connectivism, online learning, and the mooc
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Longish online WizIQ presentation that looks mostly at the concept of learning theories and MOOCs. The first part examines in some detail the concept of knowledge rmployed in MOOC pedagogy - this is a view of knowledge as recognition of emergent phenomena from networks of connected entities. It them looks at learning theories properly so-called, which are theories describing the mechanisms that form, strengthen or weaken connections. From this is derives the main elements of MOOC pedagogy and network design. For audio and video, please see http://www.downes.ca/presentation/320TRANSCRIPT
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Connectivism, Online Learning, and the MOOC
Stephen DownesJune 15, 2013
WizIQ MOOCGoing Beyond the MOODLE MOOC for Active Lifelong Learning
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Knowledge
• Networks as Knowledge• Emergence• Distributed Representation• Association• Meaning• Personal v Public Knowledge
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Learning
• ‘Downes Theory’ of Pedagogy• Personal Learning• Network-Based Assessment• Personal Learning Environments• Personal Learning
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Community
• Education and Democracy• Collaboration and Cooperation• Autonomy• Diversity• Openness• Interactivity
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Knowledge
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Three Kinds of Knowledge
• Qualitative – properties, qualities, relations• Quantitative – number, mass, proportion• Connective – patterns, networks, causes,
impacts
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the knowledge is in the network
the knowledge is the network
Old: universals – rules – categories
New: patterns– similarities – coherences
What ‘knowing’ is…
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Emergence
• How we perceive patterns of connectivity– Take the actual connections, and interpret them as
a distinct whole– Take the distinct whole, and interpret as a set of
connections• As Hume would say, our 'perception' of a
causal relationship between two events is more a matter of 'custom and habit' than it is of observation.
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stands for?
Or is caused by?
Distributed Representation= a pattern of connectivity
Hopfield
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Meaning
• Traditionalist theories – ‘meaning’ is the state of affairs represented or described
• But what about ‘redness’, or ‘17’, or ‘power law?’
• the concept of 'redness' in our own mind is similar to having 'liberal' as a description of a political party – it is composed of the organization of low-level non-meaningful entities
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Organization
– Personal knowledge: The organization of neurons– Public Knowledge: The organization of artifacts
• A common underlying logic: graph theory, connectionism, social network theory, etc.
• If a human mind can come to 'know', and if a human mind is, essentially, a network, then any network can come to 'know', and for that matter, so can a society.
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Learning
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Network Learning…
• Hebbian associationism• based on concurrency
• Back propagation• based on desired outcome
• Boltzman• based on ‘settling’, annealing
This…
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‘Downes Theory’ of Pedagogy
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Personal Learning
We are using one of these
To create one of these
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Developing personal knowledge is more like exercising than like inputting, absorbing or remembering
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Network-Based Assessment
We recognize this
By perfomance in this
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Personal Learning Environment
A PLE is a tool intended to immerse yourself into the workings of a community
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gRSShopper
• A tool for managing connections• Used in Connectivism course
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PLEs in a Network
PLEs are envisioned as working as a network
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Personal Professional Development
• Most important to manage your own professional development
• The phrase in English is “eat your own dog food” – use the practices to teach yourself
• Form, create, and work with networks of other professionals
Downes on Personal Professional Developmenthttp://www.downes.ca/presentation/217
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Community
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Education and Democracy
• Education is not about remembering a body of predefined content
• It is about the citizens communicating what they know with each other
• If follows that OERs are necessary for this democratic vision of education
• The owners of education are the citizens of a society, not the governments and corporations
Papert and Freire on the Future of Schoolhttp://www.papert.org/articles/freire/freirePart1.html
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Elements of CooperationCOLLABORATION COOPERATION
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Principles of Effective Design (2)
• Semantic (intentional) principles:– Autonomy– Diversity– Openness– Interactivity
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Autonomy
• Factors affecting mental states– Empirical, cognitive, psychological
• Capacity to act on mental states– Physical, social, structural, resources
• Scope and range of autonomous behaviour– Expression, association, selection, method…
• Effects of autonomous behaviour– Impact, improvement
http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2010/11/model-of-autonomy.html
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Diversity
• Composition– Many types of entities
• Intention– Different goals, desires (Mill)
• Perspective– Uniqueness of point of view, language
• Mathematics of diversity– Multiple inputs produce mesh networks
http://lemire.me/fr/abstracts/DIVERSITY2008.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-downes/democratizing-education_b_794925.html
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Diversity (2)
• Putnam, Florida, and the rest of it• Homophily and associationism
• Teaching what we have in common instead of our differences? No
http://secondlanguagewriting.com/explorations/Archives/2007/August/TheDownsideofDiversity.html
http://www.downes.ca/post/53544 http://profesorbaker.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/homophily-and-heterophily-what-fires-together-wires-together-cck11/
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Openness
• Open education– Open content, teaching, assessment– Stages of openness and terminal path
• Open networks– Clustering instead of grouping
• Flow– Input, output, feedback – plasticity
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ross/2916958593/
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The Importance of Open Educational Resources
• Enables people to pursue their own personal interests in their own way
• But, more importantly, OERs become the medium of communication
• We need to view OERs, not as resources created by publishers at great cost, but as created by learners to interact with each other
• The role of professionals and publishers becomes the production of ‘seed OERs’
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Interactivity
• Influence vs emergence– Thought-bubbles – “we perceive wholes where
there are only holes”
• ‘Scope’ vs ‘Level’– http://www.downes.ca/post/42066
• Ontology of emergence– Ontological (real) vs perceptual (recognized)
• Connection to complexity & chaos
http://www.downes.ca/post/55001
http://connect.downes.ca/post/44222
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Stephen Downeshttp://www.downes.ca