The document discusses various topics related to elearning including different types of elearning models, the role of Web 2.0 and social software, challenges of keeping content up to date and students engaged, and how other educational institutions are incorporating new technologies like wikis, podcasting and virtual worlds into their programs.

1. PUTTING ELEARNING INTO PRACTICE Issues and Approaches

2. What is elearning? http://what-is- elearning.wikispaces.com / Etraining Distance Education Blended or Web Enhanced Learning Type 1 Blended or Web Enhanced Learning Type 2 Virtual Classroom Type 1 (Collaborative) Virtual Classroom Type 2 (Presentational)

3. Next/Back Learning Content for whole course prepared and loaded upfront (expensive) Minimal input from instructors; essentially unfacilitated Self-paced; individualised Suitable for compliance or product training, or for highly motivated students

4. Facilitated Learning Involves processing of content PLUS Communication activities (discussion) with fellow students and facilitator Strong social and/or collaborative component

5. Where do you put your content? MOODLE, JANISON, or RENT A CROWD?

6. “ The Read/Write Web” (Tim Berners Lee) Original photo by Hummanna .

7. eLearning 2.0/Web 2.0 (Stephen Downes) eLearning 1.0 was static packaged content developed by content developers such as CD-ROMs and courseware. It had little true interactivity and learner input and very little (if any) contact with a tutor. Best represented by Learner Management Systems. (eg WebCT) Some packaged content and some provided by the teacher. There is more interaction with a teacher and some with peers (through forums and chat). eLearning 2.0 will follow a student-centred model and will be centred around the Personal Learning Environment using social software. Students generate and share content. They interact not only with teachers and their peers, but with anyone in the world they can learn from.

8. eLearning 2.0 (Networked Learning)

9. Networked Learning

10. Mapping the cultural emphases of emerging social software tools From Stuckey and Arkell; Development of an eLearning Knowledge Sharing Model; 2005

11. Mapping the cultural emphases of emerging social software tools From Stuckey and Arkell; Development of an eLearning Knowledge Sharing Model; 2005

12. Line of increasing personal agency Institutionally driven Member driven Formal Informal Top - down rules for creation, operation and governance Emergent Bottom - up norms, not rules Enabling Culture Culture of compliance Institutionally driven Member driven Formal Informal Top - down rules for creation, operation and governance Emergent Bottom - norms, not rules Mapping the cultural emphases of emerging social software tools Wikipedia e - Portfolios Profile tools Blogs/Wikis Flickr IM (Skype) Tagging Tools ( del.icio.us , List servers Forums Online journals FIREWALL FIREWALL FIREWALL From Stuckey and Arkell; Development of an eLearning Knowledge Sharing Model; 2005 YouTube Facebook Podcasting LMS

13. Communication Teamwork Problem Solving Initiative and Enterprise Planning and Organising Self-management Learning Technology

14. Employability Skills Communication Teamwork Problem Solving Initiative and Enterprise Planning and Organising Self-management Learning Technology

15. Digital Storytelling: which skills? Communication Teamwork Problem Solving Initiative and Enterprise Planning and Organising Self-management Learning Technology Which skills? – all of them!

16. Executive Functions (Neuroscience) planning decision-making inhibition meta-cognition (thinking about learning) creativity problem solving

17. Employability Skills Communication Teamwork Problem Solving Initiative and Enterprise Planning and Organising Self-management Learning Technology Executive Functions problem solving decision-making,creativity planning inhibition meta-cognition (thinking about learning)

18. Asynch Synch Oral Written Dialogic Minimalistic Reflective; combination of dialogic and monologic Most structured form of communication COMMUNICATION AXIS

19. Drivers Employability Skills Skills Strategy Training Packages AQTF OR YOU??? YOUR STUDENTS’ NEEDS?

20. Challenges Web 2.0 Networked Learning Participatory Media http://flickr.com/photos/exfordy/1184487050/

21. Why Media? Adrian Miles (RMIT): “ make our institution…more porous to the students’ private technologies – their mobile phones, their laptops and their cameras.” Innate human desire/need to create Ubiquity and ease of participatory media enables creation of art, film, documents, course content, assessments, etc

22. Challenges Web 2.0 Networked Learning Participatory Media Open Content http://flickr.com/photos/exfordy/1184487050/

23. Open Content

24. Challenges Web 2.0 Networked Learning Participatory Media Open Content Creative Commons Licensing http://flickr.com/photos/exfordy/1184487050/

25. Creative Commons Licensing from Jeffrey Beall at http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/301014978/

26. Challenges Web 2.0 Networked Learning Participatory Media Open Content Creative Commons Licensing New Ways of Learning? http://newlearning.wikispaces.com/ Keeping a Media Generation engaged http://flickr.com/photos/exfordy/1184487050/

27. CONNECTIVISM: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age (George Siemens, University of Manitoba, Canada) Principles of Connectivism: Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning . Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.

28. Challenges Keeping abreast of a field that changes daily Training IT students to manage the information deluge Can institutional networks survive, and remain relevant? http://flickr.com/photos/exfordy/1184487050/

29. What are others doing? Photography (Croydon) - customised TAA (Protopage) Stonemasonry (NSW) Ning Cert IV/Diploma in Business/Bus Admin (Seedwiki) Dental – podcasting Western Institute (TAFE NSW) - wiki Hospitality – Appetite for Success Property Services (Panorama) Centra

30. Property Services – Centra Recordings

31. Practical Resource Peter Shanks (NSW) bluemountains.net

32. The Future Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less Virtual Worlds/Immersive Environments Cloud-Based Applications Time-to-Adoption: Two to Three Years Geolocation Alternative Input Devices Time-to-Adoption: Four to Five Years Deep Tagging Next-Generation Mobile From Australian/NZ Horizon Report http:// horizon.nmc.org/australia /