The Granularization of Learning - George Siemens (Athabasca University), Keynote Speaker @Social Business Forum 2013 www.socialbusinessforum.com

1. Granularization of Learning
George Siemens, PhD
June 4, 2013

2. August 5, 1949

3. April 14, 1994

4. Modern knowledge need: connections
between agents and information
Different approaches to meeting those
knowledge needs
Approaches blend socio-technical
sensemaking approaches
Technologies for this context need to be
developed

5. Expanding knowledge needs
requires expanding learning
opportunities

6. Adaptivity & sensitivity to important
change factors are critical

7. Philadelphia Inquirer Newsroom, 2009

8. Philadelphia Inquirer Newsroom, 2012

10. McKinsey Quarterly, 2012

11. The last decade, two defining
trends:
1. Participatory culture and social/technical
connectivity (Rise of the Individual)
2. Transparency and surveillance culture
(Rise of Data and Analytics)

12. When we create, it can be
analyzed and
new patterns can be discovered
(understood, evaluated, interrogated)

13. SNAPP

14. Prism (downside of social media)
“now I can pull your entire life together from
all those domains [banking, social media,
emails] and map it out and show your entire
life over time “

16. American intelligence communities
are interested in your YouTube
video, flickr uploads, tweets --
even your online book purchases --
and for over a year they've been
laying down some serious cash to
get a better look at all of them.

17. Tempus vs. Hora

18. Reducing the basic units of
education:
From courses/workshops/modules
to competencies

19. Information
fragmentation…l
oss of narratives
of coherence

20. The problem:
Once we’ve fragmented content
and conversation,
we need to stitch them together
again so we can act meaningfully

21. Agents in a system possess only partial
information
(Miller and Page 2007)
…to make sense and act meaningfully
requires connections to be formed between
agents

22. Networked information
doesn’t have a center

23. So we (socially) create temporary
centers:
Shared sensemaking

24. So we (technologically) create
temporary centers:
content and conversation
aggregation

25. Stitching things together:
Sensemaking and wayfinding through
complex information flows and trends to
extract what is important and relevant

27. Smaller, contextual learning
experiences,
introduced into work processes and
networks
through social and analytic
approaches.

28. Integrated social learning/knowledge competency development and tracking

31. Twitter/Gmail:
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