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MENTAL MODEL · M0242

Connectivism

Connectivism
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-28

CORE DEFINITION

Connectivism is a theoretical framework for understanding learning in a digital age. It emphasizes how internet technologies such as web browsers, search engines, wikis, online discussion forums, and social networks contributed to new avenues of learning. Technologies have enabled people to learn and share information across the World Wide Web and among themselves in ways that were not possible be

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Connectivism is a theoretical framework for understanding learning in a digital age. It emphasizes how internet technologies such as web browsers, search engines, wikis, online discussion forums, and

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In an era of knowledge explosion and rapid obsolescence, individual memory capacity is limited and prone to becoming outdated. Learning is redefined as the ability to establish and maintain connections among nodes (people, documents, databases); knowledge is distributed in external networks, and individuals access it through pipelines rather than storing it.

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