As goes information...so go our organizations Oklahoma Higher Education Teaching and Learning Conference George Siemens April 2, 2009
Fragmented Networked re-creation Institutional Response Information: fragmented and repurposed in multiple formats Social, participative processes and technologies create narrative of coherence Institutional rebalancing in response to pressures
Fragmented Networked re-creation Institutional Response
Our relationship to content/information...
We’ve pulled it apart…
Fragmentation
Creation Disseminatio n ValidationSharingRe-creation Social, Networked Technologies and Processes
Technologies
Broadband
Mobile
Lessons of:
Wikipedia
Facebook & Twitter
Openness
Smart phones
OERs
Open Access
Fragmented Networked re-creation Institutional Response
“The major responsibility of education is to arm every single person for the vital combat for lucidity” Morin, p 12, 13, 1999 New challenge: sensemaking & wayfinding in abundance
Social, networked sensemaking
Participatory Pedagogies (Collis & Moonen, 2008) (Askins, 2008) (Harvard Law School, 2008)
What do different technologies do?
Affordances: Action potential of tools
1. Access
2. Presence
3. Expression
4. Creation
5. Interaction/co-creation
6. Aggregate our fragmentation
What do networks permit?
Fragmented Networked re-creation Institutional Response
How does information flow through society?
Connected specialization
Thinking in networks
LMS & (vs) PLE
Augmented Blended Online
Universities: mapping reality
Ltc.umanitoba.ca/etl Elearnspace.org