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This paper presents an overview of connectivism, offering a connectivist account of learning and a detailed analysis of how learning occurs in networks. It then offers readers an interpretation of connectivism, that is, a set of mechanisms for talking about and implementing connectivism in learning networks, and finally, pedagogy.  \nKeywords: connectivism, education, learning, networks, pedagogy  \nHighlights  \nWhat is already known about this topic:  \n• Connectivism attributed to be a learning theory for a digital age  \n• Connectivism argues that learning occurs throughout human and non-human networks What this paper contributes:  \n• This paper provides an overview and an interpretation of the Connectivism  \n• This paper contributes to our understanding on how learning occurs on networks. Implications for theory, practice and/or policy:  \n• Connectivism focuses on learners’’ capacity to live, work, and thrive within a wider interconnected community.  \n• Knowledge is the network that is grown and developed from interactions with other entities in the network and in the world generally. Hence the objective of teaching is to stimulate such interactions, which is achieved by modeling and demonstrating the relevant sort of activity.  \nIntroduction  \nConnectivism is sometimes depicted, as it was by George Siemens (2004) as “a learning theory for a digital age”. And though the rise of digital technology was influential in the formation of connectivism, the theory is not a response to digitization, but rather, a way to use the insights derived from digitization to address long-standing issues in the fields of learning and development.  \nIn this field, students and practitioners are typically presented with a set of ‘learning theories’ including, variously, theories based on behaviour, methods of instruction, transactional distance and interaction, construction of knowledge and meaning, activity theory, motivational theory, and more. Often these theories are presented as tools or ‘lenses’ through which the phenomena being studied may be interpreted.  \nBut throughout there’s no concurrence on what constitutes knowledge and learning beyond a few superficial taxonomies or characterizations, much less a common account of what constitutes  \n‘successful’ learning. Meanwhile, there is widespread dissatisfaction with teaching programs, testing programs, and education in general. Despite this, people learn; they learn a lot, and this phenomenon remains fundamentally unexplained.  \nThe digital age has revealed the artificiality of traditional theories of instruction. As Watters (2021) documents, despite pretensions of personalized learning and meaningful education, the best even the most advanced educational technology can produce is little better than a mechanized, impersonal, standardized process: teaching machines based on Skinner boxes and behaviourism. Connectivism is offered as a response, not to digitalization, but to the paucity of contemporary theory in education, and offers, not black boxes and metaphors, but an account of knowledge and learning based on the most current understanding of natural and artificial intelligence possible.  \nIn this regard, connectivism does not offer itself as an alternative ‘learning theory’ or ‘lens’ with which to interpret phenomena in the process of doing the same sort of instructional activities teachers and researchers have always done. It instead offers an empirical basis for an understanding of teaching and learning, redefining how we think of knowledge, how learning occurs, what we are trying to do when we learn, and how learning is delivered and assessed.  \nWhat is connectivism?  \nWhat","cbCaiirZuZuXROwm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiirZuZuXROwm","pdf",769450,"English","# Abstract\n# Highlights\n## What is already known about this topic\n## What this paper contributes\n## Implications for theory, practice and/or policy\n# Introduction\n# What is connectivism?\n# What is learning?\n# A connectivist account of learning","[{\"question\":\"What is connectivism’s core thesis about knowledge and learning?\",\"answer\":\"Connectivism argues that knowledge consists of connections between entities, and learning is the growth and strengthening (or modification) of those connections, so changes in one entity can affect others.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper describe learning in relation to networks?\",\"answer\":\"Learning is described as the ability to construct and traverse networks of connections, treated as a literal account rather than a metaphor.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the paper criticize traditional learning theories in the digital age?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that many traditional approaches do not adequately explain what happens during learning, and that contemporary educational technologies can become mechanized and impersonal rather than offering a sufficient account of knowledge and learning.\"}]","Connectivism - Overview and Analysis of Learning in Networks - Abstract | PDF",1792076600,76]