense, the question we’re asking this week – What is connectivism? – is what the course is hoping to have answered by the end. Many of the questions being asked now – how does connectivism differ from constructivism? In what sense is learning networked? What about power issues? Does connectivism have a suffiicent research base to even be seriously considered for implementation? – are not going to be resolved quickly. Many of these themes are the focus future weeks.“
George Siemens, Connectivism & Connective Knowledge, 11 September 2008
One Response to “How are things shaping up in CCK08?”
I believe our understanding is limited by the attitudes and emotions we attach to situations, words and ideas. You mention: “power issues with learner and educator… developing clash… [and] clash between the traditional notion of universities and emerging concept of distributed learning”. I wonder how our underlying attitudes and emotions influence our mindset as we attempt to decipher and relate to connectivism. Are we able to observe the phenomenon objectively? Can we evaluate things without getting caught up in clashes and power issues? How would we experience connectivism if we set our attitudes aside?