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learning_paradigms:connectivism [2011/05/30 11:11]
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learning_paradigms:connectivism [2011/05/30 13:44]
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 Connectivism is criticized for being more a pedagogical approach and a model rather than learning theory, since it doesn'​t really attempt to explain processes of how people learn.(([[http://​www.surfspace.nl/​nl/​Redactieomgeving/​Publicaties/​Documents/​Connectivism%20a%20new%20theory.pdf|van Pløn Verhagen, Bijdrage. Connectivism:​ a new learning theory?” University of Twente, November 11, 2006.]])) It also describes learning as //​actionable knowledge// emphasizing only the result, not the process of learning. Connectivism is criticized for being more a pedagogical approach and a model rather than learning theory, since it doesn'​t really attempt to explain processes of how people learn.(([[http://​www.surfspace.nl/​nl/​Redactieomgeving/​Publicaties/​Documents/​Connectivism%20a%20new%20theory.pdf|van Pløn Verhagen, Bijdrage. Connectivism:​ a new learning theory?” University of Twente, November 11, 2006.]])) It also describes learning as //​actionable knowledge// emphasizing only the result, not the process of learning.
  
-Lack of references to previous related works makes connectivisms contributions hard to identify. +Lack of references to previous related works makes connectivisms contributions hard to identify. ​Some authors notice a number of connectivist ideas already present in earlier theories.(([[http://​www.eric.ed.gov/​PDFS/​EJ815759.pdf|Kop,​ Rita, and Adrian Hill. Connectivism:​ Learning Theory of the Future or Vestige of the Past? International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning 9, no. 3: 1-13. October 2008.]]))
  
 +  * "//A paradigm shift, indeed, may be occurring in educational theory, and a new epistemology may be emerging, but it does not seem that connectivism’s contributions to the new paradigm warrant it being treated as a separate learning theory in and of its own right.//"​(([[http://​www.eric.ed.gov/​PDFS/​EJ815759.pdf|Kop,​ Rita, and Adrian Hill. Connectivism:​ Learning Theory of the Future or Vestige of the Past? International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning 9, no. 3: 1-13. October 2008.]]))
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 [[http://​www.connectivism.ca/​|Connectivism (George Siemens'​ blog).]] [[http://​www.connectivism.ca/​|Connectivism (George Siemens'​ blog).]]
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 +[[http://​library.wcsu.edu/​dspace/​bitstream/​0/​487/​1/​Darrow,​+Suzanne_+Connectivism+Learning+Theory_Instructional+Tools+for+College+Courses.pdf|Darrow,​ Suzanne. Connectivism Learning Theory: Instructional Tools for College Courses. A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment for a  Master’s Degree in Education, Danbury, CT: Western Connecticut State University, 2009.]]
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 +[[http://​www.eric.ed.gov/​PDFS/​EJ815759.pdf|Kop,​ Rita, and Adrian Hill. Connectivism:​ Learning Theory of the Future or Vestige of the Past? International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning 9, no. 3: 1-13. October 2008.]]
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