ODCE Conference

RLE: George Siemens and Jay Cross

This is a cross posting with the OLN Podcsating Blog.

Here is a podcast of a conversation between Jay Cross and George Siemens that took place leading up to the  Online Educa Berlin conference in late November of 2006. Both are advocates of informal learning -- Jay in the corporate world and George in education --  and they talk about how they will be engaged in informal learning at the conference. George, of course, will be the keynote speaker at the ODCE conference where will be encouraging informal learning with a wiki , blog and social bookmarks.

I wonder, to what degree to we nurture informal learning in higher education? How do you benefit, and how have you seen your students benefit, from informal learning? Do you design for it as you design for formal learning in the space defined as "the course?"

Rich

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RLE: Connectivism Conference

George Siemens will be one of the presenters the online conference described below. He will be the Keynote speaker at the 2007 ODCE conference is credited with developing the learning theory of "connectivism."
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(The following was contained in an email announcement from Peter Tittenberger, Acting Director
Learning Technologies Centre, University of Manitoba [umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies])

You are invited to participate in the Connectivism Online Conference,
February 2-9, 2007. The conference is online and free. The conference
website is:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/academic_support/ltc/connectivism/

More....

The evolution of teaching and learning is accelerated with technology. After several decades of duplicating classroom functionality with technology, new opportunities now exist to alter the spaces and structures of knowledge to align with both needs of learners today, and affordances of new tools and processes. Yet our understanding of the impact on teaching and learning trails
behind rapidly forming trends.

• What are critical trends?
• How does technology influence learning?
• Is learning fundamentally different today than when most prominent views of learning were first formulated (under the broad umbrellas of cognitivism, behaviourism, and constructivsm)?
• Have the last 15 years of web, technology, and social trends altered the
• act of learning?
• How is knowledge itself, in a digital era, related to learning?

Connectivism Online Conference is an open online forum exploring how learning has been impacted by ongoing changes. The conference will run from February 2 - 9, 2007.

Key themes will include: trends in K-12 sector, trends in higher education, research and net pedagogy, technological and societal trends, and connective knowledge and connectivism.

Confirmed presenters include:
* Stephen Downes - http://www.downes.ca
* Will Richardson - http://www.weblogg-ed.com
* Terry Anderson - http://me2u.athabascau.ca/terrya/weblog/
* George Siemens - http://www.elearnspace.org/blog
* Bill Kerr - http://learningevolves.wikispaces.com/
* Diana G. Oblinger, Ph.D. - http://www.educause.edu/

Format: Presenters will deliver a 50 minute presentation followed by 10 minutes of questions. After each presenter, conversation will occur online in Moodle, allowing participants to challenge, critique, explore, and extend ideas presented.

Registration: The event itself is free to attend. We would, however, like to keep you informed of event changes... and in order to gauge participation, please supply your email address on the conference website home page:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/academic_support/ltc/connectivism/

Rich

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