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David McGavock on 03 Jul 14Learning is more active? It appears that communities networks and the like require engagement - meaning active
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Driscoll (2000) defines learning as “a persisting change in human performance or performance potential…[which] must come about as a result of the learner’s experience and interaction with the world” (p.11).
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How people work and function is altered when new tools are utilized.
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The pipe is more important than the content within the pipe. Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today.
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An organizations ability to foster, nurture, and synthesize the impacts of varying views of information is critical to knowledge economy survival. Speed of “idea to implementation” is also improved in a systems view of learning.
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Design of learning environments
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The need to evaluate the worthiness of learning something is a meta-skill that is applied before learning itself begins.
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These theories do not address learning that occurs outside of people (i.e. learning that is stored and manipulated by technology).
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Learning is a process that occurs within nebulous environments of shifting core elements – not entirely under the control of the individual.
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Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known
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Behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism are the three broad learning theories most often utilized in the creation of instructional environments. These theories, however, were developed in a time when learning was not impacted through technology.
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Learning needs and theories that describe learning principles and processes, should be reflective of underlying social environments
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The “half-life of knowledge” is the time span from when knowledge is gained to when it becomes obsolete.
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To combat the shrinking half-life of knowledge, organizations have been forced to develop new methods of deploying instruction.”