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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

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He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy.

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Wikispaces has closed. What are your alternatives?

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Thousands of teachers have used the free Wikispaces platform to share materials with students and colleagues, to run online classrooms, or as the virtual arm of a blended course. Once setup is complete though, no sophisticated programming knowledge is required. If this is what you want, here are good choices: PBWorks.