Prof. Dr. Terry Anderson Athabasca University

1. Effective Educational Social Software: Getting the Correct Granularity 6th European Conference on e-Learning Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark 4-5 October 2007 Terry Anderson Blog: terrya@edublogs.org [email_address]

15. ‘Taxonomy of the Many’ Dron and Anderson, 2007 Group Conscious membership Leadership and organization Cohorts and paced Rules and guidelines Access and privacy controls Focused and often time limited May be blended F2F Metaphor : Virtual classroom

16. Group Network Shared interest/practice Fluid membership Friends of friends Reputation and altruism driven Emergent norms, structures Activity ebbs and flows Rarely F2F Metaphor: Virtual Community of Practice

17. Metaphor: Wisdom of Crowds Group Network Collective ‘Aggregated other’ Unconscious ‘wisdom of crowds’ Stigmatic aggregation No membership or rules Augmentation and annotation through use of Data Mining Never F2F

18. Social Learning 2.0 Dron and Anderson, 2007 Collective Group Network

19. D Networks Groups Collective WIKI Blogs FaceBook Del.icio.us Flicker Filtering SecondLife Calendaring Geotracking Social Learning 2.0 Email, Skype, IM LMS/VLEs RSS, Atom Google Alert Commercial Personalized Services ELGG Meetup Mail Lists

21. Social Learning 2.0 Applications in Educational Contexts Organizational Learning Formal Education Personal Learning Environments 3. Collectives 2. Networks 1. Groups

22. Social Learning 2.0 Applications in Educational Contexts Organizational Learning Formal Education Personal Learning Environments 3. Collectives 2. Networks 1. Groups

28. Challenge: Creating Incentives to Sustain Meaningful Contribution The New Yorker September 12, 2005

35. Interaction and Extremism Unplanned, unanticipated encounters are central to democracy itself. Such encounters often involve topics and points of view that people have not sought out and perhaps find quite irritating. They are important partly to ensure against fragmentation and extremism, which are predictable outcomes of any situation in which like-minded people speak only with themselves (Sunstein, 2001, P.8)

38. Networked Learning example:

39. Choosing the right tool? http://www.go2web20.net 1618 apps as of Sept 24, 2007

41. Collective Application - Amazon

42. Example 2 Aggregation of Crowds

45. Taxonomy of the Many Social Learning Group Network Collective

46. Summary

47. Summary (cont.)

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57. “ "He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." - Chinese Proverb Terry Anderson [email_address] Blog: terrya.edubogs.org Your comments and questions most welcomed!