Collective Intelligence and E-Learning 2.0

Collective Intelligence and E-Learning 2.0 Steve C. Yuen, Ph.D. Professor The University of Southern Mississippi E-mail: Steve.Yuen@usm.edu Creating Futures Through Technology Pre-Conference March 3, 2010, Biloxi, Mississippi

Current Developments
Information explosion
Net generation and iGeneration
Learner centered design
Connectivism
Virtual learning environment
Open source, open education
New learning environment
Web 2.0

The World is Changing… CHANGE HAPPENS…QUICKLY

The Top 10 In-Demand Jobs in 2010 Didn’t Exist in 2004 - Former Secretary of Education, Richard Riley Fisch, K. & McLeod S. (2008). Did You Know 3.0? A YouTube Video.

There are over 31 billion searches performed on Google each month. In 2006, this number is 2.7 billion . Fisch, K. & McLeod S. (2008). Did You Know 3.0? A YouTube Video. Fisch, K. & McLeod S. (2008). Did You Know 3.0? A YouTube Video.

The first commercial text message was sent in December 1992. Fisch, K. & McLeod S. (2008). Did You Know 3.0? A YouTube Video.

Today, the number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the planet. Fisch, K. & McLeod S. (2008). Did You Know 3.0? A YouTube Video.

Over 1 million new books are published worldwide every year . Fisch, K. & McLeod S. (2008). Did You Know 3.0? A YouTube Video. Did You Know 4.0? A YouTube Video.

It is estimated that 4 exabytes (that’s 4.0 x 10 18 ) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year. That is more than the previous 5,000 years Fisch, K. & McLeod S. (2008). Did You Know 3.0? A YouTube Video.

Every 2 years the amount of new information DOUBLES Fisch, K. & McLeod S. (2008). Did You Know 3.0? A YouTube Video.

That means for a student starting a four-year technical or college degree . . . Fisch, K. & McLeod S. (2008). Did You Know 3.0? A YouTube Video.

Half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study. Fisch, K. & McLeod S. (2008). Did You Know 3.0? A YouTube Video.

Net Generation
Born after 1980
Highly networked, interactive, and social
See technology as an essential part of their lives
1 st generation to be producers of content, not just consumers
Prefer multi-tasking and quick, non-linear access to information
Are visually-oriented
Rely heavily on communications technologies to access information and to carry out social and professional interactions.

iGeneration
Generation Z or iGeneration – after 1997
iGeneration has no OFF switch
Technology is a part of their DNA
Represent the “individualized” nature of their media
Early introduction to technology
Text me, don’t call me. Prefer texting and social networking for communicating than talk face-to-face or on the phone
Desire for immediacy
Technology is not a tool, but a part of life
Ability to use technology to create a vast array of content
Sources: Jayson, S. iGeneration has no off switch. USA Today. Feb 10, 2010 Nizram. Rise Of The iGeneration: Don’t Call Me, Text Me . Feb 8. 2010

Learner Centered Design
Autonomy - Choice
Active Learning
Interdependence between teacher and learner
Stephen Downes, E-Learning 2.0. National Research Council Canda, June 1, 2005

Source: http://www.elearnspace.org/media/ProfessionalDevelopment/player.html “… a form of knowledge and a pedagogy based on the idea that knowledge is distributed across a network of connections and that learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks. “ – George Siemens
Knowledge is distributed
Knowledge is interconnected
Knowledge is personal
Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources
– Steven Downes

Virtual Learning Environment
“ Personal Learning Environment” or PLE.
The personal learning center
A web of content
Give the learner greater control over their learning experiences
Managing their learning resources, the work they have produced, the activities they participate in
Stephen Downes, E-Learning 2.0. National Research Council Canda, June 1, 2005

Open Source, Open Access
Open source software
Learning Management Systems
Moodle, Sakai, ATutor
Development & Community Tools
Connexions, ELGG, Drupal, WordPress
Supporting Software
Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Audacity
File sharing
Open content
Creative Commons

Open Education, Open Learning
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Yale Open Courses
OER Commons, Curriki – Open Educational Resources
OpenCourseWare Consortium
Wikipedia – Online Encyclopedias
Project Gutenberg – Online Collections

New Learning Environments
Multimedia explosion
podcasts, vodcasts, YouTube, Slideshare, VoiceThread, Flick, and more
Mobile computing
smartphones, iPhones, Google phones.
The 3D web
Second Life
Downes, S. (2007). E-learning 2.0 in Development

20 hours of video uploaded every minute onto YouTube Source: YouTube blog Aug 09

More video was uploaded to YouTube in the last 2 months than if ABC, CBS, and NBC had been airing new content (with no re-runs) 24/7/365 since 1948 (which was when ABC started broadcasting). Did You Know 4.0? A YouTube Video.

50 million non-spam tweets sent daily, or 600 tweets per second. Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day; Still Dwarfed by Facebook & YouTube. Read Write Web. February 22, 2010

Flickr has 73 million visitors a month who upload 700 million photos Source: Yahoo Mar 09

Wikipedia launched in 2001. It attracts nearly 58 million visitors monthly and features over 15 million articles in more than 270 languages. Source: Wikipedia site. February 27, 2010.

1,300,000 blog posts daily. Source: Technorati , 2009

5 million unique residents 1.5 million logged in the last 60 days Source: Second Life

In 2008 , if you’re not on a social networking site, you’re not on the Internet . IAB Platform Status Report: User Generated Content, Social Media, and Advertising — An Overview (April 2008)

If Facebook were a country, only China and India have larger populations than Facebook. There are over 400 million registered users on Facebook . Fisch, K. & McLeod S. (2008). Did You Know 3.0? A YouTube Video. Infographic 2010: How Facebook Grew To 400 Million Users. http://bit.ly/a0eThz

Infographic 2010: How Facebook Grew To 400 Million Users. http://bit.ly/a0eThz

Web 2.0 allows learners to:
create

Web 2.0 allows learners to: contribute

Web 2.0 allows learners to: collaborate

Web 2.0 allows learners to: http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/FEB02_Issue/article01.html connect

Web 2.0 allows learners to: share

Web 2.0 allows learners to: participate in a learning community

Key Emerging Technologies The Horizon Report, 2008 Edition, http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/CSD5320.pdf
Horizon Report 2008
Grassroots Video – anyone can capture, edit, upload and share
Collaboration webs – create, edit, share, hold meetings in a browser
Mobile broadband – mobile devices with internet connectivity
Data mashups – custom applications combining data in new ways
Collective Intelligence – knowledge emerging from large groups
Social Operating Systems – networks organized around people
Source: www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf

Collective Intelligence
Collective Intelligence refers to the capacity of human communities to evolve towards higher order complexity and integration through collaboration and innovation.
Intelligence of aggregate community vs. the individual
Information-sharing by individuals
Low cost creation of content by users
Increased access to user’s knowledge
Incentives for sharing (social recognition or monetary reward)
Denise Caron, Collective Intelligence http://www.slideshare.net/dcaron/collective-intelligence-presentation

E-Learning 1.0
The early promise of e-learning has not been fully realized … (O’hear, 2006; Downes, 2005)
Learning content is provided by courseware authors, structured into courses by learning management system (LMS), and consumed by students
Employ the use of LMS that is often cumbersome and expensive – and which tends to be structured around courses, timetables, and testing
Often driven by needs of the institution rather than the individual learner
Traditional e-learning is not flexible and is not integrated with the Web
It is a monoculture, ….

E-Learning 2.0
Take a “small pieces, loosely joined” approach that combines the use of discrete but complementary Web 2.0 tools to support the creation of ad-hoc learning communities
Socially based software: collaborative, iterative, inclusive (discussion) = knowledge building & sharing
Include: blogs, Wikis, podcasts, social tagging and forums

E-Learning 2.0
Allow learners to create content and to collaborate with peers to form a learning network with distribution of content creation and responsibilities
Allow learner to easily access content through search, aggregation, and tagging
Capitalize on many sources of content aggregated together into learning experiences and utilize various tools including online references, courseware, knowledge management, collaboration and search

Kerres, M. Web 2.0 and its implications for learning in higher education. http://www.nuigalway.ie/celt/webcasts/MichaelKerres/MichaelKerres.ppt E-Learning 1.0 E-Learning 2.0 Learning environment = an isle in the net with contents and tools Learning environment = a portal to the net with contents and tools Teacher conveys all learning resources onto the “isle” Teacher provides guideposts to external resources, aggregates resources from the net Learner uses the materials and tools provided by the learning environment. Learner configures his/her personal (learning) work environment

E-Learning 2.0 Zaid Alsagoff (2009) E-LearningTalk. http://www.slideshare.net/zaid/elearning-talk

Stephen Downes. Learning Networks and Connective Knowledge. http://www.downes.ca/files/pdr/pdr10.jpg

Manilnka Ivanova - eLearning 1.0 Ecosystem and eLearning 2.0 Ecosystem. http://mivanova.blogspot.com/2007/11/elearning-10-ecosystem-and-elearning-20.html

Learning Tools for E-Learning 2.0
Mostly free
Wikis
Blogs
Learning Activity Management System
Virtual classrooms
Podcasts
RSS
Mash-ups
Content authoring
Social bookmarking
Social learning networks
Personal learning spaces
Virtual social worlds
Open learning content

E-Learning 2.0
Personal learning environment s
Focus on constructive activities
Learning = generating content + communicating with people
The future of LMS
Kerres, M. Web 2.0 and its implications for learning in higher education. http://www.nuigalway.ie/celt/webcasts/MichaelKerres/MichaelKerres.ppt

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