Download - Designing for Open/Networked Learning
Dr. Alec CourosTHETA 2013Hobart, AustraliaApril 9, 2013
Designing for Open/Networked Learning
#theta13
me
ABANDONED
The Blur
Personal Openness
Open Scholarship
Open Teaching
why open?
“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, relationships
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
Objectivism
Group growth
+ (Schwier)(Leinonen)
Individual growth
CognitivismConstructivism
Social Learning
shifts in edtech
content
#HarlemShake
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
What’s your background in video
editing?
I just do it for fun. I’m self-taught.
How long did it take to film and edit?
I started in November, but then I had to start from
scratch a couple months afterwards, so I spent
months and months on it.
slide by @gcouros
@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)
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.
relationships
130,729 people like this130,729 people like this
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alainbachellier/2572801898/in/photostream/
"To immortalize this moment ... the girl seems to forget the original pleasure."
networked learning
MYOB Learning
21st Century Learning Networks
21st Century Learning Networks
“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)
course trailer
network mentors
@jonmott
student-controlled spaces
power of the hashtag
What We Learned• Open teaching can be low-cost, high impact.
• ‘Courses’ as shared, global, learning events.
• Openness as a way of connecting students to a greater, authentic learning community.
• Pedagogical 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
/hub
/tweets
random artefacts
introductions
digital stories
workflows
summaries
visualizations
vulnerability + support
collaboration
#lipdub
concluding thoughts
“Some of the comments on Youtube make you weep for the future of humanity, just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and naked hatred.”
(Lev Grossman)@leverus
humanize
(Joichi Ito)
Private Public
Closed Open
http://[email protected]
@courosa
“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born
in another time.” ~Tagore