Uwc connectivism seminar 22 aug2012-keynote

Connectivism • Dick Ng’ambi • Centre for educational technology • University of Cape TownPresented at the UWC Teaching & Learning seminar series: theories and approaches to T&L on 22nd August, 2012

Outline• What is it?• How is it?• Why is it?• Whom is it?

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Education trajectory Authentic human connections & Interact with web collaboration & other online Internet, a Education 4.0 users place to go for instant access to information Education 3.0 Education 3.0 Education 2.0 Education 2.0 Education 2.0TraditionalEducation 1.0 Education 1.0 Education 1.0 Education 1.0

Crowdsourcing Image Source: http://www.greenbookblog.org/2010/11/05/crowdsourcing%E2%80%A6counterintuitive/• Problems are broadcast to an unknown group of solvers in the form of an open call for solutions

Image source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade+uk/london-riots

Wisdom of CrowdsImage source: http://www.nscorp.com/nscportal/nscorp/Employees/Diversity/Diversity_in_Action/ﬁtzgerald.html

Source: http://socialnetworksales.net/

Complex network (twitter follower-graph)Source: http://www.fernfachhochschule.ch/ffhs/afe/lws/forschung/research/view?set_language=en

Why is it? Facilitating continual learning is a process of nurturing & maintaining connections Learning = process of connectingspecialised nodes or info sources Ability to see connections between ﬁelds, ideas and concepts is a core skillCapacity to know more ismore critical than what is currently known Connectivism

Learning, how? • Learning is the creation and removal of connections between the entities, or the adjustment of the strengths of those connections. A learning theory is, literally, a theory describing howSource: Stephen Downes (2012) ebook on Connectivism and Connective Knowledge: Essays on meaning and learning networks

• Learning is a connection-making process George Siemens, 2012: Available at: http://www.connectivism.ca/

Theory, what? Verhagen (2006; as cited in Veletsianos, 2010), “…connectivism is more a theoryof curriculum (specifying what thegoal of education should be and the way students should learn in that curriculum) than a theory of learning” (p. 35).

Learner-driven, what?• Anderson (2008), it helps people to understand that learning is about making connections with ideas, facts, people, and communities.• Marcum (2006), it goes beyond behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, and learner-centered approaches to a learner-driven approach.

Danny Goodwin, May 25, 2011

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Connections for what?• Connectivism could be explained as a learning theory that encourages students to use their connections to further their learning in a ﬁeld of study that is interesting to them. Source: http://mrbrenlea.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/connectivism/

Challenges• that people, Connectivism assumes information, and knowledge do not function autonomously, but are individually connected by webs of context, culture, and pre-connection to others (Terry & Terry, 2010)• learners and learning Both the networks exist all at the same time. Did learners or learning networks come ﬁrst?

Connectivism as a learning theory

Questions & Discussion Contact details: Dick Ng’ambi, PhD. dick.ngambi@uct.ac.za

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