Designed to allow for Emergence: A Learning Rhizome

Alexios Brailas

“Systems Theory, Psychology, and Social Media” is an Erasmus course offered by the Department of Psychology at Panteion University, Athens, Greece. In this course, Erasmus students co-create a unique and wonderful multi-cultural mosaic, ‘the difference that makes the difference.’ In addition to lecturing, participants are engaged in intensive group work during the weekly face-to-face meetings. Between the face-to-face meetings, participants create blog reflections, narratives, and multimodal artifacts about their in-class lived experience regarding the impact social technologies and artificial intelligence have on living systems. Backed up by the technological infrastructure, a network of interconnected personal blogs, students develop a reflective group ecology of practice. The whole project is informed by complex systems’ epistemology. This virtual research exposition demonstrates the overall process in a non-linear and multimodal way. Implications for rhizomatic learning theory and education are discussed.

I would like to express my deep gratitude to all students enrolled in the "Systems Theory, Psychology & Social Media" course.

Without your presence, participation, and active engagement, this project would not have been possible.

You co-created a wonderful colorful whole.

Thank you!

Image from Agrafa, Greece. By Alexios Brailas (own work)

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