connectivist learning and the personal learning environment
DESCRIPTION
In this talk to the University of Wollongong I talk about the principles that informed the Connectivism course and then apply them in the description of the design of the course and assessment of how it went. Coverage by John Larkin. Audio and photos at http://www.downes.ca/presentation/217TRANSCRIPT
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Connectivist Learning and thePersonal Learning
Environment
Stephen DownesUniversity of Wollongong
April 3, 2009
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The Plan….
• The Connectivist Learning Model• What Personal Learning Looks Like• The Connectivist Online Course• The gRSShopper PLE• Free Learning• Designing Connectivist Learning
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Learning…
• Two major aspects:• ‘knowledge’ is to be organized in a
certain way• - ‘knowing’ is like ‘recognizing’, ie.,
pattern matching
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Connectivism
• The theory that knowledge andlearning can be described andexplained using network principles
• ‘Learning’ is not to acquire a set offacts, but rather, to develop or ‘grow’into a certain neural configuration
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Connectivist Learning theory
• Based on principles of associationism• Four major ways to learn:
– Simple (Hebbian) associationism– Accidental association (by proximity)– Back-Propagation– Boltzmann learning
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Connectivist Pedagogy
• To ‘teach’ is to model anddemonstrate
• To ‘learn’ is to practice and reflect• Both imply participation in what
might be called ‘an authenticcommunity of practice’
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Role of the teacher
• To practice one’s work in an openmanner; to work transparently
• To ‘work’ is to engage in acommunity
• To be openly reflective, eg., towrite about the work
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Role of the Learner
• To attach oneself to an authenticenvironment
• To observe and emulatesuccessful practice
• To be ‘reflective’, ie., to engage inconversation about the practice
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The Connectivist Learning Model
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- conceptual frameworks- wiki (wiki API, RSS)- concept maps (SVG, mapping format)- gliffy (SVG?)
- reference frameworks- Wikipedia- video / 2L 3D representation – embeddedspaces
The question is – how totransport and representmodels that are actuallyused?
Model
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Demonstrate- reference examples
- code library- image samples
- thought processes- show experts at work (Chaos Manor)
- application- case studies, stories
The question is, howcan we connect thelearner with thecommunity at work?
Demonstrate
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- scaffolded practice- game interfaces- sandboxes
- job aids- flash cards, cheat sheets
- games and simulations- mod kits, mmorpgs
The question is, how canwe enable access tomultiple environmentsthat support variousactivities?
Practice
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- guided reflection- forms-based input- presentations and seminars
- journaling- blogs, wikis
- communities- discussion, sharing
The question is, how can weassist people to seethemselves, their practice, ina mirror?
Reflection
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- simulated or actual environmentsthat present tasks or problems- OpenID, authentication, feature orprofile development- Portfolios & creative libraries
People talk about ‘motivation’– but the real issue here isownership
Choice – Identity - Creativity
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What does personal learningmean for learners?
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A world of free learningresources…
Don’t like the word ‘free’? Deal with it…http://educationvault.blogspot.com/2008/08/zaidlearn-ocw-oer-lists.html
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User generated Content–Personal, opinionated
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Connections, connections…
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Immersive Learning
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New Roles– For students - as creators of learning– For teachers - as coaches and mentors– For the rest of us - as teachers
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• Learning as a network phenomenon…
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• Networks of interactions(aggregate, remix, repurpose, feedforward) – syndication
An ecology…
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• The personal learning centre
http://blog.core-ed.net/derek/2006/11/more_on_mles_and_ples.html
Autonomy
http://getfeedforward.org/
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Connectivism &Connective Knowledge
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The Best Example…
• 12 week course, readings, activities…• The course on connectivism is probably
the best (early) example of what wemean– We began with the course itself – what we
wanted to cover– We then added communications tools– And then the students took over…
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Overview…
• George Siemens and I ushered roughly2200 students through a 12 week onlinecourse
• Some of these paid tuition and aregetting credit, but most of themattended the ‘open’ course
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The Course
• Offered through the University ofManitoba– 12 weeks long– credit in Certificate in Adult and Continuing
Education and Certificate in EmergingTechnologies for Learning
– Explored the concepts of connectivism andconnective knowledge
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Connectivism
“At its heart, connectivism is the thesisthat knowledge is distributed across anetwork of connections, and thereforethat learning consists of the ability toconstruct and traverse those networks.”What Connectivism Ishttp://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2007/02/what-connectivism-is.html
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Course Components
• The Wiki…
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Connectivism
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Course Components (2)
• Open Enrollment
• The course was advertised in both of our blogs…
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Course Components
• Readings….
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Course Components (3)
• The Blog
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism/
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Course Components
• Course Moodle Forum
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=20
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Course Components
• Pageflakes Site
http://www.pageflakes.com/ltc
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Course Components
• Elluminate Discussions (Wednesdays)
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Course Components
• Ustream
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/688902
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Course Components
• Twitter…
http://twitter.com/cck08
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Course Components
• gRSShopper…
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TheMainIdea
Thewebofthefutureisn’taboutvisitingsites,it’saboutconnectingresources.
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Architecture
Theapplicationprovidesmechanismstoinput,process,anddistributecontent.
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Login
gRSShopperinstancesarepersonalsitesintendedtosupportsingleusersorsmallgroups(thoughvisitorscansignin).
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Subscriptions
Visitorshaveaone‐clickwaytosubscribetositenewsletters(ortheycansignupforRSS).
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CustomPages
Contentisorganizedintopages
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Archive
Pagesauto‐archive
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CustomPages
Multiplepagescanbecreated;eachpagecanbeanewsletter(ornot;youdecide)
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PageCreation
Pagesarecreatedautomaticallyfromadatabaseofcontenttypes
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FeedManagement
ContentinputcomesfromRSSfeedsharvestedbygRSShopper
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Harvester
Harvestercapturesandanalyzesincomingdata(bytopic,links,etc)
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Mapping
Incomingcontentcanbemappedtoanyofavarietyofdatatypes
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ViewingHarvestedContent
Harvestedcontentsmayeasilybescannedinaviewer
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PostEditor
Workwithaggregatedcontenttocreatenewcontent
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OpenSource
gRSShoppercodeisavailableasanopensourcedownload
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More
http://www.downes.cahttp://grsshopper.downes.ca
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Course Components
• The Daily
http://connect.downes.ca/
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Course Components
• Managing Content
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Course Components
• Feed Harvesting
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Course Components
• OPML…
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Course Components
• Intro…
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The Students
• The Course Map…
http://x28newblog.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2008/09/06/cck08-first-impressions/
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The Students
• The Other Course Map…
http://tinyurl.com/cck08map
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The Students
• Add to the Map - Video
http://thecleversheep.blogspot.com/2008/09/cck08-is-truly-global.html
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The Students
• Wordle… 1
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The Students
• Wordle… 2
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The Students
• Wordle… 3
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25838481@N04/
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The Students
• Word of Mouth
http://fleeep.net/blog/2008/08/03/educators-cck08-connectivism-connective-knowledge-course/
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The Students
• Google Groups
http://groups.google.com/group/connectivism
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The Students
• Translations…
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Conectivismo_-_Curso_online
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The Students
• Dekita…
http://dekita.org/orchard/CCK08_/
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The Students
• Second Life…• Diigo…• de.l.icio.us• WordPress…
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Free Learning
• The picture of learning you should haveis one of a large set of connected nodes(like the neurons in a brain)
• Teachers are nodes, students arenodes
• Both teaching and learning consists ofsending and receiving communicationsto other nodes
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• The learning in such a picture happensin two ways:
• First, society learning as the network ofconnections between individuals takesshape
• Second, individuals learn as theprocess of being a node shapesconnections in their own brains
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• The communications between nodeswere, in former days, text based(consisting of language)
• The materials used for suchcommunications were free - the letters,the words, the grammar, the syntax
• Nobody owned language (though thereare pressures to change that)
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• Communications today are in the formof (what might be called) multimediaobjects
• We send cultural artifacts back andforth to each other, as though the werewords
• Example: lolcats, YouTube videos,Flickr images, the rest
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• Cultural artifacts, as the new language,need to be free - otherwise we can’tcommunicate - otherwise, we arestifled, muted
• The free movement of cultural artifactsfosters learning - the hinderedmovement of such artifacts fosterscontrol
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• Al Gore - The Assault on Reason -clearly describes the consequences ofthis
• Gore: a society that used to think foritself (through reading) is now one thathas its thinking done for it (throughtelevision)
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Understanding ed delivery
• Today’s dominant understanding ofeducational technology is as a system
• This needs to be contrasted (as before)with one based on standards
• By this I do not mean ‘learning objectmetadata’ (which is totally a publishermindset)
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• Educational institutions need to think oftheir offerings as entities that will be apart of, and interact with, the largerenvironment
• For example, again: the photo editorthat connects to Flickr
• Think about what an art appreciationresource would do with Flickr photos
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• Not just that - they need to use this datato form composite wholes
• Eg. The application that takes photostagged ‘St. Peters’ to create an imagebuilt from thousands of Flickr photos
• (This is the fundamental understandingbehind connectivism)
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• Educational institutions need to:– Make resources available for use in other
contexts (rather than having students cometo them)
– Such material will be offered to peopleautomatically, in other contexts, and mayor may not be used (deal with it)
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• Resources will be offered:– Student-selected, from a ‘library’ (which
you share with other ‘publishers’)– Event-driven, by the system, which will
offer a resource at an appropriate time– Time-driven (think of Tony Hirst’s RSS-
driven course)– Instructor (or mentor, or coach) driven - as
in a blog offering or RSS feed
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• These resources need to:– Be able to learn about the environment
they are being offered in– Be able to learn about the student– And to get this information, not just locally,
but from anywhere on the internet– Communicate state and other information
to other (authorized) systems and services
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Where we are
• Not ‘there’ yet…• Institutions do not (yet) understand how
to deliver to external systems• But we are seeing first signs - eg.,
iTunes University• We may see it inside ‘courses’ first - but
the long-term trend is to open delivery
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The Principles
1. Diversity
We want to encourage students toengage in diverse readings, diverseenvironments, diverse discussions
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The Principles
2. Autonomy
We want students to chart their owncourse, to select their own software, topursue their own learning
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The Principles
3. Interaction / Connectedness
The knowledge in this course emerges asa result of the connections among thestudents and staff – and is not some‘content’ shoveled from experts torecipients
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The Principles
4. Openness
We don’t draw barriers between ‘in’ and‘out’ – which means we canaccommodate the full engaged, thepartially engaged, and the rest –creating strong ties and weak ties
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