Open/Networked Learning Alec Couros September, 2012 LaSalle University Lunchtime Learning

Open/Networked Learning
Alec Couros
September, 2012
LaSalle University Lunchtime Learning
me
Who Am I?
The Blur
http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3974469907/
“Web 2.0 tools exist that might allow academics to reflect
and reimagine what they do as scholars. Such tools might
positively affect -- even transform - research, teaching,
and service responsibilities - only if scholars choose to
build serious academic lives online, presenting semipublic selves and becoming invested in and connected
to the work of their peers and students.” (Greenhow,
Robelia, & Hughes, 2009)
pln/ple
21st Century Learning Networks
21st Century Learning Networks
tools
shifts in edtech
Group growth
Individual growth
Objectivism
Cognitivism
Constructivism
(Leinonen)
(Schwier)
Social Learning
@jonmott
Microblogging
Blogs & Wikis
Simple Blogging
Social Bookmarking
Info/File Management
Media Sharing
Social Networking
Social Curation
connected learning
“To answer your question, I did use
Youtube to learn how to dance. I
consider it my ‘main’ teacher.”
“10 years ago, street dance was very
exclusive, especially rare dances like popping
(the one I teach and do). You either had to
learn it from a friend that knew it or get VHS
tapes which were hard to get. Now with
Youtube, anyone, anywhere in the world can
learn previously ‘exclusive’ dance styles.”
Matt
Nick
Kirk
Thinning Walls
Private
Public
Closed
Open
identity
“81% of children under two currently have
some kind of digital dossier or footprint, with
images of them posted online.”
Across all countries, children reach a “social
media maturity” at about age 11.
“More than half (51% of 6-9 year olds use
some sort of social network (e.g., Webkins,
Club Penguin. 58% of parents admit they
aren’t well informed about soc. networks.”
The World is
Watching
http://www.flickr.com/photos/palinopsiafilms/6359719991/sizes/l/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3356252350/
photographed by George Couros
#eci831
open teaching
network mentors
non-credit students
student-controlled spaces
aggregation
microblogging
shared resources
social curation
“I was able to go out and learn
throughout the entire week,
the entire year, and I’m still
learning with everyone.”
“The best part of the course is
that it’s not ending. With the
connections we’ve built, it
never has to end.”
What We Learned
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Open access, low-cost, high impact.
Courses become shared, global, learning events.
Students immersed in a greater learning community.
Value in open spaces vs. walled gardens.
Learning spaces controlled and/or owned by students.
Pedagogy focused on connecting & interactions.
Development of sustainable, long-term, learning
connections.
“Today knowledge is free.
It’s like air, it’s like water...
There’s no competitive
advantage in knowing
more than the person next
to you. The world doesn’t
care what you know. What
the world cares about is
what you can do with what
you know.” (2012)
@drtonywagner
conclusion
@barrywellman
“The developed world is in
the midst of a paradigm
shift both in the ways in
which people and
institutions are connected.
It is a shift from being
bound up in homogenous
“little boxes” to surfing life
through diffuse, variegated
social networks.” (2002)
“Meaningful change ain’t gonna happen
for our kids if we’re not willing to invest in
it for ourselves first. At the heart, it’s not
about schools…it’s about us.”
- Will Richardson
From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/3732230674/
Don’t limit a child to your
own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore
http://couros.ca
[email protected]
@courosa