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Making sense of complexity in open information environments

Making sense of complexity in open information environments. George Siemens October 26, 2011. Openness is a control tradeoff. And it means we have to do different things. Where are our control points?. Our curriculum?. Our teaching?. Fragmentation is a new reality.

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Making sense of complexity in open information environments

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  1. Making sense of complexity in open information environments George Siemens October 26, 2011

  2. Openness is a control tradeoff And it means we have to do different things

  3. Where are our control points?

  4. Our curriculum?

  5. Our teaching?

  6. Fragmentation is a new reality. Our learning models need to embrace (reflect) it. Fragmentary experience • Conversations, content, context not (only) shaped by the school/educator • Learners are in control

  7. Coherence is an orientation about the meaning and value of information elements based on how they are connected, structured, and related Antonovsky 1993

  8. Existing coherence forming systems Books Newspapers TV news programs Magazines (anything that is structured and that the end user can’t speak into and alter)

  9. Openness messes up coherence (and control)

  10. Fragmentation of information requires that we weave together elements into some type of coherent framework Youtube Blogs Twitter Facebook TEDtalks Kahn Academy Online news/information sites Traditional coherence frameworks

  11. Networked information doesn’t have a centre

  12. Information fragmentation…loss of narratives of coherence

  13. “the rise of millions of fragmented discussions across the world tend instead to lead to fragmentation of audiences into isolated publics” Habermas 2006

  14. Argument: we socialize to make sense of information… i.e. it is our ability to work with information (abstraction, representation, “point to”) that defines humanity

  15. As information quantity and complexity increase… We adopt two approaches: • Better technical systems • Better connected social systems

  16. collective net set group Social forms Jon Dron& Terry Anderson

  17. ‘‘. . . information foraging refers to activities associated with assessing, seeking, and handling information sources” Piroli and Card, 1995

  18. What is sensemaking?

  19. “Sensemaking is about labelling and categorizing to stabilize the streaming of experience” Weicket al. 2005

  20. “a motivated, continuous effort to understand connections . . . in order to anticipate their trajectories and act effectively” Klein et al. 2006

  21. Cynefin Framework Dave Snowden

  22. Domains of Sensemaking

  23. Complicated is not complex.

  24. When an answer and path is known, but requires time and effort, it is complicated.

  25. When an answer is not known, or when agents interact in unpredictable ways, it is complex.

  26. Education system is treating a complex problem as a complicated one. Lessons #1 in Paths to Failure:

  27. Complex unknown problems require: Mind of a scientist Mind of an artist

  28. What is wayfinding?

  29. “the process that takes place when people orient themselves and navigate through space” Raubaland Winter 2002

  30. “is the cognitive element of navigation … it does not involve movement of any kind but only the tactical and strategic parts that guide movement.” Darken and Peterson 2002

  31. The Landing

  32. Finding complex information environments: research spaces 2008, 2009, 2011

  33. The data set Connectivism and Connective Knowledge 2008 (CCK08)

  34. Tools used by learners Roughly anything. http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/643/1402 Fini, 2009

  35. The methods 1. Social network and participation analysis 2. Corbin & Strauss’ (1990) version of grounded theory

  36. SNA & Participation Habits

  37. CCK08 Weekly Forum Posts

  38. CCK08: Introduction forum Limited interaction. Most are isolated

  39. Introduction forum posts: CCK08 Dialogue limited: Group too large?

  40. Week 12 forum posts: CCK08 More equitable distribution? Due to smaller #’s of participants?

  41. Open coding using Cohere http://cohere.open.ac.uk

  42. Axial Coding

  43. Self-organization and sub-networks Sensegiving through artefact creation and sharing Sensemaking/giving through language games Knowledge domain expansion Wayfinding cues, symbols Social organization through creating sharing

  44. Coherence expression(sensegiving) Artifacts Narratives

  45. Participatory sensemaking: “the coordination of intentional activity in interaction, whereby individual sense-making processes are affected and new domains of social sense-making can be generated that were not available to each individual on her own” De Jaegher and Di Paolo 2007

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