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Understanding Learning Networks
The document discusses the rise of Web 2.0 technologies and their potential applications for learning networks and personalized learning environments. It explores how these new technologies enable more collaborative, immersive, and learner-centered forms of learning compared to traditional online learning models. The document raises questions about how educational institutions should respond to support these new forms of informal, networked, and interest-driven learning.
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- 1. Understanding LearningNetworks Stephen Downes, October 28, 2006
- 2. Web 2.0 O’Reilly: What is Web 2.0?
- 3. Content Creation &Posting Blogs – Blogger , WordPress E-Portfolios – ELGG ePortfolios – Helen Barrett ELGG and blogging – Miles Berry (a good way of promoting learner autonomy and voice) Images - Flickr Audio – Odeo , Audacity Video – YouTube , Google Video Web 2.0 is mostly about
- 4. Collaborative Writing Wikis– PB Wiki , Media Wiki RSS inside a Wiki – Alan Levine South African Curriculum on a wiki Collaborative Bookmarking – del.icio.us , Furl Online Office Applications – Writely , Gliffy , iRows
- 5. Content Syndication http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/show/merlot03/ Web 2.0 is also mostly about
- 6. RSS - Simplestof Meta-Data What is RSS? Killer App for Education? Pick an Acronym Compare to This
- 7. How RSS Workshttp://www.downes.ca/files/RSS_Educ.htm
- 8. RSS Network ExamplesEdu_RSS - http://www.downes.ca/edurss02.htm Threads Community comment topic list Search Posts Research - lists of topics, publications and authors Most Popular Links Conversation Edu_RSS Most Recent harvested links Most cited links Feed List and Feed List - OPML DLORN http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/dlorn/dlorn
- 9. Context and UseTarmo Toikkanen: “Learning for humans happens in context. Having complete reusability means having no context, and vice versa.” http://flosse.dicole.org/?item=intentional-learning-reflecting-the-discussion-in-the-blogsphere What does this mean? The learning is not in the object, but in the use of the object
- 10. Examples of UseNon-instructional performance interventions Electronic Performance Support System (EPSS) Workplace Design Knowledge Management (KM) Just-in-Time Support Communities of Practice Multimedia Job Aids
- 11. Aggregators Aggregate This, Scott McLemee MetaxuCafe is "a network of literary blogs with over 300 members.“ Postgenomic , aggregates "posts from life science blogs." Edu_RSS Intute - the new face of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN)
- 12. Webtops 30Boxes , PageFlakes , ProtoPage , Goowy Interfaces of the future – Mark Oehlert The Personal Learning Environment PLE Blog Windows Live Netvibes (Tony Hirst)
- 13. Enabling new formsof learning Kathy Sierra
- 14. E-Learning 2.0 Diagramby Scott Wilson; Downes: E-Learning 2.0
- 15. Personal Learning Environmentshttp://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/ple http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnorman/100494256 http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/02/16/eduglu-early-whiteboard USB: Study Stick: http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/005515.html
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- 17. The Personalized Web 2006 has seen the emergence of the personalized web, the interactive web, the web that places a premium on participation and community. How should the learning sector respond? - Different flavours of personalization - Different types of ‘learner centered’
- 18. The Response Theinitial reaction from educational institutions has been negative, with access to many of the new applications blocked and banned by administrators. Institutions want centralized systems, to bring the new technologies ‘into’ the VLE or LMS, in order to provide support, control the environemnt…
- 19. The Challenge Canwe, when we explore their world, resist the urge to make them just like us? It’s a question of control…
- 20. Danah Boyd… “The dynamics of identity production play out visibly on MySpace. Profiles are digital bodies, public displays of identity where people can explore impression management...” Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace http://www.danah.org/papers/AAAS2006.html
- 21. Sherry Turkle “Wedo not feel compelled to rank or judge the elements of our multiplicity. We do not feel compelled to exclude what does not fit.” Life on the Screen http://www.transparencynow.com/turkle.htm
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- 23. A Question ofOntology? Is there an essence of learning that can be understood independently of… The players? The technology? Does what we are looking for reflect our theoretical stance? Do we need a theoretical stance? Logical Positivist? Behaviourist? vs Phenomenology? Critical Theory? Feminism?
- 24. Traditional Online LearningThe concept of online learning usually revolves around a computer…
- 25. The Future ofOnline Learning May be in Mississauga Probably does involve computers at all
- 26. The School ofThe Future… … is a living arts centre (or some such thing)
- 27. The Concept… Learningis centered around the interests of the learner (which may be arts, history, computing…) This learning is immersive – learning by doing – and takes place not in a school but in an appropriate environment (such as a living arts centre) The computer connects the student to the rest of the world, no matter where they are
- 28. Game Based LearningTypes: Branching, Spreadsheet, Game, Lab… http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/view.cgi?dbs =Article&key=1116274375
- 29. Workflow (Informal) LearningTypes: Community of Practice, Environment, Visualization… http://metatime.blogspot.com/
- 30. Online Learning atthe 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 My take: we should be developing for dynamic, immersive, living systems…
- 31. First Iteration: User-Produced Media Blogs and Blogging Podcasting and Vodcasting Game mods and other multimedia
- 32. Web 2.0: TheLearning Network The e-Portfolio lives in the intersection between the worlds for education, work, and home A model for e-Portfolio as a learner-managed 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
- 33. Groups and Networks“Groups require unity, networks require diversity. Groups require coherence, networks require autonomy. Groups require privacy or segregation, networks require openness. Groups require focus of voice, networks require interaction. ” http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=35839
- 34. Rethinking Learning http://static.flickr.com/109/252157734_9e6c29433b_b.jpghttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4126240905912531540&hl=en
- 35. Thank You StephenDownes [email_address] http://www.downes.ca
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