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Educational Cybernetics

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Educational Cybernetics is concerned with improving both formal educational ventures and learning conversations.

It is based
on Cybernetics - the science of communication and control
- but is often influenced by the more general System Sciences including the thoeries surrounding embedded systems (ecological)
modeling.

It is normally approached through the form of "action research" and should be considered as part of the sphere of Second Order Cybernetics as studying education systems is of course the studying of people systems and the process of studying systems we
are in  causes the systems and us  to change.

Web Resources

The challenges of enhancing the student experience in the 21st century
UNESCO:
Third Educational Conference; Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 2 March 2004

"...One of the powerful ideas that I picked up in that educational technology programme is relevant today. I refer to the principle of requisite variety, which I discovered in a course on Educational Cybernetics. The principle of requisite variety states simply that for a system to survive in a complex and changing environment it must have a variety of responses that at least matches the variety of changes to which it will be subject...."
Educational Cybernetics at Concordia University
Educational Cybernetics is a way of understanding and improving educational ventures and learning conversations.

It is based on Cybernetics - the science of communication and control - and on the theory of embedded system (ecological) modeling, and is a form of "action research". Studying people systems causes the systems to change.

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