George Siemens’ and Stephen Downes’ online course, Connectivism & Connected Knowledge, has drawn to a close after a great twelve-week run.

George writes:

By way of a final analysis, thousands came, less stayed, and even less contributed. Did we change the world? No. Not yet. But we (and I mean all Continue reading →

Richard Ogle, author of the wonderful book Smart World, offers this marvellous 1927 quote from Alfred North Whitehead‘s Universities and their Function. I found it apt since I am enrolled in a unversity course
for the first time in a decade.

“The justification for a university is that it preserves Continue reading →