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e-learning 2.0 talks

This is part 2 of my Icool2007 contributions, i.e. a resource page for my keynote talk and a second talk in the same area. Part 1 is a ICOOL 2007 workshop on educational modeling languages.

Speaker: Daniel K. Schneider, TECFA, University of Geneva

Venue

ICOOL 2007

3rd International Conference on Open and Online Learning

Pedagogical Scripting for Open and Distance Learning (ODL)

11-14 June 2007, Hotel Equatorial, Penang, Malaysia

Organised by the VCILT, University of Mauritius in partnership with the School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia

Keynote: E-learning 2.0 - Social Computing in the Future of Learning Technologies

Abstract

E-learning 2.0 can be defined in terms of "learning as a network phenomenon". This includes shared user-generated contents (eg. Wikipedia), use of social networks, presence in virtual on-line communities, mashups of information feeds and other "web 2.0" services and finally personal learning environments.

Todays dominant learning technology - at least in the "institutional" discourse - are so-called learning management systems (LMS). LMSs are a combination of CBT (70's) and computer-mediated communication (80'), i.e. organized sequences of standardized contents (if possible) plus on-line tutoring within closed environments. Currently, research and development in e-learning focuses a lot on so-called activity-based designs, e.g. the idea is to integrate IMS Learning Design or CSCL scenarios. On the other hand, today's strongest grassroots movement can be labelled "e-learning 2.0" in reference to "web 2.0" and it focuses on user empowerment and knowledge building communities.

Talk contents

Why e-learning 2.0 ?

E-learning 2.0 refers to web 2.0. It's a somewhat stupid slogan, but there is a trend:

• The nature of the Internet, andof the people using the Internet has begun to change. There are many free on-line services (list of web 2.0 applications) and some of them are inherently social.
• The social software formula: (tools + services + aggregation)^scale
• Technology that is under the control of the teacher empowerment / Teacher empowerment
• Improved user experience (based on AJAX)
• Flexibility: E-learning has the potential to become far more personal, social and flexible, i.e. integrate needs of (almost) all stakeholders.

The technology

• Infrastructure:
  • Rich internet applications (e.g. AJAX-based)
  • Content aggregation with RSS, Tagging (Folksonomies),
• social software like:
  • Sharing of links and feeds (social bookmarking, social navigation, etc.)
  • Sharing of digital artifacts (Pictures, Movies, Files, etc.)
  • Writing tools (Notepads, blogs, Word processor, Note taking, etc.)
  • Research tools like reference managers, citation indexes.
  • Social networking
• Sharable applications
  • Organization and planning (groupware, calendars, task managers, personal oganizers, homework and teacher tools
  • Content Production tools (Multimedia editing, presentation, graphing)
  • concept maping), Argumentation
  • Light-weight LMSs (e.g. Haiku).
  • Virtual office (aka "office 2.0" like Zoho, Google).
• ubiquitous computing and the Internet of things
• Mashup technology like webtops.

Use cases (some instructional design models, pedagogical scenarios)

• Virtual community
  • Community of learning
  • knowledge-building community
• Learner-controlled environments
  • Personal learning environments and aggregation of these into flexible learner and teacher empowering environments.
  • Learning e-portfolios
  • Creative, collaborative microlearning
  • Collaborative note taking (in support of traditional presence courses).
• Product-oriented activities
  • Digital storytelling
  • Writing-to-learn (e.g. with a wiki)
• Project-oriented teaching
  • e.g. light-weight C3MS project-based learning models built with with webtops, web widgets, office 2.0 tools etc.)
• Second generation e-learning frameworks
  • heavy service-oriented architectures like the e-framework Model that is a combination of Rehak's learning services stack and ideas from social software.
  • Through-the-web design and collaboration: e.g. LAMS, DialogPlus Toolkit.

E-learning 2.0 - Orchestration of light-weight pedagogical scenarios with webtops

Abstract

Mashup applications allow to combine contents and services from two or more sources. There are two kinds. Webtops allow to to create personal and/or shared environments that aggregate various information feeds, simple tools or interfaces to various web 2.0 applications from other providers. Programmers may also create mash-up web widgets, e.g. application artifacts resulting from the assembly of other web 2.0 services. In this case Web Mashup = API [1] + API [2] + API [N].

Both variants are of interest to teachers:

• A teacher can easily create a light-weight teaching and learning environment with a webtop, using existing applications
• Teachers can try to lobby programmers or even webtop provides to provide more widgets of interest to education.

Talk Contents

• The C3MS project-based learning model revisited. See also my ICOOL 2003 talk.

• The potential of Webtops for education

• Pageflakes demo (if I can get Internet access).

• The future: Towards educational WebOs'  ?