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Workshop “Leading Networks: Facilitation,Knowledge and Learning”
On the Learning Networksand Learning within Networks Initiative
conducted by the Omar Dengo Foundation
GK3 Parallel EventKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
December 9-10, 2007
Melania Brenes Eduardo MongeOmar Dengo FoundationCosta Rica
Outline
Omar Dengo FoundationLearning Networks and Learning within
Network Environments (RaaR)RaaR`s Event / Nov. 2007What`s next?
Omar Dengo FoundationEducation, Technology and Development
A private, non-profit organization based in Costa Rica
Has led the introduction of digital technologies in the country as resources to foster learning, thinking and creativity and to create development opportunities and social mobility Educational informatics in public schools Research and development projects in Costa
Rica and the LAC region
ODF`s Area of Cognition, Creativity and Digital MediaODF`s Area of Cognition, Creativity and Digital Media
On-lineLearning
On-lineLearning Cognition
CognitionCre
ativ
ity
Creat
ivity
Digita
l Med
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Digita
l Med
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Pro
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es a
nd L
earn
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expe
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Lear
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Env
iron
men
ts
Mobile
Devices
Mobile
DevicesLearning Networks
Learning Networks
Robotics and Learning by
design
Robotics and Learning by
design
ProgrammingProgramming
Thinking and Visible Learning
Thinking and Visible Learning
Thinking Development
Nature of Learning
Models, methodologies,
proposals and tools
Why Learning Networks and Learning within Network Environments (RaaR)?“Redes de Aprendizaje y Aprendizaje en Red” (RaaR)
What are people learning in networks andWhat are people learning in networks and
how are they learning in networks?how are they learning in networks?
It is a dispersed topic that has not been deeply studied
There is still not enough information to answer these questions
Research QuestionsWhat is a network and what isn`t ?How is learning produced in a network?Which and what kind of learning is
constructed in networks?What are the conditions and characteristics
of efective learning networks?What is the impact of learning networks in
current society?
International Forum on Learning Networks and Learning within
Network Environments
San Jose, Costa Rica
November 1-2, 2007
Web site: www.fod.ac.cr/raar
Our GoalsOpening an international discussion around
what people are learning and how people learn in networks
Generation of collaboration/partnership routes and specific group-work among networks
Dissemination and publication of results and active knowledge-sharing efforts
Networks 48 participants24 networksCentral and South
America12 GKP members13 non-GKP members
Health Agriculture
Education
RaaR
Ecology
Tourism
SocialDevelopment
Discussion & SharingPriority to the spaces for discussing andsharing learning experiences between
participants
Keynote addresses and panels
Focus groups
Exchange sessions among networks (One to One sessions)
John Connell*…a unique symposiun“The Forum on Learning Networks, … is a small-scale
symposium…the discourse being generated by this intense “learn-in” is deep and broad and engrossing in a way that I have not heard before in a single event.”
*RaaR`s keynote Speaker, Education Business Development Manager, Emerging Markets, Cisco Systems http://www.johnconnell.co.uk/blog/?p=562
“Everyone here is well aware of the criticality of the technology base for network learning, but equally no one
is really talking about technology, other than in the context of the abiding need across this region to extend
access to a greater and greater proportion of their countries’ populations.”
“Everyone here is well aware of the criticality of the technology base for network learning, but equally no one
is really talking about technology, other than in the context of the abiding need across this region to extend
access to a greater and greater proportion of their countries’ populations.”
Topics and discussionsFIRST SESION. Learning in Networks: The role of learning and technology in
individual andsocial productivity in today`s society
Presentation 1
Learning in Network Environments:The Role of Learning &Technology with Individual and Social Productivity
Panel 1 What is the nature of the learning being produced in networks?
Red ALFORJA, Costa Rica: Networked work : weaving complexities and strengths
Instituto de Medicina Topical, Alexander Von Humbolt: Health and Youth
Argentinean Association of Regional Agricultural Experimentation Centers (AACREA): What is the nature of the learning that is produced in networks? Examples from practice.
Second SessionLearning Networks: The power of Collaboration, the Learning
Distribution and social interaction
Presentation 2The Power of Learning in a Networked World
Panel 2Learning to collaborate & collaboration in networks: lessons from
the practice.
Fundación Chasquinet, Ecuador,: Above all, networks are human.
Rural Youth Networks, Costa Rica.
Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL): Latin-American Network of Educational Technology.
1. Above all: “social networks”
2. Digital technologies invigorate and expand the possibilities of communication and exchange in networks
3. There are different kinds of networks and diverse kinds of learning
4. Links/Connections are made of common interests and objectives
5. A network is an “organic” entity.
6. The development of networks is based on people values.
Main Ideas
7. In some networks, it is possible to describe how learning is taking place only if conditions were previously designed for this purpose.
8. It is possible and necessary to analyze learning in networks but also learning about the network itself.
9. In a network, conditions for inclusion have to be intentionally incorporated from the beginning.
10. Networks need to identify which structures favor sustainability and promotion through practice.
11. The sense of participation in networks is developed by the idea that “others know something that they can teach me, and I know something that others can learn from me”.
Main Ideas
What`s next?• Actions
– Continue discussion at an online forum at: www.fod.ac.cr/raar
– Complete the networks` inventory – Publish a document of lessons learned and research
findings– Holding a 2nd International Forum in 2008
• Forum`s participants indicated interest in participating in events related to networks and :– Governability– Sustainability– Finances– Development– Connectivity– Mediation – Intellectual property– Research– Assessment and self-evaluation