Online Learning in a Networked Age
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Online learning is being transformed by new technologies and social connections. [1] Tools like YouTube and social media allow learning to occur anywhere and be shared widely. [2] Networks provide opportunities for inspiration, collaboration, and crowdsourcing knowledge. [3] Visible, open learning helps develop strong connections and communities for sharing ideas.
Online Learning in a Networked Age
- 1. Online Learning in a Networked Age Dr. Alec Couros SLN SOL Summit Syracuse, New York February 28, 2013
- 3. me
- 5. The Blur
- 11. “Web 2.0 tools exist that might allow academics to reflect and reimagine what they do as scholars. Such tools might positively affect -- even transform - research, teaching, and service responsibilities - only if scholars choose to build serious academic lives online, presenting semi- public selves and becoming invested in and connected to the work of their peers and students.” (Greenhow, Robelia, & Hughes, 2009)
- 12. changes
- 14. current context - new affordances tools, content, networks
- 15. tools
- 16. Mobile Early Days of PCs in Schools Today’s Social/Mobile Reality
- 18. Convergence
- 19. significant shifts in media atoms <---> bits scarcity <---> abundance consuming <---> creating standardization <---> personalization individuals <---> networks
- 21. “in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000” “72 hours of video are uploaded every minute, or one hour of video is uploaded to Youtube every second.” “More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month that the 3 major US networks created in 60 years.”
- 26. shifts in edtech Group growth Individual growth Objectivism Cognitivism Constructivism (Leinonen) (Schwier) Social Learning
- 27. content
- 31. Informal Learning • “Informal learning is a significant aspect of our learning experience. Formal education no longer comprises the majority of our learning.” • George Siemens http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
- 33. 17-Year-Old Heather Traska 86 days, 30+ characters, 13 songs recorded, edited, produced arranged by ear
- 35. “Today knowledge is free. It’s like air, it’s like water... There’s no competitive advantage in knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn’t care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.” (2012) @drtonywagner
- 36. networks
- 37. HAT’S NO T W AN T P O RT IM
- 38. Six Degrees of Separation “the idea that everyone is on average six steps away, by way of introduction, from another person in the world.”
- 39. Strength of Weak Ties “There is strength in weak ties. Our acquaintances, not our friends, are potentially our greatest source of new ideas and information.” (paraphrased from Gladwell, 2010)
- 40. Where Good Ideas Come From “The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.” (Steven Johnson, 2010) “Chance favors the connected mind” ~ Stephen Johnson
- 41. networks provide ... 1. affordances: enable communication, collaboration & cooperation in ways that were once impossible with people who were once unreachable. 2. inspiration: connect us to new ideas & expand our thinking & potential for innovation. * ‘us’ meaning those who have access.
- 42. affordances & inspirations value of free, crowdsourcing, visible learning
- 43. value of free
- 44. “Gift cultures are adaptations not to scarcity but to abundance .... In gift cultures, social status is determined not by what you control, but by what you give away. (1997) @esrtweet
- 48. “the song intentionally lacked a copyright so that people would be encouraged to create their own online parodies, in essence their own "XYZ Style"”
- 50. 21st Century Learning Networks
- 51. 21st Century Learning Networks
- 53. crowdsourcing
- 57. @dlnorman
- 58. @giuliaforsythe
- 59. @noiseprofessor @noiseprofessor
- 60. @noiseprofessor
- 61. @timlauer
- 64. MYOB Learning
- 66. “To answer your question, I did use Youtube to learn how to dance. I consider it my ‘main’ teacher.” “10 years ago, street dance was very exclusive, especially rare dances like popping (the one I teach and do). You either had to learn it from a friend that knew it or get VHS tapes which were hard to get. Now with Youtube, anyone, anywhere in the world can learn previously ‘exclusive’ dance styles.”
- 72. How are you making your learning visible?
- 73. How are you contributing to the learning of others?
- 74. cMOOCs
- 77. network mentors
- 79. course trailer
- 80. student-controlled spaces @jonmott
- 81. learned to love the hashtag
- 82. What We Learned • Open access be low-cost, high impact. • ‘Courses’ as shared, global, learning events. • Openness as a way of connecting students to a greater, authentic learning community. • Amazing serendipity in open spaces vs. walled gardens. • Importance of student-controlled learning spaces. • Connectivist pedagogy first focus on connecting & interactions; content important, but secondary. • Development of sustainable, long-term, learning connections.
- 83. #etmooc
- 84. origins
- 87. ~2000 participants from ~70 countries
- 88. spaces
- 91. /tweets
- 100. random artefacts
- 109. #lipdub
- 113. concluding thoughts
- 114. Private Public Closed Open
- 115. (Joichi Ito)
- 116. “The developed world is in the midst of a paradigm shift both in the ways in which people and institutions are connected. It is a shift from being bound up in homogenous “little boxes” to surfing life through diffuse, variegated @barrywellman social networks.” (2002)
- 119. “Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.” ~Tagore http://couros.ca couros@gmail.com @courosa