Learning Complexity

In my last post , I said that networking is the lens through which I see most everything , or at least I try. I confess that I still have so...

I have grounded my concept of a writing across the curriculum program (WAC) in connectivist theory: that knowledge and communication are net...

If agency is the ability to recognize and respond to the surround, then does agency fit with connectivism? Yes. In fact, I can't think o...

I've just finished reading Scott Weingart's Demystifying Networks, Parts I & II , in which Mr. Weingart tries to correct the mis...

In a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article entitled What's the Matter with MOOCs? , Siva Vaidhyanathan dismisses the current obse...

Well, I look around, and it's been a month since I've written. How does that happen? I could list the details, but they aren't t...

Stephen Downes was kind enough to comment on my last post, and that's a good thing. His comment brought a fair number of visitors to my...

I started this post weeks ago, but life happened. I want to continue talking about defining Connectivism. So if we are to avoid a definition...

My new classes are changing the way I think about this blog, and perhaps the biggest change is in the frequency with which I write. I'm ...

On the drive to work this morning, I was thinking about the World Cup Final and lamenting that it ended in a most unsatisfying penalty kick ...

In the last chapter of his book Networks of the Brain , Olaf Sporns extends his neural processing and, thus, cognition beyond the brain and ...

In Chapter 9 of Sporns' book Networks and the Brain , I think we reach the heart of the issue for the discussion about Connectivism. In ...

In a previous post , I tried mapping my knowledge of Connectivism. I created a couple of static images that showed how I related to various ...

I spent some of the afternoon trying to create some images that captured my sense of how knowledge and, thus, learning are complex activitie...

In his blog connectiv: On Connectivism and Learning , Jaap distinguishes between training and learning when we train ourselves to play a pie...

Mapping and tracing are both efforts by people to orient themselves within a given structure, say a class or a conversation. Whereas tracing...