Archive for the 'p2pU' Category

Peer learning and distributed open courses

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

I was a Teaching Assistant for a Knowledge Media and Design Institute course on Knowledge Media and Learning this term, and during the last class, I got invited to give a one hour overview of open courses. I put together a presentation which reused some of my old material, but also looked at the new [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Notes from Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning conference 2011

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

This was my first year attending the bi-annual CSCL conference, which this year happened to be at the Hong Kong University campus. I was very excited, since I had been reading papers by many of the people who would be attending, and it would also be the first time I’d be in Hong Kong (and [...]

Participation statistics of CSCL intro

Monday, June 20th, 2011

The course During the past eight weeks, Monica Resendes and I facilitated a course called “Introduction to the field of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning” on P2PU. We are both interested in developing a research agenda around open courses, although this first course did not have an explicit research design or research questions. We approached it [...]

Scaffolding and support for collaborative learning

Saturday, June 4th, 2011

This week in CSCL-intro, we read Puntambekar & Hubscher’s Scaffolding in complex learning environments: What we have gained and what we have missed. We were also supposed to read an article by Slotta, but that link seems to have gone broken. The Puntambekar paper was a great read though, and a very nice introduction to [...]

Conceptually explicit representations for group learning and representational guidance

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

I was very excited when I first came across Dan Suther’s 2008 article “Empirical studies of the value of conceptually explicit notations in collaborative learning” in the book “Knowledge Cartography: Software tools and mapping techniques” (a book which is filled with other very interesting chapters as well). I had been acquainted with Knowledge Forum for [...]

Etherpad + small groups in Skype, a new way of doing P2PU meetings

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

Introduction P2PU courses typically consist of an asynchronous and a synchronous part. The asynchronous part is all the work that is done throughout the week, reading articles, posting blog posts, or comments on the site, collaborating on a wiki article, etc. The synchronous part is usually the “mass-meeting”, where all the participants who are able [...]

CSCL-intro The Bi-Weekly #7

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

I’m back in the game! Due to a number of circumstances, I was absent from the course for about two weeks. This was much longer than I had planned, and I apologize for it. I am also very grateful to Monica for her great work in the interim. It feels great to be back, seeing [...]

Grappling with ideas: convergence and divergence

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Thanks to the generous recommendation by Zaid Ali Alsagoff, George Siemens invited me to give a talk to the Connectivism 2011 MOOC. I decided that instead of giving a talk about something I know and have thought a lot about, like open access or OER, I would try to challenge myself by proposing a topic [...]