Ruth Howard's List: higher/further education

• Forms and models of learning have evolved quickly and in fundamentally new directions.
• All these acts are collaborative and democratic, and all occur amid a worldwide community of voices.
• with participatory learning and digital media, these conventional modes of authority break down.
• Today’s learning is interactive and without walls.
  Individuals learn anywhere, anytime, and with greater ease than ever before. Learning today blurs lines of expertise and tears down barriers to admission. While it has never been confined solely to the academy, today’s opportunities for independent learning have never been easier nor more diverse.
• Self-learning: Today’s learners are self-learners.
• They create their own paths to understanding.
• learning to judge reliable information.
• finding reliable sources.
• learning how.
• growing complexities of collaborative and interdisciplinary learning
• fostering and managing levels of trust.
• collective pedagogy
• collective checking, inquisitive skepticism, and group assessment.
• Networked learning
• in contrast, is committed to
• The power of ten working interactively will invariably outstrip the power of one looking to beat out the other nine.
• cooperation, interactivity, mutual benefit, and social engagement
• contrastingly, is an “open source” culture that seeks to share openly and freely in both creating and distributing knowledge and products.
• Networking through file-sharing, data sharing, and seamless, instant communication is now possible.
• Learning never ends. How we know has changed radically.
• new institutions must begin to think of themselves as mobilizing networks.
• mobilize flexibility, interactivity, and outcomes. Issues of consideration in these institutions are ones of reliability and predictability alongside flexibility and innovation.
• Students may work in small groups on a specific topic or together in an open-ended and open-sourced contribution.
• These ten principles, the authors argue, are the first steps in redesigning learning institutions to fit the new digital world.

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