This document discusses the development of Cloudworks, a social networking site for finding, sharing, and discussing learning and teaching ideas and designs. It provides the vision and principles for Cloudworks, which include enabling people to find and share learning ideas, connecting people with similar interests, and showcasing work. Cloudworks aims to encourage a culture of sharing ideas and designs using Web 2.0 principles like tagging, profiles, and user-generated content. The document also references related tools and initiatives for open educational resources and learning design.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Finally made it to Art of Hosting training, and here 10 my key takeaways from it. I thin you should take a chance as well, since it's so powerful for engaging people to conversations that matter.
Presentation giving during BLUG Conference at Antwerp 23 -3-2012
"Company regulation versus personal individuality, how do you get your employees to be responsible partners in a Social Business and how do you weigh freedom versus restriction? The whole Social Business idea is based on the idea of each individual having an intrinsic value to the organization that isn't necessarily linked to its role within the organization alone. This begs the question of how to tap this resource without losing control and how to implement and regulate the changes that are going to be needed. How much of this can you regulate (top-down) and how much do you allow to evolve (bottom-up)? Setting up predefined structures and communities (pushing) versus allowing users to instigate the community building, allowing free input and self-empowerment (pulling).
This session will highlight the difficulties and choices a company will face while making the transition into a Social Business and offer ideas and guidelines on how to do so."
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.
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.
Finally made it to Art of Hosting training, and here 10 my key takeaways from it. I thin you should take a chance as well, since it's so powerful for engaging people to conversations that matter.
Presentation giving during BLUG Conference at Antwerp 23 -3-2012
"Company regulation versus personal individuality, how do you get your employees to be responsible partners in a Social Business and how do you weigh freedom versus restriction? The whole Social Business idea is based on the idea of each individual having an intrinsic value to the organization that isn't necessarily linked to its role within the organization alone. This begs the question of how to tap this resource without losing control and how to implement and regulate the changes that are going to be needed. How much of this can you regulate (top-down) and how much do you allow to evolve (bottom-up)? Setting up predefined structures and communities (pushing) versus allowing users to instigate the community building, allowing free input and self-empowerment (pulling).
This session will highlight the difficulties and choices a company will face while making the transition into a Social Business and offer ideas and guidelines on how to do so."
Health care is a highly regulated industry. Let’s say that again with feeling: Healthcare is a HIGHLY regulated industry. That heavily influences what the marketing and public relations folks can say and do. Yet despite the legalistic handcuffs and roadblocks, these interactive practitioners are creating measurable results. Healthcare professionals and non-health peeps alike can learn from their experiences. If your management thinks interactive is weird and scary, just look at what these folks overcome with every day to achieve results!
Guerrilla Usability: Insight on a ShoestringDavid Sturtz
Presented at Iowa Code Camp, May 2010: Iterative and Agile development mean shorter cycles and a desperate need for quick feedback. Luckily, improving the user experience of your software doesn’t require days in a lab. This session will present more than twenty-five tools and techniques for gaining insight into your users’ minds and actions.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
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• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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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
10. 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.
11. ‘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.
12. 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
13. 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/ Follow and
be followed
Information literacy webparesearch.blogspot.com/
16. Who and what I am
following, who’s
following me
My cloudstream
dynamically
updates
17. Cloudscapes
Workshop
Course
Research topic
Conference
Design team
Topic
Tool
Project
18.
19.
20. 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???
21. 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
22. OL-Net network
People/networks
Meta-analysis/
synthesis
Tools, methods,
approaches
Designs, evaluations,
case studies
Hewlitt Foundation
23. 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, www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/melbourne08/procs/conole.pdf
• 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/