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