Connecting formal and informal learning in HE through a mobile multimedia microblogging environment

Connecting formal and informal learning in HE through a mobile multimedia microblogging environment Carmen Holotescu Gabriela Grosseck University Politehnica/ Timsoft West University Timisoara, Romania Social Mobile Networking for Informal Learning London, Nov, 21, 2011 somobnet

New trends in education
What is microblogging?
Overview of the microsphere
Cirip.eu – platform around objects2.0
(Mobile) Learning contexts on Cirip.eu
Formalizing PLE
Learning from the stream
Learning designs as meta-objects – continuos learning for teachers
image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/atmosphear/

SOCIAL LEARNING becomes formal

RSS/blogs-2004, podcast–2005, vlog–2006, video–2007 microblogging-2008-2011, augmented reality location based applications - 2010-2011 Web2.0 / social networks have great impact in collaborative / social learning ( eLearning2.0 )

JESS3 Labs The Geosocial Universe 2.0 Comparison between the total amount of registered users with the percentage of people accessing the sites via mobile http://jess3.com/geosocial-universe-2

What is it? And why should I care?

Microblogging is a new form of blogging , with brief text updates of 140 characters, via Web, SMS, email, IM or 3rd party applications, which allows real-time interactions between users.

Microblogging is a collaborative technology photo: http://media2.lelombrik.net/13501-14000/13845.jpg

Diagrammr at diagrammr.com/edit?key=dy4NKMc8XsZ embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/1644841

photo: http://www.heikkironkko.com/images/yolehti_jaiku.jpg Microblogging platforms used in education

Mar 2006 Oct 2007 Jan 2008 Jul 2008 Dec 2007 Mar 2008 Overview of the Microsphere Timeline Sep 2008 4 platforms in Tops 100 Tools for Leaning 2009-2011: Twitter, Cirip, Yammer, Edmodo Elizabeth Koh, An overview of microblogging, http://www.slideshare.net/elizabethkoh/an-overview-of-microblogging , slide 16

From Grosseck,Holotescu “Academic research in 140 characters and more” http://slideshare.net/ggrosseck

The most popular microblogging system
Launched in July, 2006
Robust, elegant and simple
More than 200 million users
Numerous mash-ups
Social networking in 140 characters twitter http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124372363@N01/2417123304/sizes/o

Twitter educational uses: Classroom community Collaboration Project Management Assessing opinion Conference / research Virtual classroom Learning experiences Personal Learning Network Reference services

- 25000 users - interface in Romanian, English, German - Finalist at Seedcamp Zagreb, Jan 2010 - In Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 Cirip.eu - a microblogging platform specially designed for education; launched in March, 2008, by Timsoft, a Romanian company specialized in eLearning and mobile applications

Facilities Cirip.eu (1)
public and private groups
(courses, internal training,
projects, events, internal
communication, service,
family, hobby, etc);
group communication via SMS
polls , quizzes – online or via SMS
feeds monitoring
via SMS / sites / blogs /
social networks / search feeds
- jobs, weather, reactions)
statistics, visualizations, tags.
Cirip.eu TUTORIAL

Facilities Cirip.eu (2) social network around multimedia objects multimedia objects embedded in messages (part of the communication flow, created/recreated, openess to (small) OERs - Weller, Martin (2010) ): - livestreaming, - images ( flickr, tinypic ), - audio ( eok, trilulilu, deezer, blip.fm, vocaroo, mp3 ), - (live) video ( youtube, dotsub, vimeo, screencastle, screenjelly, screenr, 220.ro, myvideo ), - presentations/learning design ( slideshare, capzles, voicethread, flowgram, photopeach, picasa, notaland, prezi, diagrammr, mindomo, mindmeister, spicynodes ), - documents ( odf, odt, pdf, doc, xls, txt, ppt, google docs/forms/spreadsheets )

Mobile learning features
On technological level
create, localize and join mobile groups
access social media and open educational resources
share opinions
work collaboratively on multimedia objects
participate in polls and quizzes
receive/send updates via SMS
create and manage mobile PLEs;
recover password via SMS.
On pedagogical level
develop multimedia educational resources / learning objects by using mobile technologies specific for different subject areas,
build mobile social learning environments engaging students in PBL, case studies, and collaborative projects
capture and formally represent experience and new pedagogical approach as learning design objects - shared, discussed, validated, improved, and reused.

information and knowledge management courses enhancement delivering entire online courses learning from the stream collaborative projects in universities communities of practice ePortfolios social LMS. Personal Learning Environments ( Networks ) - PLE/PLN Educational uses Users Feeds Social networks

Learning contexts on Cirip.eu

Materials:
announcements
materials as LOM/SCORM objects
multimedia messages

Course elements: announcements modules - LOM/SCORM objects collaborative exercises learning from the stream multimedia messages Cirip as a social network of msLMS polls/quiz/ comments via SMS (f2f) validations - interactions with users/experts/ groups

Formalizing PLE on cirip.eu Mindmap at http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show_public/29895908 embedded in the note at http://www.cirip.ro/status/11937282
Continuos
Persistent
Relevant
Connecting / integrating
Mobile
Scalable
Open to OERs
Fiable
Distributed
Universal
Cirip.eu - social network of PLEs

cirip.ro/grup/plebcn Learning from the stream time capsule with messages in 140 characters sent by participants, practitioners, teachers , trainers, students and others interested in PLE, from twitter, cirip, blogs, SNs

to constitute a framework for communication / sharing / learning in the PLE domain
to be a source of real-time information, connections with practitioners worldwide …
to offer access to all the group content, visualizations and statistics for future reflections
The aims of the group PLEBCN : The first message in the group

Mar Camacho's Presentation Note http://www.cirip.ro/status/3161801 Students perspective on PLE http://cirip.ro/grup/siac10

cirip.ro/grup/lds Activating in Learning Design group

Thank you! Carmen Holotescu cirip.ro/u/cami13 twitter.com/cami13 Gabriela Grosseck cirip.ro/u/gabriela twitter.com/ggrosseck

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