This document summarizes key ideas from a presentation by Dr. Alec Couros on networked learning. In 3 sentences:
Couros discusses how Web 2.0 tools can transform research, teaching and service if academics build serious online presences. He advocates for innovation networks among educators that embrace open principles like those of open source communities. Couros shares lessons on knowledge, connections, openness and teaching from his experience participating in online networks and using open educational practices.
My keynote presentation for the CNIE 2010 conference in Saint John, New Brunswick on May 18, 2010.
The presentation was titled "Knock Down the Walls: Designing for Open/Networked Learning"
My keynote presentation for the CNIE 2010 conference in Saint John, New Brunswick on May 18, 2010.
The presentation was titled "Knock Down the Walls: Designing for Open/Networked Learning"
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Mashup of several of my presentations regarding network literacy. This is for EDST499k, a social media seminar I am facilitating in Kelowna - UBC-Okanagan.
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Michelle Pacansky-Brock's keynote presentation shared at Innovate 2011, Ohio State on April 27, 2011. To view many of the media samples shared in the prez, please go to: http://mpbreflections.blogspot.com/p/share.html
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Slides from 'When the dust settles', a keynote presentation for E-Learning 2.0, Brunel University, 2011.
N.b. there are speakers notes on each slide, which you'll see if you download.
Creative Commons attribution-share-alike.
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This presentation deals with social learning and social media and the possible use of social learning tools to enhance employee engagement. It was presented to public service
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Teacher librarians and school libraries play a vital role in their school communities by meeting the change, challenge and productive chaos of the Web front on!
Mashup of several of my presentations regarding network literacy. This is for EDST499k, a social media seminar I am facilitating in Kelowna - UBC-Okanagan.
Updated WikiQuals Pecha Kucha that I gave in the Educate, Agitate, Organise strand of Critical Pedagogies Symposium at Edinburgh University on September 6th 2013
Presentation shared at Governors State University on June 6, 2011. Examines how participating in digital media compelled me to transform my online and face to face classes through podcasts, VoiceThreads, a collaborative wiki activity, and more.
Michelle Pacansky-Brock's keynote presentation shared at Innovate 2011, Ohio State on April 27, 2011. To view many of the media samples shared in the prez, please go to: http://mpbreflections.blogspot.com/p/share.html
When the dust settles - a keynote for E-Learning 2.0, Brunel University, 2011miravogel
Slides from 'When the dust settles', a keynote presentation for E-Learning 2.0, Brunel University, 2011.
N.b. there are speakers notes on each slide, which you'll see if you download.
Creative Commons attribution-share-alike.
Bryce biggs talk to trainers network finalBryce Biggs
This presentation deals with social learning and social media and the possible use of social learning tools to enhance employee engagement. It was presented to public service
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A keynote presentation given at the University of Delaware for the Summer Faculty Institute. More information about the event can be found here: http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2009/may/sfi051309.html
The source slides for the presentation are available for download in Keynote format. Please contact alec.couros@uregina.ca for the link.
See full video of the presentation here: http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/1611
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A video of this presentation is available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF2Xj48iRhw
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14. “Web 2.0 tools exist that might allow academics to reflect
and reimagine what they do as scholars. Such tools might
positively affect -- even transform - research, teaching, and
service responsibilities - only if scholars choose to build
serious academic lives online, presenting semi-public
selves and becoming invested in and connected to the
work of their peers and students.”
(Greenhow, Robelia, & Hughes, 2009)
17. knowledge
• what is k?
• how is k acquired?
• how do we know what
we know?
• why do we know what
we know?
• what do humans know?
• who controls k?
• how is k controlled?
18. human thought/ideas
human language
source code
high-level language
(e.g. C++, Java, PERL)
low-level language
(assembly language)
code irretrievable
machine code
(binary)
23. “A key to transformation is for the
teaching profession to establish
innovation networks that capture
the spirit and culture of hackers -
the passion, the can-do, collective
sharing.”
~ Hargreaves, 2003
27. “Open Education is the simple and
powerful idea that the worldʼs knowledge
is a public good and that technology in
general and the Worldwide Web in
particular provide an extraordinary
opportunity for everyone to share, use,
and reuse knowledge.”
(William & Flora Hewlett Foundation)
28. open(ness)
(short version)
open education
free software
open source software
open educational resources
open content
open access publication
open access courses
open teaching
open scholarship
open accreditation
29. • pedagogical affordance.
• knowledge exchange,
connected curation, wayfinding,
crowdsourcing,
(ness) collaboration, problem
(short version) solving
• facilitated through
personal learning
networks/environments
(PLNs/PLEs)
30. Free/Open Content
“describes any kind of creative work in a
format that explicitly allows copying and
modifying of its information by anyone, not
exclusively by a closed organization, firm, or
individual.” (Wikipedia)
31.
32. Why Do Students Go to University?
Content Degrees
Social Life Support Services
(Wiley, 2010)
33. Why Do Students Go to University?
PLoS
GCT
Wikipedia MCSE
Google Scholar ACT
OCW
Content Degrees
Flatworld K arXiv.org CNE
CCNA
Open Courses
Facebook Twitter
Skype
Social Life Support Services
MySpace Yahoo! Answers
MMOGs
Quora
ChaCha
(Wiley, 2010)
34. early lessons
• knowledge needs to be free.
• relationships trump content.
• transparency & openness are powerful
conditions for knowledge building.
• distributed, weak-tie communities can help
to solve complex problems.
• education can greatly benefit from the
experiences of open (source) communities
(i.e., networked communities of practice).
38. media stats (2010)
• 107 trillion emails (89% spam), from 1.04 billion users.
• 255 million websites
• 1.97 billion Internet users
• 152 millions blogs
• 600 million Facebook users (sharing 30 billion pieces of
content per month)
• 2 billion videos watched on Youtube daily
• 5 billion photos hosted on Flickr
Stats as of January 2011 via Royal Pingdom
45. “The average digital birth of children
happens at about 6 months.”
“In Canada, US, UK, France Italy,
Germany & Spain ... 81% of children
under the age of two have some kind
of digital profile or footprint.”
52. On Digital Video
• “Ten years ago, not one student in
a hundred, nay, one in a thousand,
could have produced videos like
this. It’s a whole new skill, a vital
and important skill, and one
utterly necessary not simply from
the perspective of creating but
also of comprehending video
Stephen Downes communication today.
62. Informal Learning
• “Informal learning is a
significant aspect of our
learning experience.
Formal education no
longer comprises the
majority of our learning.”
•
George Siemens
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
76. “To answer your question, I did use
Youtube to learn how to dance. I
consider it my ʻmainʼ teacher.”
77. “To answer your question, I did use
Youtube to learn how to dance. I
consider it my ʻmainʼ teacher.”
“10 years ago, street dance was very
exclusive, especially rare dances like popping
(the one I teach and do). You either had to
learn it from a friend that knew it or get VHS
tapes which were hard to get. Now with
Youtube, anyone, anywhere in the world can
learn previously ʻexclusiveʼ dance styles.”
79. additional lessons
• growing modes of access and the
ability to publish & disseminate to wide
audiences are key affordances.
• (digital) citizenship & (digital) identity
are emerging content areas that
heavily implicate emerging
pedagogies.
• crowdsourcing & social curation of
content will prove transformational for
learning experiences.
95. What We Learned
• Open access, low-cost, high impact.
• Courses become shared, non-local, learning events.
• Students immersed in a greater learning community.
• Rethinking of space/interaction (walled gardens, open spaces)
• Learning spaces controlled and/or owned by students.
• Development of emerging literacies, relevant for other courses.
• Pedagogy focused more on connecting & interactions; content
important, but secondary.
• Development of sustainable, long-term, learning connections.
115. “My student was delighted by the attention her blog
post had received; it gave her confidence in her
writing and bolstered her enthusiasm for our class....
We were no longer studying an important work of
20th century literature within the narrow context of my
syllabus; instead we had become part of a
conversation that involved the broader reading public.
As a professor, I was displaced from the centre of the
conversation, which became more open, distributed
and student-driven than it had been before.”