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Connectivism and the modern learner

E-Learning Provocateur

So after several hours of unenlightened googling, I decided to bite the bullet, go back to first principles and read George Siemens’ seminal paper, Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age. According to Chaos Theory , everything is connected, as illustrated so eloquently by the Butterfly Effect.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): "Theories and Models Of and For Online Learning" (First Monday)

Mark Oehlert

We see theneed for, and the emergence of, new theories and models of and for theonline learning environment, addressing learning in its ICT context,considering both formal and informal learning, individual and communitylearning, and new practices arising from technology use in the serviceof learning. stuff Here are some of my main del.icio.us

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eLearning Learning - Best of May

Tony Karrer

Tools - Don't Waste Your Time , May 10, 2009 Informal Learning Technology - eLearning Technology , May 11, 2009 Capture Examples - eLearning Technology , May 29, 2009 Presentation: Blogs in Education - Don't Waste Your Time , May 22, 2009 Top Other Items The following are the top other items based on social signals.

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Develop Work Skills

Tony Karrer

There are also several studies of knowledge worker practices that suggest that a lot of what is effective is quite personal. Social bookmarking, searching browsing trails, capture of communications as clues to expertise. If we want to teach new work we should embed more in complexity theory.

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Are you playing the role of the Subject Matter Expert instead of the Instructional Designer?

Janet Clarey

With rapid e-learning tools, you don’t necessarily need to know the ID equivalent of engineering (learning theories, human psychology, instructional science) to create the course. They are, by design, built around limiting theories. To illustrate what I’m trying to say, I’m outlining a case study.

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5 Simple Ways to Get Started with E-Learning Development - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Rapid eLearning

It’s a good balance to the text heavy, academic information from some of the other sites that are focused on instructional design theory. I have been studying and reading about e-Learning and the various tools for months. Social Web. del.icio.us. Google Bookmarks. Cathy does a great job showing examples.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): The Social Graph.shaping up to be the hot summer song of 08

Mark Oehlert

Dion Hinchcliffe, as per usual, has a good solid explanation of the social graph (and a lovely graphic). Think of it as the study of people and their connections. It is close to social network analysis but is more closely tied to graph theory - hence its language of nodes and vertices. books futures Web 2.0