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Leia Jackson

E_Learning With PLEs_A Generic Conceptual Model - 1 views

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    This project seeks to assess the emergence of Personal Learning Environmentsboth as a concept and as a new set of tools in the area of E-Learning. While existinglearning or instructional design theories within formal education have traditionally beenadopted in E-Learning to deliver content in the form of Learning Management Systemsfor instance, recent technological and sociological developments are starting to challengethis dominant design. Over the last few years, Web 2.0 technologies have enabled a moreactive user participation, interaction and collaboration which in turn have affected theway people learn in general. A new learning theory like Connectivism theory is echoingthese changes while at the same time acknowledging that the process of knowledgeacquisition is no longer confined to formal education. Learning also takes place ininformal settings, in the workplace and is increasingly becoming a social activity. Auser-centric Personal Learning Environment can support these new approaches tolearning in a wide range of contexts. This research proposes a conceptual model for ageneric Personal Learning Environment using the PersonalBrain mind-mapping software.Even though every individual user of a PLE will have a different perspective and require separate tools to fulfil distinct objectives, the proposed generic PLE conceptual modeldemonstrates that it can fulfil core activities of searching, analysing, authoring,collaborating, organising and presenting/
Leia Jackson

Dialogue and connectivism: A new approach to understanding and promoting dialogue-rich ... - 3 views

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    Connectivism offers a theory of learning for the digital age that is usually understood as contrasting with traditional behaviourist, cognitivist, and constructivist approaches. This article will provide an original and significant development of this theory through arguing and demonstrating how it can benefit from social constructivist perspectives and a focus on dialogue. Similarly, I argue that we need to ask whether networked social media is, essentially, a new landscape for dialogue and therefore should be conceived and investigated based on this premise, through considering dialogue as the primary means to develop and exploit connections for learning. A key lever in this argument is the increasingly important requirement for greater criticality on the Internet in relation to our assessment and development of connections with people and resources. The open, participative, and social Web actually requires a greater emphasis on higher order cognitive and social competencies that are realised predominantly through dialogue and discourse. Or, as Siemens (2005) implies in his call to rethink the fundamental precepts of learning, we need to shift our focus to promoting core evaluative skills for flexible learning that will, for example, allow us to actuate the knowledge we need at the point that we need it. A corollary of this is the need to reorient educational experiences to ensure that we develop in our learners the ability "to think, reason, and analyse." In considering how we can achieve these aims this article will review the principles of connectivism from a dialogue perspective; propose some social constructivist approaches based on dialectic and dialogic dimensions of dialogue, which can act as levers in realising connectivist learning dialogue; demonstrate how dialogue games can link the discussed theories to the design and performance of networked dialogue processes; and consider the broader implications of this work for designing and delivering sociot
jeroendonkers

NMC Horizon Report > 2012 Higher Ed Edition | The New Media Consortium - 1 views

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    New! NMC Horizon Report > 2012 Higher Ed Edition. Learning analytics is on the 2nd Horizon, in two or three years...
gsiemens

New Skills Needed For Big Data (Data Scientists) - Data Science Central - 8 views

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    4 min video on how data science is today where computer science was 30 years ago...
Dana West

IBM's new CEO sees gold in data mining | Marketplace from American Public Media - 2 views

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    One word? Analytics.
Leia Jackson

elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 3 views

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    Behaviorism,  4 cognitivism, and constructivism are the three broad learning  1 theories most often utilized in the creation of instructional environments. These theories, however, were developed in a time when learning was not impacted through technology. Over the last twenty years, technology has reorganized how we live, how we communicate, and how we learn. Learning needs and theories that describe learning principles and processes, should be reflective of underlying social environments. Connectivism is the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organization theories. Learning is a process that occurs within nebulous environments of shifting core elements - not entirely under the control of the individual. Learning (defined as actionable knowledge) can reside outside of ourselves (within an organization or a database), is focused on connecting specialized information sets, and the connections that enable us to learn more are more important than our current state of knowing. Connectivism is driven by the understanding that decisions are based on rapidly altering foundations. New information is continually being acquired. The ability to draw distinctions between important and unimportant information is vital. The ability to recognize when new information alters the landscape based on decisions made yesterday is also critical. The article defines connectivism.
gsiemens

Killer App - News & Features (washingtonian.com) - 2 views

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    a bit over the top, biased, and hyped. Still, an example of seeing data as an asset...
Thieme Hennis

Narrative Science | We Transform Data Into Stories and Insight - 6 views

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    one of the problems with unstructured and fragmented data lies in getting a coherent view of what's happening. Automated solutions like this offer one response...
protoscholar

Big Data's Arrival - 3 views

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    Note: I am involved with this project and can answer questions. As might be expected, the article makes things sound further along than they actually are.
gsiemens

Thanks to consumerization, it's IPO season in analytics - Cloud Computing News - 1 views

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    IPO season in analytics
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