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Connectivism, and navigating the learning landscape

Joe posted this video, and it reminded me of a piece I had written at brains.parslow.net about the learning landscape and ways to help you navigate it.  The teacher becomes the guide, who educates you how to educate yourself - how to access and assess learning resources, and gives guidance on the route you should take to get to your learning goals.

Amplify’d from www.joecar.demon.co.uk
Name: Joe Wilson
I picked this up from @courosa on twitter part of my own personal learning network.
It is a super example of the way that learning and teaching will never be the same and how the world of work should be changing too

Read more at www.joecar.demon.co.uk
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Navigating your personal learning landscape (or seascape…)

Recruit a Pilot

Although you won’t know exactly what will crop up, there are people around who will have better experience of the part of the seascape you are in. Other learners may have already visited this area and be able to give guidance on what the local learning weather is like, and tutors can have a better view of the terrain from their lofty ivory towers. Identify where you are, and where you are trying to get to, and recruit these ‘local experts’ to give you pointers about how to make this part of the journey.

Read more at brains.parslow.net
 

Colleges caught with their buildings half up

Amplify’d from news.bbc.co.uk

Colleges in building funds limbo

Some colleges have been left in chaos after embarking on rebuilding projects only to have promised funding withheld.

“I don’t think there can be any reason other than mismanagement. It’s an incredible situation to be in.”

He argues that the Treasury must intervene.

Although £3bn was a lot of money, he said, it would be the perfect public sector investment during a recession - with projects already planned, costed and in some cases begun, involving upgrading skills for when the economy picks up.

And he said it would be a far better use of public money than covering the banks’ toxic debts.

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This is a ridiculous situation.  As the clip suggests, this would be a much more sensible thing for the UK government to invest in to help combat the recession than throwing good money after bad into the baking sector, in my view.

Distributed ePortfolio

I really think this is important - institutionally based ePortfolios are unlikely to ever suit everyone, and if they are adopted as an approach without considering those they don’t work for they will disenfrachise some people.

Maximum flexibility and opportunity should be the watchwords of education systems.  Distributed, federated trust mechanisms to endorse claims in ePortfolios seem like the sensible approach to me.

Amplify’d from rworld2.posterous.com

George’s posterous

One eportfolio for every hippopotalopardile in the human zoo?

If you are going to use the term eportfolio in a particular, restricted way, then you need to define the term precisely. Many people have several eportfolios: LinkedIn, Facebook, Flickr, blogs, PebblePad, various forums and repositories, their own web site, a Monster.com CV, etc. Many more people have none. Those with several often cross reference between them. We may choose to call just one of these collections our portfolio. But, if we do, we should say why this one, not that one. And, given the fast-moving field, we must be tolerant of exceptions to any rule and be willing to negotiate meaning.
Within the range of practices, which started this discussion on my Posterous blog (http://rworld2.posterous.com/ngtip09-portfolio-typology-fur), I do not believe there will ever be one eportfolio system that everyone finds amenable in every area of application or culture of use. It may, in some circumstances, be desirable to mandate the use of a single tool (will it?). Some people for whom use has been mandated will take to the tool and continue to use it beyond the mandate through several transitions. Some will drop it as soon as it is no longer mandated or their circumstances change.
Outside of a mandate, I doubt that one size will fit all the human hippopotalopardiles I know.Read more at rworld2.posterous.com