Connecting the Dots: Leveraging Connectivism to Support Competency Based Learning
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Our world has become more connected on a global scale than ever before in human history. This change coincides with the invention and availability of the internet. In its origins, the internet was a network for sharing data and software among scientists. As a result of the development of more user-friendly technology over the past few decades many people now have this same capacity to distribute their own ideas and works throughout the world-wide-web. Connectivism is a thesis that knowledge is distributed across a network of connections through the use of technology. Thus learning consists of the ability to construct and transverse through these networks of connections. This theory has been developed and explored by Dr. George Siemens and his associate Stephen Downes. According to Siemens, learning should not be based solely on what we know but also on our ability to share that knowledge with others. Knowledge, in all its forms, emerges from our interactions with our connections.
