1. WHAT
DO
THEY
WANT?
CC-BY – Children in India (http://pkdeviance.blogspot.com/) – But this applies to many places

2. DEVELOPMENT & DEPENDENCY
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3. TIMELINE
Summer 2012 – Visit D.R. (Pre-Dissertation)
Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 – Collect Data
(Online Portion – Development of PLEs)
Summer 2013 – Visit D.R. (Culmination)

4. WHY D.R.
High Investment in ICT (Broadband, Mobile, CTC)
Close Proximity to the US (Migration History)
Moderate to Low Regional Education Performance
Personal Relations and Connections (ITLA, Family)

5. 2008
G r a d ua t io n r a te s
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6. COMMUNIT Y TECHNOLOGY CENTERS

7. STAGE 1: PRE-DISSERTATION RESEARCH
 Visiting the DR this summer for two months.
 Establish a working relationship with 3 CTCs.
 Visit ITLA, the Ministry of Education and record interviews.
 Continue to work with ITLA to promote open and mobile learning.
 Begin recording a Documentary about Invisible Learning.
 Request donation for a 1 to 1 mobile learning project through a CTC.

8. LEVELS
Gov.
Community
CTC Administrators
CTC Users

9. METHODS
 Interviews
 Participant Observation
 Field Notes
 Survey
 Focus Group

10. QUESTIONS – (CTC MEMBERS)
a. How do you think the technology available to you through the CTC
has influenced your learning?
b. How does tecnología impact the economy?
c. Was the building of the CTC a good investment?
d. What is your opinion of the local education system?
e. What would you like to learn that you currently are unable to?
f. Why did you buy a mobile phone over a landline phone?
g. What is your opinion of the CTC?
h. Do you have internet at home?
i. Do you own a per sonal computer?
j. Do you have family abroad? How impor tant is their suppor t?

11. BROAD ICT AND EDUCATION - THEORY
It Depends ICT Against-ICT
Pro-ICT Positivists
Constructivist Neo-Classicists
There are constructivist and critical writers that are in all three categories.
Most positivist are pro-technology, while some neo-classicists see it as a corruption of traditional values.

12. HOW IS INVISIBLE LEARNING TAKING PLACE
Formal Non-formal Informal Serendipitous
Invisible Learning
1- Sociotechnological archetype for a new ecology of education

13. PRE-DISSERTATION QUESTION
Is access to information through ICT transforming the educational experience (“invisible
learning”) of community members?
How are community members learning through the CTC? Are they developing Personal Learning
Environment. Do these learning environment will focus on using high quality low cost
educational resources?

14. STAGE 2 – DEVELOPING A “PLE”
How does Mobile Learning impact and Internet Access impact their education? Can individuals
learn marketable skills through PLE? How does Mobile Learning impact their informational and
digital literacy skills?
High Cost High Cost
Low Quality High Quality
Community
Technology Center
Low Cost Low Cost
Low Quality High Quality

15. MATERIALS- HQ-LC
Closed Open Pirated
Cerrado Abierto Pirat
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Flickr Images (CC BY 2.0) - Victor1558, (CC BY 2.0) - Laihiu, (CC BY 2.0) - Uncle Catherine

16. LEARNING COMMUNITIES - IOS

17. OPENNESS
 The Internet and Open Data (Berners -Lee)
 Free Culture Movement ( Lessig)
 Open Source Software Movement (Stallman)
 Open Licenses (Lessig)
 Open Access Journals (Suber) Openness
 Open Educational Resources (Wiley) OC
 Massive Online Open Courses ( Downes) OER
 Open Badges (Mozilla, OERU)
OCW
 Open Economies (Benkler)

18. OPEN INFORMATION

19. CONSTANT IMPROVEMENT
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Jun 23, „10 May 4, „11 Feb 29 '12
Credit: Apple

20. LEARNING AT A LOW COST
Arts and
Crafts
Reading
Student‟s
Formal Informal Experience
iTunes
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Apps Learning Activity Knowledge

21. DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF PLES

22. MOBILE PLE STUDY
iPod Touch PLE
iPod Touch PLE iPod Touch PLE

23. SET UP – MOBILE PLE
 Inter views and Selection of Par ticipants
 Understanding of 1 Year Par ticipation
 Project Based Cour se – Creating an OER
 Course Together on Setting Up a PLE
 Communicate Via Moodle or Ning Site
 Weekly Meetings – Progress Repor ts
 Obtain a Badge, Credit from ITLA
 Co-Edit a Documentar y (Knowledge Remittances)

25. ICT AND LIFELONG LEARNING
Flexible Learning Theory
Andragogy
Measuring Lifelong Learning
Connectivism
Transactional Distance Theory

26. MAKING A DOCUMENTARY TOGETHER

27. SHARING A FINAL PROJECT

28. STAGE 3 – SUMMER 2O13
Revisiting the Dominican Republic
 Focus Groups
 Interviews
 Member Checking
 Reactions to the Documentary