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Connectivism and Self-Organized Learning

Connectivism and Self-Organized Learning. George Siemens September 22, 2011 RUIVE: Innovation, Quality and Accreditation. What is connectivism ?. This. Really. That’s it. Describe knowledge and learning process through the lens of connections.

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Connectivism and Self-Organized Learning

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  1. Connectivism and Self-Organized Learning George Siemens September 22, 2011 RUIVE: Innovation, Quality and Accreditation

  2. What is connectivism?

  3. This

  4. Really. That’s it.

  5. Describe knowledge and learning process through the lens of connections

  6. But, making the transition to a “connection” as the unit of analysis in learning is not easy

  7. It raises questions about:

  8. What enables connections?

  9. What prevents connections?

  10. Why is it important?

  11. Abundance

  12. More is different, but not new 1550-1750 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_ideas/toc/jhi64.1.html

  13. http://research.uow.edu.au/learningnetworks/seeing/snapp/index.htmlhttp://research.uow.edu.au/learningnetworks/seeing/snapp/index.html

  14. Matthew principle

  15. Because the internet and social media make managing/owning/directing your own learning possible.Intermediary agents need not apply.

  16. What is self-organization? “Processes of self-organization literally create order out of disorder” Francis Heylighen

  17. “Individuals, groups, and communities all form symbiotic relationships for a wide variety of reasons but the underlying impetus is resource sharing. Whether the resource is food, information, or support, individuals come together to share resources (Ribbands, 1953).  Erin Brewer, 2003

  18. Online Self-Organizing Social Systems (OSOSS) “structure allows large numbers of individuals to self-organize in a highly decentralized manner in order to solve problems and accomplish other goals.” Wiley & Edwards 2003

  19. Learning is a complex process(mainly because people are complex) Our institutions today (attempt to) manage it like it is complicated system.

  20. Today’s education system Too focused on preserving this X X X

  21. Complex systems: “a set of diverse actors who dynamically interact with one another awash in a sea of feedbacks.” Miller and Page, 2007

  22. Complexity: “disturbing traits of mess, of the inextricable, or disorder, of ambiguity, or uncertainty” Morin, 2008

  23. 2008, 2009, 2011

  24. What is the technical ecosystem of open online learning?

  25. Tools used by learners Roughly anything. http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/643/1402 Fini, 2009

  26. The data set Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2008 (CCK08)

  27. SNA & Participation Habits

  28. CCK08 Weekly Forum Posts

  29. CCK08: Introduction forum Limited interaction. Most are isolated

  30. Downes auto-subscribes learners in CCK08

  31. Introduction forum posts: CCK08 Dialogue limited: Group too large?

  32. Week 12 forum posts: CCK08 More equitable distribution? Due to smaller #’s of participants?

  33. Open coding using Cohere http://cohere.open.ac.uk

  34. Axial Coding

  35. Techniques • Sensegiving through artefact creation and sharing • Sensemaking/giving through language games • Knowledge domain expansion • Wayfinding cues, symbols • Social organization through creating sharing

  36. Surprised to not find (automated) technology as more prominent At what point to we “max out” the ability to make sense of our complex world through social means?

  37. Future considerations Technological and social self-organization. The value of extended cognitive agents.

  38. change.mooc.ca Twitter: gsiemens www.elearnspace.org/blog Learning Analytics & Knowledge 2012: Vancouver http://lak12.sites.olt.ubc.ca/

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