Connectivism 101

Connectivism 101: For the Curious November 12, 2007 University of Alaska Fairbanks George Siemens

What was happening: late 90’s/early 00’s
Network effect was experientially manifested
Control was shifting
User generated content
Lower barriers: We could create, collaborate, share with relative ease

What was happening in late 90’s/early 00’s
Information explosion accelerating
Edublog community rapidly developing
Learning from each other: distributed, co-formation of understanding
Rise of everyone

Learning didn’t feel like the theories said

We need a view of learning that recognizes:
Changing information base (capacity to know)
Role of technology
Place/time shifted collaboration
Shared sense making
Life long learning
Connected specialization
Diversity
Principality of connections

Contributing factors
Dissatisfied learners
Engagement
Changing world: how we relate to information
Upheaval in information fields (blame the network)
News, music, video, software, scholarship

Learning/life had changed

The few became the network

Points of failure
Unneeded control
LMS models (centralized/clunky)
Good for administrators
Terrible for learners and faculty
LOs starting to peel hype layer
Structured and planned=outdated

Heisenberg principle of information/learning: if you can describe it, it has changed

Origin
Lots of stuff before I ever got here
2003 article – networks, ecologies
2004 article – self-published
2005 – IJTDL
2005 – Downes: Connective Knowledge
2006 – Wilson: “The diagram”
Simultaneous: networked learning
Edublog space exploded (see edublog awards)

Connectivism: Theory of learning developed in the manner it states learning occurs
Downes, Cross, Richardson, Verhagen, Kerr, Anderson, Blackall, Sessums, Fisher, Hiebert, Wilson, Fiedler (plus a few hundred others)
How did they contribute?
Why did they contribute?
How’s that for authentic?

What is connectivism?
Knowledge distributed
Learning as networked process (i.e. forming connections)
Principles form base of all design

Three levels:
Neural
Conceptual (Sweller, Novak)
External (people, information sources)

But is that learning?

“ More than anything else, being an educated person means being able to see connections that allow one to make sense of the world and act within it in creative ways”
William Cronon, 1998

The network became the locus of change

What is knowledge?

Where is it found?

“ All the knowledge is in the connections”
David Rumelhart

Learning in relationship to knowledge and mind
Distributed –
Hutchins – Not “in skull”
Spivey et. al. – “not always inside brain”
Bereiter – “knowing outside the mind”
Externalization – Wittgenstein, Vygotsky
Socialization – Papert, Piaget, Bruner, Bandura

The network became a lever of influence

The aim:
Deep understanding
Complex worldviews
Multi-context
Assimilative/adaptive
Agility/stability (Oblinger)

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