Take charge of your learning (a talk by Stephen Downes)
Stephen Downes is full of good ideas. i’ve followed his thoughts for many years now. A Canadian education researcher, Stephen is an incredibly articulate and rigorous thinker who is definitely worth listening to, and i believe he listens to others really well too. In his first Huffington Post article, he gives an overview of the PLENK massive online course, and his perspective on connected and networked learning. (PLENK = Personal Learning Environments, Networks and Knowledge.) “That is not to advocate throwing learners off the bus to fend for themselves. It Read More …