Teaching and Learning in Social & Technological Networks

George SiemensApril 21, 2010

TCC Online

What is a course?

A narrative of coherence

Context

Media and message fragmentation

What does it mean?

How can it [the message] be “recreated”?

What types of social & information habits have traditional media placed

on humanity?

Which of those habits have/will be altered by social media?

Transition: control and capacity to shape

From . to /

www.you.com

twitter.com/you

facebook.com/you

ustream.tv/user/you

foursquare.com/user/you

www.whatever.com/you

Contrast

moodle.youruniversity.com

with

allovertheweb.com/yourlearner

We have created spaces instead of connections

A networked course doesn’t have a centre

But…

We need “centering” to understand

We need “centering” to makesense

We need “centering” to see patterns

We need “centering” to share

We create temporary centres with…

Tags

Alerts

entity relatedness

clustered aggregation

visualization

Creating a central message through distributed means

1. Amplifying

2. Curating

3. Wayfinding & Sensemaking

4. Filtering

5. Modeling

6. Persistent presence

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The promise of analytics

The medium is the message?

The medium alters the message

The medium alters the organization

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