Peru Educared

Connectivism: Creativity and Innovation in a Complex World

George SiemensNovember 28, 2012

Lima Peru

Changing Knowledge Structures & Economics

Martin Prosperity Institute, 2009

McKinsey Quarterly, 2012

The Conference Board & McKinsey & Co

“All the knowledge is in the connections”

David Rumelhart

We always lived in a connected world, except we were not so much aware of it…That has changed drastically in the last decade, at many, many different levels.

Albert-lászló Barabási

“The Board believes this environment calls for a much faster pace of change in administrative structure, in governance, in financial resource development and in resource prioritization and allocation. We do not believe we can even maintain our current standard under a model of incremental, marginal change.  The world is simply moving too fast.”

EdTech Ecosystem

Education Sector Factbook, 2012

FROM A 2012 SURVEY OF US INVESTORS RE: MOST ATTRACTIVE ICT MARKETS

(ON A SCALE OF 1-7 WITH 1 BEING HIGH)

Source (and previous slide): GSV Advisors

Of Interest to Investors

On the Last Digital Frontier

Investors give education technology firms the nod

Joseph Wilson, Special to Financial Post | Sep 10, 2012

GSV Advisors, 2012

Creating and Making

1. Open online learning

http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1023/how-to-succeed-in-a-massive-online-open-course-mooc

http://claudiascholz.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/cfshe12_3/

2. Distributed Research Lab

http://www.distributedlab.net/

Participants

Connect globally with expertsConnect with other PhD studentsContribute to researchBuild a dual knowledge profile: - digital footprint and academic

Format

Monthly public presentationsMonthly private (students & research leads) meetingsBb CollaborateNing3 year commitment

Systemic Change

Reducing the basic units of education:From courses to competencies

Knowledge work requires different physical and conceptual structures from traditional work.

Schools need to reflect this.

There is wide agreement that we need new models of education, and not simply new models of schooling, but entirely new visions of learning better suited to the increasing complexity, connectivity, and velocity of our new knowledge society.http://connectedlearning.tv/

When we create, it can be analyzed and new patterns can be discovered

(understood, evaluated, interrogated)

http://mashe.hawksey.info/

Why is this important?

When we don’t impose strict order up front, we have to apply intelligence later to integrate knowledge and discussions…

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