open course on Technology Enhanced Learning - ocTEL

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The scooped article reviews a book edited by Lucila Carvalho and Peter Goodyear. It contains a collection of stories on networked learning that share the intention to look at learning networks as designed entities. As one of the contributors to the book I should say no more about it and let Terry Anderson’s review speak for itself. However, if his review does wet your appetite I should perhaps confess that I myself am quite enamoured with the collection of articles that has emerged. I genuinely belief this book, to which I only made a very small contribution, marks an important step in the efforts to come up with a theoretical foundation for networked learning. @pbsloep

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David moves away from the digital native/immigrant discussion and suggests another lens for looking at differences in online network participation: are you more of a resident or more of a visitor? Very worthwhile.

"Let me review, for those who are just skimming this post:

   Connectionism - the theory describing how networks learn

   Connectivism - the theory applying that understanding to education

Whether you say one or another is or is not a theory interests me not in the least. But I would assert that (a) each is a distinct understanding of learning that can be distinguished from other approaches that genuinely are called theories, and (b) neither is widely adopted (much less consensus opinion) in learning technology, or education generally, today."