Why Networked Learning Matters
Dr. Alec CourosReforms Symposium 2011
#rscon11
intro
The Blur
open scholarship
Open Doctrine
Networked Learning?
“networked learning is a process of developing and maintaining connections
with people and information, and communicating in such a way as to
support one anotherʼs learning.” (Wikipedia)
10 Reasons WNLM
#1: The Tools Make It Easy
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#2: The Monopoly Is Ending
David Wiley
@opencontent
Then vs Now
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
Closed Open
David Wiley
@opencontent
Education vs Everyday
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
Closed Open
Why Do Students Go to University?
Content
Social Life
Degrees
Support Services
(Wiley, 2010)
Why Do Students Go to University?
Content
Support ServicesSocial Life
Degrees
WikipediaPLoS
OCW
Open Courses
Google Scholar
arXiv.orgFlatworld K
MCSEGCT
ACT
CCNACNE
MMOGsMySpace
Yahoo! AnswersQuora
Skype
(Wiley, 2010)
ChaCha
#3: We Are Smarter Together
#4: Some Of Our Best Teachers Arenʼt Our Teachers
#5: Geography Doesnʼt Matter.Learning Matters.
#6: Audience Makes a Difference
#7: Sharing Is Vital To Learning
“itʼs about overcoming the inner 2 year old in
you that screams mine, mine, itʼs mine.”
(Wiley, TEDxNYED, 2010)
“If thereʼs no sharing ... there is no education. Education is inherently an enterprise of openness and sharing
and generosity. ” (Wiley, TEDxNYED, 2010)
Dean Shareski
“knowledge is not like a cheeseburger”
#8: Network Literacy & Digital Citizenship
@hrheingold
• “Understanding how networks work is one of the most important literacies of the 21st century.” (2010)
Network Literacies
• redefine communities, friends, citizenship, identity, presence, privacy, publics, geography.
• enable learning, communication, sharing, collaboration, community.
• networks form around shared interests & objects.
networks
Howard Rheingold
http://www.anduro.com/calgary-mayor-race.html
Teens are not connecting in the ways we fear. But, we need to pay attention to:
•Properties: persistence, replicability, searchability, scalability, (de)locatability.
•Dynamics: invisible audiences, collapsed contexts, blurring of public & private spaces
@zephoria
danah boyd
#9: Networks Allow Us to Make the World a Better Place
#10: The End of Education & the Beginning of Learning
“We need to move beyond the idea that education is something
that is provided for us, and toward the idea that an education
is something that we create ourselves.”
(Downes, 2010)
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