Karlskrona 2008, Eurovision song contest, Swedish selection. The host Kristian Luuk says that “repetition is the foundation of all learning” - or something close to that in Swedish. At first, I thought… Ok, perhaps for artists, but then I thought again… Isn’t all learning about contextualisation… Even if repetition is necessary, it’s somehow the enemy of learning. Repetition is the foundation of repetitive utterances, but how is that connected to learning…? For me, contextualisation is almost equivalent with learning - and repetition is the equivalent to …. Unlearning…
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Wikiversity is a a “wiki website where you are invited to explore your learning goals and participate in active learning projects. Everyone is welcome to help create and develop learning resources.”
Are collaborative learning communities the future of learning? I checked out Wikiversity, which is quite interesting but feels more cold than hot to me. I fear that traditional structures is transferred into these new possibilities, which probably leads to nothing, because 2.0-minded people are not prepared to invest in old structures. Learning 2.0 is more about non-hierarchical, long-tailish processes than moving the traditional learning structures into a transparent layer of collaboration. Wikiversity is a good effort but it might take some time for it to mature into something really interesting.
Of course, this discussion calls for some kind of action. I should probably join the one of the teams at Wikiversity or create my own, instead of whining about it (well, i’m not really whining… or am I…?). Change needs action.
By the way, as an example of what I am wining about, you could check out the School of Sociology at Wikiversity.
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