Keynote presentation for the Reform Symposium, January 8/11. More information at http://reformsymposium.com/

1. Why Networked Learning Matters
Dr. Alec Couros
Reforms Symposium 2011

2. #rscon11

3. intro

7. The Blur

9. open scholarship

11. Open Doctrine

12. Networked Learning?

13. “networked learning is a process of
developing and maintaining connections
with people and information, and
communicating in such a way as to
support one anotherʼs
learning.” (Wikipedia)

15. 10 Reasons WNLM

16. #1: The Tools Make It Easy

17. http://www.flickr.com/photos/laihiu/3935342049

21. “Free” Tools

24. #2: The Monopoly Is Ending

25. David Wiley
Then vs Now
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
@opencontent
Closed Open

26. David Wiley
Education vs Everyday
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
@opencontent
Closed Open

27. Why Do Students Go to University?
Content Degrees
Social Life Support Services
(Wiley, 2010)

28. Why Do Students Go to University?
PLoS
GCT
Wikipedia MCSE
Google Scholar ACT
OCW
Content Degrees
Flatworld K arXiv.org CNE
CCNA
Open Courses
Facebook Twitter
Skype
Social Life Support Services
MySpace Yahoo! Answers
MMOGs
Quora
ChaCha
(Wiley, 2010)

33. #3: We Are Smarter Together

39. #4: Some Of Our Best Teachers
Arenʼt Our Teachers

51. #5: Geography Doesnʼt Matter.
Learning Matters.

55. #6: Audience Makes a Difference

58. #7: Sharing Is Vital To Learning

60. “itʼs about overcoming
the inner 2 year old in
you that screams mine,
mine, itʼs mine.”
(Wiley, TEDxNYED, 2010)

61. “If thereʼs no sharing ... there is no
education. Education is inherently an
enterprise of openness and sharing
and generosity. ” (Wiley, TEDxNYED, 2010)

62. Dean Shareski

63. “knowledge is not like a cheeseburger”

65. #8: Network Literacy & Digital
Citizenship

66. Network Literacies
• “Understanding how
networks work is one of
the most important
literacies of the 21st
century.” (2010)
@hrheingold

67. networks
• redefine communities,
friends, citizenship,
identity, presence, privacy,
publics, geography.
• enable learning,
communication, sharing,
collaboration, community.
• networks form around
shared interests &
objects.

71. Howard Rheingold
http://www.anduro.com/calgary-mayor-race.html

72. danah boyd
Teens are not connecting in the
ways we fear. But, we need to pay
attention to:
•Properties: persistence,
replicability, searchability,
scalability, (de)locatability.
•Dynamics: invisible audiences, @zephoria
collapsed contexts, blurring of
public & private spaces

76. #9: Networks Allow Us to Make
the World a Better Place

89. #10: The End of Education &
the Beginning of Learning

93. “We need to move beyond the
idea that education is something
that is provided for us, and
toward the idea that an education
is something that we create
ourselves.”
(Downes, 2010)

94. web: couros.ca
twitter: courosa
google: couros
couros@gmail.com