Presentation for the University of Prince Edward Island, May 19, 2010 on Open & Networked Learning.

1. open & networked learning
Dr. Alec Couros
May 19, 2010
at UPEI

2. Who is this guy?

4. shift

6. “...the current generation of college
student has no memory of the
historical moment before
the advent of the
Internet, we are
suggesting that
participatory learning
as a practice is no
longer exotic or new
but a commonplace
way of socializing and learning.
For many, it seems entirely
unremarkable.”
The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital!Age
http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/2831891520

7. David Wiley
Then vs Now
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
@opencontent
Closed Open

8. David Wiley
Education vs Everyday
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
@opencontent
Closed Open

9. @jonmott

10. social affordance

11. David Weinberger
The Web is “a
world of pure
connection, free
of the arbitrary
constraints of
matter, distance
and time.”
@dweinberger

13. Thinning Walls
Private Public
Closed Open

14. New Roles

15. enablers

16. “Free” Tools

17. Creativity

18. New Possibilities

19. Realtime Collaboration

20. Realtime Collaboration

21. 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)

22. Abundance

23. Beyond Institution

25. Disruptive Creativity

26. Everyone Can Be a Teacher

27. Open Access
“The aim of the open access movement is to make
scientific and scholarly literature openly accessible
to all users free of charge.” (open-access.net)
open access is beginning to expand to conferences,
courses, and other educational events

28. Synchronous PD

29. Learning Communities

30. “Nearly Now” PD

31. Ubiquity

32. Projections/Focus

33. personalization

34. Connected Reality

35. quick stats (2009)
• 90 trillion emails sent annually from
1.4 billion email users
• 234 million websites
• 1.73 billion Internet users
• 126 millions blogs
• 350 million Facebook users
• 4 billion images on Flickr
• 1 billion Youtube videos served daily.
Stats as of Jan 22/10 via Royal Pingdom

36. Stats as of March 17/10 via Mashable

37. Each technology
creates a new
environment.
The effects of media
come from their form
not their content.

38. Mediating Experiences

39. Mediating Experiences

40. locks

41. parents as pirates

42. personalizing the institution

43. the reality

45. community

46. Geographic Communities

47. Mario Couros

48. Networked Communities

51. danah boyd
Teens are not connecting in
the ways we fear. But, we need
to pay attention to:
•Properties: persistence,
replicability, searchability,
scalability, (de)locatability.
•Dynamics: invisible
audiences, collapsed contexts,
blurring of public & private @zephoria
spaces

52. Michael Wesch
• Inspired by McLuhan’s
“We shape our tools and
thereafter our tools shape
us.”
• Youtube & other social
media mitigate “connection
without constraint”. In
many cases this leaves to
@mwesch “tremendously deep
communities”.

53. “heroes for our mediated culture”

57. in practice

58. Personal Learning Networks

59. Grade 1 - Expert Visits
@kathycassidy

60. Grade 1 - Transparent Learning
@kathycassidy

61. Grade 5 - Choir on Youtube
ps22chorus.blogspot.com

62. Highschool - Youtube Channel
@amhwrites

63. Grade 10 - TEDx Project
@christianlong

65. University - Open Courses

66. *this* is not going away
social media provides
engagement/motivation
incredible possibilities
for teaching and learning
development of meaningful
learning communities
geographies become nearly irrelevant
in a open, connected reality.

67. web: couros.ca
twitter: courosa
couros@gmail.com