AULA 2.0

This has expanded into the idea of a social presence where one is able to be seen as a real person in a virtual environment

Study findings have supported the idea that the cause of success in an online environment is the establishment of an effective learning community [9].

what steps may be taken to create and establish online PLCs to make them work for a virtual environment

Modes

Maybe the search engines of the future will know where you are located, maybe they will know what you know already or what you learned earlier today, or maybe they will fully understand your preferences because you have chosen to share that information with us.

The media of the results matters.

Yet our presentation is still very linear (the results are just a list) and even (no one result is more important or larger than the next).

it’s an important first step to exploring the full range of what we can do with rich media.

The face of search will change dramatically over the next 10 years. Maybe it should contain even more videos and images, maybe it should sharply differentiate the relative weight and accuracy of the results more, maybe it should be more interactive in terms of refinements?

Personalization

search engines of the future will be better in part because they will understand more about you, the individual user

Media

Location

Your location is one potentially useful facet of personalized information

Since location is relevant to a lot of searches, incorporating user location and context will be pivotal in increasing the relevance and ease of search in the future.

Social

Another element of personalization is social context.

There’s a lot of expertise, knowledge, and context in users’ social graphs, so putting tools in place to make “friend-augmented" search easy could make search more efficient and more relevant.

Language

We know there are cases where an answer exists on the web, but not in a language you read. This is why Google is investing in machine translation. We want to be able to unlock the power of web search for anyone speaking any language. The basic concept is – if the answer exists online anywhere in any language, we’ll go get it for you, translate it and bring it back in your native tongue.

Conclusion

Search is a 90-10 problem. Today, we have a 90% solution

that remaining 10% of the problem really represents 90% (in fact, more than 90%) of the work

the role of educators needs to shift away from being expert in a particular area of knowledge, to becoming expert in the ability to create and shape new learning environments

the role of educators needs to shift away from being expert in a particular area of knowledge, to becoming expert in the ability to create and shape new learning environments

the role of educators needs to shift away from being expert in a particular area of knowledge, to becoming expert in the ability to create and shape new learning environments

the role of educators needs to shift away from being expert in a particular area of knowledge, to becoming expert in the ability to create and shape new learning environments

Can you share some of what you learned about student-directed learning?

distinction

between teaching and learning

it means to be an educator and being open to ideas such as student-directed learning

In a way, that is a much more challenging, but also much more rewarding, role.

has become a cliché

"Lifelong learning"

the world of networked computing you describe which transforms this abstract concept into a reality?

kids learn about the world through play

play and learning are indistinguishable

which means that more often than not, we are faced with the same problem that vexes children

we are now living in a world of constant change and flux

How do I make sense of this strange, changing, amazing world?

By returning to play as a modality of learning

In a networked world, information is always available and getting easier and easier to access

Essentially what this means is that

Information and knowledge begin to function like currency: the more of it you have, the more opportunities you will have to do things.

The force that seems to be pushing the knowledge curve forward at an exponential rate is two fold.

is about the productions of new meanings by reframing or shifting the context in which something means

The 21st century has really marked the time in our history where the tools to manipulate context have become as commonplace as the ones for content creation and we now have a low cost or free network of distribution that can allow for worldwide dissemination of new contexts in amazingly brief periods of time.

s only one kind of content, which tells you what something means

It tells why something is important to you, how it relates to your life and social practices

estudio de la National Science Foundation, “Moving forward to improve engineering education”

informe “The globalization of Engineering” de la Apex Engineering (2007)

In addition, this also will encourage open communication between companies, employers, HR departments, owners, and managers.” 

Without appropriate technology tools and resources available in their work environment, they may look for help from non-work related services such as Facebook.com. Integrating social media into the development environment eliminates this potential challenge and at the same time increases the potential for success of the development effort and of the new managers. 

Can social networking provide a practical way to help prepare new managers for their duties? Considering the rapid growth of social networking adoption among younger workers, this is a question well worth asking

Creating a curriculum for training new managers and supervisors is a common task that falls to instructional designers

The typical approach for many decades has consisted of a combination of classroom events, each lasting from one to five days (or more). This default design has many problems, including travel expense and time away from the job for the managers. Not infrequently, there are severe mismatches between what is taught and the actual practices supported by the organization’s culture.

There is an increasing number of companies and online service providers who are convinced that social networking can help overcome at least some of the issues common to the classroom-only approach

By combining formal classroom instruction and online reference and performance support with online coaching, mentoring, and informal learning through social networking, a new manager can gain a solid theory foundation, just-in-time help, and culturally correct application pointers.

Informal learning, as an object of attention by researchers, is not a new topic. However, it only appeared on the radar screens of instructional designers less than ten years ago. The emergence of online social media has led to the notion of somehow tapping into the potential of this channel, that carries so much of the real learning that goes on in organizations.

In our current age, we have plenty of channels in which informal learning can take place: everything from microblogs (Twitter), to communities (LinkedIn Groups, discussion forums), to user-created content (wikis, Weblogs, YouTube), to social bookmarking (Delicious), and surely more to come.

But we also have plenty of examples of attempts at use of these channels in which the attempts failed. The virtual landscape is littered with the remains of abandoned wikis, content-less and comment-less Weblogs, and LinkedIn Groups where the spam has driven out the discussion and all but eliminated any possibility of learning.

Existing informal learning groups online include a surprising variety of formats

Jay Cross’ Internet Time Community,

Participants in the Twitter #lrnchat sessions also comprise an ongoing informal learning group

if informal learning is going to take place online, it must be self-sustaining

Focus

Focus

Payoff

here are the factors that seem to drive participation and commitment by members.

What makes informal learning online work?

Focus

Dialogue

Leadership

Membership

Process

If a group lacks focus, or focus is too narrow, if the group’s process is too complicated, if there are not enough members, and if there are no rewards for participation, the group will fail. Informal groups are a lot of work to establish and maintain, and the work falls equally on all members.

Setting up a social network for manager training

The first task is to establish a design for the social interaction. This must come before technology selection, so that the limitations of the technology do not drive or constrain the interaction.

“Does it end?”

So what did I learn or what was reinforced? A loose-knit online learning community can scale to many participants and remain effective. Only a small percentage ~10% of members will be active. Wikis need to be extremely focused on real tasks/projects in order to be adopted. If facilitators can seed good questions and provide feedback, then conversations can flourish. Use a very gentle hand in controlling the learners and some will become highly participative. Design for after the course, using tools like social bookmarks, so that artifacts can be used for reference or performance support. Create the role of “synthesizer”. I found it quite helpful when Tony and Michele summarized the previous week’s activities. Keep the structure loose enough so that it can grow or change according to the needs of the community