1. Diversity of opinions Learning as a process Learning as
critical Continual learning Decision-making
2. Social and cultural context Work experience learning
knowledge Contact Technology as mediator Adding know-where to
know-how and knowwhat
3. A network with nodes and connections: that knowledge is
distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that
learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those
networks (Downes)
4. Aggregation Relation Creation Sharing See Rita Kop, The
Challenges to Connectivist Learning on Open Online Networks:
Learning Experiences during a Massive Open Online Course in IRRODL,
vol. 12, no. 3 (2011)
5. The practice of analyzing, classifying, interpreting, or
evaluating literary or other artistic works
6. Autonomy Connectedness Diversity Openness Sharing Current
Electronic devices
7. Not a theory Limited research available Not widely accepted
Impersonal Electronic or virtual -Training can be required
Dismissal of human knowledge
8. The Free Dictionary (2013) Criticisms. Available at:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/criticism (Accessed: 30 Oct 2013).
Tschofen, C. & Mackness, J. (2012) Connectivism and Dimensions
of Individual Experience International Review of Research in Open
& Distance Learning. Vol. 13 Issue 1, p124143. 20p.