Next week the Massive Open Online course is finally starting (more than 1800 participants !). I started to focus on some interesting themes and saw that there is already a group of participants interested in exploring connectivism in a development context. One of our first tasks is to explore this contemporary learning theory more in depth. By accident I finally got to read “The world is flat” from Thomas Friedman and in a way it made me connect connectivism on a more macro, let’s say global level. In this way relevant issues in my current work become more and more understandable. Wished I could see Friedman live on this issues such as his workshop on Poverty, Development and the ten world flatteners“. Coming back to the course I realized that the world is becoming really flat. In the last two days I was skyping, blogging, emailing, twittering with people all over the world with a similar interest. Really hope that I find some time next week to connect.