I enrolled to an online open course, connectivism & connective knowledge, organized by the University of Manitoba. The instructors are George Siemens and Stephen Downes. A couple of hundred participants follow the course, 20 of them will make assignments for credit. I do not mind saying I am one of them. In order to get my Ph.D., I need credits because of our doctoral schools program. So if you see posts tagged CCK09, that means they are part of my reflections on the course. The course started last week, but the flu got me from starting on time. But here we go.

The first topic last week was quite an important and theoretical one: what is connectivism? A nice starting point is definitely the table created by George Siemens on how connectivism and the other learning theories match (or differ).

After exploring the Moodle course and the readings and resources for week 1, I ended up writing down 3 questions which look very interesting to me (I expect people to ask those questions when I talk about the course).

• Is connectivism really different from constructivism?
• How new is connectivism?
• Is connectivism applicable in my own educational practice?

I do not know the answers yet, and I am not sure if I will find them, but I surely will search for them.