Adventures in Corporate Education

Fall semester starts tomorrow. Part of me is anxious, mostly because I am already so busy I’m not sure what my class load is going to do to my life.
But the other part of me is really excited. I was one of those nerds who loved going back to school because it meant you got [...]

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Last night I listened to Stephen Downes’ lecture at #teched about Personal Learning Environments. One quote stuck with me:
The learner is the product of education
To me that means the product of education isn’t a diploma, or a certificate. The product of education is the delta between the individual’s knowledge from when they started the instruction [...]

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I have blogged about my experiences at the Simmons School of Management Leadership Conference. One session had me boiling inside – and they didn’t even have a Q&A session! I thought I’d write a bit about the session that bothered me, and why it bothered me, as the themes are very important in a connected [...]

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Ok, I give! CCK08 is officially killing me! I’m going to try and hang in there. I think the problem is that the topics are so meaty, and interesting, that I want to only do this class and nothing else.
For instance, this post has been sitting in my head for a while. I just haven’t [...]

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This post is going to be rather free form because I feel like I have so much in my brain that I need to get out.
One of the common explanations for the difference of connectivism and constructivism is that constructivism happens in your head, and connectivism happens out in “the network”.
My question was what about [...]

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