Faculty eCommons Rethinking Your Online Classroom with Connectivism » Faculty... - 0 views
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Emerging online classrooms mirror digital, distributed modes of connectivity made possible through the Web and information and communication technology.
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“the thesis that knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks.”
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Knowledge does not exist “in the heads” of learners or instructors but through the variety of connections established amongst students, instructors, and technologies. With connectivism, static student-teacher roles become as fluid as the technology that mediates them, and the process of learning becomes more important than the final product.