Tag Archives: emergent-learning

Credit Where Due

Posted on July 23, 2004 by Michael Feldstein

I should have pointed out in my last post that Stephen Downes has already made the point that the term “emergence” is being misused in the context of “emergent learning.”

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"Emergent Learning" Is an Oxymoron

Posted on July 22, 2004 by Michael Feldstein

In the introduction to Steven Johnson’s oft-referenced but seldom understood book Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, he describes emergent systems as follows: In the simplest terms, they solve problems by drawing on masses of relatively … Continue reading →

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The Problem with "Emergent Learning:" Informational Cascades

Posted on July 20, 2004 by Michael Feldstein

I just submitted an article to eLearn Magazine that starts to get at one of the reasons why I am skeptical about emergent learning as a panacea. I’m not going to give away too many of the surprises here (unless … Continue reading →

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