The Ethics of Connection: CAMELS and caveats or the pros and cons of digital connectivity for teaching and learning.

Pamela RyanUniversity of South Africa

Bricolage – the creation of something from a diverse range of available things/objects/artefacts

Connectedness as a way of thinking

Yoking Ideas

The most extraordinary – and the most powerfully Romantic – image of our lifetimes is the unforgettable portrait of our planet from space.

The earth beneath our feet, cast as our property, taken for granted, riven into myriad disconnected systems, was suddenly glimpsed as something beyond us – a single place, fertile, vulnerable, terribly alone.

Richard Mabey

From disconnection…

…to sharing

the ease whereby students can purchase assignments or even dissertations has caused consternation amongst the academic fraternity

New Literacies

Disconnect between teachers and students

connections take place along cross border-zones and on a global scale, in effect reducing the physical distance between connected individuals.

What is meant by networked learning?

1. Neural, with knowledge distributed across numerous sections of the brain;

2. Conceptual, where students must acquire an understanding of the conceptual connections within any domain of knowledge; and

3. External, those relationships and connections we forge in social networks and web technologies.

Siemens and Tittenberger (2009)

Connected teaching

The CAMEL Project:Collaborative Approaches to the Management of E-Learning

MOOCS

Collaborative pedagogyLearning catalytics

… people who seek to ringfence, protect and hide their educational content and research will most likely place limits on their academic careers. They will also increasingly be excluded from opportunities to improve their teaching practice and domain-specific knowledge by sharing and collaborating with growing networks of academics around the world (Butcher 2011).

Openness and social justice