When I studied undergraduate at Rutgers U, online learning was not available to me.  Retrieving information for my papers meant having to physically go to the library.  While in the library card catalogs were no longer available, computer stations were present and had to use the iris system to find information.  We have come along way from this.  Now I can find everything I need from the comfort of my home, just as long as I have a computer with internet access.  Today, Connectivism becomes the digital library, but the library has also expanded beyond the workings of scholars.

In the digital world any body can post their opinion without having any discipline in learning the material.  Connectivism is how or where the learner accesses information, this makes online learning successful. 

Google search engine is my key to the internet knowledge.  Everything I have found came from there.  I even use Mozilla Firefox as my web browser.   Firefox allows me to place as many bookmarks on my browser tab at once, this add on is called speed dial.  On my browser tab I can place multiple groups each labeled for different functions.  I have one group has my bills, another has free websites for education, my work bookmarks, personal websites, and websites for Walden course information.  Each group can hold between 2 rows and 2 columns of live bookmark screens to infinite amount of rows and columns.  Now infinite amount of screens would be hard to see so I would suggest no more than 10 rows and 10 columns.  I have each of my groups set to 6 rows with 6 columns.

 In the start of this course I have learned to use BlogSpot as a blog, before I have used it to set up a website for my wife’s side business.  Google reader was a nice site to learn as I have Google reader app placed on my droid phone.  On down time at work I can quickly access people’s feeds.  I am trying to find an App that can handle Walden’s University’s platform, but I still have not succeeded.  There are so many applications out in the internet that can be used for education purposes, to learn and to facilitate learning. 

Since there has been an increase in resources in the internet this will give a large amount of learning processes to occur, but the down fall is knowing which resource are true and which are not.  As I mention before the internet has no filter for discipline on the knowledge it is reporting.  As a learner the ability to filter the information on the internet also becomes a learning process.