elearnspace

I’m delayed in highlighting Stephen Downes’ comments on our Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course from last fall. It’s a good overview of how the course was setup, the challenges we encountered, technical details, and learner involvement. Stephen casually references a new initiative that partly developed in CCK08: Serialized RSS Courses. This concept is developed more fully here: “A serialized feed is one in which posts are arranged in a linear order and where subscribers always begin with the first post, no matter when they subscribe to the feed. This contrasts with an ordinary RSS feed, in which a subscriber will begin with today’s post, no matter when the feed started”. Be sure to read through to comments by Tony Hirst.
I think this is an important concept and one that deserves more attention. The next stage is to find ways to allow subscribers to find, and connect to, each other. Information without social interaction is a reduction to MIT’s OCW.