Learning Ecologies not Learning Mangement Systems
CMS → LMS → VLE → ?
George Siemens:
An ecology is an environment that fosters and supports the creation of communities. The definition applied to gardeningapplies well to learning communities: “Ecological gardening is about gardening with nature, not against it.” A learning ecology is an environment that is consistent with (not antagonistic to) how learners learn.
John Seely Brown:
An ecology is an open system, dynamic and interdependent, diverse, partially self organizing, adaptive, and fragile.
- A collection of overlapping communities of interest
- Cross pollinating with each other
- Constantly evolving
- Largely self organizing
- Personalization and Synchronicity
- Protected “Federation Space”
- Teacher as Gardener
Links and Resources
Learning Ecology, Communities, and Networks
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/learning_communities.htm
Utah State Open Education Conference
http://cosl.usu.edu/conference/2005/
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