Croatia: CARNET

Learning in complex knowledge spaces

George SiemensNovember 15, 2011

Rijeka, CroatiaCARNET

Our education system must map to the reality of society today, namely:

Abundance of Information

Barry Kade, 2009

Complexity (dynamic connectedness) of knowledge and knowledge spaces

Complex systems: “a set of diverse actors who dynamically interact with one another awash in a sea of feedbacks.”

Miller and Page, 2007

Re-balancing of power

From organization to individual

From individual to “the machine”

Abundance has always been with us, but now it’s, um,

more abundant

More is different

Complexity is different

“The internet has enabled fundamental business transformations that span the entire value chain in virtually all sectors”

McKinsey, 2011

McKinsey, 2011

But the internet is still in its infancy

Especially in education

Our education system today must reconcile itself with information and conversations that are:

OpenAccessibleDistributedScalableSocialNetworkedSelf-organizingCreativity-drivenDerivative and iterative improvementsConnected to amplify effectsAdaptiveGlobalMultimedia-based

If “it” changes how we interact with information

Or how we interact with each other…

Then it will impact teaching, learning, education

Or, put another way:Education systems track the

architecture of information of an era

And, wow, we’re messing with the architecture of information

(think of these examples not as specific tools, but as new affordances; new action potential)

Layering info onto physical space

Injecting new information into current context

Jail break the Matri(patri)archy

Finding patterns in historical information

https://republicofletters.stanford.edu/

Letters of Locke and Voltaire: “incredible disconnect”

Working different…

Evaluate/assess different(ly)

Conole, G. (forthcoming), Designing for learning in an open world, New York: Springer

Design Different

Instead of pre-fabricated curriculum…

Trailmeme: create a trail of content on a specific topic that’s interesting to you. You can also read other peoples’ trails and walk them to keep up with any updates they make.

Learning Paths…

StooMathiesen, 2011

Honest signals

http://web.media.mit.edu/~sandy/

Understanding patterns (and meaning)in our signaling

Long form content, summarized

LearnerCollectorCuratorSalespersonAlchemistProgrammerLecturerTheorizer

SalespersonConvenerCoordinatorDesignerCoachAgitatorCriticConnectoretc…

Mobiles blur physical/virtual worlds

Jasleen Kaur, 2010

IaaS

PaaS

SaaS

Cloud Computing

Tools that enable us to think together

Tools that enable us to create together

Tools that enable us to debate together

The education system has a responsibility to prepare learners for this world

Apps as channels

Rafael Kage, 2011

Learner self-organization

hannah sheffield, 2007

Online Self-Organizing Social Systems (OSOSS) “structure allows large numbers of individuals to self-organize in a highly decentralized manner in order to solve problems and accomplish other goals.”

Wiley & Edwards 2003

Participatory sensemaking:“the coordination of intentional activity in interaction, whereby individual sense-making processes are affected and new domains of social sense-making can be generated that were not available to each individual on her own”

De Jaegher and Di Paolo 2007

2008, 2009, 2011

Open online course: Learning AnalyticsJanuary 23 - March 17, 2012

http://www.solaresearch.org/

change.mooc.ca

Twitter: gsiemens

www.elearnspace.org/blog

http://www.solaresearch.org/

Learning Analytics & Knowledge 2012: Vancouver

http://lak12.sites.olt.ubc.ca/