The document discusses the potential for more open, flexible, and networked models of online learning. It presents four options for learning progression, from strictly linear to allowing perpetual learning. It draws on Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the "rhizome" to describe a cultural model that spreads non-linearly and allows for multiple points of entry. Key aspects of rhizomatic learning are described as open, distributed, social, generative, scalable, adaptive, and global. Success is defined not just through individual testing but also through measuring engagement and collaboration across networks. The document then provides examples from the author's own experiences to illustrate rhizomatic learning.

1. Room for Curiosity
The Present Edge of Online Learning
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“If you're not prepared to be
wrong, you'll never come up with
anything original.”
- Sir Ken Robinson, 'How Schools Kill
Creativity', TED 2006

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“The power dynamic envisioned
by the [education] system is
inherently flawed for the current
state of technology because is
does not allow for the flexibility &
individuality of how we work to be
incorporated.”
- Sam Watling, 'Our Antique Education',
TEDxBrighton 2013

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“It's tragic because, by my
reading, should we fail to radically
change our approach to
education, the same cohort we are
attempting to “protect” could find
their entire future scuttled by our
timidity.”
- David Puttnam, speech at MIT 2012

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Option A
Progress sequentially through a series of learning units from
start to finish.

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Option B
Progress sequentially and / or non-sequentially through a series
of learning units from start to finish at the teacher / tutors / AI
discretion.

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Option C
Progress through a series of given content at your own [learner]
discretion until all content is consumed.

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Option D
Enrol in a learning environment. Never. Stop. Learning.

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“le rhizome”
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Gilles
Deleuze and Félix Guattari, 1980

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As a model for culture, the rhizome resists the organizational
structure of the root-tree system which charts causality
along chronological lines and looks for the original source of
'things' and looks towards the pinnacle or conclusion of those
'things.' A rhizome, on the other hand, is characterized by
'ceaselessly established connections between semiotic
chains, organizations of power, and circumstances relative to
the arts, sciences, and social struggles.'

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Rather than narrativize history and culture, the rhizome
presents history and culture as a map or wide array of
attractions and influences with no specific origin or genesis,
for a 'rhizome has no beginning or end; it is always in the
middle, between things, inter-being, intermezzo.' The planar
movement of the rhizome resists chronology and organization,
instead favouring a nomadic system of growth and
propagation.

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In this model, culture spreads like the surface of a body of
water, spreading towards available spaces or trickling
downwards towards new spaces through fissures and gaps,
eroding what is in its way. The surface can be interrupted and
moved, but these disturbances leave no trace, as the water is
charged with pressure and potential to always seek its
equilibrium, and thereby establish smooth space.

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Rhizomatic / connected / networked learning
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Open
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Distributed
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Multi-channel / medium
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Social
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Generative
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Scalable
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Adaptive
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Global
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Infinite
Derek Wenmoth
Christchurch, NZ
Natalie Lloyd
Christchurch, UK

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Measuring Success
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Test individuals for compliance – if there are things your
learners have to understand and you require confirmation of
that, test it.
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Distributed measures for everything else – online and IRL
attendance, engagement, duration, sharing etc. Measure the
populous and their ability to solve collaborative tasks.

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Let me take you through my
personal rhizomatic
adventure...

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Barbara Hepworth
Tension between
figure and landscape

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Henry Moore
Figure as, and
interplay with,
landscape

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John Luther Adams
Become Ocean -
“eventually we
become to realise that
we're part of
something much
larger than ourselves”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGIEvUOf-JU

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Broadchurch
(because it's down the
road from
Christchurch)

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Autumn In New York
Creating a hat that is
inspired by “the line of
a woman's hip”
Le Grand Patissier
(Nom)

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What does the future look like?