While some continue to argue that tooks and resources should be specifically 'educational', I would suggest that the newer approach (which we are calling 'learning networks' or 'connectivism') stresses continuity between the educational environment and the wider social environment. Learning networks. tools in schools. movement. MORE >>

Text of my presentation to SURF Education Days, 13 November 2007, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Connectivism is essentially, and this is my take on it not necessarily George’s, the theory that knowledge and learning can be described and explained using network principals. There are four major ways in which networks grow. That’s it. MORE >>

Habit refers to the extent to which behavior has become automatic as a result of prior learning.” How habit limits the predictive power of intention: The case of information systems continuance,” MIS Quarterly (31:4), 2007, 705-737. Limayem, M., Hirt, S.G., and Cheung, C.M.K., The intention of micro-blogging, ergo, is to share. MORE >>

Diversity can often be enhanced by connecting into spikes – geographic concentrations of talent – and by targeting “brokers” within social networks, creating a multiplier effect in terms of the number of participants that are potentially accessible. Dont Count On It. Some will expand the scope to include process innovation. Modularity. MORE >>

Home Archives Subscribe « Hybrid Models of Capitalism | Main | A Personal Year of Transition » December 24, 2007 Innovation Communities and Network Effects I just returned from a week in London, about half of it spent at Imperial College. Such fears are quite rational, if not downright primal. Why is this so? MORE >>