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Interest-powered

In order to realize these values, connected learning seeks to harness and integrate the learning that young people pursue in the spheres of interest, peer relations, and academics based on the following three learning principles:

Social connection

Peer-supported

Academically oriented

Connected learning builds on what we’ve long known about the value and effectiveness of interest-driven, peer-supported, and academically relevant learning; but in addition, connected learning calls on today’s interactive and networked media in an effort to make these forms of learning more effective, better integrated, and broadly accessible. The following design principles involve integrating the spheres of interests, peers, and academics, and broadening access through the power of today’s technology.

Shared purpose

Production-centered

Openly networked

The principles of connected learning weren’t born in the digital age, but they are extraordinarily well-suited to it.

The public library shall in principle be free of charge

It must be supported by specific legislation and financed by national and local governments. It has to be an essential component of any long-term strategy for culture, information provision, literacy and education.

Cooperation with relevant partners - for example, user groups and other professionals at local, regional, national as well as international level- has to be ensured.

Collections and services should not be subject to any form of ideological, political or religious censorship, nor commercial pressures.