http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism/
a rather large open online course…
Week 6: Power and Authority
George Siemens on Oct 25th 2009
Networked technologies have changed power and authority. This week, we’ll explore to what degree and in what ways power and authority have been altered in learning.
The Fifth Estate — Through the Network (of Networks) .pdf
Network Logic: Who governs in an interconnected world? (.pdf) (this is a long paper/book. Skim sections that you find to be of interest).
Activities:
Thursday, Oct 29, 6 pm CST (time zone conversion). We will meet here in elluminate.
Assignments:
1. Continue regular weekly activities – blogging, developing your concept map, and follow the distributed conversation through various sites (pageflakes, delicious, Google Alerts, Twitter search).
2. Post your updated concept map on your blog.
3. Continue to work on your final presentation.
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Week 6: Complex adaptive systems
George Siemens on Oct 19th 2009
After an excellent set of PLE conference presentations (thanks to presenters and attendees!), we now return to the regular structure of the course. This week, we will discuss complex adaptive systems (CAS). Complex adaptive systems are “fluidly changing collections of distributed interacting components that react to both their environments and to one another.”
While CAS does not have its origins in learning science, the principles are relevant and informative. The experience of learning is complex and adaptive – students experiencing the same lecture will have different recall and points of interest. Feedback from peers and faculty can shape and redirect learner’s knowledge. The complexity – often unknowable – impact of interventions and starting points of learning need to be acknowledged. Curriculum design and delivery reflects an assumption of structure and orderliness that just doesn’t exist in the learning process.
For week 6:
Read this short article on complexity, chaos, and emergence
Developing Online From Simplicity toward Complexity: Going with the Flow of Non-Linear Learning
Live Elluminate session on Thurs this week at 2:00 pm CST (time conversion)
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