A serious examination on learner participation in open information communities.

1. Learner
Participation In
Open Information
Communities
a.k.a. “Dear goodness,
where art thou Higher Ed?”

2. So dudes and dudettes, E-
learning should finally evolve
from mere content uploading to
earn a name, ‘E-learning 2.0.’
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Stephen Downes
e-Learning Guru

3. True, bro.
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But why are the usual comments that I
hear with e-learning still like “How can I
upload my content and design my quizzes?”

4. And sure Stephen, the Internet has
evolved, 2.0 and whatnot, but isn’t the
majority of e-learning still quite badly
designed and just plain …
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5. Image by Bob Doran
So, there’s like a media revolution or
something happening on the Web x.0.
I hear people are ‘inter-acting’ in big
numbers and stuff.

6. Zie Internet is full of stuff to
learn from, and people to learn
with.

9. Image by mararie
Isn’t the Internet opening
whole new ways of connecting
the students with the world?
What he said, but in
writing (and with a couple
of thoughts of my own)
Dudes, I think there’s logic in this.
The world is growingly online,
let us then empirically observe
and experience ‘online’.

10. Hee hee, a funny comment that the
learners could use open web platforms
1. with often better usability,
2. which they already use to interact,
also for learning (with a capital L)!
How funny is
that?!
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Like, totally not
happening!

11. They try to kill me, but I
ain’t goin’ away!
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12. Alas! New enemies lurk in the
East…(errm, actually the West)
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13. …the question of
open access learning…
So people, “to MOOC or not to
MOOC”, or is that even the question?
We need to be
rigorous!
We’ll just stare away,
perhaps it goes away!
I’m ready for some
MOOCin’ if you are:
“MOOC, MOOC, MOOC!”
MOOC?
I don’t have anything
to say, but… MOOC!
Did someone just
say “money”?
OMG, we are
already late!!!!
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I’m here just for
the picture, man.

14. …human learning is
no longer just text.
Downes 2.0, re-visited…
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15. OMG, now they are coming
for the libraries too!
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16. Image by mararie
Damn, once again they
misunderstood something.
Where’s the poisonous chalice
this time?
“One of the penalties for
refusing to participate in
politics is that you end up being
governed by your inferiors.”
Why just interact with
the ‘text’ when we can
interact in various ways?

17. …students no longer expect or
want predigested information and
prestructured learning events.
Don Tapscott
a Guru
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…and the burning question of
personalized learning

18. Who said that?!
Who dares to question
the assembly line?!
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‘…’

19. References:
Bonk, C. J. (2009). The World is Open. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Downes, S. (2005). E-Learning 2.0. Retrieved from http://www.downes.ca/post/31741
Kudos for Stephen, and
thanks Curt for the inspiring
source material.