Slides<\/a><\/p>\nMatthew is challenging us not to use the conference to simply confirm our pre-dispostitions, but rather question our beliefs. He is starting with 4 propositions:<\/p>\n
E-learning can be radically traditional<\/b>
\nMatthew suggests that the idea of e-learning turning HE market on it’s head, and reducing the number of players in the market was always a red herring. A University is not designed to ‘deliver teaching’, but it is a community, bringing together research, teaching, people etc. So, e-learning should be about bringing these people together in an electronic equivalent to a university – not just faculty to student, but other students (without faculty intervention), teaching assistants, libraries, speakers etc., and then to expand across institutions and organisations – a global learning environment.<\/p>\n
Essentially the suggestion seems to be that we are looking at breaking down the limitations of time and place to expand the ‘University’ (as a group of people) to a much wider range of people.<\/p>\n
E-learning has boundless potential<\/b>
\nMatthew is describing 3 challenges (Access, Quality and Efficiency) and 3 technologies (Network, Multimedia, Database) – he sees <\/p>\n
Virtual Learning Environments are the least interesting part of e-learning<\/b>
\nThis is really interesting comment, from the Chairman of Blackboard! I think this is something we really need to get to grips with. What is it that we are trying to do – why have we focussed on VLEs for our e-leaerning. Perhaps what we are going to see is more individual, and diverse, applications and learning objects – e.g. Merlot<\/p>\n
Matthew is suggesting that we need to grow an ecosystem around our e-learning systems, by open standards and architectures (as well as open source).<\/p>\n
We are moving into eLearning 2.0<\/b>
\nThis is using ‘2.0’ in the same context as Web 2.0 (and Library 2.0). Essentially we are talking about interactivity – the users are integrated into the service absolutely. This is done by stuff like blogging, with comments, Online discussions, wikis etc.<\/p>\n
So – what is the different between e-learning 1.0 to e-learning 2.0?<\/p>\n
E-learning 1.0 was about platform adoption, courses, education segments (GCSEs, A levels, degrees)
\nE-Learning 2.0 is about extending the platform, social networks, lifelong learning<\/p>\n
Matthew is now talking about ‘Blackboard Beyond Initiative’. This, he says, is not about Blackboard – it is something run by the universities, although supported by Bb. It is looking at about establishing 4 web services (initially):<\/p>\n
1. Learning Objects Catalogue – make globally available catalogues
\n2. Social Networking – e.g. Facebook, Academici, Furl – but there is no large scale discipline based scholarly based social network – so ‘scholar.com’ – a social networking environment that can plug into any learning environment
\n3. ePortfolios for life – a hosted service where you can keep your ePortfolio, but also establishing standards to allow you to carry your ePortfolio with you.
\n4. Benchmarking and Analysis – more sharing of data. A central service that allows any VLE to report (anonymously) on what is happening – so you can see best practice, and get a picture of a learning<\/p>\n
And this is just the beginning. Matthew has mentioned the S word (Shibboleth) – but for e-learning, not more traditional ‘library’ type stuff, as well as a range of other things.<\/p>\n
I have to say that out of the above, (2) seems to be the most immediately exciting and ‘doable’ – this could start tomorrow. But it isn’t us that need to be convinced, it’s the academics…<\/p>\n
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