Submitted by Thoward on 26 September 2011 - 10:22am
2011-10-05 13:00
2011-10-05 14:00
Canada/Eastern

Dear CNIE Member,

We would like to invite you to the next presentation in our fall series of free online CIDER sessions. This session features a presentation and discussion with Roy Williams, Jenny Mackness and Regina Karousa, University of Portsmouth.

Title: Emergent Learning in the new Learning Ecologies

Learning has always been both individual and social, within communities, networks and (particularly in the 20th Century) within institutions. But the balance between structure and agency is shifting, and informal learning is growing exponentially. The Web provides unprecedented opportunities for people to create content, and social software provides opportunities for anyone to create and participate in new types of communities and social networks. This raises two questions: what affordances does this provide for learning, and what frameworks can we use to understand and facilitate these affordances, and benefit from them? In this presentation we will outline a framework based on complexity theory, and test it against some case studies to see whether ‘emergent learning’ might help us to answer these questions about the new learning ecologies.

When: Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 11am – 12pm Mountain Time (Canada)
*Local times for the CIDER sessions are provided on our website: http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERSessions/

Where: The CIDER sessions have moved to Adobe Connect! To join this session go to: https://connect.athabascau.ca/cider/

Pre-Configuration:
Please note that it is extremely important that you get your system set up prior to the start of the event. Make sure your Mac or PC is equipped with a microphone and speakers, so that you can use the audio functionality built into the web conferencing software. Also, the Adobe Connect platform may require an update to your Adobe Flash Player. Allow time for this update by joining the session 20 minutes prior to the scheduled presentation start time.

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