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Connectivism: Online course, OERs, Pedagogy, and more

More leadership from George Siemens and Stephen Downes on navigating higher education in the 21st century. I have signed up for their online course "Connectivism and Connective Knowledge." Details below:

Stephen Downes and I will be offering an online course starting September through University of Manitoba on Connectivism and Connective Knowledge. The course is available for credit (enrollment is required) or for personal interest (no fee). All discussions and learning resources will be freely available. More information on how the course is run, weekly topics, etc., is available on the course wiki. If you are interested, you can sign up here in order to receive more information on participating or enrolling.
If for some reason the above link to the wiki doesn't work, it is also available here: http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Connectivism
We've set up a course blog for our Connectivism and Connective Knowledge online course. The intention of the blog is to open up the conversation around course design and delivery and changing value points in education. The transparency will hopefully capture some of our (Stephen Downes and myself) thinking around course design and foster interaction with others on ways to improve delivery.
We’re hoping that this course will serve at least three purposes:
1. To address the questions about value points in education and the role of learners and faculty in large scale open courses
2. To model alternatives to existing course design and delivery models. These alternatives are defined by openness, innovation, active participation, connectedness, and learner autonomy.
3. To expound connectivism as a learning theory and provide a forum for critical thought, debate, and consideration of future steps in research and implementation.