The Covid-19 pandemic has brought physical
distance among people and forced every aspect of life to
change including education. The educators all around the
world who had already been trying to adapt the
digitalization to be compatible with the demands and
needs of today’s learners that are also called the digital
natives found themselves in an entirely new world order
for education as no face-to-face classes were freely
available. As previous learning theories were developed
for the education that takes place face to face in schools
and there hadn’t been a reason to transform education
into a completely distance way, at least up to higher
education, educators might feel faltered trying to follow
principles of behaviorism, cognitivism and constructivism.
Connectivism which aims to explain the learning that
takes place within the digital environment by learners’
forming networks with other learners and even digital
sources such as Wikis, blogs, data clouds etc. is a new
theory for the 21st century education that is covered by
the technology. This paper tries to summarize the theory
in order to provide a guidebook for the teachers having
confusion caused by unexpected and quick
transformation after pandemic started to drive
educational applications.
Keywords : Connectivism, Distance Education, Distance Learning, Digitalization In Education, Connective Learning