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Setting the context: why we need new learning models
George Siemens, PhD
October 16, 2012
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Complex problems
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Knowledge problems
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Social problems
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“…the fundamental task of education is to enculturate youth into this knowledge-creating civilization and to help them find a place in it…traditional educational practices –with its emphasis on knowledge transmission – as well as newer constructivist methods both appear to be limited in scope if not entirely missing the point”
Scardamalia and Bereiter (2006, Cambridge Handbook of Learning Sciences)
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The growing influence of networks as a model for understanding the world…
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Hierarchy Edge Bundles3D File Manager
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/
Political blogosphere, 2004 Blue Brain
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Recognition of complexity and networks as underpinning attributes
of social, science, education
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http://drunks-and-lampposts.com/2012/06/13/graphing-the-history-of-philosophy/
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http://drunks-and-lampposts.com/2012/06/13/graphing-the-history-of-philosophy/
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http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0004803
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Making the world’s knowledge relatable
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http://linkeddata.org/
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Wellman (2002)
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http://research.uow.edu.au/learningnetworks/seeing/snapp/index.html
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Weak ties
Empirical evidence that the stronger the tie connecting two individuals, the more similar they are, in various ways
Mark Granovetter (1973)
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Our education system faces information that is:
OpenAccessibleDistributedScalableSocialNetworkedSelf-organizedAdaptiveGlobalMultimedia-based
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“The world is one big data problem”Gilad Elbaz
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“Social data is set to be surpassed in the data economy, though, by data published by physical, real-world objects like sensors, smart grids and connected devices.”
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/china_moves_to_dominate_the_next_stage_of_the_web_internet_of_things.php
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Externalization of thought and concepts
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…so that it can be analyzed, interpreted, tested, evaluate
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MOOCs
Massive (maybe)
Open (sort of)
Online (yep)
Course (sort of)
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A bit of (recent) history:
2007:
- David Wiley: open wiki-based course
- Alec Couros: Social media and Open Education
2008:
- CCK08
- Slew of other open courses
2011:
- Stanford AI births Coursera and Udacity
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Phil Hill, 2012
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