Networked learning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Networked learning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "In 2005, George Siemens published a paper in the International Journal for Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, called Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age[11] in which he argued the need for a new learning theory, one that captured the essence and represented the process of networked knowledge creation and learning. In 2011, the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning published the first peer reviewed collection of scholarly articles on Connectivism. This special issue was edited by George Siemens (Athabasca Unievrsity and Grainne Conole (Open University, UK).
Since 1998, a biannual Networked Learning Conference has been organized, devoted to research on networked learning. The first five conferences were held in the United Kingdom, and the last three have conference websites that are still accessible (third in 2002, fourth in 2004, and the fifth in 2006. The sixth conference took place in Greece and the seventh in Denmarkin 2010. The 2012 conference will be held in Maastricht, The Netherlands. The conference proceedings from all the conferences from the third in 2002 are available via the conference web site.
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