People believe that online education is easy, that students are automatically engaged and that teachers already know how to use technology. NOT!!!

2. Let’sbeginbyasking…

3. What
is
Education?

4. Educationisjust…

5. astoryof stories.

6. Someone
wants
to
tell
them

7. Someone
wants
to
listen
to
them

8. Educationhappens

9. whenyouputtogether…

10. someone
whowantsto
teach

11. +
someone
whowants
tolearn

13. Itis a simple equation.

14. abc
TIME
PLACE
t1
p1
Teacher
Youhavethe
time and
place of
theteacher

15. And
the time
and place
of
thestudent
abc
t2
p2
TIME
PLACE
Student

16. abc
abc
t1
p1
Teacher
t2
p2
Student

17. TraditionalEducation
abc
abc
t1 = t2
p1 = p2
In traditionaleducationboth times
and places are equal

21. Virtual Education
WWW
abc
abc
t1 = t2
p1 = p2
In virtual education times
orplaces can be different

22. WWW
abc
abc
And theconnectionis…

23. WWW
Technology

25. But virtual education

26. has beenaroundforcenturies.

28. Teachers and students

29. in different times and places

30. havebeenconnected

31. by a technologycalled

32. Books!

33. Withthis
ancienttech
nology

34. someone in
one time
and place

35. can tell a
story

36. tosomeone
in a
different
time and
place.

37. Hopefully…

38. Successfuleducation

39. wasbasedon «expertusers»

40. of thisancienttechnology.

41. Thatis
goodrea
ders and
goodwrit
ers

42. Thatis:
goodreaders and goodwriters

43. Yesterday:

44. Reading
+
Writing
BertheMorisot (1870)
Johannes Vermeer (1670)

45. Today:

46. Recording
+
Playing
back

47. Theprocessisthesame

48. Thetools are different

49. Different Media
DifferentSpeeds

50. Wheneducation
has a time and a place

51. Wehave
a course

52. A courseis a place

53. whereyou can go

55. to listen to a story

56. Then a courseis

57. Onestory

58. Onestory
+
One host

59. Onestory
+
One host
+
Severalguests

64. Buttodaywehave

65. New principles
TheMaterials
Atoms vs. Bits
Processing Information
vs. Moving Objects
Intangibles
Collective Knowledge
Generation of Ideas
Overinformation
Misinformation
Gil Bruvel

66. New principles
The Place
Distance is redefined
Frontiers are obsolete
The World is your audience
and your competitor
Challenges and threats
are closer…
oneclickapart
Gil Bruvel

67. New principles
The Time
Instantaneous
Interactive / Feedback
Real time / Multitasking
Constant Change
Gil Bruvel
A Life Project
vs. A Life of Projects

68. ¡Help!

69. Thereis a new arena

70. forthisongoingconversation

71. betweenteachers and students.

73. The virtual classroom

74. WWW
Virtual Campus
Virtual Classroom
Activities
•Discussions
•Questionnaires
•Homework
•Glossaries
• Chats
•Blogs
• Wikis
Resources
•Links
•Readings
•LearningObjects
Files
•Folders
•Documents
• Videos / Audios

75. A place full of tools

76. forthe host tofindnew ways

78. totellthestory

79. A story can be told in sequence
Virtual Classroom

80. Ornot…
Virtual Classroom

82. It can be full of
resources
Readings
Audios
Links
Videos
Simulations
Learningobjects

83. And activities
Wikis
Glossaries
Discussions
Blogs
Chats
Questionnaires
Puzzles
Homework

84. Butitwill be
lifeless

85. withoutan
active
interaction

86. of
alltheparticipan
ts

88. So
theresources

89. and
activities

90. are
important

91. butnot as
important

92. as
creating

93. A community

94. We can have

95. thebest of bothworlds

96. and
gotoschool

97. in
manywa
ys

98. Butsomes
chools are
notgettingi
trightyet…

99. and these are their
5 bigmistakes…

100. #1
Big Mistake #1

101. #1
Believingthat
Virtual Education
=MassiveEducation

102. #1
 Technologyis a multiplier
… buteducationis a onetooneprocess.

103. #1
 Thereis no limit in thenumber of
Participants
Materials
Activities
Links
…butlearningisnotaccumulationbutassimilation.

104. #1
 Youdon’thaveonecourse of 250
… youhave 250 courses of one.

105. #1
 Youshould be concernedwhenyourdesertionrateis 40%.
…Thatis. Ifyouenrol 1000 students
intoan 8 semesterprogram.
Only 28 will be
at thegraduationceremony.
…Oneout of 40 students.

106. #2
Big Mistake #2

107. #2
Believingthat
Virtual Education
=Mysterious and
ComplexEducation

108. #2
 Thereis no mystery in connectingsomeonewhowantstolearn
and someonewhowantstoteach.
…Givethemthetools.
They’ll do themagic.

109. #2
 Thereis a myththatgoesaround: A
goodtraditionalteacherwillnoteasilybecome a good virtual
teacher.
...False. A goodteacheris a goodteacher
withanytool.
…Unlessyouthinkthat
a «good» virtual teacher = a good actor.

110. #2
 A halo of complexity and
mysteryisalwaysconvenienttocreatean elite
groupwithintheschoolfor virtual education.
…We are transferringthevices and bureaucracy of
oldeducationtothe new scenery.
…Welcometothe new and improved
virtual inferno of politics and intrigue.

111. #3
Big Mistake #3

112. #3
Putting
Technology
beforePedagogy

113. #3
 Aneducationalsystemlogicshouldbe as follows:
Student ◄ Teacher◄ Materials ◄ Technology
…Technologyisthetoolthathelpstheteachercreatematerialsto
share withthestudent
…Technologyshould be the bridge thatallows
theteacher – studentinteraction.

114. #3
 Butthe real systemusuallyworkslikethis:
Student◄ Materials ◄ Technology ◄ Teacher
…Teachersbecomesubordinates of
technologywhichdictatesthewaytheyshouldtellthestory.
…Seehowfartheteacheris. Probablythatiswhytheycallit
“distance” education.

115. #4
Big Mistake #4

116. #4
Underestimatingyour
Teachers and Students

117. #4
 Someschoolshavedeveloped a virtual educationsystem,
butitis a closedsystem.
…Closedtocriticism, closedtoexperimentation,
closedtoinnovation

118. #4
 Standardization and modularity are the dogma.
…Teacherscannotmovefreely
outsidepredeterminedpaths.
…Neither do students.

119. #4
 Studentsreceivepredesigned “objects”, “packages”,
“modules”. Notcourses.
…A packageistheproduct of a designer.
A courseisanunpredictable and single event
hostedbyaneducator.
…A module ispredetermined, a courseiscontingent.
Likethecourse of a river.

120. #5
Big Mistake #5

121. #5
TakingtheFun
out of Education

122. #5
 In someschools, virtual education and stress are synonyms.
…Control, supervision, measurements, indicators and
reportshavereplacedthefreedom and flexibility
thatwasoriginallypromised
in virtual education.
…Educationwastransformedinto
an industrial process.

123. #5
 Educationshouldbe accidental, unpredictable, unscripted.
…Thereisplenty of room in virtual education
forspontaneity.
…Students and teachershould be encouraged
totakerisks.

124. #5
 Allcoursescannotbestructuredthesameway.
…Uniformity and homogeneity can notbepart of a humanprocess.
…Doing, thinking, watching, analizing, proposing, building:
thesameingredientscannot be equallyformulatedforallcourses.
…Somecourses are intensive in communication, some in reading,
some in autoevaluation, some in theory, some in practice.
…Theonlyconstantforallcoursesisthegenuinedesire of bothteachers
and studentstointeract and havefun.

125. #5
 Someschools are searchingforthe “formula” for virtual
education. Forthemould of theperfectcourse.
…”Virtualizing” a subject of study
shouldnotkillitscharm.
…The labor of a virtual teachershould be
amusing and fascinating.
Althoughwehavetodisobeyourinstitutionstomakeit so.

126. +1
+ 1 More
Big Mistake

127. +1
Makingthesamemistakes…

128. +1
and expectingdifferentresults.

129. That’s the definition of
INSANITY!!!

130. Check out my video about virtual
education
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvqy0CAMdCM