1. Connectivism and Self-Organized Learning George Siemens September 22, 2011 RUIVE: Innovation, Quality and Accreditation

2. What is connectivism?

3. This

4. Really. That’s it.

5. Describe knowledge and learning process through the lens of connections

6. But, making the transition to a “connection” as the unit of analysis in learning is not easy

7. It raises questions about:

8. What enables connections?

9. What prevents connections?

10. Why is it important?

11. Abundance

12. More is different, but not new 1550-1750 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_ideas/toc/jhi64.1.html

13. http://research.uow.edu.au/learningnetworks/seeing/snapp/index.html

14. Matthew principle

16. Because the internet and social media make managing/owning/directing your own learning possible. Intermediary agents need not apply.

17. What is self-organization? “Processes of self-organization literally create order out of disorder” Francis Heylighen

18. “Individuals, groups, and communities all form symbiotic relationships for a wide variety of reasons but the underlying impetus is resource sharing. Whether the resource is food, information, or support, individuals come together to share resources (Ribbands, 1953). Erin Brewer, 2003

19. 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

21. Learning is a complex process (mainly because people are complex) Our institutions today (attempt to) manage it like it is complicated system.

22. X X X Too focused on preserving this Today’s education system

23. Complex systems: “a set of diverse actors who dynamically interact with one another awash in a sea of feedbacks.” Miller and Page, 2007

24. Complexity: “disturbing traits of mess, of the inextricable, or disorder, of ambiguity, or uncertainty” Morin, 2008

25. 2008, 2009, 2011

27. What is the technical ecosystem of open online learning?

31. Tools used by learners http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/643/1402 Fini, 2009 Roughly anything.

32. The data set Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2008 (CCK08)

33. SNA & Participation Habits

34. CCK08 Weekly Forum Posts

35. CCK08: Introduction forum Limited interaction. Most are isolated

36. Downes auto-subscribes learners in CCK08

37. Introduction forum posts: CCK08 Dialogue limited: Group too large?

38. Week 12 forum posts: CCK08 More equitable distribution? Due to smaller #’s of participants?

40. Open coding using Cohere http://cohere.open.ac.uk

41. Axial Coding

42. Techniques -Sensegiving through artefact creation and sharing -Sensemaking/giving through language games -Knowledge domain expansion -Wayfinding cues, symbols -Social organization through creating sharing

43. Surprised to not find (automated) technology as more prominent At what point to we “max out” the ability to make sense of our complex world through social means?

44. Future considerations Technological and social self-organization. The value of extended cognitive agents.

45. change.mooc.ca Twitter: gsiemens www.elearnspace.org/blog Learning Analytics & Knowledge 2012: Vancouver http://lak12.sites.olt.ubc.ca/