1. Diversity of opinions Learning as a process Learning as
critical Continual learning Decision-making
2. Social and cultural context Work experience learning
knowledge Contact Technology as mediator Adding know-where to
know-how and knowwhat
3. A network with nodes and connections: that knowledge is
distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that
learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those
networks (Downes)
4. Aggregation Relation Creation Sharing See Rita Kop, The
Challenges to Connectivist Learning on Open Online Networks:
Learning Experiences during a Massive Open Online Course in IRRODL,
vol. 12, no. 3 (2011)
