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at the Open University in the UK we are developing a social network oriented approach to learning, in a project called SocialLearn. The concept is that learners have a central profile where they list their learning goals, contacts, resources, and tools.
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because as soon as you conceive of learning as something that is in the control of the learner, rather than the institution, then ‘the curriculum’ becomes ‘whatever it is you’re interested in.’
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In ‘Here Comes Everybody’, Clay Shirky argues that the ‘cost’ of organising people has collapsed, which makes informal groupings more likely to occur and often more successful:
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Part of the function of universities is to provide this organisation, for example by grouping individuals together to form a student cohort who are interested in the same subject.
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I would suggest that the reason the centralised LMS is not the answer to the ‘web 2.0 problem’ for education is because in its software DNA it embodies the wrong metaphor. It seeks to realise the principles of hierarchy, control and centralisation – the traditional classroom made virtual. This approach won’t help educators understand the new challenges and opportunities they are now facing.
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“It depends not on the technologies, but on the literacies around their use, on who knows what to do with these tools, how many people gain that knowledge, and how they put it to use.”
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I intend to sit with the students in a circle and engage them on a collaborative co-creation of knowledge, centered on critical inquiry
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Teams will make their own initial pathways through suggested collections of texts on each class session’s theme, will lead small group and whole class inquiry, and will initiate construction of a wiki page for their session’s theme.
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During the last third of the course term, we’ll use synchronous media — chat and Twitter — during class. At this point, all students can keep their laptops open, but those who choose to keep their laptops open are required to contribute to the online chat, the oral discussion, or both.
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the second year that this course is taught, the students will begin with the wiki inherited from the first year cohort, and will be assigned to augment, challenge, add, enrich, change the ongoing knowledge repository.
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07 Aug 08
Lou McGillThis is a guest post by Martin Weller for the On the Horizon series on distributed learning environments.
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Wilfred Rubensechnology isn’t the solution, or the problem here, but we can see it as the medium through which the cultural differences between traditional higher education and web 2.0 will be realised.
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Scott LeslieWOW! detailed comment by Howard Rheingold on the structure of his social media class in response to Martin's piece on SocialLearn. good stuff
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Steven VerjansMartin Weller's guest post on Michale Feldstein's blog. Post about socialearn
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We can think of the learning systems we use as the metaphor for the way we approach pedagogy, the learner experience and the role of the educator.
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SocialLearn
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this allows any application to become a learning tool
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Part of the function of universities is to provide this organisation, for example by grouping individuals together to form a student cohort who are interested in the same subject.
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in its software DNA it embodies the wrong metaphor
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as soon as you disaggregate the technology, you also decentralise control.
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Claire Brookscompare with Lee Blackall's rant about HE and social learning tools
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M C MorganMartin Weller. Students form social groups to study and learn, yet the typical IMS doesn't support this. Better, web 2.0 tools that let students form and work in social groups.
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Lynne Jones"Published by Martin Weller June 16th, 2008 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and LMOS." "Higher education faces a challenge. It may not know it yet, but it does. And the challenge is this – when learners have been accustomed to
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Barb PerlewitzSocialLearn: Bridging the Gap Between Web 2.0 and Higher Education
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when learners have been accustomed to very facilitative, usable, personalisable and adaptive tools both for learning and socialising, why will they accept standardised, unintuitive, clumsy and out of date tools in formal education they are paying for?
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Atul SabnisGenerally useful read - from a Moodle, VLE/LMS and Social Media point of view, for the UK.
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