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Brendan Murphy

elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 0 views

  • Learning theories are concerned with the actual process of learning, not with the value of what is being learned. In a networked world,
  • the likelihood that a concept of learning will be linked depends on how well it is currently linked.
  • “the simple notion that some domains of knowledge contain vast numbers of weak interrelations that, if properly exploited, can greatly amplify learning by a process of inference
Fredrik Graver

Zotero group: Connectivism and edtech - 0 views

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    An open - anyone can join - group for collecting articles for research into connectivism, edtech and relatated subjets
Brendan Murphy

http://t.co/pOVoYQIPmm https://t.co/9DvbqYETH6 studying learning networks is like predi... - 0 views

  • present the learner with different phenomena and they will learn different things.
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      present two learners with the same content and they will still know the same thing but in different ways. 
  • What happens when online learning software ceases to be a type of content-consumption tool, where learning is "delivered," and becomes more like a content-authoring tool, where learning is created?”
  • The objective of a theory of learning networks is to describe the manner in which resources and services are organized in order to offer learning opportunities in a network environment.
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  • The message is coded in a common ‘language’ where the code is open, not proprietary. So no particular software or device is needed to receive the code
  • Learning is instead thought of as a part of living,
  • Learning therefore evolves from being a transfer of content and knowledge to the production of content and knowledge.
  • This is a very important point, because it shows that traditional research methodology, and for that matter, traditional methods of testing and evaluation, as employed widely in the field of e-learning, will not be successful
  • Virtually all networks are chaotic systems.
  • science based on modeling and simulation, pattern recognition and interpretation, projection and uncertainty.
  • theory of connectivism, which asserts that knowledge - and therefore the learning of knowledge - is distributive, that is, not located in anygiven place (and therefore not 'transferred' or 'transacted' per se) but rather consists of the network of connections formed from experience and interactions with a knowing community.
Brendan Murphy

The challenges to connectivist learning on open online networks: Learning experiences d... - 0 views

  • aggregation
  • relation
  • creation
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  • sharing
  • People learning on an informal network will choose the subject they want to learn about or the activity they want to engage in, but in a connectivist environment they have to make other choices as well.
  • For instance, they have to manage time, set their own learning goals, find resources, and try out new tools and make them work.
  • Research shows that the Internet and the Web are not value-free and do not act as non-hierarchical networks
  • These free agents do not have a responsibility or an obligation to provide a critical point of view.
  • need for critical literacies
  • level of presence.
  • critical literacies, such as collaboration, creativity, and a flexible mindset, that are prerequisites for active learning
  • Other benefits were seen in the form of the extension of personal networks and in new blogs and Twitter participants to follow. Participants highlighted the need for a sense of trust and feeling comfortable and confident to be able to participate, a sense of presence and community that some participants found on the PLENK Second Life site.
  • it is impossible to sustain the high level of reading, thinking, and engaging with materials and people that happened at the beginning of the course.
  • building identity and reputation is being developed over time
  • critical ability to not only use network resources, but also to look at them critically in order to “appropriate them and redesign them,
  • for networked learning to be successful, people need to have the ability to direct their own learning and to have a level of critical literacies that will ensure they are confident at negotiating the Web in order to engage, participate, and get involved with learning activities.
  • confident and competent in using the different tools in order to engage in meaningful interaction.
  • takes time for people to feel competent and comfortable
  • level of learner autonomy
  • four major types of activity:
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