I’m not quite ready to stake any big bets on it, but my ed tech radar is feeling like we are getting more blips about open education / open content / open learning… There is the grand experiment of Siemens and Downes on a Massively Open Online Course (acronym alert!
Doh! I wrote this two days ago and forgot to click publish! n00b!
It’s the first week of classes for the Connectivism and Connected Knowledge course and I am already lapsing behind. As a Massively Open Online Course, maybe I cna get lost in the crowd of 2000 gazillion students.


Some eagle-eyed readers may well have picked up on reports about the SocialLearn workshop that was run over a couple of days last week for members of the OU community (see a write up here, here or
The subtitle might be, “Curse You Twitter For Letting Me Down”. Or much worse than, “curse you”.

It's not been a good week for Twitter. Most of Tuesday it seemed to be down, and then most of Wednesday evening too. One comes to expect short outages in Twitter, you almost regard them with affection, that bespeak of its cottage industry status (I guess they've gone to put another dollar in the meter). But these outages have been very frustrating.
My first day on the ground at SXSW- a conference on a Texas sized scale!
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