This is a talk by Scott Wilson from CETIS. So Web 2.0 ideas filter into eLearning 2.0.<\/p>\n
eLearning 2.0 is about:
\nGoing personal and global – relating to individuals, but on a global scale.
\nSymmetric relationships
\nMashups and reuse – combining information from disparate sources, and reusing information in different contexts.<\/p>\n
So, what processes make up eLearning?<\/p>\n
Firstly Discovery:
\nSearching
\nMatching – match my requirements (e.g. online dating)
\nBuilding on previous achievements
\nCollaborative social filtering
\nCollaborative social intelligence
\nFining a pathway to a future goal
\nSeredipity<\/p>\n
When you look at this in a ‘2.0’ context. People start to combine (mashup) formal and informal learning episodes (e.g. joining a Yahoo group for discussion and taking a formal course)
\nPeople use shared goals to forge a social identity
\nThe Long Tail – someone else, somewhere out there, will be interested in the same thing as you!<\/p>\n
Aggregating opportunities:
\nFormal learning – prospectuses in XCRI format (need to investigate what this is – apparently ‘RSS for prospectus’)
\nInformal learning: 43Things, LiveJournal Communities, Flickr Groups, MeCanBe.
\nCompare how easy it is to join a topic on 43Things to applying to a course at a University.<\/p>\n
Learning networks:
\nIn the future will learners already be part of a learning network before joining a course? We already have at least one course that tries to do this (Business Information Systems) where prospective students can join the community of students and alumni before they start the course.<\/p>\n
Creating and Sharing:
\nWriting (and photographing, drawing, filming, recording)
\nDeveloping a professional identity
\nDeveloping competence, confidence and independence
\nGoing global for feedback<\/p>\n
Again (not to blow our own trumpet), but this year at RHUL we had a course that included keeping a blog as part of the student assessment process (each student had a blog kept over the period of the course).<\/p>\n
Collecting and Remixing – Pedagogy: How does pedagogic theory apply to these new concepts?
\nConstructivism – attenuating and labelling a subset of the knowledge environment; re-categorising a conception of the knowledge environment into a personal schema; synthesis (dialectic)
\nConnectivism – forming new connections and generating networks that extend the power of the individual; however, actional knowledge (learning) resides in the network, no necessarily the individual.<\/p>\n
Scott is indicating that traditional VLE software makes all the activity ‘teacher designed’ (e.g. teacher setup a discussion group), as opposed to Learner self-organised activity (perhaps assumed that students do this themselves anyway). I wonder if this is actually fair enough – perhaps students should make use of Web 2.0 tools to organise themselves, as they would do (possibly) by going to the bar or coffee shop for a chat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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