Balancing the Ways of Learning in Organizations Doel Seminar Helsinki 27-30.9.2011 Antti Katajainen - M.A student Aalto University School of Art and Design
Balancing the Ways of Learning in Organizations
Doel Seminar Helsinki 27-30.9.2011Antti Katajainen - M.A student
Aalto University School of Art and Design
Reasons for shifting online learning in organizations
Learning has shifted more towards situated learning.
Global economics/ Physical distances.
Overwhelming amount of information. Knowledge amount has doubled in last ten years.
Easy access and spread of Web 2.0 collaborative tools.
Cost-effective, fast and effective.
Tacit knowledge needs to be stored and shared for future employees.
Online communities allow distributed network of people, delivering diversity of opinions at one place.
In right balance?
Social Informal Formal
80% Informal learning?
Informal learning processes such as storytelling, conversation, coaching and apprenticeship Jay Cross (Internettime.com) points out also that around 80% of individuals’ learning is informal. Informal learning can be described as learning where learner sets his or her own learning objectives. Formal learning can be seen as opposite to this, where someone else like teacher or instructor sets the objective. Occurs usually in learning events as classroom teaching. It is presented in time logical or sequential approach to a topic.Social exchange of ideas & knowledge by interactive discussions
Social learning
Source: Dron & Anderson, 2007
Network Collective
Group
Me
“Object-‐centric sites allow users to share, comment up on, and display a wide range of digital media, such as photos, music, books owned or read, citations, or music recordings. Ego-‐centric sites usually contain proQiles, personal diary spaces (blogs), lists of friends, community discussions, and other tools that allow users to locate, work, and play with each other”. Actually successful software for learning supports both social networking ways. Group is related in organizational setting as a specialized group where the knowledge is shared but not necessary with the whole other community.Networks enable ad-‐hoc creation of group networking. Collectives characterized by software meditated aggregation:Tag clouds are good examples of collectives where individually created information/link cloud leads us to a larger network of collectively created resources.
How should we call it ?
Learning 2.0 is more like technology term and has been used too much with web 2.0. There will be also a web 3.0. Connectivism approach will Qill the cap between learning and the use of technology tools. Connectivism approach highlights capabilities to learn new and make new connections between people and context. George Siemens describes learning in digital age by following: “ learners challenge is to recognize the patterns which appear to be hidden. Meaning-‐making and forming connections between specialized communities are important factors”. In his theory of connectivism learning is considered to happen outside of ourselves. Connected LearningIf ‘Connected Learning’ is part formal, part informal and part social, there will always be the act of ‘connecting’ one’s self to people, content, systems, networks, etc. during the learning process itself … and it may occur through several mediums
Learning 2.0How should we call it ?
Learning 2.0 is more like technology term and has been used too much with web 2.0. There will be also a web 3.0. Connectivism approach will Qill the cap between learning and the use of technology tools. Connectivism approach highlights capabilities to learn new and make new connections between people and context. George Siemens describes learning in digital age by following: “ learners challenge is to recognize the patterns which appear to be hidden. Meaning-‐making and forming connections between specialized communities are important factors”. In his theory of connectivism learning is considered to happen outside of ourselves. Connected LearningIf ‘Connected Learning’ is part formal, part informal and part social, there will always be the act of ‘connecting’ one’s self to people, content, systems, networks, etc. during the learning process itself … and it may occur through several mediums
Learning 2.0How should we call it ?
Learning 2.0 is more like technology term and has been used too much with web 2.0. There will be also a web 3.0. Connectivism approach will Qill the cap between learning and the use of technology tools. Connectivism approach highlights capabilities to learn new and make new connections between people and context. George Siemens describes learning in digital age by following: “ learners challenge is to recognize the patterns which appear to be hidden. Meaning-‐making and forming connections between specialized communities are important factors”. In his theory of connectivism learning is considered to happen outside of ourselves. Connected LearningIf ‘Connected Learning’ is part formal, part informal and part social, there will always be the act of ‘connecting’ one’s self to people, content, systems, networks, etc. during the learning process itself … and it may occur through several mediums
Learning 2.0How should we call it ?
Connectivism
Learning 2.0 is more like technology term and has been used too much with web 2.0. There will be also a web 3.0. Connectivism approach will Qill the cap between learning and the use of technology tools. Connectivism approach highlights capabilities to learn new and make new connections between people and context. George Siemens describes learning in digital age by following: “ learners challenge is to recognize the patterns which appear to be hidden. Meaning-‐making and forming connections between specialized communities are important factors”. In his theory of connectivism learning is considered to happen outside of ourselves. Connected LearningIf ‘Connected Learning’ is part formal, part informal and part social, there will always be the act of ‘connecting’ one’s self to people, content, systems, networks, etc. during the learning process itself … and it may occur through several mediums
Learning 2.0How should we call it ?
Connectivism
Learning 2.0 is more like technology term and has been used too much with web 2.0. There will be also a web 3.0. Connectivism approach will Qill the cap between learning and the use of technology tools. Connectivism approach highlights capabilities to learn new and make new connections between people and context. George Siemens describes learning in digital age by following: “ learners challenge is to recognize the patterns which appear to be hidden. Meaning-‐making and forming connections between specialized communities are important factors”. In his theory of connectivism learning is considered to happen outside of ourselves. Connected LearningIf ‘Connected Learning’ is part formal, part informal and part social, there will always be the act of ‘connecting’ one’s self to people, content, systems, networks, etc. during the learning process itself … and it may occur through several mediums
Learning 2.0How should we call it ?
ConnectivismConnected learning
Learning 2.0 is more like technology term and has been used too much with web 2.0. There will be also a web 3.0. Connectivism approach will Qill the cap between learning and the use of technology tools. Connectivism approach highlights capabilities to learn new and make new connections between people and context. George Siemens describes learning in digital age by following: “ learners challenge is to recognize the patterns which appear to be hidden. Meaning-‐making and forming connections between specialized communities are important factors”. In his theory of connectivism learning is considered to happen outside of ourselves. Connected LearningIf ‘Connected Learning’ is part formal, part informal and part social, there will always be the act of ‘connecting’ one’s self to people, content, systems, networks, etc. during the learning process itself … and it may occur through several mediums
Connections People
Topic
Thread
Sharing updates
Class room presentation
The behaviour of learning will always start with a connection.Source: Dan Pontefracts http://www.danpontefract.com
The different connections can be called as modalities according to Dan Pontefracts.Source: Dan Pontefracts http://www.danpontefract.com
Right balance = Quality points of learning ?
Balance between different learning ways is difficult to predict and measure since learning occurs mostly in situated informal ways.
Right balance can be found from the most important quality points of learning ways in a particular system by testing.
Most important quality points of learning
Socialness
Usability
Ways of Learning (Cognitive and Connected Learning)
SOCIALNESSHow well community is supporting communications and group processes. Is the system open to commenting and feedback?USABILITY How easy and comfortable it is to use the software.Ways of Learning(Connectivism) Connected learning. How well does the system support different ways of networking and complexity? COGNITIVE LEARNINGCognitive learning occurs inside individuals mind and emphasizes the memory capacity of a person. How well are the system’s web 2.0 tools supporting the cognitive processes?