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George Roberts

Symposium for the Future » It is easy to fall in love with technology… (by da... - 0 views

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  • George Roberts on 19 Aug 09
     
    A short conference piece by danah boyd, made interesting by the use of CommentPress for discussion
Vanessa Vaile

MOOC - The Resurgence of Community in Online Learning - 0 views

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    • Vanessa Vaile
      Vanessa Vaile on 08 Jun 13
       
      or other social bookmarking, feed reader, aggregator. the main purpose is collect/collate, tag or label, annotate (time permitting) and curate
  • Feeding Forward - We want participants to share their work with other people in the course, and with the world at large
  • Sharing is and will always be their choice.
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  • even more importantly, it helps others see the learning process, and not just the polished final result.
  • The Purpose of a MOOC
  • Coursera, for example, may want to support learning, but it is also a company that wants to make money at the same time
  • Organizations offer MOOCs in order to serve other objectives.
  • MOOCs serve numerous purposes, both to those who offer MOOCs, those who provide services, and those who register for or in some way ‘take’ a MOOC.
  • The original MOOC offered by George Siemens and myself had a very simple purpose at first: to explain ourselves.
  • there are different senses of learning
  • creating an open online course designed in such a way as to support a large (or even massive) learning community.
  • The MOOC as Community
  • Although we learn what we learn from personal experience, we usually learn what we learn from other people. Consequently, learning is a social activity, whether we immerse ourselves into what Etienne Wenger called a community of practice (Wenger, Communities of Practice: Learning, meaning and identity, 1999), learn what Michael Polanyi called tacit knowledge (Polanyi, 1962), and be able to complete, as Thomas Kuhn famously summarized, the problems at the end of the chapter. (Kuhn, 1962)
  • So online communities form around offline activities
  • With today’s focus on MOOCs and social networking sites (such as Facebook and Google+) the discussion of community per se has faded to the background.
  • Online educators will find themselves building interest based communities whether they intend to do this or not
  • Learning in the community of practice takes the form of what might be called ‘peer-to-peer professional development activities’
  • The MOOC is for us a device created in order to connect these distributed voices together, not to create community, not to create culture, but to create a place where community and culture can flourish,
  • The peer community by contrast almost by definition cannot be formed over the internet
  • created through proximity
  • online communities depend on a topic or area of interest
  • Community Access Points
  • This was a project that did more than merely provide internet access, it created a common location for people interesting in technology and computers (and blogs and Facebook)
  • The MOOCs George Siemens and I have designed and developed were explicitly designed to support participation from a mosaic of cultures.
  • It is worth noting that theorists of both professional and social networks speak of one’s interactions within the community as a process of building, or creating, one’s own identity.
  • danah boyd, studying the social community, writes, “The dynamics of identity production play out visibly on MySpace. Profiles are digital bodies, public displays of identity where people can explore impression management.
  • ecause imagery can be staged, it is often difficult to tell if photos are a representation of behaviors or a re-presentation of them
  • In both of these we are seeing aspects of the same phenomenon. To learn is not to acquire or to accumulate, but rather, to develop or to grow. The process of learning is a process of becoming, a process of developing one’s own self.
  • We have defined three domains of learning: the individual learner, the online community, and the peer community.
  • Recent discussions of MOOCs have focused almost exclusively on the online community, with almost no discussion of the individual learner, and no discussion peer community. But to my mind over time all three elements will be seen to be equally important.
  • three key roles in online learning: the student, the instructor, and the facilitator. The ‘instructor’ is the person responsible for the online community, while the ‘facilitator’ is the person responsible for the peer community.
  • recent MOOCs offered by companies like Coursera and Udacity have commercialized course brokering
  • a model that the K-12 community has employed for any number of years
  • where is the French-language community itself?
  • Vanessa Vaile on 08 Jun 13
     
    post from Half an Hour: excellent explanation of how connectivist moocs work, what the difference is between them and x or wrapped moocs and what open is In this presentation Stephen Downes addresses the question of how massive open online courses (MOOCs) will impact the future of distance education. The presentation considers in some detail the nature and purpose of a MOOC in contrast with traditional distance education. He argues that MOOCs represent the resurgence of community-based learning and will describe how distance education institutions will share MOOCs with each other and will supplement online interaction with community-based resources and services. The phenomenon of 'wrapped MOOCs' will be described, and Downes will outline several examples of local support for global MOOCs. 
Leon Cych

Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning » Working and Learning - 0 views

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  • At the same time,
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      Military - navy etc...pre Waterloo???
  • probably
  • seemingly re-found public appetite
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      depends on how people vote at tne next election I guess :)
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  • intervene
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      What about intervention in education MIAPs Unigue Learning Number and Identity Cards
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      ULN introduced for 14 yr olds from this year
  • Globalisation
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      Perhaps could do with a bit more explanation. Is this a specifc term in this context. I'd see it as something else in learning...
  • In some organizations
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      What about more distributed less country centric models of employment and I don't mean call centres i.e. web 2.0 new startups that employ people globally? Like Seesmic , for instance - any figures/ evidence on those?
  • context aware
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      Are we talking about the Semantic web or Web 3.0 here? I'm not sure this is specific enough...
  • dispersed
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      Dospersed or distributed?
  • ICT was most frequently used for learning in those enterprises with flatter hierarchies and more devolved decision talking responsibilities and in which employees had greater autonomy in the organisation of their own work. Interestingly, these enterprises also tended to have a more experienced workforce and low turnover of employees
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      Now that is very interesting
  • either face to face in the workplace or on-line
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      But perhaps down the pub :)
  • he study showed learning was more likely to take place in organisations with less hierarchical structures and where workers had more responsibility for their own work.
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      Again really interesting
  • is becoming part of a formal employment requirement
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      But interestingly at a recent consultation I went to involving the TDA and the new Masters in Teaching and Learning there was no evidence of awareness of the role of use of technology to aid reflectivity...
  • his entails building organisations in which people have what can be termed ‘developmental work tasks’
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      Collaboration not really mentioned - does it play a part?
  • change is challenging for some trainers
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      :)
  • a single learning provider,
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      formal or informal?
  • critical role to play
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      What about scalability and scope?
  • other approaches already in place
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      unless it continues to be locked out in schools
  • accidental
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      serendipitous - accident sounds like they fell over it which they possibly did :)
  • video conferencing
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      Maybe this might be renamed after Google's introduction of video into email? More ubiquitous than ever before for those who sign up to a gmail account and have some form of webcam built in.
  • unproblematic
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      What about the phenomenon of teachers working together informally to use these devices whilst teaching amongst each other globally - any reserch been done on that?
  • stimulating and rewarding
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      Providing there is a flat enough environment for this to happen...perhaps
  • learning to the state
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      But what about the trend where there is a cultural conflict by distance - and workers have to be schooled in cultural norms of the country they are servicing to get it right otherwise consumers in host countries reject this.
  • by an
  • system,
  • ambiguous and often hostile
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      Might be worth exploring this more - why - what are the causes of the hostility or is it merely dependency on outmoded systems rather than hostility - a reluctance to engage with cultural change due to being institutionalised - dunno...
  • oung people
  • Facebook
  • the privatization of education has seemed possible
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      ???
  • The idea of integrating personal learning and working environments
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      What research, if any, has ben done into the way individuals organise themselves in a more distributed environment - the individual "nodes" and how some "nodes" are more active than others ...
  • nteract with peer groups and communities of practice through the internet
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      OK answers some of my last question
  • learning spaces
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      and learner groupings perhaps?
  • costumer
  • reality of experience.
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      What about global peer to peer aspect?
  • It also implies a new culture of active and autonomous collective learning to be encouraged, valued and recognized in and outside the workplace
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      So what defines and binds these new communities?
  • Possible Futures
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      Would love to see this represented as an interactive diagram or walkthrough.
  • continue this list almost endlessly
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      How about a possibilites perm fruit machine :)
  • employees
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      Were any of these workplaces academic?
  • annotae
  • Annotate this paper.
    • Leon Cych
      Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
       
      Graham no mention in this of APIs - mashups and ther reconfiguring of information for personalisation? Just a thought. Leon
  • Leon Cych on 15 Nov 08
     
    I have annotated this quite heavily as very interesting.
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