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Social Learning Networks to Change the World. Learning is a social process, it occurs not as a response to teaching, but rather as a result of a social environment that fosters learning. Knowledge is situated in the social context of its acquisition and use. People acquire the skills they use at work informally - talking, observing others, trial-and-error, and simply working with people in the social construction of knowledge ... knowledge co-evolves with the knower and not as an outside, objective representation - Francisco Varela. A journey through theory, methods, praxis and resources - dialogical learning, collective intelligence, learning circles, learning networks, learning communities, communities of practice, learning organizations, learning regions, expansive learning, situated learning, action learning, participatory action learning, social learning and change, connectivism, e-learning, learning 2.0, social network learning platforms, open and flexible models of learning, media strategies, and more.

Tony Yet - student living in China, a geek fond of learning new languages, experimenting with new technologies, and a big interests in self-organizing systems