Dave Cormier has spent most of his career involved in education in one way or another. After starting as a teacher, mostly by accident, in South Korea in the late nineties, his curiosity about what it means to learn and how we might go about it grew year on year. Beginning with how textbooks were developed and how the content was chosen it moved on to the impact of the digital on what it means to learn.

He has been thinking and writing about these issues on his blog http://davecormier.com/edblog since 2005. The writing there is messy, varied and wandering, mirroring his view on both learning and education. It was on the blog that he first wrote about MOOCs in 2008, about rhizomatic learning in 2009 and about open and human learning throughout. His writing culminated in a book released last year Learning in a Time of Abundance: The Community Is the Curriculum, published by Johns Hopkins University Press.

With past roles in teaching, learning design, academic planning, recruitment, student orientation, student mentorship, and retention, Dave is now Interim Director of Curriculum Development and Delivery in Open Learning at Thompson Rivers University.

While there is a post about embracing uncertainty on the blog from 2011, the topic has really floated to the surface of his thinking over the past five years. He is currently fascinated about how much of education seems to be about erasing uncertainty from the teaching and learning process while the world seems to increasingly unveil itself as an uncertain sort of place. He suspects there might be a disconnect.