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MultiMOOC is about chaos in learning and how to engage learners in resolving that chaos through networking with one another. This presentation introduces a connectivist take on chaos in learning, with its suggestion that sense-making can be enhanced through a network of learners. Taking the Cynefin distinction of simple, complicated, complex, and chaotic problems, MOOCs seem directed at the latter two. We look at some examples of how learning occurs in MOOCs and wind up with some implications for the future.
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Chaos in Learningand resolving that chaos
through networking
Vance StevensLearning2gether with MultiMOOC
and YLTSIG EVO sessionsJanuary 26, 2014
Vance Stevens January 2014
Who is a young Learner?
• Anyone under 60?
• I teach pilot cadets 18-20 years old
http://learning2gether.net/2013/12/11/contacting-delin-and-her-students-at-taiwan-air-force-academy-in-bbc-elluminate/
Find these slides at http://slideshare.net.vances
Vance Stevens January 2014
What is Chaos?
Chaos Theory
Benoit Mandelbrot and fractal diagrams
Vance Stevens January 2014
Stella Bastone on Chaos
http://youtu.be/ts6eHVGNjBc
Vance Stevens January 2014
Downes on Chaos
• “What we see is chaos”
• From this YouTubeNoves maneres daprendre i treballar en la societat xarxa. Stephen Downes http://youtu.be/wyaeTvGQDsA
Vance Stevens January 2014
Siemens on Chaos
Howard Reingold interviews George Siemens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMfipxhT_Co&feature=related
Vance Stevens January 2014
Siemens on Chaos"I’m not aware of any research actually that says linear structure produces better outcomes than more chaotic meandering structure. Our intent … is to argue that
– the experience of learning, making sense of that chaos, is actually the heart of the learning experience,
– but if an instructor makes sense of that chaos for you and gives you all the readings and sets the full path in place for you then • you are eviscerating the learner’s experience • because now you’ve made sense of them and all you’ve told them is walk
the path that I’ve formed. – When it comes to complexity I’m a great fan of letting learner’s hack
their way through that path and getting the value of that learning experience and that sense-making process.”
Vance Stevens January 2014
Chaos Navigation
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/wiaoc2007help.htm
Vance Stevens January 2014
Intuitive chaos navigation
http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/?key=tDHgQeSbHR3fcvN81EHnxQQ&sheet=oaw
Vance Stevens January 2014
What do learners need
In an era of accelerating change?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVQ1ULfQawk
Vance Stevens January 2014
Thomas and Brown (2011) A New Culture of Learning
Teaching someone to fish helpful to extent that• fish stocks last and that • radically new techniques
for catching them won’t be required in his lifetime
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Coping with chaos requires
• Strategies• Literacies skills• A network= Connectivism
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37794987@N00/6313423840/
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How do we inculcate these skills in young learners?
• We have to learn them ourselves
• How do we do that
http://evosessions.pbworks.com/
http://learning2gether.net/about/
http://taedtech.ning.com
Vance Stevens January 2014
My own approach = SMALLSocial media assisted language learning
• Webheads in Action
• EVO (Electronic Village Online)
• Learning2gether• MultiMOOC
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GWVtAH2yfp5tL3bdMg58_M5Deq36Ot_jQ_w8rflsGuA/edit#heading=h.wwfgxw6e65fd
Vance Stevens January 2014
Training vs. Learning
I train SCUBA diving My students LEARN English• I don’t TEACH it – I can’t!
http://tesl-ej.org/ej28/int.html
Vance Stevens January 2014
Avoiding chaos in language classes
A good thing?
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldendragon613/250121794/
Vance Stevens January 2014
Language is a chaotic problem
http://youtu.be/N7oz366X0-8
Vance Stevens January 2014
MOOCs• According to Cormier, MOOCs address the left
side of Cynefin quadrant
http://learning2gether.net/2013/01/20/dave-cormier-discusses-cmooc-and-multimooc-co/
Vance Stevens January 2014
xMOOCs and cMOOCs We must distinguish training• Coursera• EdX• Udacity
from deeper learning• CCK08• Rhizomatic Learning
http://www.connectivistmoocs.org/
Vance Stevens January 2014
A course about MOOCs(but not a MOOC)
http://gplus.to/multimooc
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Understanding MOOCs is Ineffable
http://x28newblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/12/rhizo14-opml-feedlist/
https://p2pu.org/en/courses/882/rhizomatic-learning-the-community-is-the-curriculum/
Vance Stevens January 2014
Serendipitous Learning in MOOCs
http://evomlit.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/revisiting-the-question-of-tagging/
Vance Stevens January 2014
Intuitive chaos navigation
http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/?key=tDHgQeSbHR3fcvN81EHnxQQ&sheet=oaw
Vance Stevens January 2014
How is chaos resolved?
• Conversations• Connections• Coping with chaos– Orient– Declare– Network– Cluster– Focus
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/108458862109297898812
Success in a MOOC (Dave Cormier) http://youtu.be/r8avYQ5ZqM0
Vance Stevens January 2014
Practical Projects?Collaboration - Taiwan and KBZ Air Colleges
http://learning2gether.net/2013/12/11/contacting-delin-and-her-students-at-taiwan-air-force-academy-in-bbc-elluminate/
Vance Stevens January 2014
Drones for Schools
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/117228629115025838704
Vance Stevens January 2014
To resolve the present chaos
• Rethink learning• Flip everything• Participate in MOOCs• Join colleagues
regularly online• Join and form
communities of practice• Empower your students
to be creativehttp://www.evoluzination.com/2014/01/talking-about-wearables-with-ieee.html
Vance Stevens January 2014
Thank YouThese slides with hyperlinks
hopefully preserved can be found athttp://slideshare.net/vances
http://www.flickr.com/photos/st3f4n/3951143570/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en
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