Rhizomatic learning

Rhizomatic learning is a variety of pedagogical practices informed by the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.

[4] In such a structure, "the community is the curriculum", subverting traditional notions of instructional design where objectives pre-exist student involvement.

The rhizome’s renewal of itself proceeds autopoietically: the new relations generated via rhizomatic connections are not copies, but each and every time a new map, a cartography.

"[7][10] Dewey himself remarked early in his career on the contrast between the organic and non-hierarchical nature of learning outside and inside the classroom.

[15] George Siemens, one of the inventors of massive open online courses, has questioned the usefulness of the rhizomatic metaphor when compared to traditional network analysis:I don’t see rhizomes as possessing a similar capacity (to networks) to generate insight into learning, innovation, and complexity ... Rhizomes then, are effective for describing the structure and form of knowledge and learning ... [h]owever, beyond the value of describing the form of curriculum as decentralized, adaptive, and organic, I'm unsure what rhizomes contribute to knowledge and learning.