Connectivism as a Learning Theory For The Digital Age

Abstract

As digital technologies continue their impact across the social fabric, they are prompting us to
relook at the theoretical foundations of the learning paradigm, to meet the aspirations of the connected
digital age learners. The cognitive learning theories that have served the previous generation are
replaced for greater relevance to the needs of the extant generation. Connectivism views learning
as a network creation process and focusses on how the learning transpires in the 21st century. In
this paper, the notions related to connectivism have been examined to help content designers and
academicians to smoothen learning ecologies and to create engaging learning resources according
to the prevailing archetypes. This study also throws the light on how to haul out outdated
postulates in the learning environment. The books, articles and research papers have been referred
to dive deep into the analysis of modern learning theory that is popularly known as “Connectivism”.