Slide 1: Trends and Impacts of
E-Learning 2.0
Stephen Downes ICOE 2007 Taipei, Taiwan 13 June 2007
Slide 2: Institutions and Individuals
So far, the story of open content has been told by institutions… But there is another story to be told
Slide 3: Another Timeline…
Muddog Mud
Stephen’s Guide to the Logical Fallacies
1994
Athabaska BBS
1995
Painted Porch
1996
Maximus
MAUD
Slide 4: CAE
1997
Future of Online Learning
1998
modules
Learning Objects
1999
Online Learning Environment
The Brandon Pages
OLe
Slide 5: Knowledge Learning Community
2000
2001
PEGGAsus
2002
OLDaily
The Learning Marketplace
MuniMall
Slide 6: 2003
2004
2005
Edu-RSS
Ed Radio
DDRM
Podcasting
Slide 7: E-Learning 2.0
Learning Networks
mIDm
2006
Educational Blogging
2007
RSS Writr
Slide 8: Web 2.0
Slide 9: The Net Generation creates its own media…
Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace … Danah Boyd http://www.danah.org/papers/AAAS2006.html
“The dynamics of identity production play out visibly on MySpace.
Profiles are digital bodies, public displays of identity where people can explore impression management.”
Slide 10: Blogs and Wikis
"Never have so many people written so much to be read by so few..." -- Katie Hafner NY Times. Blogger - Live Journal - Movable Type - Wordpress Educational Blogging – article Educational Weblogs - Edublogs.org Wikipedia – as compared to Britannica by Nature
Slide 11: Photos, Podcasting and Vodcasting
Flickr Podcasting - wikipedia iPodder - Odeo – Liberated Syndication Youtube - video Podcasting in Learning Ed Tech Talk - Ed Tech Posse - FLOSSE Posse Bob Sprankle - Education Podcast Network
Slide 12: The Core Technologies
Web 2.0 RoadMap http://www.nri.co.jp/english/news/2006/061110.html
Slide 13: • Social Networking
Slide 14: • Tagging
Slide 15: • Asynchronous Javascript and XML (AJAX)
Jesse James Garrett in February 2005.
https://bpcatalog.dev.java.net/ajax/textfield-jsf/design.html
Slide 16: • Representational State Transfer (REST)
Slide 17: • Application Program Interface (API) and Mash-Ups
Slide 18: • Javascript Object Notation (JSON)
Slide 19: • OpenID
Slide 20: The way networks learn is the way people learn…
• they are both complex systems • the organization of each depends on connections
Connectivism (George Siemens)
Slide 21: E-Learning 2.0
The idea is that learning is not based on objects and contents that are stored, as though in a library
Slide 22: Rather, the idea is that learning is like a utility - like water or electricity - that flows in a network or a grip, that we tap into when we want
Slide 23: • Learner centered
Learning is centered around the interests of the learner Learning is owned by the learner This implies learner choice of subjects, materials, learning styles
Slide 24: • Immersive learning
This learning is immersive – learning by doing
Slide 25: • Connected Learning
The computer connects the student to the rest of the world Learning occurs through connections with other learners Learning is based on conversation and interaction
Slide 26: • Game-based learning
Types:
Branching, Spreadsheet, Quiz Game, Simulation Lab…
http://www.downes.ca/post/11
Slide 27: • Workflow (Informal) Learning
Types: EPSS, Community of Practice, Environment, Visualization…
http://metatime.blogspot.com/
Slide 28: • Mobile Learning
Examples:
Co-op learning, drill and flash-card, instant mesaging, field trips, resource capture (like this talk!)
Slide 29: http://www.pwlan.org.tw/ct.asp?xItem=200&CtNode=501&mp=5
Slide 30: Online Learning at the Crossroads
• On the one hand – we have developed tools and systems intended to support traditional classroom based learning • On the other hand – we could (should?) be developing tools and systems to support immersive learning. We should be developing for dynamic, immersive, living systems…
Slide 31: First Iteration: User-Produced Media • Blogs and Blogging • Podcasting and Vodcasting • Game mods and other multimedia
Slide 32: Web 2.0: The Learning Network • The e-Portfolio lives in the intersection between the worlds for education, work, and home • A model for e-Portfolio as a learnermanaged construct • Key requirement is easy-to-use tools and hosting services* • *E.g. the “e-Portfolio-as-blog” approach
Scott Wilson: http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/scott/entries/20050523083528
Slide 33: The Idea of the PLE…
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/ple/resources/edf.ppt
Slide 34: Plex Personal Learning Environment Example
http://reload.ces.strath.ac.uk/plex/
Slide 35: Collecting and Filtering RSS
http://www.downes.ca/mygluframe.htm
Slide 36: RSS Writr
http://www.downes.ca/editor/writr.htm
Slide 37: Edu_RSS Viewer
http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?action=viewer
Slide 38: The Challenge…
How to find the right resource…
• at the right time • for the right person
Slide 39: The old way – use descriptions
http://www.capuano.biz/Papers/ITS%202000/ITS%202000.htm
• Dublin Core • Learning Object Metadata
Slide 40: The New Way: Recommender Systems
A are mapped between: • User profile – properties of given users • Resource profile – properties of the resource • Previous evaluations of other resources
http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/projecting-quality http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/quality-standards-its-all-about-teaching-and-learning/
Slide 41: Relations between Entities…
Slide 42: Finding Resources is like Finding Patterns in the Mesh
the knowledge is in the network
Old: universals
– rules – categories
New: patterns
– patterns – similarities
the knowledge is the network
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/OldArchive/bbs.tenenbaum.html
Slide 43: stands for? Hopfield
Or is caused by?
Distributed Representation
= a pattern of connectivity
Slide 45: Where is the PLE?