2013 06 13 (uc3m) emadrid dcormier upei impact technology higher education

1. Learning in an age of abundance: the
door is off the barn
@davecormier

2. @Cogdog

3. A series of events…
• Oral to catechetical to textbook to digital
• Why did you say… ‘MOOC’?
• Three questions about learning in an age of
abundance.

4. Part 1 – A context
Oral to catechetical to textbook to digital

7. http://www.flickr.com/photos/killfile/3344595791/

9. Part 2 – An example
MOOCs oh my.

10. The internet happening
to education
George Siemens http://www.xedbook.com/?p=54

11. Why MOOC?
(at least originally)

12. MassiveMassive

13. Open as in sourceOpen as in source
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neosnaps/2596044654/sizes/o/in/photostream/

14. Open as in participationOpen as in participation
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neosnaps/2596044654/sizes/o/in/photostream/

15. OnlineOnline

16. CourseCourse

17. http://www.flickr.com/photos/98857801@N00/214523
Think of the MOOC
as a gathering
place

18. And a (networked)
textbook

19. Part 3 – Rhizomes
Learning for uncertainty in an age of abundance

20. Three Questions
1.Why are we learning?

22. Dealing with Uncertainty

23. Three Questions
1.Why are we learning?
2.Who is deciding what we learn?

24. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sc63/5788054500/

25. If we work together
and learn from each
other, the community
becomes the
curriculum.

26. http://youtu.be/r8avYQ5ZqM0

27. Rhizomes are aggressive, chaotic and
resilient. They are difficult to contain.
They follow their own paths.http://www.flickr.com/photos/usfwsnortheast/5951029777/sizes/l/in/photostream/
rhizomes!

28. The rhizome
1.Can map in any direction from any
starting point
2.Can grow and spread via
experimentation within a context
3.Can grow and spread regardless of
breakage

29. Three Questions
1.Why are we learning?
2.Who is deciding what we learn?
3.Who is deciding that we’ve learned?

30. We need to measure
learning

31. The fact that you need it doesn’t make it possible

32. Stop measuring
learning

33. Responsibility is the critical literacy in
an age of choice

34. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mema_nh/205275900

35. @davecormier
davcormier@upei.ca