Social Networked Learning

Social networked learning incomplex information environments George Siemens January 13, 2012 Presented to: American University Washington, D.C.

The context of changeWhat are complex information environments?CoherenceArtifacts and collaborative sensemakingSocial networks

Global messageHigher education is brokenIt risks losing relevanceScope of learning in HE is too narrow

Universities as reluctant innovatorsFear of losing students to other online providers

Allen, Seaman (2011)

US taxpayer support of education (2004-2005):K-12: $536 billionHigher Ed: $373 billion http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/index.html

Ed-tech startupsWith transformations already underway in news,music, videos/movies, startup gold rush nowturning focus to education

OpennessOpen education resourcesOpen teachingOpen coursesOpen accreditation

Open online courses

“MIT will make the MITx open learning softwareavailable free of cost, so that others — whetherother universities or different educationalinstitutions, such as K-12 school systems — canleverage the same software for their onlineeducation offerings.” MIT (2011)

Personalization and adaptive learning at a large scale

Mobiles blurphysical/virtual worlds Jasleen Kaur, 2010

Complexity(dynamicconnectedness)of knowledgeand knowledgespaces Barry Kade, 2009

Education systems track thearchitecture of information of an era

To understand what tomorrow’s education system will look like, wehave to understand the architecture of information today: how is it created how is it shared how is it iterated

Our education system faces information and conversations that are:OpenAccessibleDistributedScalableSocialNetworkedSelf-organizingDerivative and iterative improvementsAdaptiveGlobalMultimedia-based

Information fragmentationproduces loss of coherence

Existing coherence forming systemsBooksNewspapersTV news programsMagazinesCoursesPrograms(anything that is structured and that the end usercan’t speak into and alter)

Structures formed in advance versus structures that emerge and are created by individuals

Fragmentation of information requires that we weave together elements into some type of coherent frameworkYoutubeBlogsTwitterFacebookTEDtalksKahn AcademyOnline news/information sitesTraditional coherence frameworksBlogsTraining and developmentClient feedback

Networked informationdoesn’t have a centre

So we (socially) create temporary centres:

Temporary Centres

Artifacts re-center the learning conversation

Sharingpersonalsensemakingartifacts

Image of course structure created by course participant http://x28newblog.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2008/09/06/cck08-first-impressions/

Wellman (2002)

Social and academic connection to theuniversity Boyer (1987), Tinto (1993)Psychological sense of community:“Acknowledged interdependence” Sarason (1974)

Place without space Negroponte (1995)

Current generation of learning toolsmirror a priori content and planned conversations

Next generation tools will mirror the information, power relationships, and fluid social structure of networks

Reeds LawUtility of a (social) network scales exponentiallywith the overall size of a networkWhen a network is large enough, sub-groupsand individual-controlled formations emerge

What are the principles that influence education in open settings and social networks?Learner autonomySelf-organizationTransparent learning=teachingParticipatory pedagogySensemaking artifactsShareable learning paths

Network opportunitiesandfrictionless sharing inhigher education

Giving individuals control of information filters and structurei.e. if structure doesn’t exist a priori, learners need tools to create and share structure

change.mooc.ca Twitter: gsiemens www.elearnspace.org/blog http://www.solaresearch.org/Learning Analytics & Knowledge 2012: Vancouver http://lak12.sites.olt.ubc.ca/

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