Social Software and Personal Learning Environments

Social Software and Personal Learning Environments: Do they really fit with Formal Education? March, 22 2007 Terry Anderson, Ph.D. Canada Research Chair in Distance Education [email_address] Shock of the Social – Oxford University

Presentation Overview ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Why is E-Learning Better Than Sex? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada * Athabasca University ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Congratulations You - as a contributing lifelong learner Are the Person of the Year!

This Person of the year ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],“ The decline of the compliant learner’. P. Goodyear 2004

How do professional educators deal with these “persons of the year”? ,[object Object],[object Object]

Values ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Importance of this issue ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Maybe the Sky Really is Falling! ,[object Object],[object Object]

Learner Values in Networked Era Focus on Learner Choice: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],(Paulsen, 1993)

Connection to the Net ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Affordances of the Educational Semantic Web (Anderson & Whitelaw, 2004) Abundance of Content High quality, Low cost Communication Agent Assistance Read/Write Web 2.0 Filtering, Mashups, Updating Automated Facilitation Net as OS Connected Learning

Affordance 1. Massive Amounts of Content ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Wiki and Open Courseware ,[object Object],[object Object]

Terry’s Technology of the Year Award ,[object Object],“ Our display has higher resolution than 95% of the laptop displays on the market today; approximately 1/7th the power consumption; 1/3rd the price; and sunlight readability” www.laptop.org See Mar 13/07 review of beta2 http://paulstamatiou.com/2007/03/13/hands-on-the-100-laptop/

Content - conclusion ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Affordance #2 High Quality, Low Cost Communication ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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Affordance 3 Agents ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

These Affordances Stimulate Development of a Participatory Culture ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Creating Incentive to Sustain Contribution The New Yorker September 12, 2005

Social Affordances of the Web Content Communication Agent WIKI Blogs MySpace Del.icio.us Flicker Filtering SecondLife Calendaring Geotracking Learning

Pedagogical Basis ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Our educational discourse is largely stuck in a time warp, framed by issues and standards set decades before the widespread use of the personal computer, the Internet, and free trade agreements.” Stewart and Kagan (2005)

Learning About Learning To Be Explicit Knowledge Tacit Knowledge Dimensions of Knowledge Michael Polanyi John Seely Brown New Learning Environments for the 21st Century 2006

Learner Teacher Content Educational Interactions Learner / teacher Teacher / content. Teacher / teacher Content / content Learner / learner Learner / content ,[object Object]

Learner Teacher Content Educational Interactions Learner / teacher Teacher / content. Teacher / teacher Content / content Learner / learner Learner / content ,[object Object],Group as educational actor Jon Dron, 2007

Reasonable expectations of ‘the group’ ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Context and the Technology ,[object Object],[object Object]

What is a PLE? ,[object Object]

What is a PLE? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

"The PLE is an approach not an application." Stephen Downes ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

PLE- Learner Links their environment to that of education institution My hobbies My calendar My social Life My school(s) My files My publications E-portfolios My profile My conversations(s) My work My identity

PLEs are not VLEs ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

PLE Activities ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Learner Centred OLE.doc – Derek Wenmoth, March 2006

Early PLE Prototype products “ Welcome to Flock, the safe, spyware free web browser that makes it easier to connect with your friends. With Flock it's a snap to upload, comment, and discover new pics. Read all the news you care about, in one place. Blog freely.” PLEX - RSS Reader on steroids Blogs and Profiles With RSS “ The perfect solution for you to bring people together around shared goals, activities and interests to form a shared knowledge network”.

Blogging Connections Real Time Pacing Social Presence Content Admin Asynchronous Int. Dissemination Knowledge Polling Elgg - Me2U.Athabascau.ca Portal Products Learning Objects Elluminate Furl Moodle Technologies of AU’s MDE 663 Fall 2006 CMAP

Usefulness over 8 Educ Functions N= 9 of 13

Are we ready for PLE’s ? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Advantages of PLEs ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],See my blog posting at: Are PLE’s ready for prime time? http:// terrya.edublogs.org /

Will VLE’s become PLEs? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Users of Web 2.0 – UK Data David White, JISC funded ‘SPIRE’ project 2007’.

Response to my blog posting Are PLE’s ready for Prime Time? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Seb Schmoller http://my-world.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/01/personal_learni.html

Blogs vs Threaded Discussion Cameron & Anderson, 2006 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Formal education paradox? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

PLE response to needs of a Complex Adaptive system ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

PLE’s on the Edge of Chaos ,[object Object],[object Object],Diagram of the Edge of Chaos/Zone of Complexity Copyright © 2001, Brenda J. Zimmerman. York University, Canada. Permission to copy for educational purposes only. From Ralph Stacey, 1996

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“ Time Inc. to Eliminate Nearly 300 Magazine Jobs” (Jan 19, 2007) ,[object Object]

Conclusion ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Thriving in a Net-Centric Learning Context ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Great Community ,[object Object],[object Object]

Your Comments or Questions Most Welcomed ! Terry Anderson [email_address] Final reference: futurelab (2006) Social software and learning

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