edcmooc" Flightradar Top 50 Social Media Blogs to Watch in 2013 1) Social Media B2B – SocialMediaB2B.com’s goal is to become the foremost news and discussion site on the topic social media’s impact on B2B companies, help drive social media adoption within B2B companies, and become a repository for advice and commentary from experts in the social media and B2B industries. The site is a group blog with editors and regular and guest contributors publishing articles on a variety of subjects related to social media’s impact on B2B companies. 2) Mashable Social Media – Mashable is a leading source for news, information & resources for the Connected Generation. 3) The next web – Founded in 2008, The Next Web is one of the world’s largest online publications that delivers an international perspective on the latest news about Internet technology, business and culture. 4) Social Media Examiner 5) WildFire 6) Social Media Today 7) Duke University: Social Media Jeff Bullas
40 Useful Tips For Anyone Taking A MOOC As these resources have grown in number and the list of institutions providing them has become ever more prestigious, free online courses are gaining legitimacy with employers as a method of learning valuable job skills. While there’s still a long way to go in terms of acceptance, more and more employers are recognizing the value of cheap, effective educational programs that can keep employees up-to-date and engaged in their field without spending a dime. Whether you’re looking to online education for personal reasons or to get ahead in your career, use these tips to help you get more out of open courses and use what you learn to market yourself, improve your performance, and stand out on the job. Treat them like real classes . If you really want to take away a lot from a free online course, then don’t treat it any differently than you would a course you’ve paid to take.
Connectivist Instructional design | My MOOC experiences I came across an interesting resource while browsing about MOOCs. Connectivism as a learning theory and the design of MOOCs. Based on the principles of connectivism, learning should:Provide for a diversity of opinionsAllow students to create connections between specialized nodes and learning sourcesFoster their capacity to learn (teach metacognitive learning skills)Increase their ability see connections between fields, concepts, and ideasTeach students to build networks that will allow students to keep current in their fieldAllow students to choose what to learn and how. In the last few days, our FB group has just exploded with interactivity, information, resource links, tools and general distribution of knowledge. Forming connections and sharing and distributing knowledge is what I think connectivism is and that is one of the designs of MOOCs I believe. And here is the most interesting part – it is completely learner centred. Any thoughts? Like this: Like Loading...
Construction of Digital Identities and 2.0 Democracy | Productos Socialmente Irresponsables Since the arrival of new technologies has become a constant in modern world (starting with the massification of printing technologies, that marks the start of modern states, going through books and newspapers, radio, magazines that took advantage of the massification of photography, and television) the necessity to adapt and adopt such technologies in order to maintain social control and cohesion has kept the academics, social communicators, publicists, political scientists and media managers busy trying not only to anticipate what would be the next loop in history of mass media, but also to control interactions to their benefit. Regardless if whether we are talking about state, media conglomerates, large corporate holdings that attempt to build market share or simply informed citizens, all of us have been subject of a quick mind and life transforma- tion whose total effects have not been predicted yet. Lincoln Dahlberg - Me gusta:
Technological determinism Technological determinism is a reductionist theory that presumes that a society's technology drives the development of its social structure and cultural values. The term is believed to have been coined by Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), an American sociologist and economist. The most radical technological determinist in the United States in the 20th century was most likely Clarence Ayres who was a follower of Thorstein Veblen and John Dewey. The first major elaboration of a technological determinist view of socioeconomic development came from the German philosopher and economist Karl Marx, whose theoretical framework was grounded in the perspective that changes in technology, and specifically productive technology, are the primary influence on human social relations and organizational structure, and that social relations and cultural practices ultimately revolve around the technological and economic base of a given society. Origin[edit] Explanation[edit] Hard and soft determinism[edit]
Our #EdcMooc paths to Information and knowledge | Eleni's First Steps The last three weeks have been extremely rich and creative although I haven’t come back to the blog to record my thoughts. One of the things that keeps coming back in my mind are the words of George Roberts few months ago when I started the first UK-based MOOC “First Steps in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education“. During the orientation, George encouraged us to dive into the #fslt12 curriculum (the hashtag of the aforementioned MOOC) and make it ours. George’s words make perfect sense to me while engaging with #edcmooc as a student and while trying to encourage, as an educator, my students to internalize their course content and experience it as a whole. By internalizing the course content, quite a few questions keep coming up and the “dialogic” engagement via the Twitter chat revealed that I am not the only one with many research questions. This experience is going to help me immensely in a PhD program…so many research questions swirling through my head! What do you do? Like this:
EDC MOOC News | from the E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC Google+ Communities: A Beginner's Guide On Google+, users have the ability to manipulate their circles to control the groups of people and brands they receive information and content from, but there's no guarantee those brands or users will circle you to receive your updates. This is where Google+ Communities come in, Google's version of a group or forum, built to bring people together around particular topics. Launched in December, the types of Communities available to the Google+ audience seem endless — ranging from science, animals, development and more. Communities are places where users can share specific questions, comments or content relating to a particular topic with other users who are just as interested in the conversation. For example, if you're a member of a cooking community, it's likely each post will contain something related to food. Many of the more than 135 million monthly active Google+ users may have already explored Communities. Where to Start Posting to Communities Notifications Create Your Own Community