The document discusses connectivism, communities of practice, and professional learning networks as approaches to learning. Connectivism posits that learning occurs within networks and connections must be nurtured. Communities of practice are groups that share interests and learn from interacting regularly, requiring a domain, community, and shared practice. Professional learning networks are teacher-driven support networks that decrease isolation through personalized learning and sharing within social networks.
This second webinar in the Network Leadership Webinar Series is brought to you by the Center for Creative Leadership, NYU Wagner, and the Leadership Learning Community.
Presenting is Chris Ernst from Juniper Networks.
Unified Yet Separated - Empirical Study on the Impact of Hierarchical Positio...Martin Rehm
Communities of Learning (CoL) are suggested to facilitate the co-construction of knowledge among participants of online trainings. Yet, previous studies often detached participants from the social context in which learning took place. The manuscript addresses this shortcoming by providing empirical evidence from 30 CoL of a global organization, where 337 staff members from different hierarchical positions collaboratively enhanced their knowledge via asynchronous discussion forums. The results from four dedicated studies clearly indicate that the higher participants’ hierarchical position, the higher their amount of social and cognitive messages, and the more central their network position within CoL. However, we also identified a group of “Stars” that outperformed their colleagues and who were at the centre of CoL networks, irrespective of their hierarchical positions. Based on these findings, HRD practitioners can better design and facilitate future collaborative learning activities that build upon the strength and weaknesses of all participants.
This second webinar in the Network Leadership Webinar Series is brought to you by the Center for Creative Leadership, NYU Wagner, and the Leadership Learning Community.
Presenting is Chris Ernst from Juniper Networks.
Unified Yet Separated - Empirical Study on the Impact of Hierarchical Positio...Martin Rehm
Communities of Learning (CoL) are suggested to facilitate the co-construction of knowledge among participants of online trainings. Yet, previous studies often detached participants from the social context in which learning took place. The manuscript addresses this shortcoming by providing empirical evidence from 30 CoL of a global organization, where 337 staff members from different hierarchical positions collaboratively enhanced their knowledge via asynchronous discussion forums. The results from four dedicated studies clearly indicate that the higher participants’ hierarchical position, the higher their amount of social and cognitive messages, and the more central their network position within CoL. However, we also identified a group of “Stars” that outperformed their colleagues and who were at the centre of CoL networks, irrespective of their hierarchical positions. Based on these findings, HRD practitioners can better design and facilitate future collaborative learning activities that build upon the strength and weaknesses of all participants.
Connectivism has been developed by George Siemens and Stephen Downes based on their analysis of the limitations of traditional learning theories to explain the effect technology has had on how we live, how we communicate, and how we learn.
Birds of a Feather? - Do Participants’ Hierarchical Positions activate Homoph...Martin Rehm
Communities of Learning (CoL) are promoted to foster interpersonal knowledge transfer among participants of organizational training initiatives. Moreover, previous studies have posited that homophily can significantly affect the communication processes among participants that exhibit differing background characteristics. However, past research has largely neglected a particular background characteristic, namely hierarchical positions, which have been suggested to constitute a major obstacle for collaborative learning processes. By providing empirical evidence from 25 CoL of a global organization, where participants from different parts of an organization’s hierarchical ladder collaboratively enhanced their knowledge and skills, the current study addresses this shortcoming and investigates whether and to what extent the applicable CoL have been subject to homophily. Based on an underlying social network analysis, our results show no signs of homophily. Instead, we rather find an “externalness”, whereby participants particularly turned to colleagues from outside their own hierarchical position. By incorporating these findings into the design and implementation, organizers of future CoL can device learning activities and facilitation strategies that can further enhance participants’ learning experience and outcomes.
Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism and other growing theories such as Actor-Network and Connectivism are circulating in the educational field. For each, there are allies who stand behind research evidence and consistency of observation. Meantime, those existing theories dominate the field until the background is changed or new concrete evidence proves their insufficiencies. Connectivists claim that the background or the general climate has recently changed: a new generation of researchers, connectivists propose a new way of conceiving knowledge. According to them, knowledge is a network and learning is a process of exploring this network. Other researchers find this notion either not clear or not new and probably, with no effect in the education field. This paper addresses a foggy understanding of knowledge defined as
a network and the lack of resources talking about this topic. Therefore, it tries to clarify what it means to define knowledge as a network and in what way it can affect teaching and learning.
In this third webinar of the Network Leadership Series, Professor Angel Saz-Carranza will explore the question of how formal networks of organizations, created to reach a collective goal (also known as goal-directed networks), work to support the overarching network goals. Goal-directed networks often create a separate organizational unit to broker and administer the network as a whole called Network Administrative Organizations (NAOs).
The webinar will answer questions like:
How organizational units lead and broker the work of network members to ensure that the network as a whole achieves a collective network goal. finds the direction it needs, aligns the activities of its members, and helps them stay committed and ready to collaborate
How leadership strategies are different when the work is not internal to a single organization
Drawing from the work of immigration coalitions in the U.S. as examples of an important type of network, Saz-Carranza unpacks the leadership dynamics of formal goal-directed networks. These network member organizations join together to accomplish a common goal that is different from each organizational member but that contributes to advance their individual missions.
The outline of this presentation on Connectivism presented at the Teaching and Learning Research Series at the University of Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa addresses the following questions: What is it? Why is it? How is it? and Whose is it?
Connectivism has been developed by George Siemens and Stephen Downes based on their analysis of the limitations of traditional learning theories to explain the effect technology has had on how we live, how we communicate, and how we learn.
Birds of a Feather? - Do Participants’ Hierarchical Positions activate Homoph...Martin Rehm
Communities of Learning (CoL) are promoted to foster interpersonal knowledge transfer among participants of organizational training initiatives. Moreover, previous studies have posited that homophily can significantly affect the communication processes among participants that exhibit differing background characteristics. However, past research has largely neglected a particular background characteristic, namely hierarchical positions, which have been suggested to constitute a major obstacle for collaborative learning processes. By providing empirical evidence from 25 CoL of a global organization, where participants from different parts of an organization’s hierarchical ladder collaboratively enhanced their knowledge and skills, the current study addresses this shortcoming and investigates whether and to what extent the applicable CoL have been subject to homophily. Based on an underlying social network analysis, our results show no signs of homophily. Instead, we rather find an “externalness”, whereby participants particularly turned to colleagues from outside their own hierarchical position. By incorporating these findings into the design and implementation, organizers of future CoL can device learning activities and facilitation strategies that can further enhance participants’ learning experience and outcomes.
Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism and other growing theories such as Actor-Network and Connectivism are circulating in the educational field. For each, there are allies who stand behind research evidence and consistency of observation. Meantime, those existing theories dominate the field until the background is changed or new concrete evidence proves their insufficiencies. Connectivists claim that the background or the general climate has recently changed: a new generation of researchers, connectivists propose a new way of conceiving knowledge. According to them, knowledge is a network and learning is a process of exploring this network. Other researchers find this notion either not clear or not new and probably, with no effect in the education field. This paper addresses a foggy understanding of knowledge defined as
a network and the lack of resources talking about this topic. Therefore, it tries to clarify what it means to define knowledge as a network and in what way it can affect teaching and learning.
In this third webinar of the Network Leadership Series, Professor Angel Saz-Carranza will explore the question of how formal networks of organizations, created to reach a collective goal (also known as goal-directed networks), work to support the overarching network goals. Goal-directed networks often create a separate organizational unit to broker and administer the network as a whole called Network Administrative Organizations (NAOs).
The webinar will answer questions like:
How organizational units lead and broker the work of network members to ensure that the network as a whole achieves a collective network goal. finds the direction it needs, aligns the activities of its members, and helps them stay committed and ready to collaborate
How leadership strategies are different when the work is not internal to a single organization
Drawing from the work of immigration coalitions in the U.S. as examples of an important type of network, Saz-Carranza unpacks the leadership dynamics of formal goal-directed networks. These network member organizations join together to accomplish a common goal that is different from each organizational member but that contributes to advance their individual missions.
The outline of this presentation on Connectivism presented at the Teaching and Learning Research Series at the University of Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa addresses the following questions: What is it? Why is it? How is it? and Whose is it?
Social networks and learning -- examples and highlights of studies on social networks and learning communities.
Haythornthwaite, C. (June 30, 2014). Network Madness: A node, a relation, a network. Invited presentation, Learning Analytics Summer Institute 2014 - Public Event, Harvard University, Boston MA (one of four invited speakers). Organizer Garron Hillaire. http://www.meetup.com/Learning-Analytics-Boston/events/187455892/
Slides from my Keynote at ALT-C in Manchester, UK Sept. 2009. Two major topics - Jon Dron and my Taxonomy of the Many (review) and a new slides on Open Scholarship. CC but attribution requested
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
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This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
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2. Connectivism
Decisions are based on a rapidly changing
foundations.
Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to
facilitate continual learning
Learning occurs within a network
Davis, et. al.
3. Connectivism and Knowledge
Rests in a diversity of opinions
Process of connecting specialized information sources
Capacity to know is greater than what we already
know
Marquis
4. Connectivism and Knowledge
Ability to see connections between sources is a core
skill
Being current is the intent of all activities
Marquis
5. Communities of Practice
Groups of people who share a concern or a passion for
something they do and learn how to do it better as they
interact regularly
Must haves:
Domain
Community
Practice
Wenger-Trayner and Communities of Practice
6. Professional Learning Network
A PLN is a system of interpersonal connections and resources
that sup- port informal learning
Teacher-driven, global support networks that decrease
isolation and promote independence
Trust
7. Professional Learning Network
Personalized training
High degree of symbiotic relationships that personal
development depends on
Not merely absorbing information from other, we are sharing
Developed primarily through social networks
Catapano
8. Resources
Catapano, J. (2017) What is a PLN? Why Do I need one? Retreived 12 June 2017 from http://www.teachhub.com/what-pln-why-do-i-need-one
Communities of Practice. (n.d.) Retrieved 12 June 2017 from http://www.kstoolkit.org/Communities+of+Practice
Davis, C, Edmunds, E, & Kelly-Bateman, V. (2008). Connectivism. In M. Orey (Ed.), Emerging perspectives on learning, teaching, and technology. Retrieved 12 June
2017, from http://epltt.coe.uga.edu/
Marquis, Justin. (2012). What Does Connectivism Mean for Education?. Retrieved 12 June 2017, from http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2012/01/what-does-
connectivism-mean-for-education/
Trust, T. (2012). Professional Learning Networks Designed for Teacher Learning. Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 28. Retrieved from
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ972454.pdf.
Wenger-Trayner, E and B. (2015). Communities of Practice a Brief Introduction. Retrieved 10 June 2017 from http://wenger-trayner.com/wp-
content/uploads/2015/04/07-Brief-introduction-to-communities-of-practice.pdf
