as goes information...so go our organizations oklahoma higher education teaching and learning...

As goes information...so go our organizations

Oklahoma Higher Education Teaching and Learning ConferenceGeorge SiemensApril 2, 2009

Information: fragmented and repurposed in multiple formats

Social, participative processes and technologies create narrative of coherence

Institutional rebalancing in response to pressures

Our relationship to content/information...

We’ve pulled it apart…

Fragmentation

Social, Networked Technologies and Processes

Technologies

Broadband

Mobile

Lessons of:

Wikipedia

Facebook & Twitter

Openness

Smart phones

OERs

Open Access

“The major responsibility of education is to arm every single person for the vital combat for lucidity”

Morin, p 12, 13, 1999

New challenge: sensemaking & wayfinding in abundance

Social, networked sensemaking

Participatory Pedagogies(Collis & Moonen, 2008)

(Askins, 2008)(Harvard Law School, 2008)

What do different technologies do?

Affordances: Action potential of tools

1. Access

2. Presence

3. Expression

4. Creation

5. Interaction/co-creation

6. Aggregate our fragmentation

What do networks permit?

How does information flow through society?

Connected specialization

Thinking in networks

LMS & (vs) PLE

Augmented

Blended

Online

Universities: mapping reality

Ltc.umanitoba.ca/etl

Elearnspace.org