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- Brenda Loyola Panduro
- Liz Alda Garcia Cabudivo
- Leticia Isabel Perez Vela

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Our ability to learn what we need for tomorrow is more important than what we know today. A real challenge for any learning theory is to actuate known knowledge at the point of application. When knowledge, however, is needed, but not known, the ability to plug into sources to meet the requirements becomes a vital skill. As knowledge continues to grow and evolve, access to what is needed is more important than what the learner currently possesses.

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Siemens noted that connectivism as a theory is driven by the dynamic of information flow.
Students need to understand, and be provided with, experiences in navigating and recognizing
oceans of constantly shifting and evolving information. Siemens proposed eight principles of
connectivism:

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Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions.

Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources.

Learning may reside in non-human appliances.

Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known

Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning.

Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill.

Currency is the intent of all connectivist learning activities.

Decision-making is itself a learning process. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.

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Connectivism presents a model of learning that acknowledges the tectonic shifts in society where learning is no longer an internal, individualistic activity. How people work and function is altered when new tools are utilized.

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Learning (defined as actionable knowledge) can reside outside of ourselves (within an organization or a database), is focused on connecting specialized information sets, and the connections that enable us to learn more are more important than our current state of knowing.

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The starting point of connectivism is the individual. This cycle of knowledge development (personal to network to organization) allows learners to remain current in their field through the connections they have formed.

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Connectivism is the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organization theories.

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George Siemens is a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Arlington.He is known for his theory of connectivism, which seeks to understand learning in the digital age. Also is one of the early MOOC pioneers.