As the web moves from pages to streams, I’ve been trying to better understand how to experience this shift from a learning perspective.  What’s my mental model or framework for making sense of my online learning experience as things change so fast?

Streaming is a concept that helps me understand this shift. Lifestreaming is a type of streaming that I’ve been reading more about since Steve Rubel discussed his move from blogging to lifetreaming.  I like the concept and am interested in exploring this more from a learning perspective.  I lifestream learning more than any topic (e.g., what am I learning, who am I learning from, what I plan to learn) and could use this as a model for sharing learning experiences online.  Why not have a lifestream that is learning based (i.e., learnstreaming)?  There are already many types of streams (e.g., brandstreaming, socialstreaming, eventstreaming) and think there will be more to come.

I searched learnstreaming to learn more about this but did not find much.  I found a presentation from O Casquero where he describes learnstreaming as used in an academic environment:  

“Learn-streaming simply means publishing and sharing daily learning activities that constitute life-long learning. It allows students to keep track of what they have done on-line. Institutions can benefit from it as learn-streaming allows to look up the individual activity of the students for curriculum purposes. The aggregation of the learn-streaming of every student allows the teacher to get a detailed picture of the progress achieved by him or her in a particular course or subject.”  

I’m thinking about this differently than how it’s described above.  It can be expanded to include other aspects (social learning, time, many-to-many) of learning and the web.

Learnstreaming – publishing your learning activities online for the benefit of you and others.  This is a simple definition that I’ll expand on as I experiment over time.    

The visual above is how I’m thinking about learnstreaming right now. I’ve used some of the ideas from both Harold Jarche and Lee Lefever from their stocks and flows posts.  Over time, I’ll adjust and share what I’m learning about the other components of learnstreaming (e.g., processes, tools, supporting theories).

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