Connectivism & Connective Knowledge
A Massive, Open, Online Course (MOOC)
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Connectivism
Mike Bogle
eLearning Research Officer
Learning & Teaching @ UNSW

CCK08 Course Background & Statistics
"This course will be a different type of learning experience."
Mode: Fully Online
Students: 2,152 formal & informal enrollments
Facilitators: George Siemens & Stephen Downes
Model: Distributed/Networked Learning

An international cohort - http://tinyurl.com/cck08map

Course Spaces

The course wiki

The course blog

Moodle forum

"The Daily"

Additional course sites included
Elluminate
UStream
Blip.TV
Articulate presentations (PPT + audio + talking head)
Pageflakes

Student Spaces

Students used all of these and more...

"Main Gate of the Connectivism Village" by Fleep Tuque (CC-by)

"The Networked Student"
by Wendy Drexler

Student blogs

Additional student sites included
Facebook group
Ning group
Several Diigo Groups
Flickr Group
Translations of the wiki in Spanish, Portuguese,Italian,
Hungarian and Chinese
Assortment of Feed Readers, RSS Aggregators, IM Clients
and Twitter

CCK09

Conferences in Courses
Four online conferences are tentatively planned for CCK09
Personal Learning Environments (end of Sept)
Net Pedagogy (Nov)
Systemic Change (mid-Nov)
Policy Level Implications (early Dec)
"Each conference will run 2-3 days with numerous guest
speakers and will form part of the weekly dialogue.
Conferences will stand alone for those that are not
interested in taking the course."
George Siemens
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism/?p=194

Registration for CCK09
http://connect.downes.ca/cgi-
bin/login.cgi?
refer=&action=Register

Links and References
- Wiki - http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Connectivism
- Blog - http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism/
- Moodle - http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=20
- Daily - http://connect.downes.ca/
- UStream - http://www.ustream.tv/channel/connectivism-and-connective-
knowledge
- Articulate Presentation from Week 3, George Siemens
- "Main Gate of the Connectivism Village" by Fleep Tuque (CC-by)
- "The Networked Student" by Wendy Drexler
- "Continuing attempt to destabilize courses," George Siemens,
- Google Map for CCK08 - http://tinyurl.com/cck08map
- "My CCK09 PLE," Mike Bogle - http://techticker.net/2009/07/29/my-cck09-ple/

Questions?
Mike Bogle
eLearning Research Officer
University of New South Wales
m.bogle@unsw.edu.au

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