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 Connectivism and Self-Organized LearningGeorge Siemens

September 22, 2011RUIVE: Innovation, Quality and

Accreditation

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What is connectivism?

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This

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Really. That’s it.

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Describe knowledge and learning process through the lens of connections

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

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It raises questions about:

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What enables connections?

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What prevents connections?

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Why is it important?

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Abundance

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More is different, but not new1550-1750

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_ideas/toc/jhi64.1.html 

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

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Matthew principle

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Because the internet and social media make managing/owning/directing your own learning possible.

Intermediary agents need not apply.

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What is self-organization?

“Processes of self-organization literally create order out of disorder”

Francis Heylighen

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“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

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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 

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Learning is a complex process (mainly because people are complex)

Our institutions today (attempt to) manage it like it is complicated system.

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X

X

X

Too focused on preserving this

Today’s education system

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Complex systems: “a set of diverse actors who dynamically interact with one another awash in a sea of feedbacks.” 

Miller and Page, 2007

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Complexity: “disturbing traits of mess, of the inextricable, or disorder, of ambiguity, or uncertainty”

Morin, 2008

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2008, 2009

, 2011

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What is the technical ecosystem of open online learning?

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Tools used by learners

http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/643/1402Fini, 2009

Roughly anything.

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The data set

Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2008(CCK08)

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SNA & Participation Habits

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CCK08 Weekly Forum Posts

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CCK08: Introduction forum

Limited interaction. Most are isolated

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Downes auto-subscribes learners in CCK08

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Introduction forum posts: CCK08

Dialogue limited: Group too large?

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Week 12 forum posts: CCK08

More equitable distribution? Due to smaller #’s of participants?

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Open coding using Cohere

http://cohere.open.ac.uk  

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Axial Coding

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Techniques

- Sensegiving through artefact creation and sharing

- Sensemaking/giving through language games- Knowledge domain expansion- Wayfinding cues, symbols- Social organization through creating sharing

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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?

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Future considerations

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

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