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Learning in complex knowledge spaces
George SiemensNovember 15, 2011
Rijeka, CroatiaCARNET
Our education system must map to the reality of society today, namely:
Abundance of Information
Barry Kade, 2009
Complexity (dynamic connectedness) of knowledge and knowledge spaces
Complex systems: “a set of diverse actors who dynamically interact with one another awash in a sea of feedbacks.”
Miller and Page, 2007
Re-balancing of power
From organization to individual
From individual to “the machine”
Abundance has always been with us, but now it’s, um,
more abundant
More is different
Complexity is different
“The internet has enabled fundamental business transformations that span the entire value chain in virtually all sectors”
McKinsey, 2011
McKinsey, 2011
But the internet is still in its infancy
Especially in education
Our education system today must reconcile itself with information and conversations that are:
OpenAccessibleDistributedScalableSocialNetworkedSelf-organizingCreativity-drivenDerivative and iterative improvementsConnected to amplify effectsAdaptiveGlobalMultimedia-based
If “it” changes how we interact with information
Or how we interact with each other…
Then it will impact teaching, learning, education
Or, put another way:Education systems track the
architecture of information of an era
And, wow, we’re messing with the architecture of information
(think of these examples not as specific tools, but as new affordances; new action potential)
Layering info onto physical space
Injecting new information into current context
Jail break the Matri(patri)archy
Finding patterns in historical information
https://republicofletters.stanford.edu/
Letters of Locke and Voltaire: “incredible disconnect”
Working different…
Evaluate/assess different(ly)
Conole, G. (forthcoming), Designing for learning in an open world, New York: Springer
Design Different
Instead of pre-fabricated curriculum…
Trailmeme: create a trail of content on a specific topic that’s interesting to you. You can also read other peoples’ trails and walk them to keep up with any updates they make.
Learning Paths…
StooMathiesen, 2011
Honest signals
http://web.media.mit.edu/~sandy/
Understanding patterns (and meaning)in our signaling
Long form content, summarized
LearnerCollectorCuratorSalespersonAlchemistProgrammerLecturerTheorizer
SalespersonConvenerCoordinatorDesignerCoachAgitatorCriticConnectoretc…
Mobiles blur physical/virtual worlds
Jasleen Kaur, 2010
IaaS
PaaS
SaaS
Cloud Computing
Tools that enable us to think together
Tools that enable us to create together
Tools that enable us to debate together
The education system has a responsibility to prepare learners for this world
Apps as channels
Rafael Kage, 2011
Learner self-organization
hannah sheffield, 2007
Online Self-Organizing Social Systems (OSOSS) “structure allows large numbers of individuals to self-organize in a highly decentralized manner in order to solve problems and accomplish other goals.”
Wiley & Edwards 2003
Participatory sensemaking:“the coordination of intentional activity in interaction, whereby individual sense-making processes are affected and new domains of social sense-making can be generated that were not available to each individual on her own”
De Jaegher and Di Paolo 2007
2008, 2009, 2011
Open online course: Learning AnalyticsJanuary 23 - March 17, 2012
http://www.solaresearch.org/
change.mooc.ca
Twitter: gsiemens
www.elearnspace.org/blog
http://www.solaresearch.org/
Learning Analytics & Knowledge 2012: Vancouver
http://lak12.sites.olt.ubc.ca/