Dr. Alec CourosAt Michigan State UniversityOctober 27, 2012
Open And Connected LearningLeveraging Networks for Learning
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Personal Open Spaces
Open Teaching
Open Tenure/Promotion App
“The Open Scholar is someone who makes their intellectual processes digitally visible and who invites and encourages ongoing criticism of their work and secondary
uses of any or all parts of it -- at any stage of its development.” (Burton, G., 2009)
Open Doctrine
changes
“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.”
atoms <---> bitsscarcity <---> abundanceconsuming <---> creatingindividuals <---> networks
control <---> freedom
significant shifts
current context - new affordancestools, content, networks
tools
Early Days of PCs in Schools Today’s Social/Mobile Reality
Toward a Mobile Reality
Convergence
NY Subway
JB Concert
photographed by George Couros
Source: google.com/think/insights
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.”
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Informal Learning
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
@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
Social Networking Services
Six Degrees of Separation“the idea that everyone is on average six steps away, by way of introduction, from
another person in the world.”
“Chance favors the connected mind” ~ Stephen Johnson
@elenelli
@npyrini
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)
networks1. mechanism: enable communication &
collaboration in ways that were once impossible.
2. inspiration: connect us to new ideas & expand our thinking & potential for innovation.
* ‘us’ meaning those who are increasingly literate
inspirations & possibilitiesvalue of free, weak ties, 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)
“For Unleashing the Ideavirus, Godin released the entire eBook on the Internet for free, which led to eventual publishing deals in 41 countries and a public speaking career.”
“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
strength of weak ties
Howard Rheingold
• “Understanding how networks work is one of the most important literacies of the 21st century.” (2010)
Network Literacies
@dlnorman
@giuliaforsythe
@noiseprofessor
@noiseprofessor
@noiseprofessor
@timlauer
“The gene has it’s cultural analog too: the meme. In cultural evolution, a meme is a
replicator and propagator - an idea, a fashion, a chain letter, or a conspiracy
theory. On a bad day, a meme is a virus”
Lowenstein, 1999
memes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3601144842/sizes/l/in/photostream/
“To run for president in the age of the Internet is to risk your words, your image and - most
importantly - your mistakes, will be photoshopped clipped, edited, remixed and
remastered online in the form of a viral meme.”
“...for all the money, tax revenue and intelligence that Western governments have at their disposal (they) seemingly cannot get their heads around a simple enough concept that wherever one
is, someone is watching and recording.”
Zack Whitaker
making learning visible
“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.”
Nick
MattKirk
how are you making learning visible?
how are you contributing to the learning of others?
#eci831
cMOOC pedagogy relies heavily on gift economies, weak ties, participatory
culture & making learning visible
network mentors
non-credit students
course trailer
student-controlled spaces
co-created & shared resources
“I was able to go out and learn throughout the entire week, the entire year, and I’m still
learning with everyone.”
“The best part of the course is that it’s not ending. With the connections we’ve built, it
never has to end.”
@jonmott
concluding thoughts
(Joichi Ito)
http://[email protected]
@courosa
“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born
in another time.” ~Tagore
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