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Beyond the virtual campus: Technologies for virtual learning communities
The document outlines the challenges and strategies of virtual learning communities, emphasizing the need to prepare students for future jobs and technologies. It highlights the importance of personal and institutional space in learning, as well as the role of students as active participants in their education. Additionally, it stresses the necessity for institutions to adapt and foster lifelong learning in a rapidly changing educational landscape.
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- 1. Technologies for virtual learning communi3es Su White, University of Southampton @suukii Lifelong Learning Programme Erasmus Multilateral Projects UbiCamp: Integrated Solution to Virtual Mobility Barriers Project ID: 526843-LLP-1-2012-ES-ERASMUS-ESMO
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- 3. saw@ecs.soton.ac.uk • How do our students actually learn?
- 4. saw@ecs.soton.ac.uk • “We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . . ! ! using technologies that haven’t been invented . . . ! • in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.” Shi$ Happens, Karl Fisch and Sco4 McLeod,2007
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- 6. Ins/tu/onal space Personal space Good for learning Support space saw@ecs.soton.ac.uk
- 7. • You provide it • Admin • informa/on • You provide it • It guides you • I choose it • I use it • You find it • We learn to use it Good for learning Personal space Ins/tu/onal space Support space saw@ecs.soton.ac.uk
- 8. saw@ecs.soton.ac.uk 2012… but ins/tu/ons are slow to change
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- 14. • We set up our own groups • We send group emails • We organise mee3ngs • We plan and discuss …. • We lost previous notes • We can’t see last year’s notes saw@ecs.soton.ac.uk
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- 16. saw@ecs.soton.ac.uk Infrastructure at University of Southampton
- 17. • Tumblr ++ • Pinterest ++ • Rent a coder ++ • LinkedIn ++ • MOOCS -‐> Blended MOOCs • ++ • Learning can be authen3c • It has to be construc3vely aligned • We can build the framework • The learners’ create their learning saw@ecs.soton.ac.uk My Personal/Informal learning
- 18. saw@ecs.soton.ac.uk Interna/onal collabora/ons
- 19. saw@ecs.soton.ac.uk Socio-‐cultural framework A framework virtual learning virtual mobility virtual infrastructure
- 20. • Case based learning o Online content cura/on – Scoop It saw@ecs.soton.ac.uk
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- 26. • Your students can find stuff • They can share stuff • You can turn finding and sharing into courseworks… saw@ecs.soton.ac.uk
- 27. • Who remembers… o MySpace o Second Life o Blackberries • Your students’ reality is framed by their experience • It may be shaped by yours …but stay relevant saw@ecs.soton.ac.uk Remember…. The past is another country
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- 33. • Students as producers • Students as curators • Students as learners • Partnership • Self efficacy • Lifelong learning saw@ecs.soton.ac.uk “We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . . ! ! using technologies that haven’t been invented . . . ! in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.”
- 34. Su White University of Southampton @suukii Ques3ons?