Accra

A narrative of learning for a world without boundaries eLearning Africa May 29, 2008 George Siemens

Innovation Blended learning Teacher development ICT Mobile learning Development Networking Collaboration Partnership Innovation Resource constraints Diffusion Adoption Learner success OERs Web 2.0 Pedagogy Infrastructure Open source Digitization eLibraries Empowering women ICT in health care Copyright Quality management Policy Inclusivity Research

History of educational technology

Perez, C. 2004 Technological revolution Year Industrial from 1771 Steam/Railways from 1829 Steel/Electricity from 1875 Oil/Automobile/Mass production from 1908 Information/telecommunications from 1971

Looking within
Humanity

Increased opportunities

Goals of learners
Life of learners

Changing societal needs

Not content, but interaction, connections, socialization

Principles of openness
To people, to places, to methods, to ideas
Lord Geoffrey Crowther, 1969

Looking forward
Respect of history
Mobile technologies
OERs
Socialization
A narrative of inclusion
Resolution (acknowledgement) of tension points

Not knowing in advance
Complicated
vs
Complex

“ New technologies take hold only in the context of accompanying cultural innovation as their latent possibilities are explored.”
Joe Karaganis in Structures of Participation in Digital Culture

What is learning in a world without boundaries?

Belonging

A new narrative?
On returning…
On participating…

Participating
In content creation
In learning network formation
In socialization
In owning our participation

Taking the “whole view”
Learning (cognitive, social, situational, emotive)
Learner needs, context
Diversity
Access
Technology
Variability of information quality
International/global relations/partnerships

STAKEHOLDERS

Achieving “whole view”
Build capacity:
System (policy)
Faculty (skills)
Learner (skills, access, and opportunity)
Stakeholders: society, government, employers
Perils of building a development model too soon, or too rigidly

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www.knowingknowledge.com
www.connectivism.ca
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by gsiemens on May 29, 2008

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