Learning in the Network Age

Who is the course for?

This course will be useful to anyone in Higher Education, or who is planning to be. It will also be of value to HE educators wishing to close the gap between the traditional instructional style of university teaching and the more interactive means of communication available today.

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What topics will you cover?

How we learn in the network age (learning theory)

Understanding digital inequalities and digital citizenship in an educational context

What your Personal Learning Network (PLN) looks like and how you use it

Growing your network – making new connections and assessing reliability

Contributing to your network – managing your online identity (single vs multiple)

creating and sharing

Putting your network to work – searching

sending/requesting/posting

collaborating

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…

Explain what it means to learn in the network age (where, when, how and with/from whom we learn as networked individuals in a network society)

Reflect on the impact on education of digital inequalities such as access, openness, ownership and inclusion

Explore digital tools for finding, using and storing information

communicating and collaborating

and creating, presenting and sharing ideas

Investigate your personal learning network and develop network skills in how to grow, manage and activate it more effectively