Students, self-learners, teachers, and anyone who wants to experience the new emergent learning are invited to click into the learnodes and explore! Add Learnodes.com to your RSS reader to see new postings.
Learnodes.com lets you enter the open online knowledge network through superior 
subject nodes:
The Internet has given us a new way to learn: by entering at a single node into the vast virtual network of knowledge that did not exist in the 20th century.
As we learn in this new way of the network era, we move to more nodes of related material through links from the entry node. As we understand the content of the nodes we are relating to each other comprehension emerges and we grasp ideas.
Pre-Internet education relied on hierarchies like a curriculum at a grade level, structures into which nodes were embedded allowing only the order of the imposed hierarchy to be possible among the nodes. In the static knowledge of print, education could not readily build ideas up from nodes and/or connect them in their cognitive patterns. The excitement of emergent learning was absent because the natural networking of ideas is not possible in a static hierarchy.
Nodes of what is to be learned must connect for emergent learning to occur. That is why education resources closed off by having to be paid for and/or locked behind ivy walls will soon wither. The new learning of the 21st century is connective and emergent. Educational resources that are not open to participate in these processes do not participate in the openness of the global knowledge commons.
Learnodes.com provides a stream of nodes in blog post format which present small clusters of nodes from an online cognitive network. Because these nodes are interactive and open online, they remain connected to the bigger ideas of which they are a part as you click into them from a learnode post. Thus, a learnode becomes and pinpointed portal into the global knowledge commons.
Learnodes cannot possibly provide entry points for every topic out there online to learn. The purpose of this project is to post examples and opportunities for practice. Each blog post provides related links for a subject that are points of entry for that subject into the cognitive networks to which it relates.
Learnodes.com contentmaster: Judy Breck
