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BeyondManagement: ThePersonalLearning Environment StephenDownes EdMedia,Honolulu,Hawaii June24,2009 Prologue Itturnsouttobeveryeasytoteachpeople

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Beyond
Management: The
Personal
Learning Environment

Stephen
Downes Ed
Media,
Honolulu,
Hawaii June
24,
2009

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Prologue

  • It
turns
out
to
be
very
easy
to
teach
people

things
‐
people
are
very
impressionable

  • What
proves
to
be
very
hard
is
teaching

people
the
right
things
‐
how
not
to
learn

http://www.surgeryminor.com/showcase/propaganda.html


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What
I
do

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What
does
16,000
posts
look
like?

common links topics conversations publications terminology memes language and nationality causes social networks comments feeds

CHAOS

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Complicated,
Complex

http://www.gapingvoid.com/complicated128.jpg

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The
(First)
Butterfly
Thesis

a
butterfly
flapping
its
wings
in
South
America can
affect
the
weather
in
Central
Park….
so
why don’t
we
get
that
butterfly?

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The
Three
Body
Problem

http://www.dynamical‐systems.org/threebody/index.html
 http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Three‐body_problem


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Connectivism:
Engagement

  • There
is
no
curriculum,
no

theory,
no
body
of knowledge

– (or,
more
accurately,
the curriculum
is
the
McGuffin)

  • The
product
is
not
the

knowledge,
it
is
the
learner

  • It’s
not
that
there’s
nothing

to
learn,
it’s
that
it’s
complex and
needs
to
be
navigated… not
memorized

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The
three
Ls:
language,
logic
and learning

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First
Theme

active
engagement,
not
passive

  • bservation…

– a
bit
like
ANT,
but
no
presumption
of commonality,
translation… –
a
bit
like
action
research,
but
no presumption
of
a
community
of practice

http://www.emtech.net/actionresearch.htm
 http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/ant_dff.html


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Thinking
for
yourself

Critical thinking and reflection

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Free
Learning

  • The
picture
of
learning
you
should
have
is
one
  • f
a
large
set
of
connected
nodes
(like
the

neurons
in
a
brain)

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  • Teachers are

nodes, students are nodes

  • Both teaching

and learning consists of sending and receiving communications to other nodes

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ARRFF

Aggregate Remix Repurpose Feed
Forward

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It’s
a
river,
not
a reservoir

Surfing Sensing Experiencing pattern recognition

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The Idea of the PLE…

http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/ple/resources/edf.ppt

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Plex Personal Learning Environment Example

http://reload.ces.strath.ac.uk/plex/

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Collecting and Filtering RSS

http://www.downes.ca/mygluframe.htm

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RSS Writr

http://www.downes.ca/editor/writr.htm

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FeedForward

http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/feedforward/


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Second
Theme

Learning….
vs
the
right
learning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin


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Understanding
Interdependence

=
no
simple
principles =
no
simple
cause
&
effect

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Me
and
my
network

  • f
friends

Aggregate Remix Repurpose Feed Forward

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Network
Structures
‐
Tree

http://middleburydemocrats.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/college‐democrats‐getting‐obama‐to‐go‐viral‐no‐really/


Central Influence Power Law Viral Hierarchy

Traditional social network

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Network
Structures
‐
Mesh

Peer-to-peer (Email) Network

Distributed Discussion Balanced Reflective Democracy

http://www.daniel‐lemire.com/fr/abstracts/DIVERSITY2008.html
 http://www.mailchimp.com/blog/using‐email‐to‐uncover‐hidden‐social‐networks/


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Individualism
vs
Mutuality

Independent variables
vs dependent variables eg.
Rational decision
‐
vs
role model

The myth of solitary autonomy

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When
we
ourselves
become
the
story

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The
Sharing
Thesis

  • Not
just
competition

‐
cooperation
  • Open
Educational
Resources
(OERs)
  • The
only
sustainable
model

http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/06/university‐learning‐ocw‐oer‐free.html


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The
(Second)
Butterfly
Thesis

http://www.flickr.com/photos/durhamskywriter/2858347734/


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Connectivism

“At
its
heart,
connectivism
is
the
thesis
that knowledge
is
distributed
across
a
network
of connections,
and
therefore
that
learning consists
of
the
ability
to
construct
and traverse
those
networks.”

What
Connectivism
Is

http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2007/02/what‐connectivism‐is.html

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Course
Components

  • The
Wiki…

http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Connectivism

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Course
Components

  • Course
Moodle
Forum

http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=20

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Third
Theme

Groups
vs
networks

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/109/252157734_9e6c29433b.jpg


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Nancy
White
‐
Me,
We,
Network

http://www.yesandspace.com.au/wp‐content/uploads/2008/04/open‐space‐metaphor_small.jpg


Open Spaces

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Objects
We
Care
About

  • Nancy
White
‐
networks,
not
just
about

connecting
the
people,
but
the
objects
they care
about

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The
object
system,
revisited

Distributed Resources

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Repositories
and
Syndication

  • Academic
‐
OAI‐PMH,
Dspace,
Fedora,
Eprints,

SWORD,
Connexion,
OCW

  • Web
‐
Flickr,
YouTube,
Slideshare

RSS OAI DC Atom

http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue55/vandeventer‐pienaar/


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Self‐organization
‐
metronomes

http://salt.uaa.alaska.edu/dept/metro.html
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1TMZASCR‐I


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Network Learning…

  • Hebbian associationism
  • based on concurrency
  • Back propagation
  • based on desired outcome
  • Boltzman
  • based on ‘settling’, annealing

Self Organization

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Architecture The
application
provides
mechanisms
to input,
process,
and
distribute
content.

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Page
Creation Pages
are
created
automatically
from
a database
of
content
types

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Feed Management Content
input
comes
from
RSS
feeds harvested
by
gRSShopper

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Mapping Incoming
content
can
be
mapped
to
any

  • f
a
variety
of
data
types
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Course
Components

  • The
Daily

http://connect.downes.ca/

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Course
Components

  • Feed
Harvesting
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The
Students

  • The
Course
Map…

http://x28newblog.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/2008/09/06/cck08-first-impressions/

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Social
Networks blogs
and
blogging wikis
and
collaborative writing tagging
and
Digg
and…

Web
2.0

Stallman

The Internet of 2007

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The
Internet
of
2009

Beyond
Web
2.0

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Creating
Course
Components

  • Pageflakes
Site

http://www.pageflakes.com/ltc

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Widgets
and
Gadgets

http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets‐land/


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Widget
Landscape

http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets‐land/


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Google
Wave

http://wave.google.com/


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Opera
Unite

http://blog.mynetx.net/windowslive/opera‐unite‐how‐client‐server‐future‐look‐like/


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Windows
Live
Mesh

https://www.mesh.com/welcome/default.aspx

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Firefox
Plain
Old
Web
Server

https://addons.mozilla.org/en‐US/firefox/addon/3002


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  • Networks
of
interactions
(aggregate,

remix,
repurpose,
feed
forward)
– syndication

An ecology…

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  • The
personal
learning
centre

http://blog.core-ed.net/derek/2006/11/more_on_mles_and_ples.html

Autonomy

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  • The
Network
is
Diverse
–
multiple

views,
multiple
technologies

http://flickr.com/photos/11242012@N07/1363575474

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  • The
Network
is
connected
and

interactive
(not
‘integrated’)
– small
pieces,
loosely
joined

http://www.biography.org.uk/real.htm

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  • The
Network
is
open

http://park.org/Japan/NTT/DM/html_f4/F4_10600_e.html

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Stephen
Downes http://www.downes.ca