Possibilities, Implications and Dangers of Educational Tecnology Evaristo Ovide Dublin, 22-1-2009

Background Do you use the ICT in your classes? What programs or services do you use? What benefits (if any) do you find in using them? What are the main problems you find to use them?

Do you use the ICT in your classes?

What programs or services do you use?

What benefits (if any) do you find in using them?

What are the main problems you find to use them?

Traditional learning vs Learning with ICT

Traditional learning Roles: Teacher: has knowledge & teaching skills Teaching: en masse, uniformed and general Student: needs knowledge and certificate Institution: organises the interaction between them, provides the resources and certifies. Limitations: Teacher, institution, time, place & resources

Roles:

Teacher: has knowledge & teaching skills

Teaching: en masse, uniformed and general

Student: needs knowledge and certificate

Institution: organises the interaction between them, provides the resources and certifies.

Limitations:

Teacher, institution, time, place & resources

Learning with ICT Roles Teacher -> knowledge of the “father” Learning -> personalised, collaborative Student -> more independent & capable Institution -> giver of certificates Limitations Access to the ICT

Roles

Teacher -> knowledge of the “father”

Learning -> personalised, collaborative

Student -> more independent & capable

Institution -> giver of certificates

Limitations

Access to the ICT

Typical mistakes Focus on tools Tools chosen by computing people Result: choice not pedagogical, but other criteria (ease of maintenance,etc..) Teachers not involved in the process Result: lack of learning strategy Final result: relunctancy to use the tools

Focus on tools

Tools chosen by computing people

Result: choice not pedagogical, but other criteria (ease of maintenance,etc..)

Teachers not involved in the process

Result: lack of learning strategy

Final result: relunctancy to use the tools

Why this change now? High-speed Internet available generally Resources available online, everywhere Knowledge: from teacher to Internet Web 2.0 Free software

High-speed Internet available generally

Resources available online, everywhere

Knowledge: from teacher to Internet

Web 2.0

Free software

Pioneers in the change

In the beginning was RMS... Richard Stallman GNU Proyect (1984) “GNU is Not Unix” Free Software Foundation (1985) “ Free as Freedom” 4 freedoms GNU GPL Licence

Richard Stallman

GNU Proyect (1984) “GNU is Not Unix”

Free Software Foundation (1985)

“ Free as Freedom”

4 freedoms

GNU GPL Licence

Help arrives... Linus Torvald Kernel missing in GNU Linux -> GNU/Linux GNU Proyect complete Different distributions: Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS…

Linus Torvald

Kernel missing in GNU

Linux -> GNU/Linux

GNU Proyect complete

Different distributions: Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS…

And the community grows... Firefox / MS Explorer Thunderbird / Outlook OpenOffice / MS Office Moodle / Blackboard Gimp / Photoshop Audacity / GoldWave Apache / IIS Videolan / Windows Media Player Open Workbench / MS Project PHP vs ASP MySQL vs SQL 7-zip vs WinRAR Inkscape / Illustrator Scribus / MS Publisher aMSN / MSN Filezilla / CuteFTP Partition Image / Norton Ghost ...

Firefox / MS Explorer

Thunderbird / Outlook

OpenOffice / MS Office

Moodle / Blackboard

Gimp / Photoshop

Audacity / GoldWave

Apache / IIS

Videolan / Windows Media Player

Open Workbench / MS Project

PHP vs ASP

MySQL vs SQL

7-zip vs WinRAR

Inkscape / Illustrator

Scribus / MS Publisher

aMSN / MSN

Filezilla / CuteFTP

Partition Image / Norton Ghost

...

Open Software

P2P Networks Napster (1999), Emule, Vuze... Culture of sharing: those who share more, get more From centralized networks to decentralization and anonymity Effective way to share culture, artistic creations, etc with the community and the world

Napster (1999), Emule, Vuze...

Culture of sharing: those who share more, get more

From centralized networks to decentralization and anonymity

Effective way to share culture, artistic creations, etc with the community and the world

Learning platforms Do you know which one is used here? Do you use it in your teaching? If yes, what do you use it for?

Do you know which one is used here?

Do you use it in your teaching?

If yes, what do you use it for?

Learning platforms LMS/VLE: an institution online, a “walled garden”, closed for outsiders Who decides the learning platform? Commercial vs Free Software Idea of community Idea of flexibility Blackboard vs Moodle

LMS/VLE: an institution online, a “walled garden”, closed for outsiders

Who decides the learning platform?

Commercial vs Free Software

Idea of community

Idea of flexibility

Blackboard vs Moodle

Learning the ropes Do you feel you have enough knowledge of educational technology to change your traditional way of teaching? If yes, what education have you received? If not, how do you feel it would have been the most effective way of learning that?

Do you feel you have enough knowledge of educational technology to change your traditional way of teaching?

If yes, what education have you received?

If not, how do you feel it would have been the most effective way of learning that?

Where do I start? Reading, reading and reading… Stephen Downes ( www.downes.ca ) David Wiley ( http://opencontent.org ) Marshable ( http://mashable.com ) ReadWriteWeb ( http://www.readwriteweb.com ) Tony Karrer ( http:// elearningtech.blogspot.com )

Reading, reading and reading…

Stephen Downes ( www.downes.ca )

David Wiley ( http://opencontent.org )

Marshable ( http://mashable.com )

ReadWriteWeb ( http://www.readwriteweb.com )

Tony Karrer ( http:// elearningtech.blogspot.com )

Ways to be taught in ICT Course (30-40 hours) Workshop (3-4 hours) Department of E-learning Team of people (no more than 5 years exp) Computing experts, but not Computing people Updated knowledge on ICT Continuous support: online and offline Forums, mailing lists, blogs, wikis..

Course (30-40 hours)

Workshop (3-4 hours)

Department of E-learning

Team of people (no more than 5 years exp)

Computing experts, but not Computing people

Updated knowledge on ICT

Continuous support: online and offline

Forums, mailing lists, blogs, wikis..

What tools are important? None, only aims are important PLE: blogs, starting page Collaborative work: blogs, wikis Sharing knowledge: repositories, P2P, website, blogs Creating community: social networks, blogs

None, only aims are important

PLE: blogs, starting page

Collaborative work: blogs, wikis

Sharing knowledge: repositories, P2P, website, blogs

Creating community: social networks, blogs

Open Learning Open Courseware Open Teaching Open Assessment

Open Courseware

Open Teaching

Open Assessment

OpenCourseWare MIT (2001): http://ocw.mit.edu/ Yale: http://oyc.yale.edu/ Berkeley: http ://es.youtube.com/ucberkeley Carnegie Mellon: http ://www.cmu.edu/oli/index.shtml Open Univ: http:// openlearn.open.ac.uk / Utah State Univ: http://ocw.usu.edu/ Indira Ghandi University: http :// es.youtube.com / profile?user=egyankoshIGNOU&view=subscriptions http :// www.egyankosh.ac.in /

MIT (2001): http://ocw.mit.edu/

Yale: http://oyc.yale.edu/

Berkeley: http ://es.youtube.com/ucberkeley

Carnegie Mellon: http ://www.cmu.edu/oli/index.shtml

Open Univ: http:// openlearn.open.ac.uk /

Utah State Univ: http://ocw.usu.edu/

Indira Ghandi University:

http :// es.youtube.com / profile?user=egyankoshIGNOU&view=subscriptions

http :// www.egyankosh.ac.in /

Open Teaching David Wiley (2006) Kansas University 2009: Brigham Young University: http://open.byu.edu/ipt692r-wiley/ Stephen Downes and George Siemens (2008) University of Manitoba: Connectivism: 1200 participants

David Wiley (2006) Kansas University

2009: Brigham Young University: http://open.byu.edu/ipt692r-wiley/

Stephen Downes and George Siemens (2008) University of Manitoba: Connectivism: 1200 participants

Open Assessment David Wiley (2006) Kansas University 2009: Brigham Young University: http://open.byu.edu/ipt692r-wiley/ The most delicate subject: e-portfolios

David Wiley (2006) Kansas University

2009: Brigham Young University: http://open.byu.edu/ipt692r-wiley/

The most delicate subject: e-portfolios

Licences Copyright = all rights reserved Creative commons: Larry Lessig from the University of Stanford: http://creativecommons.org/ GNU GPL: 4 freedoms : 0: The freedom to run the program, for any purpose 1: Study the program & adapt it: code req. 2: Redistribute copies “so you can help your neighbour” 3: Improve and publish “so that the whole community Benefits”

Copyright = all rights reserved

Creative commons: Larry Lessig from the University of Stanford: http://creativecommons.org/

GNU GPL: 4 freedoms :

0: The freedom to run the program, for any purpose

1: Study the program & adapt it: code req.

2: Redistribute copies “so you can help your neighbour”

3: Improve and publish “so that the whole community Benefits”

Evaristo Ovide Universidad de Salamanca [email_address] http://aprendiendoonline.blogspot.com