Education for Well-being Education as if people and the planet mattered

The top-down, authoritarian model found in most classrooms today looks very different from the model many students experience when they learn online. The classroom’s hierarchical approach, with the sage on the stage, requires, (and, ultimately demands) passivity and deference on the part of the learner.  Informal, interest-driven networked learning, with its access to large stores [...]

In a previous post, I wrote about institutional reactions to networked learning and posted some diagrams trying to explain my thinking. Here, I’d like to consider the importance of networks as socializing agents for information.
Networked learning is about more than just creating access to the immense quantity of information that resides outside of the the [...]