12. “Web 2.0 tools exist that might allow academics to reflect
and reimagine what they do as scholars. Such tools might
positively affect -- even transform - research, teaching,
and service responsibilities - only if scholars choose to
build serious academic lives online, presenting semi-
public selves and becoming invested in and connected
to the work of their peers and students.” (Greenhow,
Robelia, & Hughes, 2009)
17. knowledge
• what is k?
• how is k acquired?
• how do we know what
we know?
• why do we know what
we know?
• what do humans know?
• who controls k?
• how is k controlled?
18. human thought/ideas
human language
source code
high-level language
(e.g. C++, Java, PERL)
low-level language
(assembly language)
code irretrievable
machine code
(binary)
23. “The shift from Access Copyright marks the
culmination of years of technology change
within Canadian education that has resulted in
new ways for professors to disseminate
research and educational materials as well as
greater reliance by students on the Internet,
electronic materials, and portable computers.”
26. “A key to transformation is for the
teaching profession to establish
innovation networks that capture
the spirit and culture of hackers -
the passion, the can-do, collective
sharing.”
~ Hargreaves, 2003
31. “Open Education is the simple and powerful
idea that the world’s knowledge is a public
good and that technology in general and
the Worldwide Web in particular provide an
extraordinary opportunity for everyone to
share, use, and reuse knowledge.”
(William & Flora Hewlett Foundation)
32. open(ness)
(short version)
open education
free software
open source software
open educational resources
open content
open access publication
open access courses
open teaching
open scholarship
open accreditation
33. Free/Open Content
“describes any kind of creative work in a
format that explicitly allows copying and
modifying of its information by anyone, not
exclusively by a closed organization, firm, or
individual.” (Wikipedia)
41. David Wiley
Then vs Now
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
@opencontent
Closed Open
42. David Wiley
Education vs Everyday
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
@opencontent
Closed Open
43. Why Do Students Go to University?
Content Degrees
Social Life Support Services
(Wiley, 2010)
44. Why Do Students Go to University?
PLoS
GCT
Wikipedia MCSE
Google Scholar ACT
OCW
Content Degrees
Flatworld K arXiv.org CNE
CCNA
Open Courses
Facebook Twitter
Skype
Social Life Support Services
MySpace Yahoo! Answers
MMOGs
Quora
ChaCha
(Wiley, 2010)
45. Informal Learning
• “Informal learning is a
significant aspect of our
learning experience.
Formal education no
longer comprises the
majority of our learning.”
•
George Siemens
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
47. Personal Computer to Mobile
Early Day of PC in Schools Today’s Social/Mobile Reality
48.
49. media stats (2010)
• 107 trillion emails (89% spam), from 1.04 billion users.
• 255 million websites
• 1.97 billion Internet users
• 152 millions blogs
• 600 million Facebook users (sharing 30 billion pieces of
content per month)
• 2 billion videos watched on Youtube daily
• 5 billion photos hosted on Flickr
Stats as of January 2011 via Royal Pingdom
71. “To answer your question, I did use
Youtube to learn how to dance. I
consider it my ‘main’ teacher.”
“10 years ago, street dance was very
exclusive, especially rare dances like popping
(the one I teach and do). You either had to
learn it from a friend that knew it or get VHS
tapes which were hard to get. Now with
Youtube, anyone, anywhere in the world can
learn previously ‘exclusive’ dance styles.”
72.
73.
74.
75.
76.
77.
78.
79.
80. social networks
• redefine communities,
friends, citizenship,
identity, presence, privacy,
publics, geography.
• enable learning,
communication, sharing,
collaboration, community.
• networks form around
shared interests &
objects.
97. What We Learned
• Open access, low-cost, high impact.
• Courses become shared, global, learning events.
• Students immersed in a greater learning community.
• Rethinking of space/interaction (walled gardens, open spaces)
• Learning spaces controlled and/or owned by students.
• Digital artefacts may allow for deep, critical reflection.
• Development of emerging literacies, relevant for other courses.
• Pedagogy focused more on connecting & interactions; content
important, but secondary.
• Development of sustainable, long-term, learning connections.
98. “I was able to go out and learn
throughout the entire week,
the entire year, and I’m still
learning with everyone.”
“The best part of the course is
that it’s not ending. With the
connections we’ve built, it
never has to end.”
99. “The course ... has been the most profound pd
experience I’ve ever had. It forced me to critique & review
my practice. I never knew how important social networks
were. Now, I couldn’t be a teacher without being
connected. It’s drastically changed my view of education.”
112. 21st Century Learning
• “What happens to
traditional concepts of
classrooms and teaching
when we can now learn
anything, anywhere,
anytime?”
Will Richardson
113.
114. Don’t limit a child to your
own learning, for he was born
in another time. ~Tagore
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