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January 28–30 • San Antonio, Texas

Connectivism

Session Details

Monday, January 28, 2008
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Regency Ballroom West (2nd Floor, B-Level)

Session Type: Featured Session

Speaker(s)

  • George Siemens, Associate Director, Learning Technologies Centre, University of Manitoba
  • Session convener: Jim Twetten, Director, Academic Technologies, Iowa State University

Abstract

The waves of technological and social change have eroded the effectiveness of traditional views regarding what, how, and why to educate. To effectively educate learners, fundamental assertions need to be rethought: the design of schools and curriculum, the nature of knowledge in a connected world, the relationship between educator and learner, the means and methods of authenticating information and knowledge, and, perhaps most significantly, what it means “to know” in complex, rapidly developing, and chaotic environments. This session will present connectivism as a theory of learning that can bridge the rift between traditional and new educational approaches to prepare learners for the tomorrow they will inherit.

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