Spaces and Structures of Tomorrow’s Learning

George SiemensdCCF

March 30, 2007

If you’re about content, you’re in for enormous

change

New knowledge, defined containers

Knowledge emerges

Tolerate ambiguity …resist classification of understanding in advance

Content flow

Space of content flow

Content flows on the network

Physical

Digital

Artifact

Malleable

Defined

User-created

Content is a conduit to conversation

Content as centralization

UGC: All content is NOT created equal

Content as node in network

Content as gradient

Content

Mediation of Understanding

Nature of content determines interaction

Exposure of periphery: loose

connections

http://www.quintura.com/

Multiple narratives

Content abundance…making sense

GDP

http://www.worldmapper.org/

Population

http://www.worldmapper.org/

SpacesWe don’t control the space

Structures We don’t create the structure of knowledge and understanding

Legal/social

www.elearnspace.orgwww.connectivism.ca

www.knowingknowledge.com