Slide 2: Top 10 future jobs for Honda's Asimo robot
8. Teacher
Wi-Fi connection into Wikipedia would ensure he'd never be caught out
A by cheeky questions about obscure historical figures, while
speak seven or eight different languages
he could be easily reconfigured to
http://techdigest.tv/2007/03/top_10_future_j.html
Slide 3: A story about communication
Slide 5: Integrating social software in an online e-learning course for teachers
Maarten Cannaerts
De Nayer institute (W&K) - Belgium
Tom Wambeke
Katho Tielt - Open Higher Education - Belgium
Steven Verjans
Open University of The Netherlands
Slide 6: www.touchgraph.com
Slide 10: An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
Slide 11: ELISE project 2002-2005
• E-Learning for In-Service teacher training in Europe • EU-funded Minerva project ended Sept 2005 • Purpose
– Develop e-learning methodology for In-Service training – Provide on-line course on e-didactics EliseLeren course – E-module sciences, languages, history
Slide 12: Course EliseLeren
• • • • • Successful product of Minerva project 240 participants since start in 2004 Continued after end of European financing Self-organising Self-supporting (more or less)
Slide 13: # of participants - # of groups
70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Spring Fall Spring Fall Spring Fall Spring Fall 2004 2004 2005 2005 2006 2006 2007 2007
Slide 14: Course Concept
• • • • • • Who: What: Where: How: How much: Didactics: • • • • • • Teachers in higher & adult education 8 weeks of training about e-didactics Online & two/three f2f meetings Strict timing – Small groups 3 to 10 study hours / week Group learning & learning by doing
Slide 15: Course content
• • • • • • • • Introduction Module 2: Instructional Design Module 3: e-Assignments Module 4: e-Communication Module 5: e-Feedback and Evaluation Module 6: e-Portfolio Module 7: Learning Networks Module 8: Learning Platforms (technology)
Slide 16: WHO?
• • • • Started with project team Participants were invited to become e-coach Alumni invite colleagues to participate Group of e-coaches / content developers keeps growing • Community-of-practice is coming into being
Slide 17: … Im po rta nce of
Content
Elise
Coach
Group
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Slide 20: Learning is a social process… why do our VLE’s not reflect this?
Slide 21: Introduction Instructional design Tasks Communication Feedback/Evaluation E-portfolio Networks Digital Learning Environments
Forum + IM Forum + IM + wiki Forum + IM Videoconferencing / Flashmeeting Wiki / Groupwork / IM E-portfolio + Forum Assignment Forum + online assessment + reflection Elise-network Optional
Slide 22: Three strategic axes
• Information • Communication • Evaluation
Slide 23: Information
• Content (Drupal): aggregated in Blackboard or Dokeos • Online resources (social bookmarking: Furl) • presentations: (Slideshare) • More audiovisual input (Flashvlog) • External aggregation of educational blogs
Slide 24: Asynchronous Communication
• Discussionboards (Blackboard, Dokeos) and in general on Drupal • Public Email and Private Messages • Assignments (cf. Wiki/ GoogleDocs) • Weblogs (e-portfolio) • Future = (podcasting, screencasting ?)
Slide 27: Synchronous Communication
• Chat (Instant Messaging): Msn Messenger • Videoconferencing (Flashmeeting) • Audioconferencing (Skype)
Slide 30: Evaluation
• Online questionnaire • Online evaluation and feedback on wiki • Quantitative and qualitative? analysis of feedback on discussionboards
Slide 31: • • • • •
It’s not about the content Online socialization is really important Information exchange within the network Learning by practical experiences Learning as a process, as a network phenomenon, (learning is the network) • Multiple views, multiple technologies • Open network, bottom up, own identity
Slide 33: A funny thing happened…
• • • • • “How do I make a blog?” “How do I use wiki technology?” “How do I make an inventory of found links?” “How do I share my links?” “How do I keep in touch with the ELISE network?”
Slide 34: A funny thing happened…
• -> FURL, Del.icio.us, Netvibes, slideshare,… • HOW TO AGGREGATE?
Slide 36: Towards a PLE to support the CoP?
• (sorry for the Acronyms (AAAAA)) • Advantages:
– Personal! – Learning!
Slide 37: Towards a PLE?
• Problems?
– Chaos and Anarchy! (“learning is messy”) – Central point of contact? – ‘Aggregating is difficult’
• Use netvibes template?
Slide 39: Do we need more or less individual just in time learning?
Slide 40: Do we need more or less technology?
Slide 41: Positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright
Slide 42: www.slideshare.net/sverjans www.slideshare.net/maartencannaerts www.slideshare.net/barcus del.icio.us/tomwambeke del.icio.us/sverjans www.furl.net/members/maartencannaerts www.edublogs.be www.eliseleren.be
