{"id":1312,"date":"2013-06-30T14:02:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T21:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2013-07-03T17:34:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T00:34:23","slug":"what-is-this-clmooc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/1312","title":{"rendered":"What is this #clmooc?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m going to go back two weeks and write the post I should have back then. (It’s never too late, right?)<\/p>\n

I am happy to be participating in the “Making Learning Connected” MOOC (#clmooc)<\/a> this summer. I am a part (perhaps the weak link) in a brilliant team of facilitators<\/a> from the highly-esteemed National Writing Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

#clmooc is a massive open online collaboration<\/strong>. We think it is important to think of it as a collaboration rather than a “course,” and the flood of great collaborative work on our G+ community<\/a> has proven this out.<\/p>\n

#clmooc is about two main things: making<\/strong> and connected learning<\/strong>. Connected learning<\/a> is learning designed for the current world. It is about more than just socially connected learning (ala Connected Educators). Connected learning is based on the principles of learning that is:<\/p>\n