An Emerging Suite of Social Learning Technologies

An emerging suite of social learning technologies Simon Buckingham Shum Knowledge Media Institute Cloudscape for this event: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2034 1

Social learning technology: candidate dimensions of the design space everyday social media “friends” like me 1-many from the start rapid information exchange no reflection required by the UI tag clouds generic web analytics recommendations based on navigation, ratings, purchases… myriad activity traces in the cloud informal personal endorsements 2 © Simon Buckingham Shum

Social learning technology: candidate dimensions of the design space everyday social media social media tuned for learning? “friends” like me learning peers/mentors who both affirm and challenge 1-many from the start plus 1-1 mentoring rapid information exchange learning conversations no reflection required by the UI reflection encouraged by the UI tag clouds meaningful connections generic web analytics learning analytics recommendations based on recommendations based on navigation, ratings, purchases… learning profiles and activities myriad activity traces in the cloud plus a secure e-portfolio to evidence learning informal personal endorsements verifiable accreditation by trusted platforms 3 © Simon Buckingham Shum

Lightning ‘flashcard’ tour of OU social learning technologies A social space to share/discuss educational ideas/resources A semantic hypermedia tool for visual Compendium modelling and mapping f2f/e-discourse Annotate any website with highlights, margin notes, and meaningful connections Tool for online mentoring around the ELLI ELLIment lifelong learning framework Aggregated user profile and social graph, SocialLearn delivering services via cross-platform Google Gadgets 4 © Simon Buckingham Shum

Plus of course, direct interpersonal comms tools: FlashMeeting: audio/video conferencing with just the Flash web browser plug-in http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk 5 © Simon Buckingham Shum

Plus of course, direct interpersonal comms tools: Hexagon: lo-fi peripheral awareness with just the Flash browser plug-in http://cnm.open.ac.uk/projects/hexagon 6 © Simon Buckingham Shum

cloudworks 7 © Simon Buckingham Shum

Cloudworks: A social space to share/discuss educational ideas/resources (IET) http://cloudworks.ac.uk Seed your Cloud with introductory text or embedded media, and then invite discussion and links © Simon Buckingham Shum

compendium 11 © Simon Buckingham Shum

Compendium: “Excel for Ideas http://compendium.open.ac.uk Dialogue Mapping meetings in real time, which can be further enhanced when the map provides a semantic index into video of the meeting (e.g. screen recording of a Flashmeeting conference) 12 © Simon Buckingham Shum

Compendium: “Excel for Ideas” http://compendium.open.ac.uk Dialogue Mapping meetings in real time, which can be further enhanced when the map provides a semantic index into video of the meeting (e.g. Access Grid using Memetic Project replay tools) 13 © Simon Buckingham Shum

Compendium: “Excel for Ideas” http://compendium.open.ac.uk Mapping therapeutic group dynamics: Which behaviours do two patients share? Tags shared in common are orange, tags from one patient in green 14 © Simon Buckingham Shum

Compendium: “Excel for Ideas” http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/e-dance/2009/09/14/choreographic-video-annotation Direct annotation of video in Compendium, overlaying multiple interpretations (e-Dance project) 15 © Simon Buckingham Shum

cohere 16 © Simon Buckingham Shum

Cohere: web annotation + semantic connections http://cohere.open.ac.uk 17 © Simon Buckingham Shum

Cohere: web annotation + semantic connections http://cohere.open.ac.uk View clips Tweet this annotation from web Visualize connections map Edit Connect to another Idea Delete Add Clip Bookmark 18 © Simon Buckingham Shum

Cohere: web annotation + semantic connections http://cohere.open.ac.uk 19 © Simon Buckingham Shum

Cohere: web annotation + semantic connections http://cohere.open.ac.uk Connections filtered by Contrast © Simon Buckingham Shum

Cohere: web annotation + semantic connections http://cohere.open.ac.uk Connections filtered by Lineage © Simon Buckingham Shum

Cohere: web annotation + semantic connections http://cohere.open.ac.uk Connections filtered by Similarity © Simon Buckingham Shum

Cohere: web annotation + semantic connections http://cohere.open.ac.uk Connections filtered by Consistency © Simon Buckingham Shum

ELLIment: online tool for 1-1 mentoring around the ELLI framework (rapid prototype – Thomas Ullman, OU) Choose your mentor © Simon Buckingham Shum

ELLIment: online tool for 1-1 mentoring around the ELLI framework Choose your Editable ELLI mentor profile accessed from Learning Shared record of notes, activities, Warehouse objectives, etc Private or Shared reflections © Simon Buckingham Shum

ELLIment: online tool for 1-1 mentoring around the ELLI framework Choose your Editable ELLI mentor profile accessed from Learning Shared record of notes, activities, Warehouse objectives, etc Private or Shared reflections AV channel of choice © Simon Buckingham Shum

The SocialLearn Space provides the ‘glue’ to connect diverse websites, providing ‘friends’, analytics and recommendations OU VLE PhD-Skills ORO Interoperability via Google OpenSocial Gadgets/FriendConnect 1. Profile SocialLearn Space 2. User Interface 3. Social Graph 4. Services 29 © Simon Buckingham Shum

Google Gadgets & OpenSocial http://opensocial.org / directory.opensocial.org Major social media players are now OpenSocial Gadget “containers” The Gadget Directory is analogous to the iPhone AppStore – thousands of apps 30 © Simon Buckingham Shum

Cloudworks People Recommender gadget in an iGoogle portal (or any other OpenSocial container) People Recommender gadget 31 © Simon Buckingham Shum

Embedding Google Gadgets in Cloudworks People Recommender gadget Cloud Recommender gadget Cloudstream Recommender gadget 32 © Simon Buckingham Shum

Embedding a Google Gadget in PhD-Skills website http://phdskills.open.ac.uk A generic PhD skill from the national Research Councils framework Cloudstream Recommender gadget showing relevant activity in Cloudworks (test example) 33 © Simon Buckingham Shum

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