A Nomad…

1. is an apt metaphor for the learner
2. exists only in becoming and in interaction
3. is intrinsically motivated toward the pursuit of learning
4. is another phase of becoming
5. appropriates the authority of some distant figure who often holds over it
6. thinks of knowledge not as static, but rather as a flexible element to be alchemically interacted with
7. is unconstrained
8. is in constant movement
9. is not as “losing one’s way” but is as “losing the way”
10. is restrained from prefixed and definite articles
11. space is smooth, open-ended
12. mode of distribution is nomos (=arraying oneself in space), not logos
13. moves in amorphous, informal spaces, nonlinear structures
14. finds a viable milieu in the complex and chaotic structure of the web

Remembering Umberto Eco’s A Componential Analysis of the Architectural Sign /Column semiotic analysis through this stunning paper entitled; “Community Tracking in a cMOOC and nomadic learner behavior identification on a connectivist rhizomatic learning network” by : Bozkurt, A., Honeychurch, S., Caines, A., Bali, M., Koutropoulos, Ap., Cormier, D.