Connected Learning

I often carry on about New Media and the changing landscape of media, but what about learning, is the landscape changing here also?

A recent book titled New Learning – Elements of a Science of Education offers some interesting viewpoints:

Education in all its aspects is in a moment of change, or transition. The idea of ‘New Learning’ contrasts what education has been like in the past with the changes we are experiencing today, and an imaginative view of the possible features of learning environments in the near future. What will learning be like, and what will teachers’ jobs be like?In order to build a view of what’s happening in education today, we need a broader view of learning – of what people need to know and do in the contemporary world outside the walls of formal educational institutions.

Here are eight dimensions of learning today that may prompt us to formulate a theory and practice of New Learning.

Mary Kalantzis
Bill Cope

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign