networked discovery of connections would be at the center of both the learning environment as designed by faculty and the learning environment as experienced by students

the clumsy and often linear arrangements often impede students from digesting each other’s comments and engaging in organic dialogue.

Small Blog On Networked Learning

What is “Connected Learning?”

Koranic school

Do adults (and which adults) have the resources necessary to pursue learning opportunities?

the use of networks is gradually nudging aside more traditional problem-solving approaches based on the marketplace and the choice of a small leadership group or “hierarchies.”

As Fung explains, wicked problems require “multi-sectoral problem-solving” and ways to remove the barriers to “pooling knowledge and coordinating action” through the formation of networks that connect organizations.7

And this leads me to another thought- it seems like in our field there is this desire to go big, to scale, to teach hundreds of thousands, to affect an entire sector. Scale at the dimension is really only achieved by a process of mass duplication where the level of heart-felt connectivity is probably low.

Team-based, contextualized learning underlies the instruction for each track;

“We wanted to create threads between courses so that students can understand connections,”

Ranty Blog Post about Big Data, Learning Analytics, & Higher Ed

A Framework for Identifying and Evaluating Openly Networked Connected Learning Course Designs

Connected Learning & Integrative Thinking: Teaching History at Virginia Tech

True personalized learning calls for a "rethinking and redesign" of schools, which could require them to overhaul classroom structures and schedules, curricula, and the instructional approaches of teachers, Mr. Calkins of EDUCAUSE argued. For instance, in an effective personalized learning model, teachers' roles are more like those of coaches or facilitators than "content providers," he said.

"Technology can help provide students with more choices on how they're going to learn a lesson," Ms. Patrick said. "[It] empowers teachers in personalizing learning" and "empowers students through their own exercise of choice."

Many times, the work we do as educators is actually taking away some of the most powerful learning from our students.

The future of learning analytics, a future in which it is not passé, is one in which learning comes before management

Crafting Connected Courses

Rhizomatic learning as an open pedagogy

Most recently I have been learning from two new-to-me online communities of practice – Wattpad for Writers and DeviantArt for Artists. Their online designs and supportive networked ways of working prompt me to continue thinking about the power of open ways of working in such communities.

gender neutrality, creativity, imagination and tinker time are the basis for learning

Regarding the major obstacles for higher education, blending formal and informal learning is considered one of the solvable challenges

Patrick Ball—a data scientist and the director of research at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group—who has previously given expert testimony before war crimes tribunals, described the NSA's methods as "ridiculously optimistic" and "completely bullshit." A flaw in how the NSA trains SKYNET's machine learning algorithm to analyse cellular metadata, Ball told Ars, makes the results scientifically unsound.

“Search is the cornerstone of Google,” Corrado said. “Machine learning isn’t just a magic syrup that you pour onto a problem and it makes it better. It took a lot of thought and care in order to build something that we really thought was worth doing.”

Pictures of Philosophy

You don’t have to do everything yourself!

Theprincipleismerelythisthatdifferentsubjectsandmodesofstudyshouldbeundertakenbypupilsatfittingtimeswhentheyhavereachedtheproperstageofmentaldevelopment.

There is no single correct way to implement personalized learning

We analyzed the relationship between students’ level of online engagement, and traditional learning metrics, to understand the effectiveness of discussion forums in the context of flipped classrooms.

most e-learning systems

Dweck’s message is that we can’t just adopt a growth mindset and forget about it, and simply praising effort regardless of actual progress is completely counterproductive. Successfully cultivating a growth mindset is an ongoing process that consists of teaching strategies for growth and praising effort thoughtfully, rather than regardlessly.

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Offering students the possibility of experiential learning in personal, interactive, networked computing—in all its gloriously messy varieties—provides the richest opportunity yet for integrative thinking within and beyond "schooling."

Moreover, the experience of building and participating within a digitally mediated network of discovery is itself a form of experiential learning, indeed a kind of metaexperiential learning that vividly and concretely teaches the experience of networks themselves.

Go into your nearest college or university library. Ignore the computer stations and the digital affordances. Enter the stacks, and run your fingers along the spines of the books on the shelves. You're tracing nodes and connections. You're touching networked learning—slow-motion and erratic, to be sure, but solid and present and, truth to tell, thrilling.

“The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them — especially not from yourself.”

Apprendre à programmer permet aux enfants un nouveau rapport aux technologies: de consommateur interactif de manuels scolaires numérisés à la capacité de créer des ressources éducatives numériques et même des mini-jeux.

The whole organic nature of learning experience through the #walkmyworld learning events meant that I learned what I needed to learn as I needed to learn it. It wasn’t a top down dictate of learning outcomes because the outcomes were determined by the process. It is a revolutionary concept — yet as ancient as Aristotle. Learning should never be measured solely by standard outcomes; people learn, and I mean really LEARN, when they discover for themselves what they know, what they want to know, and how they want to know it.

“The key is deliberate practice: not just doing it again and again, but challenging yourself with a task that is just beyond your current ability, trying it, analyzing your performance while and after doing it, and correcting any mistakes. Then repeat. And repeat again. There appear to be no real shortcuts: even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age 4, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music.”

focus groups where students self-report the effectiveness of the materials are common, particularly among textbook publishers

It’s educators who come up with hypotheses and test them using a large data set.

learned from experience

a good example of the kind of insight that big data is completely blind to

I will investigate the details on this, including the relevant contractual clauses, when I get the chance.

taking a swipe at Knewton

they are making a bet against the software as a replacement for the teacher and against big data

a set of algorithms designed to optimize the commitment of knowledge to long-term memory

numbers have to be interpreted by those who do the daily work of classroom teaching

The challenge, of course, is how to balance concerns of the Hawthorne effect with privacy.

Regular readers know that I am a big fan of the standard-in-development.

If Knewton were doing more of this, I wouldn’t be as critical.

purchasable à la carte

Personalized course materials made possible by real data

Soon, data will make learning outcomes for these courses highly transparent

to offer just lectures

when outcomes are non-transparent

Unbundling has played out in almost every media industry.

wring out every ounce of performance

increased investment in professional development and teaching-friendly tenure and promotion practices

OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.

Big Sur is our newest Open Rack-compatible hardware designed for AI computing at a large scale. In collaboration with partners, we've built Big Sur to incorporate eight high-performance GPUs

The most popular project for the MUA to tackle was Learning Analytics

Lambda Solutions [Corrected.]

help build a community that functions as a collective pool of knowledge and possibility

literary Facebook

a study by Stephen Schueller, published last year in the Journal of Positive Psychology, found that people assigned to a happiness activity similar to one for which they previously expressed a preference showed significantly greater increases in happiness than people assigned to an activity not based on a prior preference. This, writes Schueller, is “a model for positive psychology exercises similar to Netflix for movies or Amazon for books and other products.”

elementary school children become increasingly inattentive in class when recess is delayed. Similarly, studies conducted in French and Canadian elementary schools over a period of four years found that regular physical activity had positive effects on academic performance. Spending one third of the school day in physical education, art, and music improved not only physical fitness, but attitudes toward learning and test scores. These findings echo those from one analysis of 200 studies on the effects of exercise on cognitive functioning, which also suggests that physical activity promotes learning.

TPOT is a Python tool that automatically creates and optimizes machine learning pipelines using genetic programming. Think of TPOT as your “Data Science Assistant”: TPOT will automate the most tedious part of machine learning by intelligently exploring thousands of possible pipelines, then recommending the pipelines that work best for your data.

Nanodegree Program Summary Machine learning represents a key evolution in the fields of computer science, data analysis, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. It has quickly become industry's preferred way to make sense of the staggering volume of data our modern world produces. Machine learning engineers build programs that dynamically perform the analyses that data scientists used to perform manually. These programs can “learn” based on millions of experiences, all rigorously and numerically defined.

learning spaces

SUNY

grows exponentially.

What is the correlation between levels of student responses to each other and outcomes?

read by any Caliper-compliant system

Caliper WordPress plugin

most blogs have a feature called “pingbacks,”

prior learning assessments

adaptive learning with multiple levels of support.

technology-assisted differentiated instruction

Personal Learning Record will define how to represent, capture and leverage user activity, including ratings, test results and performance measures in a distributed learning and work environment.

Resource Repository Network will create a resource graph of learning/training resources data from multiple sources and formats including live and dynamic data

e-learning technologies and standards: SCORM, LOM, IMS-LD, IMS-CC, IMS-QTI, IMS-CP, LDL, SLD

They found that students were most engaged in school while taking tests, doing individual work, and doing group work, and less so when listening to lectures or watching videos. In addition, the students were most engaged and reported being in a better mood when they felt that their activities were under their own control and relevant to their lives. The researchers conclude that teachers can encourage more flow in their classrooms through lessons that offer choice, are connected to students’ goals, and provide both challenges and opportunities for success that are appropriate to students’ level of skill.

Real learning, says Shernoff, requires student engagement—of which flow is the deepest form possible—and that involves a combination of motivation, concentration, interest, and enjoyment derived from the process of learning itself—qualities that are essential to Csikzentmihalyi’s definition of flow.

But one place where we might not find too much flow these days, sadly, is in American schools. For years, the learning conditions in classrooms have been practically antithetical to the conditions people need to achieve flow and all the benefits that come with it. Especially in the era of No Child Left Behind and high-stakes testing, schools have often favored regimentation over self-directed learning, making it harder for students to get deeply engaged with topics that interest them. Paradoxically, these trends might be undermining the kind of student achievement they were designed to promote, and could even be causing student burnout.

The importance assumed for collaboration within NL has almost become ubiquitous and is frequently seen as unquestionably desirable.

Over time these things you write up start to form a deep network that helps you think.

follow the lead of the sciences

Eliot was a chemist, so perhaps we should take his criticisms with a grain of salt.

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2014 study showed that test scores in science and math courses improved after professors replaced lecture time with “active learning” methods like group work

From knowing to learning An immediate outcome of this transition is that we no longer ask, “Do students know this?” Instead, we can ask, “How do students learn this?” Giving students learning activities as an assessment has the benefit of assessing a meaningful aspect of their learning, that is, their ability to make sense of new challenges. This paradigm is often termed preparation for future learning assessment, or PFL.

Commercial publishers and content producers say there's reason to doubt the quality of open resources

"If you leave those there it will make a mess and make me spill things. That's one reason we don't let you bitches behind the bar."

Our design model builds on this approach by focusing on supports and mechanisms for building envi-ronments that connect learning across the spheres of interests, peer culture, and academic life.

Connected learning addresses the gap between in-school and out-of-school learning, intergenerational disconnects, and new equity gaps arising from the privatization of learning. In doing so, connected learning taps the opportunities provided by digital media to more easily link home, school, community and peer contexts of learning; sup-port peer and intergenerational connections based on shared interests; and create more connections with non-dominant youth, drawing from capacities of diverse communities.

Connected learning is a model of learning and social change that is not defined by a specific technology, tool, or technique. Instead, connected learning is defined by a commitment to social equity and progressive learning, and seeks to mold the uptake of new technologies and techniques based on these commitments.

Bottlenecks are important because they signal where students are unable to grasp crucial ways of knowing in our fields.

connect in- and out-of-school learning

Connected Learning, has emerged as a powerful way to connect fragmented spheres of a young person’s life—interests, academic and work opportunities, and peer culture.

Bennett Merriman, young entrepreneur and director of a workforce management company, told a recent higher education conference that connectivity in our work place is important. He recommended that students should spend time developing their networks throughout their studies.

Flexibility

Hands on

Individualism–

"What really is our role as professors?" he asks. "Is our role to simply give out information and people will use it as they wish? Or is our role to honestly and truly help guide people to be who they are and how they will live their life?"

learning is the act of recognizing patterns shaped by complex networks

Knowledge is, on this theory, literally the set of connections formed by actions and experience.

the learning is the network

Learning is considered a “. . . knowledge creation process . . . not only knowledge consumption.”

The capacity to know is more critical than what is actually known

We’ll have an even more humane, ethical, productive, and effective version of the courseware when we come out of the pilot in Spring term.