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Transcript of Online Learning in a Networked Age
Dr. Alec CourosSLN SOL SummitSyracuse, New YorkFebruary 28, 2013
Online Learning in a Networked Age
#slnsolsummit
me
The Blur
Personal Open Spaces
“Web 2.0 tools exist that might allow academics to reflect and reimagine what they do as scholars. Such tools might
positively affect -- even transform - research, teaching, and service responsibilities - only if scholars choose to
build serious academic lives online, presenting semi-public selves and becoming invested in and connected to the work of their peers and students.” (Greenhow,
Robelia, & Hughes, 2009)
changes
current context - new affordancestools, content, networks
tools
Early Days of PCs in Schools Today’s Social/Mobile Reality
Mobile
Convergence
atoms <---> bitsscarcity <---> abundanceconsuming <---> creating
standardization <---> personalizationindividuals <---> networks
significant shifts in media
“in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000”
“More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month that the 3 major US networks created in 60 years.”
“72 hours of video are uploaded every minute, or one hour of video is uploaded to Youtube every second.”
Objectivism
Group growth
(Schwier)(Leinonen)
Individual growth
CognitivismConstructivism
Social Learning
shifts in edtech
content
George Siemens
• “Informal learning is a significant aspect of our learning experience. Formal education no longer comprises the majority of our learning.”
•
Informal Learning
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
17-Year-Old Heather Traska
86 days, 30+ characters, 13 songsrecorded, edited, produced
arranged by ear
@drtonywagner
“Today knowledge is free. It’s like air, it’s like water...
There’s no competitive advantage in knowing
more than the person next to you. The world doesn’t care what you know. What the world cares about is
what you can do with what you know.” (2012)
networks
NOT WHAT’S
IMPORTANT
Six Degrees of Separation“the idea that everyone is on average six steps away, by way of introduction, from
another person in the world.”
Strength of Weak Ties“There is strength in weak ties. Our
acquaintances, not our friends, are potentially our greatest source of new ideas and
information.” (paraphrased from Gladwell, 2010)
Where Good Ideas Come From“The trick to having good ideas is not to sit
around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the
table.” (Steven Johnson, 2010)
“Chance favors the connected mind” ~ Stephen Johnson
networks provide ...1. affordances: enable communication, collaboration
& cooperation in ways that were once impossible with people who were once unreachable.
2. inspiration: connect us to new ideas & expand our thinking & potential for innovation.
* ‘us’ meaning those who have access.
affordances & inspirationsvalue of free, crowdsourcing, visible learning
value of free
@esrtweet
“Gift cultures are adaptations not to scarcity but to abundance .... In gift cultures, social status is determined not by what you control, but by what you give
away. (1997)
“the song intentionally lacked a copyright so that people would be encouraged to create their
own online parodies, in essence their own "XYZ Style"”
21st Century Learning Networks
21st Century Learning Networks
crowdsourcing
@dlnorman
@giuliaforsythe
@noiseprofessor
@noiseprofessor
@noiseprofessor
@timlauer
making learning visible
MYOB Learning
“To answer your question, I did use Youtube to learn how to dance. I
consider it my ‘main’ teacher.”
“10 years ago, street dance was very exclusive, especially rare dances like popping
(the one I teach and do). You either had to learn it from a friend that knew it or get VHS
tapes which were hard to get. Now with Youtube, anyone, anywhere in the world can
learn previously ‘exclusive’ dance styles.”
How are you making your learning visible?
How are you contributing to the learning of others?
cMOOCs
#eci831 (open-boundary)
network mentors
non-credit students
course trailer
@jonmott
student-controlled spaces
learned to love the hashtag
What We Learned
• Open access be low-cost, high impact.
• ‘Courses’ as shared, global, learning events.
• Openness as a way of connecting students to a greater, authentic learning community.
• Amazing serendipity in open spaces vs. walled gardens.
• Importance of student-controlled learning spaces.
• Connectivist pedagogy first focus on connecting & interactions; content important, but secondary.
• Development of sustainable, long-term, learning connections.
#etmooc
origins
~2000 participants from ~70 countries
spaces
/tweets
random artefacts
#lipdub
concluding thoughts
Private Public
Closed Open
(Joichi Ito)
@barrywellman
“The developed world is in the midst of a paradigm shift both in the ways in
which people and institutions are connected.
It is a shift from being bound up in homogenous “little boxes” to surfing life through diffuse, variegated
social networks.” (2002)
http://[email protected]
@courosa
“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born
in another time.” ~Tagore