Archive for August, 2011

Open Courses and Informal Learning in a Web 2.0 World: A Research Agenda

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

I recently gave a keynote presentation at ICETC 2011 in Changchun, where I discussed some of the experiences from facilitating the course “Introduction to CSCL” on P2PU, and pointed towards some ideas for technologies and ways of organizing courses that could enable deeper learning in open courses. Open Courses and Informal Learning in a Web [...]

ICETC in Changchun: International conferences in China

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

While in Hong Kong attending CSCL, I was surprised to receive an invitiation by Professor Li Luyi at Northwestern Normal University in Changchun to give a keynote lecture at the upcoming International Conference on Educational Technology and Computer. Since I would be participating in the Beijing post-conference and doctoral summer school at the same time, [...]

Interview with a CSCL Intro follower/lurker

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

What is a follower? P2PU courses have always been entirely transparent, even without logging in, a visitor would be able to see not only the course outline and the links to all the freely accessible course resources (often linked from other websites), but also all the interactions and discussions between the course members. On the [...]