ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the network imperative that is restructuring the world’s information, corporations, and knowledge formation. High-speed information and data networks have enabled the decentralization of information. Meanwhile, always-on technology and social networks have promoted an age of full transparency leading to decentralized power and the opportunity for leaderless systems. Businesses have embraced more flexible organizational structures manifesting the characteristics of organic systems with network structures replacing hierarchical command and control approaches. Human learning has become a network-forming process, resulting in new ways of connected learning and teaching.
