Introducing kungkhies

This is a companion blog to the open source kungkhies project on Google Code.

The Hollywood billing for kungkhies is a new way to teach, a new way to learn and learning design meets the wisdom of crowds.  

In a nutshell, kungkhies starts from learning design pared down to the bare minimum.  A kungkhie document defines a course of instruction essentially in terms of intended learning outcomes.  So far, so ho hum.

The empty kungkhie, however, contains no teaching activities.  These are to be supplied by the kungkhers, those who kungkhie (verb intransitive).

Each kungkhie activity is identified and located by a URL.

Once an empty kungkhie has been supplied with activities it becomes a preference kungkhie which is then uploaded to cloud kungkhie-base.

The kungkhie platform then analyses the preference kungkhies to produce information on the most favoured activities and recommendations for future kungkhers.

More information can be obtained from the Google Code kungkhies wiki.

Just for completeness, or redundancy, there is a web site, too.

There are various flavours brewing of this type of approach to social media learning and time will tell if the kungkhie can occupy a unique place in the canon.

However, kungkhies might sink, or kungkhies might swim, but there's one thing for sure - no other project will have a better name.