Slide 1: E-Learning 2.0 (Alberta Cut) Stephen Downes National Research Council Canada June 10, 2005
Slide 2: Trends • Assume Technology The Millennials • Multitask / MultiInfo • Twitch Speed • Institutions Irrelevant http://www.abanet.org/lpm/lpt/articles/m - ABANet http://www.educause.edu/educatingthen - EDUCAUSE http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/04september/inside-out-1.htm
Slide 3: Trends • Networked Markets Cluetrain • Conversation • Tear Down the Wall • De-cloaking, getting personal http://internettime.pa.v4.breezecentral.c - Cross http://www.cluetrain.com/
Slide 4: Trends • Autonomy - Choice Learner Centered Design • Active Learning • Interdependence between teacher and learner - power http://www.aishe.org/readings/20 - O’Neill and McMahon http://pdonline.ascd.org/pd_online/dol02/1992marzano_chapter1.html
Slide 5: Trends • Knowledge resides in a diversity of opinions Connectivism • Nurturing and maintaining connections • Patterns, currency • Decision-making as a learning process http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/ - Siemens http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/FEB02_Issue/article01.html
Slide 6: Trends • The Copyright Debate Open Access • Napster, file-sharing • Open source, open content http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons http://www.soros.org/openaccess/ BOAI http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/view.cgi?dbs http://www.downes.ca/dwiki/?id=Reusable+Media% http://www.tpl.toronto.on.ca/abo_his_index.jsp
Slide 7: Trends • Transparency The Open Society • Accountability • Partnerships http://www.nplc.com/ - Tapscott http://edit.mougayar.com/OpenCorpora - Mougayar http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_pate - Paterson
Slide 8: E-Learning 2.0 • The Interactive Web The Web 2.0 • Social networks, power laws http://www.digital-web.com/articles/web_2_for_des - MacManus and Porter http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog. - Shirkey http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/view.cgi?dbs – Downes http://www.leader-values.com/Content/detail.asp?C - Bond http://business2.blogs.com/business2blog/retail_ecommerce/
Slide 9: E-Learning 2.0 • User generated Content The Blog • Personal, opinionated • Network of interactions • Blogs and learning http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm04 - Downes http://www.blogger.com – Blogger http://www.livejournal.com – LiveJournal http://www.edtechpost.ca/gems/matrix2.gif - Leslie
Slide 10: E-Learning 2.0 • A web of content Personal Learning • The personal learning centre http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/scott/b - Wilson http://elgg.net/ - ELGG http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/scott/blogview?entry=20050125170206
Slide 11: E-Learning 2.0 Podcasts, Screencasts and Beyond • User generated multimedia http://www.ipodder.org/ - iPodder http://www.flickr.com – Flickr http://en.wikipedia.org – Wikipedia http://blog.ericrice.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/4/9094 - Rice http://blog.educause.edu/penrose/archive/2005/06/07/1 - Penrose http://www.pocketcasting.com/archives/2005/01/06/featured-podcast-for-january-2005/
Slide 12: E-Learning 2.0 Content Syndication • XML generation and aggregation • ‘Selective Attention’ (like the brain) • Aggregate, remix, repurpose, feed forward http://www.google.ca/search?q=downes+rss – Downes http://www.technorati.com – Technorati http://www.blogdex.net – Blogdex http://petersterndesign.com/concepts.htm http://www.bloglines.com – Bloglines
Slide 13: E-Learning 2.0 E-Portfolios • Space for personally created content • May be used for evaluation purposes as well http://www.eradc.org/ – ERADC http://eport2.cgc.maricopa.edu/ – Chandler-Gilbert at Maricopa http://www.members.shaw.ca/technology/assignments/presentation/2whyuse.htm
Slide 14: Into the Future E-Learning Frameworks • Array of common processes and services • CM’s E-Learning Stack, IMS Abstract Framework, JISC, OKI http://www.elframework.org/framework/ – JISC http://www.okiproject.org/specs/index.htm - OKI http://www.edtechpost.ca/mt/archive/0006 - Leslie http://www.education.tas.gov.au/admin/ict/projects/imsdoecasestudy/LeAPProjectCase.htmL
Slide 15: Into the Future Games and Simulations • Interactive environment • “Hard fun” http://www.papert.org/articles/Doeseasydoit.html – Papert http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/view.cgi?dbs=Article&k – Gee http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/view.cgi?dbs=Article&k - Aldrich http://muve.gse.harvard.edu/muvees2003/index.html
Slide 16: Into the Future Mobile Learning • Learning that travels with you http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm05/erm - Wagner http://ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?page=6 – Wood http://lingvosoft.com/FlashCards-English-Arabic-for-Pocket-PC/
Slide 17: Into the Future Ubiquitous Computing • One person – many computers • Not just mobile – RFID and more http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/Ub – Weiser http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~aura/ http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiHome.html Project Aura
Slide 18: Into the Future Workflow Learning • Learning embedded in work processes http://metatime.blogspot.com/ – Cross http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaycross/
Slide 19: Into the Future • The ‘learning’ in e-learning The Living Arts • Learning and Living merge • Mobile welding shop… http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/view.cgi?dbs =Article&key=1118363044 - Milliron http://www.downes.ca/files/Online_Learning.ppt Downes http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/research.cgi?item=11172 – Downes http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/view.cgi?dbs=Article&ke – Downes http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v4i25_downes.html Downes
Slide 20: Into the Future A Digital Democracy? • Ownership of the platform • Ownership of the data http://www.democraticmedia.org/ - Center for Digital Democracy http://www.markfiore.com/animatio – Wood
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