CCK08 Concept map of week 4 from the point of view of ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

My interest in participating the Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course CCK08 is to learn to utilize connectivism in practice in organizational development, entrepreneurial training and innovation management. With reflection to this I’ve highlighted the content of my concept map published in my prevoius blog post (Oct. 01) from the point of view of how I proceed in an innovative organization – business, service or production:

The iterative process according to which I’ve practiced to proceed whatever is or will become necessary to be accomplished in organizations where I act, is hishlighted with an orange shadow. What I consider a key issue is that the phase of “making real development models and theories used in organizations where I act” is the phase number fourteen in this process of personal development. Before becoming a motivated and productive member of an organization making real and bringing into action the next phase “making real targets ans sustainable development” – there are thirteen previous phases which need to be taken into account, re-reflected and choices made accordingly.

The process phases hihglighted with an orange shadow illustrate my way of acting as a mentor, tutor and learner i.e. sharing my own learning process. The cornerstones of this process lean on my personal social, cultural and intellectual heritage. My co-learner Tom tweeted early this morning (late evening his time): “We are not natives or immigrants, true network learners go with the flow, find the info and move on, like traditional nomads…” This link shows Tom’s blog post on digital nomadism.

From my personal point of view – connectivism would be useless for me without previously having acquired and taken into action the conscious process of self-development, which also is called life-long and life-wide learning. As strongly – the process based on my social, cultural and intellectual heritage is not valid any more as such. I need the ways of action and tools provided by acquiring connective knowledge not only to survive but also to learn to become and act as a participating and empowering inhabitant of the global network of the virtual and social camps established by other digital nomads.

When comparing us digital nomads with the traditional nomads – the most significant difference is us completely lacking the tradition. We – like the traditional nomads – cannot reason our choises according to the way everything has been for generation after generation. I see the most important meaning and function of the development of connectivism and connective knowledge – eg. by participating CCK08 – to be that we are collaboratively creating and testing the still non-existing tradition of how to manage learning through the digital age – to at present and towards 2050 share the knowledge we aquire with our new fellow inhabitants entering our global digital camps.