Mark Keough
Archer College and
University of South Australia
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Learning Utility
“How does Learning Utility
change when new
Communications Technologies
naturalise?”
( Where ”Learning Utility” is
defined as Learning usefulness)

EPISODE 1 Season 1
Its a Giddy
World!
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Milton the Monster
Six drops of essence of
terror
Five drops of sinister sauce?
We are the sum of our
crowd
Deleuse and Guattari
A Thousand Plateaus

If our Children
were here?
The future is never designed from
the past!
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EPISODE 2 Season 1
Napoleonic
Delusions
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1994 the 4 part transactional harmony
=LMS
Learner,
Employer,
Tutor,
Manager
Model in Oct 1994

1999 Conquering the World
Learning Studio
The Learning from this?

E‐Por9olio’s have
no audience?
Learning has no
marketplace
because it isn’t a
commodity?
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2002 Serious Questions arise
Abu Ghraib and
Death by
Elearning
SCORM Fails
SMS RULES OK
Rise of the ‘DOG
Salt Lake City.

EPISODE 3 Season 1
New
Foundations
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2004 LRM: A corporate model for growth
rather than control
extensibility
the key
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Westpac and Mitsubishi
Attempts at effective learning collaboration
The reality of Organisation dynamics
But some enabling principles can apply….

Play the movie
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2008 Transactional Disharmony
Nothing (Except RSS) Works Together
Mass indifference to formal e-learning
among target audience
Can’t see a reason for a SCORM compliant
LMS
Files not SCO’s are Learning Objects of
choice
Impact of ITunes/IPhone

The Read Write Web
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Coming Next Season
Learning
Utility
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The Time of the Tribes
Mafesoli ‘96
1) User or Peer Centric Learning
1)(Heutagogy: Ford 97 and Hase and Kenyon 2000)
2) Self Publishing as a Lifestyle
3) Identity and authentication
4) Why RSS is Soooooo important?
5) The real problems
1) Finding things....OPEN DSM Keep it up
2) Measurement and Performance

Learning Utility Realised
Make Poverty and FEAR
History and take IP
protection with it?
The value is in Service……
its all in the
REMIX
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Make an effort
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