摘要:As social technologies continue to expand in influence,they are reshaping not only the learners’ needs,but also the theories and principles of learning processes design: learning models that have served previous generations are replaced for greater relevance to present’s needs.Connectivism views learning as a network creation process,and look at how we might provide'learning ecologies'to meet the learners’ needs.The main connectivist concepts and principles will be further discuss in this paper,allowing us to examine the extent they can instruct designers to create and foster effective learning ecologies.