Connectivism:
A theory for
today’s learning?
Gráinne Conole
Seminar on ‘Knowing knowledge’ by
George Siemens
9th July 2008

Outline
• Overview of key points
• Questions raised
• Implications for SocialLearn

Themes
• To conceptualise learning & knowing as
connection-based processes
• To explore the nature of change
• To explore the changing nature of knowledge
• To present knowledge as a context-game
• To present a new model for space & structure
Pg. viii

Categories/hierarchies Industrial product
Networks/ecologies Knowledge flow
Knowledge a Knowledge has Connections
function of change
the network changed content
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