This document discusses the use of open information systems and Web 2.0 technologies to improve learning. It provides an example of implementing various Web 2.0 tools in an educational technology course, including a wiki for publishing notes, a question and answer system, and blogs. The example found that students were highly active in helping each other through the question and answer system. It concludes that creating an open information system can improve learning dynamics by selecting tools that fit how learning occurs and motivating community participation.

1. PLE’s are not for teachers (sorry)
Open Information Systems are!
Pedro Pernías Peco & Manuel Marco Such. University of Alicante. Spain
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2. web 2.0 will improve learning

3. Why?
How?
When?
in what sense?

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17. How the web 2.0 has been created?

19. social dynamics

20. technologies
social dynamics

21. applications
technologies
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22. applications
technologies
social dynamics

23. aplications
technologies
social dynamics

24. How we have proceeded?
aplications
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25. How we have proceeded?
aplications aplications
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26. How we have proceeded?
aplications aplications
technologies tech adaptations
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28. How we have proceeded?
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29. How we should proceed to implement
web 2.0 in education

30. How we should proceed to implement
web 2.0 in education
applications
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31. How we should proceed to implement
web 2.0 in education
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32. How we should proceed to implement
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33. How we should proceed to implement
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43. Other sources
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Open Information
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44. informal education sources
Other sources
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45. Teacher’s
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blogs microblogs
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47. My open information system

48. Case Study:
Educational Technology Course
2010-2011*
(and from 2006-07)
University of Alicante
* 380 students http://www.ntae.es

50. Wiki

51. BLOG
Wiki

52. BLOG
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53. BLOG
Wiki

54. BLOG
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55. BLOG
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56. BLOG
Wiki

57. LMS
BLOG
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58. LMS
BLOG
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59. LMS
BLOG
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69. 389 students in four groups (30% not active)
•48 students publish their handnotes in the wiki
•109 registered in q&a system
•79 active students in q&a
•350 questions in q&a system
•1149 answers in q&a system

70. (My) wiki experience
✤ Writing very simple. Students got skill very easily
✤ Hard to learn about IP problems (how to cite, how to use external
resources...)
✤ Students does not look at others....classroom disposition replicated
✤ Classroom communications is between teacher and students. It is the
same in the wiki

71. (My) WebLog experience
✤ Hard to maintain.... (lack of perseverance)
✤ It is difficult to reuse for other course editions
✤ Good to spread news and alerts
✤ Better RSS feed then other sources
✤ Use the BLOG dokuwiki plugin

72. (My) social networks experience
✤ Generic social networks are apart of what happen in classroom.
(about learning, of course)
✤ Teacher = intruder
✤ Better to use specific social networks...

73. (My) Q&A experience
✤ Great success! students helps each other... they question and answer a
lot! (probably they are more accesible than the teacher)
✤ Needs some “community management” work (play, rewards, positive
feedback...)
✤ Big differences between students (some very actives...more
actives...much more watching and occassionally participate)
✤ The Q&A dynamic EXISTS between them previously.

74. Conclusions

75. Create an Open Information
System is easy, if you choose the
right way...

76. ✤ Try to find wich learning dynamics are stablished in your
classroom.
✤ Selecting the software tools for specific functions that fits
on the learning dynamics
✤ The good news: are tons of open software!
✤ Look specially for syndications features !!
✤ Use community manager skills to motivate them
✤ Aggregate them in a mash-up for discovering

77. Always look
on the Open Side of life....
....your students and others will
thanks you for it

78. Thank you!
e-mail: p.pernias@ua.es
twitter: @ppernias
webs:
http://www.ua.es
http://sm.ingenieriamultimedia.org
http://www.tecnicasmultimedia.com
This work has been partially funded by Spanish Ministerio de
Ciencia e Innovación through projectTIN2009-14009-C02-01