Keynote ENTELIS Seminar Dublin 2015

1. “DISTANCE EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF
MOBILITY, DIGITALIZATION AND TECHNOLOGY:”
Potential and Barriers to bridge the digital divide
Sabine Siemsen

2. LITERATURE
From the slides
Bateson, G. (1972). Steps to an ecology of mind;: Collected essays in anthropology, psychiatry, evolution, and epistemology. San
Francisco: Chandler Pub. Co.
de Witt, C./Psyk, P./Siemsen, S. (2012): Mobiles Wissensmanagement. In: Jahrbuch ELearning 2013
Siemsen, Sabine (2015, in Druck): Learning, Knowledge and Competence in Global Online-Universities: How Terminology shapes
Thinking. In: Communications in Computer and Information Science Vol. 533. pp 28-42. Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
Siemsen, Sabine (2015, in Druck): Knowledge-Management by Social Writing; The Launch and Establishment of an Online-Writing Lab
Using the Example of Citavi-OnlineTutorials at the Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences of the FernUniversität in Hagen. In:
Communications in Computer and Information Science Vol. 533. pp 134-147. Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
Siemsen, Sabine / Jansen, Rainer (2014): Connectivism and Interactionism Reloaded: Knowledge Networks in the Cloud. In: Learning
Technology for Education in the Cloud. MOOC and Big Data. Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Siemens, G. (2007). Connectivism: Learning conceptualized through the lens of today’s world. Retrieved from
http://www.elearnspace.org/presentations/connectivism_online_OCC2007.ppt
Siemens, G. (2009). Technologically Externalized Knowledge and Learning. Retrieved from http://www.connectivism.ca/?p=181
Tschofen, C., & Mackness, J. (2013). Connectivism and Dimensions of Individual Experience. In R. Paolucci (Ed.), Learning With
MOOCs: Massive Open Online Courses (pp. 101–120). East Norriton Pennsylvania: Interlearning Company LLC.
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3. LITERATURE
Recommendation in the themes context:
Bateson, N. (2010). An Ecology of Mind: A Daughter's Portrait of Gregory Bateson. Remember the Future [DVD]: Carl-Auer Verlag, DGSF, mindjazz, Alive.
Bowers, C. A., Jucker, R., Ishizawa Oba, J., & Rengifo, G. (2011). Perspectives on the ideas of Gregory Bateson, ecological intelligence, and educational
reforms. Eugene, OR: Eco-Justice Press.
Bull, B. Why do we have letter grades? Retrieved from http://etale.org/main/2012/12/02/why-do-we-have-letter-grades/
Bull, B. (2013). Is the Letter Grade System an Outdated Educational Technology? Retrieved from http://etale.org/main/2013/07/15/is-the-letter-grade-system-
an-outdated-educational-technology/
Downes, S. (2012). Connectivism and Connective Knowledge. Retrieved from http://www.downes.ca/files/books/Connective_Knowledge-19May2012.pdf
Downes, S. (2013). Half an Hour: Connectivism and the Primal Scream. Retrieved from http://halfanhour.blogspot.de/2013/07/connectvism-and-primal-
scream.html
Ehlers, U.-D. (2013). Open Learning Cultures. Berlin: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG.
Marc, E., Picard, D., & Holl, H. G. (1991). Bateson, Watzlawick und die Schule von Palo Alto. Athenäums Programm. Frankfurt am Main: Hain.
Ministry of Education. The New Zealand Curriculum: Key competencies. Retrieved from http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/The-New-Zealand-Curriculum/Key-
competencies
Morris, S. M. & Stommel, J. (2012). A MOOC is not a Thing: Emergence, Disruption, and Higher Education. Retrieved from
http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/a-mooc-is-not-a-thing-emergence-disruption-and-higher-education/
Peschl, M. F. (2010). Knowledge constructin and knowledge creation as key factors in educational an innovation processes. In H. Risku (Ed.), Kognition und
Technologie im kooperativen Lernen. Vom Wissenstransfer zur Knowledge Creation (1st ed., pp. 16–31). Göttingen: V & R Unipress, Vienna Univ. Press.
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