E-Learning 2.0: What It Means, Where It’s Going
Presentation I did for Mzinga is that (the result of a merger between KnowledgePlanet and Shared Insights). I looked at what e0learning 2.0 means to me personally, then what it means to students in general, and how it shaped learning. I also talked about trends in learning - especially as these new technologies come up against traditional environments. I finished with a quick summary of the underlying technologies. Audio: http://www.downes.ca/presentation/175
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- Slide 1: E-Learning 2.0: What It
Means, Where It’s Going
Stephen Downes
February 21, 2008
- Slide 2: What does learning 2.0
mean to me?
- Slide 3: • A place to store (and share) my photos
http://www.flickr.com
- Slide 4: • A place to store (and share) my videos
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- Slide 5: • A place to write an essay with my
colleague in Montreal
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http://docs.google.com
- Slide 6: • A way to stay up to date - right
up to date
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http://www.google.com/reader
- Slide 7: • A way to save on phone calls
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http://www.skype.com
- Slide 8: • Knowing where I’m staying
before I get there
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http://maps.google.com
- Slide 9: • An Easy Way To Draw Pictures
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http://www.gliffy.com
- Slide 10: What does Learning 2.0 mean
for a learner?
- Slide 11: Three Views of Learning Resources:
- Slide 12: 1. Learning Resources as a thing
– Book, content object, etc
- Slide 13: 2. Learning Resources as events
– Class, lecture, seminar, meeting
- Slide 14: • The first two models are
information-theoretic and
medium-based models
– They stress content
– They stress rules
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- Slide 15: 3. Learning Resources as flow
– Stresses experience
– Stresses pattern recognition
- Slide 16: What does this look like?
- Slide 17: • User generated Content
– Personal, opinionated
- Slide 18: • Network of interactions
- Slide 19: • Immersive Learning
- Slide 20: • New Roles
– For students - as creators of learning
– For teachers - as coaches and mentors
– For the rest of us - as teachers
- Slide 21: • Issues:
– Too much information, filtering info
– Too many sources to scan, new
sources
– Localization, personalization,
relevance
- Slide 22: Learning as a network
phenomenon…
- Slide 23: • Web of user-generated content
(eg. Wikipedia)…
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http://www.wikipedia.org
- Slide 24: • Social networks and communities
(entails a genuinely portable (and
owned) identity
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http://www.facebook.com
- Slide 25: • Networks of interactions
(aggregate, remix, repurpose, feed
forward) – syndication
An ecology…
- Slide 26: • The personal learning centre
http://blog.core-ed.net/derek/2006/11/more_on_mles_and_ples.html
- Slide 27: • The Network is Diverse –
multiple views, multiple
technologies
- Slide 28: • The Network is connected and
interactive (not ‘integrated’) –
small pieces, loosely joined
- Slide 29: • The Network is open
- Slide 32: What are the key technologies
at play?
- Slide 34: Web 2.0 - Core Technologies
Tools for worldmaking…
- Slide 35: Social Networking
http://staffdev.henrico.k12.va.us/parents/socnetwork.htm
- Slide 36: Tagging
- Slide 37: Asynchronous Javascript and XML (AJAX)
Jesse James Garrett in February 2005.
https://bpcatalog.dev.java.net/ajax/textfield-jsf/design.html
- Slide 38: Representational State Transfer (REST)
- principles that outline how resources are defined and addressed
- looser sense: domain-specific data over HTTP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer
http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/Watcher/20060315/232492/
- Slide 39: Application Program Interface (API) and
Mash-Ups
http://scenariothinking.org/wiki/images/b/b6/MashUpSysDiagramV6.0.jpg
- Slide 40: Javascript Object Notation (JSON)
- Slide 41: • OpenID
http://gabinetedeinformatica.net/wp15/2007/03/09/openid-nuestra-identidad-virtual/
http://www.funnymonkey.com/openid-in-education
- Slide 42: • The idea: identity as personal, not institutional
• You own your data
• Identity 2.0 – Dick Hardt
http://talk.talis.com/archives/2005/10/dick_hardt_on_i.html
http://identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/
• OpenID http://openid.net/
- Slide 43: • Taking Ownership…
– Relevance
– Usability
– Interaction
http://www.downes.ca/presentation/86