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Designing for Open/Networked Learning
1) The document discusses designing learning experiences for open and networked environments using new technologies and tools. 2) It highlights how tools like mobile devices, social media, and online networks have significantly shifted how information is accessed, shared, and learned. Knowledge is now abundant and learning is increasingly social and informal. 3) The key aspects of open and networked learning discussed include using hashtags to connect learners globally, creating open online courses and spaces for shared learning events, and developing long-term learning connections through openness and collaboration.
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- 1. Designing for Open/NetworkedLearning Dr. Alec Couros THETA 2013 Hobart, Australia April 9, 2013
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- 17. “Web 2.0 toolsexist 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)
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- 22. Mobile Early Days ofPCs in Schools Today’s Social/Mobile Reality
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- 25. significant shifts inmedia atoms <---> bits scarcity <---> abundance consuming <---> creating standardization <---> personalization individuals <---> networks
- 29. shifts in edtech Group growth Individual growth Objectivism Cognitivism Constructivism (Leinonen) + (Schwier) Social Learning
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- 38. Informal Learning • “Informal learning is a significant aspect of our learning experience. Formal education no longer comprises the majority of our learning.” • George Siemens http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
- 40. How long didit 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. What’s your background in video editing? I just do it for fun. I’m self-taught. slide by @gcouros
- 41. “Today knowledge isfree. 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) @drtonywagner
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- 44. Six Degrees ofSeparation “the idea that everyone is on average six steps away, by way of introduction, from another person in the world.”
- 45. Strength of WeakTies “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)
- 46. Where Good IdeasCome 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)
- 47. 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.
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- 62. “To answer yourquestion, 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.”
- 66. How are youmaking your learning visible?
- 67. How are youcontributing to the learning of others?
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- 74. power of thehashtag
- 75. 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.
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- 102. “Some of thecomments on Youtube make you weep for the future of humanity, just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and naked hatred.” @leverus (Lev Grossman)
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- 118. “Don’t limit achild to your own learning, for he was born in another time.” ~Tagore http://couros.ca couros@gmail.com @courosa