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A Few Notes about Online Education
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A few notes about online learning and the future of teaching
TREBOR SCHOLZ
Department of Culture & Media Studies
Eugene Lang College, The New School
last update: October 19, 2009
3. Seesmic
Podcast
Twitter Games
Tweetworks
Yammer Virtual Worlds
Delicious
Flickr
content in many places Facebook
YouTube How easy is it to find your content?
Does it reside in places where your students gather?
web page culture
Blogs
Social bookmarking
Wikis
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5. 5 Competencies for
Participation Literacy
1) Competence and skill to collaborate with peers in public
2) Critical evaluation of information sources
3) Capability to use instruments that enable collaboration
4) Playful experiments with new social media as a way of getting things done
5) Ability to effectively “socialize” your ideas
6. SELECTED TOOLS
Facebook Pages, LinkedIn social networking service
Blogs blogging
Ning.com social networking, media sharing
Twitter micro-blogging
Tweetworks Tweetworks: Twitter threaded conversations
Flickr photo
YouTube video, media sharing
Viddler.com -YouTube only short video
-Viddler allows private video, large files
Blip.tv
-Vimeo- large files, bad for slides, great for live video
Vimeo -Blip.tv high quality large video possible
Tumblr
Delicious social/bookmarking
Seesmic video conversations (asynchronous)
Profcast video casts/podcasts
Slideshare sharing
Seesmic conversation
Zoho collaborative writing
Google Reader RSS
Technorati Search
PbWiki wiki
Voicethread audio and video conversation (asynchronous)
Skype video conversations (synchronous)
h6p://seriousgames.org | h6p://gamesforchange.org Games as “gateway”
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7. http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=579416073383&ref=mf
Open Office Hours on Facebook
“Instructors set aside a few hours each week for students to drop by for conversation. These conversations
can cover anything from a review of course content to the latest research findings or career advice.”
Selected tools and services
8. Profcast to record lecture slides with audio (video casts)
ScreenFlow to record computer screen (segments of DVDs, screen interaction)
Selected tools and services
9. Video discussion of readings and hosting of guest speakers with Seesmic.tv
Selected tools and services
10. Twitter
uchicagolaw: “Twitter allows us to give prospective students a bite-sized glimpse into what life here is like.”
• Chat with your professor or other students after class
• Collaborate on a project. Start a conversation thread.
• In-class back channel
• Follow the tweets of professionals
• Share your teaching resources beyond the class room
Selected tools and services
selected from: http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2009/01/04/chronicle_hlp.html#comment52073
15. Core Commitments for
Online Education
1) Underwriting students for the commons
2) Open web standards for
distributed, participatory learning
3) Digital libraries, learning communities,
free & open journals
4) Free software
5) Mobile learning
6) Update peer review for the 21. century
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16. Free and
Open OpenOffice.orgis a
multiplatform and multilingual
Aviary
Photo-editing, logos, web
GIMP is the GNU Image
Manipulation Program. It is a
Source
office suite and an open- templates, filters, color freely distributed piece of
source project. Compatible palettes, screen capture & software for such tasks as
with all other major office more at Aviary.com photo retouching, image
suites, the product is free to composition and image
download, use, and distribute. authoring. It works on many
Software
operating systems, in many
languages.
Firefox The award-winning Miro is the free open-source VLC Plays more video files than
Audacity is free, open source
Web browser is now faster, video platform. most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX,
software for recording and
more secure, and fully OGG, and more.
editing sounds. It is available
customizable to your online
for Mac OS X, Microsoft
life. With Firefox 2, weʼve
Windows, GNU/Linux, and
added powerful new features
other operating systems.
that make your online
experience even better.
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17. Most of our content should be available to all.
MIT faculty open access
to their scholarly articles
March 20, 2009
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/open-access-0320.html
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
21. http://firstmonday.org/ http://ijlm.net/
Open access peer reviewed journals
experiments with new models of peer review
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28. What Can Be Done Right Now?
In the classroom
(Free software, Seesmic, Slideshare, SMC, blogs, wikis, video essays
Zoho, Screenflow, podcasts, video casts, live streaming)
Guest speakers via Skype or Seesmic
LibraryThing: Cataloguing party with students. Reference personal library of faculty online
Social media dash board to bring together social web presence of college in one place
Official Flickr stream and dedicated YouTube channel
(photo gallery of all people at Lang)
Live stream and archive large university lectures
Twitter for administrative purposes: Twtpoll (quick feedback from students)
Twitter account to tweet all university events
(calendar as twitter stream)
Students connect through Twitter, Flickr, Netvibes
(i.e., freshmen with seniors, alumni with current students)
Mid-Term
Educate faculty and students in the use of social media tools and services
Long-Term
Open Access: Invite faculty to make their syllabi and all of their research available to the public
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