open education – Michael Gallagher

Complexity, self-organization, and #Change11: reactions to Siemen’s presentation on online courses

Michael Gallagher September 21, 2011 6 Comments

I read a recent presentation from George Siemens on Self-Organization in Online Courses (embedded below) that addressed some aspects of learning complexity (through the context of a MOOC) that intrigued me. In particular,…

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#Change11: Setting my learning expectations and goals. Agile lurking.

Michael Gallagher September 20, 2011 8 Comments

Memo.m4a Listen on Posterous (A metaphor for MOOC learning, perhaps. Chatter, chaos, and signal to noise. Meaningful conversations to those participating in them. Literally, it is the sound of a…

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Open education, open research, and co-authoring our knowledge base: Here comes everybody

Michael Gallagher August 25, 2011 0 Comments

I should just come out and say it from the beginning. A paper about open education that is authored by a single person feels (not necessarily is) a little anachronistic…