Valerie, There are other such courses. In fact, I just completed co-moderating such a course that I believe you joined near the end called digifolios at http://digifolios.ning.com Electronic Village Online (EVO): http://www.wikieducator.org/Electronic_Village_Online and EVO09 had 18 such courses. Some had as many as 400+ participants. I also took a free online course on mindfulness meditation practice by Gil Frondsdal: http://www.audiodharma.org/onlinecourses.html with over 500 participants. In addition, I am a participant in a post grad course organized by the European Commission for educators on Second Life called muvenation 08: http://muvenation.org/
Universities are offering free online courses, too: http://education-portal.com/articles/Universities_with_the_Best_Free_Online_Courses.html I would like to see WE listed as one of the topic arenas for free online learning. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C21 http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller skype:nelliedeutschmuller On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:05 AM, valerie <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would like to see more un-courses. I like to learn in a group. It > doesn't have to be taught or even highly organized. Someone has to get > it started, and maybe do a re-cap. The topic has to be interesting or > specific enough to attract a critical mass. But other than that, that > is plenty to provide a satisfying and rewarding learning experience. > That's an "un-course". > > But is that non-formal learning? > > FOC08 Facilitating Online Communities and CCK08 Connectivism and > Connected Knowledge courses were great. They both had hard-working > leaders who added a lot of value - course outline, readings, > discussion set-up, as well as some other key components, like > promotion and directing traffic and modeling communication at the kick- > off. Many of us just participated, without going got the credit, that > was available / required for some core participants. > > But is that non-formal learning? > > ..Valerie > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
