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Connectivism and Self-Organized LearningGeorge Siemens
September 22, 2011RUIVE: Innovation, Quality and
Accreditation
What is connectivism?
This
Really. That’s it.
Describe knowledge and learning process through the lens of connections
But, making the transition to a “connection” as the unit of analysis in learning is not easy
It raises questions about:
What enables connections?
What prevents connections?
Why is it important?
Abundance
More is different, but not new1550-1750
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_ideas/toc/jhi64.1.html
http://research.uow.edu.au/learningnetworks/seeing/snapp/index.html
Matthew principle
Because the internet and social media make managing/owning/directing your own learning possible.
Intermediary agents need not apply.
What is self-organization?
“Processes of self-organization literally create order out of disorder”
Francis Heylighen
“Individuals, groups, and communities all form symbiotic relationships for a wide variety of reasons but the underlying impetus is resource sharing. Whether the resource is food, information, or support, individuals come together to share resources (Ribbands, 1953).
Erin Brewer, 2003
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
Learning is a complex process (mainly because people are complex)
Our institutions today (attempt to) manage it like it is complicated system.
X
X
X
Too focused on preserving this
Today’s education system
Complex systems: “a set of diverse actors who dynamically interact with one another awash in a sea of feedbacks.”
Miller and Page, 2007
Complexity: “disturbing traits of mess, of the inextricable, or disorder, of ambiguity, or uncertainty”
Morin, 2008
2008, 2009
, 2011
What is the technical ecosystem of open online learning?
Tools used by learners
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/643/1402Fini, 2009
Roughly anything.
The data set
Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2008(CCK08)
SNA & Participation Habits
CCK08 Weekly Forum Posts
CCK08: Introduction forum
Limited interaction. Most are isolated
Downes auto-subscribes learners in CCK08
Introduction forum posts: CCK08
Dialogue limited: Group too large?
Week 12 forum posts: CCK08
More equitable distribution? Due to smaller #’s of participants?
Axial Coding
Techniques
- Sensegiving through artefact creation and sharing
- Sensemaking/giving through language games- Knowledge domain expansion- Wayfinding cues, symbols- Social organization through creating sharing
Surprised to not find (automated) technology as more prominent
At what point to we “max out” the ability to make sense of our complex world through social means?
Future considerations
Technological and social self-organization. The value of extended cognitive agents.
change.mooc.ca
Twitter: gsiemens
www.elearnspace.org/blog
Learning Analytics & Knowledge 2012: Vancouver
http://lak12.sites.olt.ubc.ca/
