8. “a new communication paradigm is
being constructed through community
interaction and participation, which
enables the formation of loosely
connected groups with relative ease”
wesch (2009)
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20. knowledge in the PLE
dynamic
personally constructed
soft boundaries knowledge in the LMS
organised around topics
learning to do static
symmetrical relationships authority-based
personalised content hard boundaries
access is open organised around classes
learning about
asymmetrical relationships
homogeneous content
access is gated
Learning is as much about curiosity as it is about outcomes, content and assessment. PLEs are about structured exploration of ideas, that still allows for the serendipitous discovery of new things.
Think about how the web is increasingly being seen as a stream of content. Think of Facebook, Twitter, Google+. In all of these services, the organising principle is time, not space. If you think of the internet as being organised by time, your perspective changes because it's no longer a place to go, the frame of reference changes. Now it can be a
Table was compiled from a presentation recording that Stephen Downes gave to a group in Iceland recently, as well as a publication from graham attwell.
Soft boundaries that are difficult to establish e.g. a course has a set number of participants and content, but a PLE doesn't → can lead to information overload (through aggregation) if filtering is inefficient