NetGeners.Net Introduction - The Ne(x)t Generation Learner

Slide 1: The ne(x)t generation learner - Skills you need in lifelong learning knowledge and information societies Introduction Flashmeeting to the Free and Open NetGeners.Net Course v.080317 Watch the meeting at: http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk/fm/13e7e0-12360

Slide 2: The NetGeners.Net Course The ne(x)t generation learner - Skills you need in lifelong learning knowledge and information societies ✔NetGeners.Net is a pilot course in the light of free and open education! ✔This course is free: ✔free to attend without any charge, ✔free of cost for books or other materials, ✔free for anyone independently of prior education; and ✔free in terms of your personal time commitment that you decide to dedicate to it (Though we would like you to spend on a minimum 2 hours per week). The only thing you will need is a PC and internet access. ✔Participants of this course can expect tutoring (support), but will not receive any official degree awarding certificate or credit points from the course team.

Slide 3: The NetGeners.Net Course Objectives of the course? The objective of this course is for you to become a knowledgeable ne(x)t generation learner that: ●Is able to update his skills and knowledge self-dependently within a lifelong learning context ●Knows how to take full advantage of the web to support your own learning, to collaborate with others and use the tools required to do so ●Is capable to find sources at the web and to critically evaluate and analyse them ●Is aware about available free online and desktop software solutions that facilitate learning, knowledge exchange and collaboration ●Knows how to find online communities, to engage in them for personal support, and to and understands the way they function ●Has the today's required soft skills; like to communicate, collaborate and engage in discussions with others, defend your own work and thoughts and present them, know how to manage a project, or how to resolve conflicts

Slide 4: The NetGeners.Net Course What you can expect during the course? ●Create your own course learning projects or to join into the learning projects of others ●Learn from reviewing and studying the learning project activities, outcomes and presentations of the other course's learning projects ●This course does not expect you to solely study pre-outlined course materials, instead the course is envisioned as a collaborative learning experience ●Gain exposure to the various conceptual issues through collaboration with each other ●Think of this course as a seed, rather than a finished product

Slide 5: The NetGeners.Net Course Activities and tasks: ● Engage in personally meaningful activities by working in one or more learning projects within your area of interest to create solutions to problems ●Establish (or join) project teams and team roles, including work assignments and roadmaps ●Search for and engage with available online content and communities ●Re-experience how others learn at the web ●Create materials yourself and share your project results with others and reflect on them ●Integrate your contributions into the NetGener.Net course so future learner would be able to build on them ●Use a broad range of collaborative technologies ●Present your project results, learn from the presentation of others and discuss those results You will be asked to take on an ACTIVE role that will include try and error attempts, experimenting and taking a risk of not completing a learning project 100% as you might have liked.

Slide 6: The NetGeners.Net Course What are learning projects? A learning project should tangle one aspect relevant to learning at the web and cover one or more of the following 5 areas: Content, People and Communities, Tools, Soft Skills, or Legal Aspects. As an example: if you start a learning project in the area of “Content” you might want to focus on Wikipedia and show how you use Wikipedia to provide you with information. You might want to draw up some key points you use to evaluate quality and reliability of what you find at Wikipedia – or you might want to pull together indicators that others already provided to compare and discuss them.

Slide 7: The NetGeners.Net Course Example learning project?

Slide 8: The NetGeners.Net Course I am interested in this course, so what shall I do? Ok, here we go – step by step: 1st You should register at the NetGeners.Net course side. 2nd You now might take a look at the course category to check about existing learning projects that are of your interest. At the beginning most of those existing learning projects are just suggestions from our side and still need someone (you?) that would like to take on the role of a project leader. 3rd (Option A): If you found a learning project that meets your interest you can add it to your favourites. Afterwards you should contact the project leader of this learning project and ask how and where to contribute to it best. 3rd (Option B): There are no existing learning projects you are interested in. If this is the case than you can register your own learning project within an area of your interest (see also the section below “Learning project overview at the course category”). 4th Start working on the learning project(s)

Slide 9: The NetGeners.Net Course Start your learning project (submit it) A f te r y o u r e g is te r e d a t th e N e tG e n e rs .N e t c o u r s e s id e y o u c a n c r e a te y o u r o w n le a r n in g p ro je c t w ith in a n a r e a o f y o u r in te re s t. T o c re a te y o u r o w n le a rn in g p ro je c t c lic k o n “ S u b m it P ro je c t” a n d p ro v id e s o m e in itia l in fo rm a tio n a b o u t y o u r p ro je c t. I f y o u a re n o t s u re h o w to d o th is a n d w h a t to d o , h a v e a lo o k a t e x is tin g le a rn in g p ro je c ts , o r a s k u s fo r h e lp !

Slide 10: The NetGeners.Net Course Establish your learning project roadmap

Slide 11: The NetGeners.Net Course Join a learning project (favour it) I f y o u fo u n d a le a rn in g p r o je c t th a t m e e ts y o u r in te re s t y o u c a n a d d it to y o u r fa v o u r ite s . A fte rw a rd s y o u s h o u ld c o n ta c t th e p ro je c t le a d e r o f th is le a rn in g p ro je c t a n d a s k h o w a n d w h e re to c o n trib u te b e s t to it.

Slide 12: The NetGeners.Net Course Getting in touch with a learning project leader

Slide 13: The NetGeners.Net Course The NetGeners.Net Course site

Slide 14: The NetGeners.Net Course NetGeners.Net Course site (continued)

Slide 15: The NetGeners.Net Course NetGeners.Net Spaces & Tools Just to show some of the possible spaces & tools to be used:

Slide 16: Thank you!!! Find out more & participate! Visit us at: www.netgeners.net Contact: A.Meiszner@open.ac.uk