Cloudworks is a social networking site for finding, sharing, and discussing learning and teaching ideas and designs. Users can post "clouds" containing their ideas and designs, which can be tagged and commented on. The goal is to build an online community that encourages collaboration and the sharing of educational practices and designs.
case book of past projects. the focus of this case book is of the research process that led to our insights, which in turn directs the product development.
The case of computer science education & open source software communities
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Towards a hybrid approach to Software Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Greece.
Read the related paper at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/10933440/A-HYBRID-APPROACH-TO-COMPUTER-SCIENCE-EDUCATION
5 Ways Organizations Get eLearning WrongJohn Schulz
I delivered this presentation at the 2009 Chicago eLearning & Technology Showcase.
The issues were identified through an informal survey posted to several social networks. Participants were asked to identify one way their organization got elearning wrong - that is, to identify one 'thing' that threatened the success of elearning deployment within their organization.
Many of the responses were rather tactical - the specific way a particular course was designed, the particular tool used, etc. All of the responses, however, pointed to one of five strategic issues. Those are explored here, and were supported by research/comments from a number of industry sources.
This presentation really calls for a slidecast, as the presentation was designed to be very conversational. As a result, the slides are somewhat thin on text. Until a slide cast can be created, please feel free to write me with questions.
Again, many of the ideas represented here are not original thought. I try to reference these sources on the slides as appropriate. Please let me know if I missed someone.
case book of past projects. the focus of this case book is of the research process that led to our insights, which in turn directs the product development.
The case of computer science education & open source software communities
---
Towards a hybrid approach to Software Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki - Greece.
Read the related paper at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/10933440/A-HYBRID-APPROACH-TO-COMPUTER-SCIENCE-EDUCATION
5 Ways Organizations Get eLearning WrongJohn Schulz
I delivered this presentation at the 2009 Chicago eLearning & Technology Showcase.
The issues were identified through an informal survey posted to several social networks. Participants were asked to identify one way their organization got elearning wrong - that is, to identify one 'thing' that threatened the success of elearning deployment within their organization.
Many of the responses were rather tactical - the specific way a particular course was designed, the particular tool used, etc. All of the responses, however, pointed to one of five strategic issues. Those are explored here, and were supported by research/comments from a number of industry sources.
This presentation really calls for a slidecast, as the presentation was designed to be very conversational. As a result, the slides are somewhat thin on text. Until a slide cast can be created, please feel free to write me with questions.
Again, many of the ideas represented here are not original thought. I try to reference these sources on the slides as appropriate. Please let me know if I missed someone.
Changing The Learner Mindset by Naureen Wilson & Andrew Jacobs, London Boroug...Learning Pool Ltd
The novel approach that London Borough of Lambeth use which gives you the opportunity to
build an activity- the Lambeth way.Improve traditional learning and transform the way your staff learn.
Presentation at the Serious Games Institute October 27, 2009 by Ron Edwards on the nature of work, drivers of collaboration and need for better tools, and how virtual worlds are an optimum fit for enterprise collaboration. Ron is the CEO of Ambient Performance in London.
a deck I created early 2009 to summarize some of the work we'd done on ThinkPlace: case study of transforming a conventional application at IBM into social software. It was a fascinating journey to embed "social" features into an enterprise app during 2008-09 and looking back, we were still very ahead of the curve back then.
#ICOT2013 | Breakout exploring a social network site and teacher professional...Karen Spencer
The rapid shift in learning behaviours towards networked, online and blended models heralds new ways to imagine notions of learning and education. The movement towards increasingly democratized modes of knowledge making and creating is central to the way our ‘future society’ is developing. Recent years have seen a growing expectation that learners can access materials, resources and networks of experts and fellow-learners in ways that suit their contexts, location, time constraints, personal and professional needs and choice of technology.
In the field of education, e-learning (be it blended or fully online) is increasingly becoming part of both informal, and formal, educational professional learning for teachers. With the growth of social networking, combined with the growing demand for flexible and cost-efficient solutions to professional training, it is vital to understand the limitations and opportunities of the role that social network sites, and their communities, play within educational contexts.
This interpretive, case-based study (scheduled for 2012) will seek to explore the extent to which a New Zealand-based social networking site, the VLN Groups network, can support educators’ professional learning in ways that are meaningful. Findings will aim to identify the affordances and limitations of the VLN Groups social network site in terms of design in the service of learning to make recommendations about how we might improve the design and facilitation to enhance the way the space supports teachers’ professional learning.
Traditionally one characterization of formal education has been that it is ‘closed’, resulting in the fact that learning spaces with their educational materials, and individual students’ learning processes and outcomes remain unavailable for the general public. The hybrid approach to Software Engineering piloted at Aristotle University during the winter semester 2008 / 2009 on the other hand builds upon the way learning and knowledge creation at the participatory web takes place, in particular within the Free / Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities. This is to say that on the hand the learning environment used at this course is open for participation of any individual interested at the subject (inviting in), and on the other hand Aristotle’s software engineering students are engaging at students driven small scale learning projects, with each of those learning projects being associated to an open source project (sending out). This combination of ‘inviting in’ and ‘sending out’ is what we like to call a hybrid approach. One objective of the hybrid approach is to provide the foundation required for an evolutionary growing learning ecosystem where learning processes and outcomes have the potential to become learning resources for future students and therefore connecting content to discourse.
If you have ever wondered about how the classrooms of the future will look like attend this session by NASSP's National Award Winning Digital Principal Mike King. Mike and Jesse West will take you into the world of the next generation of teaching and learning which Mike calls the New Alexandria. Learn the essential techniques of generating digital content using methods of facilitate, aggregate, curate, and create through project based learning in primordial spaces within the elaborative learning process. In this session you will learn about the new collaboration roles of the curator, and designer, as information is synthesized from, standards, assessment, content, method, and process into newly developed content generated for mobile learning. The end product of these practices will be a digital book for the new "Alexandrian Libraries of the Future." This session is a BYOD with some knowledge of iAuthor, aggregation and curation tools like, twitter, Delicious, Diggo, scoopit, Paper.li and Twitted Times which are all necessary components for your learning, get connected became a curator.
Changing The Learner Mindset by Naureen Wilson & Andrew Jacobs, London Boroug...Learning Pool Ltd
The novel approach that London Borough of Lambeth use which gives you the opportunity to
build an activity- the Lambeth way.Improve traditional learning and transform the way your staff learn.
Presentation at the Serious Games Institute October 27, 2009 by Ron Edwards on the nature of work, drivers of collaboration and need for better tools, and how virtual worlds are an optimum fit for enterprise collaboration. Ron is the CEO of Ambient Performance in London.
a deck I created early 2009 to summarize some of the work we'd done on ThinkPlace: case study of transforming a conventional application at IBM into social software. It was a fascinating journey to embed "social" features into an enterprise app during 2008-09 and looking back, we were still very ahead of the curve back then.
#ICOT2013 | Breakout exploring a social network site and teacher professional...Karen Spencer
The rapid shift in learning behaviours towards networked, online and blended models heralds new ways to imagine notions of learning and education. The movement towards increasingly democratized modes of knowledge making and creating is central to the way our ‘future society’ is developing. Recent years have seen a growing expectation that learners can access materials, resources and networks of experts and fellow-learners in ways that suit their contexts, location, time constraints, personal and professional needs and choice of technology.
In the field of education, e-learning (be it blended or fully online) is increasingly becoming part of both informal, and formal, educational professional learning for teachers. With the growth of social networking, combined with the growing demand for flexible and cost-efficient solutions to professional training, it is vital to understand the limitations and opportunities of the role that social network sites, and their communities, play within educational contexts.
This interpretive, case-based study (scheduled for 2012) will seek to explore the extent to which a New Zealand-based social networking site, the VLN Groups network, can support educators’ professional learning in ways that are meaningful. Findings will aim to identify the affordances and limitations of the VLN Groups social network site in terms of design in the service of learning to make recommendations about how we might improve the design and facilitation to enhance the way the space supports teachers’ professional learning.
Traditionally one characterization of formal education has been that it is ‘closed’, resulting in the fact that learning spaces with their educational materials, and individual students’ learning processes and outcomes remain unavailable for the general public. The hybrid approach to Software Engineering piloted at Aristotle University during the winter semester 2008 / 2009 on the other hand builds upon the way learning and knowledge creation at the participatory web takes place, in particular within the Free / Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities. This is to say that on the hand the learning environment used at this course is open for participation of any individual interested at the subject (inviting in), and on the other hand Aristotle’s software engineering students are engaging at students driven small scale learning projects, with each of those learning projects being associated to an open source project (sending out). This combination of ‘inviting in’ and ‘sending out’ is what we like to call a hybrid approach. One objective of the hybrid approach is to provide the foundation required for an evolutionary growing learning ecosystem where learning processes and outcomes have the potential to become learning resources for future students and therefore connecting content to discourse.
If you have ever wondered about how the classrooms of the future will look like attend this session by NASSP's National Award Winning Digital Principal Mike King. Mike and Jesse West will take you into the world of the next generation of teaching and learning which Mike calls the New Alexandria. Learn the essential techniques of generating digital content using methods of facilitate, aggregate, curate, and create through project based learning in primordial spaces within the elaborative learning process. In this session you will learn about the new collaboration roles of the curator, and designer, as information is synthesized from, standards, assessment, content, method, and process into newly developed content generated for mobile learning. The end product of these practices will be a digital book for the new "Alexandrian Libraries of the Future." This session is a BYOD with some knowledge of iAuthor, aggregation and curation tools like, twitter, Delicious, Diggo, scoopit, Paper.li and Twitted Times which are all necessary components for your learning, get connected became a curator.
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http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
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Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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1. Cloudworks
Social networking for design
Gráinne Conole and Juliette Culver
g.c.conole@open.ac.uk
Ascilite Conference paper
1st December 2008, Melbourne
2. Resources and events
Tool development
Helping teachers make effective
Empirical
use of technologies to create
evidence
better learning activities for students
Cloudworks CompendiumLD
Workshops Schema
Cloudfests Summits
Design challenges
Andrew Brasher, Paul Clark, Simon Cross, Juliette Culver, Martin Weller, Perry Williams
3. RSS feeds Playlists
Follow and
be followed
Friends
APIs
Many repositories of good practice,
but how do you develop the community???
Share
Embed
Comment
Aggregate
4. ‘Social networking makes little
sense if we leave out the objects
that mediate the ties between people
Engeström
Design framework for sociality
Enabling practice
Mimicking reality
Building identity
Actualising self
Bouman et al.
5. My social network
How can we encourage a culture
of sharing ideas and designs?
Why has there been little
uptake of educational repositories?
Can we apply web 2.0 principles
to an educational context?
7. Vision
• Enable people to find, share and discuss
learning and teaching ideas
• Connect people with similar interests
• Showcase work
• Provide a place for different communities
• Encourage sharing
8. Principles
• Low barrier to entry
• People-orientated
• Open site, open content
• Target particular communities
• The site acting as a conduit
9. Cloudworks v 0.1
Find and share designs
Resource
Clouds bank
Storm
Tools
clouds
People
Web 2.0 principles:
tagging, profiles, user generated
12. It’s so easy to be very abstract ... and not catch people’s interest.
Because you can’t quickly get a feel for what was actually done, that
worked or didn’t work. ... [“Semi-collaborative learning”] was just
terribly abstract, I couldn’t sort of work out what it was, what this
range of activities were, it just didn’t get me there quick enough.
If you notice things that are abstract, you can say:
Oh, and how did that work? or give me an example,
I did one like this! ... It didn’t worry me that it was
abstract. What worried me was: how the hell does
he make that work in an OU teaching context!
The ones that started to catch my interest were where I
could quite quickly get a sense of a device or an approach...
[“Citing exercise”] got me straight there. Within two or
three sentences, I kind of grasped what it was that they had
done and it caught my imagination.
13. ‘Shortcuts to new thinking’
We’ve had notorious difficulties over the years in getting anybody to talk
about teaching and share teaching practice. They’ll all talk about research;
that’s fine. But there’s also no compulsion to talk about teaching.... I’m on
our staff development committee, and we find out all kinds of quite
interesting courses and things that would be really relevant to people. And
they say, oh well, I’m too busy researching, and I don’t want to do that!
(Laughs) ... So if there is a strong lead that this is an important thing to do
and it’s just something that people do routinely, yeah, you get them to
write. But otherwise I think you’ll just have a few very interested people.
14. It’s not a repository
it’s a conversation
Success stories
Visual designs
Concrete vs. abstract Quality control
Transferable designs
Barriers to contribution
Changing practice
Ownership
Comments make it
come alive
Openness
15. Ascilite conference Cloudscape
Overview of the cloudscape:
a space to post and discuss
ideas seen at Ascilite
Design a short
course in a day
Import
existing
Clouds Workshop on New clouds
New clouds Secondlife
added
by delegates Paper on mobile
learning
Peer
OULDI
assessment
site
criteria
CompendiumLD Academic Talk
Web Peer Assessment webparesearch.blogspot.com/
Information literacy webparesearch.blogspot.com/
16. Cloudworks v0.2
Social networking site for finding, sharing & discussing
learning and teaching ideas and designs
Dynamic list of
new clouds
Tagging by pedagogy,
subject, tool and
other
18. Who and what I am
following, who’s
following me
My cloudstream
dynamically
updates
19.
20. Cloudscapes
Workshop
Course
Research topic
Conference
Design team
Topic
Tool
Project
21. Stalls really useful
18th September2008
Amazed at how Design challenge:
much we achieved design a short course
in a day are you up to it???
22. OER Guidelines
repository on selection
Select
Design Learning
tools environment
OER
Design Use
Design cycle
Design
repository Evaluate Monitoring
tools
Data Data
representation tools analysis tools
23. OL-Net network
People/networks
Meta-analysis/
synthesis
Tools, methods,
approaches
Designs, evaluations,
case studies
Hewlitt Foundation
24. References
• OU Learning design initiative - http://ouldi.open.ac.uk
• Cloudworks - http://cloudworks.ac.uk
• Cloudworks: Conole, G., Culver, J., Well, M., Williams, P., Cross, S.,
Clark, P. and Brasher, A. (2008), Cloudworks: social networking for
learning design, Ascilite Conference, 30th Nov – 3rd Dec 2008,
Melbourne.
• CompendiumLD: Conole, G., Brasher, A., Cross, S., Weller, M.,
Clark, P. and White, J. (2008),Visualising learning design to foster
and support good practice and creativity, Educational Media
International,Volume 54, Issue 3, 177-194.
• Design schema: Conole, G. (2008), New schema for mapping
pedagogies and technologies, http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue56/
conole/