A Distance Education Online Seminar Mashing Up Several Web 2 0 Tools

A Distance Education Online Seminar Mashing Up Several Web 2.0 Tools
João Mattar
Universidade Anhembi Morumbi
Brazil
March 18, 2010

SENAED
7º SENAED - Seminário Nacional ABED de Educação a Distância
7th National Seminar on Distance Education –Brazilian Association of Distance Education
May 23-31, 2009
“Polyphony in Online Teaching and Learning”

ABED
Founded in 1995
President: Fredric Michael Litto
Yearly International Congress
Yearly National Seminar
Online Journal
Printed Bulletin
Books

Organization
Organization: João Mattar (Universidade Anhembi Morumbi), Marco Silva (Estácio/UERJ) & Eliane Schlemmer (Unisinos).
Marketing & Communication Committee: Antônia Alves
Program Committee: Breno Trautwein
Social Committee: Maria Elza Miranda Ataíde

Volunteers
Active: Bertha Garcez, Fernanda Vilarim, Gentil Gonçalves Filho, Ieda Espírito Santo & Raquel Resende.
Collaborated: André Genesini, Giancarlo Colombo & José Bueno França.
ABED team: Alessandra, Beatriz, Rafael & Sérgio.

Characteristics
Totally at a Distance for the first time
Free & Open to anyone
The program started to be built collaboratively - and at a distance and by people that did not know each other personally – in a file on Google Docs, soon transferred to a wiki based on MediaWiki, the software that supports Wikipedia.

Topics
Professional development for online teaching
Tutor
Brazilian government and regulation on Distance Education
Brazilian Open University
Graduate Distance Learning Courses
High School Distance Education
Copyright and Distance Education
Corporate e-learning
Instructional Design

Tools
Blogs, Eduverse (Active World), FlashMeeting, Yahoo mailing list, LMSs, Mindomo, Moodle, Netvibes, Ning, Orkut, Second Life, Skype, Survey Monkey, Cable TV, Web and Video Conference, Games, Web Radio & TV, Wikis & YouTube.

Activities
More than 100 synchronous and asynchronous interactive activities
Training, courses, talks streamed to the web, posters, forums and discussion lists, chats, guided tours, researches, videoconferences, radio and tv programs, games and ARGs, contests, mind maps building etc.
Instead of passively absorbing knowledge, collaborative knowledge construction, available now online to the world

Coordinators
More than 160 leading Brazilian theorists and practitioners on Distance Education participated talking, moderating or coordinating tools and/or activities
No keynote speakers
Each guest had a blank page opened in the seminar wiki, which he could freely edit

Physical Support
The activities had the support of dozens of physical stations throughout the country, institutions that kindly offered their space and resources for those who could not (or did not want to) participate on the Seminar at home.
So, in many cases, the Seminar was followed by a group of people who continued the activities and discussions in their institutions.

Opening and Closing
The opening was transmitted by videoconference and the video was then made available online.
Various links to the recordings and materials used in the activities are available on the discussion page for each activity in the event program
The closing was recorded as a short podcast.

Numbers
1,721 enrolled – enrollment not required
Around 2,500 participants
643 enrolled only on Moodle activities
Generated about 6,000 web pages
To date, there have been 50,698 hits to the program page

Comments
“SENAED was a great success. A perfect interaction.”
“Innovative, fun, exciting and educational! We learned and had a lot of fun! The central theme 'Polyphony in Online Teaching and Learning' was perfect! We felt this movement spread all the time.”

Comment
“Fantastic! 7th SENAED as a whole was a success, creating something completely new that is going to change the paradigm of various events. We spend fortunes with face to face events and can not reach that many people.”

SENAED for DE history in Brazil
“In creativity and innovation, I have not seen anything similar, it was the first time.
Fantastic to prove that, as I say, the virtual is a different space for education.
It was possible to develop an online work much more interactive than in any face to face event.”

Results
Each participant could build his own menu of activities and tools, according to his learning style
Distance Education can be successful using from simple tools as mailing lists to complex tools as virtual worlds
Different levels of technologies can generate the sense of being close and together

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