Dan Stuart's view of online education and translating formal learning activities into a way of structuring your personal online interests, interactions and engagements was another way of looking at stuff that I, for one, do 'organically' - but he tied together these things in a way I hadn't thought about. For that, alone, I found his talk worthwhile. From http://fakeplasticsouks.blogspot.com/2009/12/geekfest-and-beirut.html

2. Agree on terms...

3. School?

4. Learning?

5. E-Learning?

6. …E-learning as a department store

7. Learning Management Systems software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, and reporting of training programs, classroom and online events, e-learning programs, and training content – like an CorpTraining-ERP

8. Virtual Learning Environments focused on the development, management and publishing of the content that will typically be delivered via an LMS features in these systems include wikis, blogs, RSS and 3D virtual learning spaces

9. They curate, so why not curate your own learning?

10. …E-learning as a high street

11. Personal Learning Environments shape your own learning spaces, to form and join communities and to create, consume, remix, and share material

12. Personal Learning Environments set your own learning goals, manage your learning managing both content and process, communicate with others in the process of learning, and thereby achieve learning goals

13. Personal Learning Environments requires a social context by offering means to connect with other personal spaces for effective knowledge sharing and collaborative knowledge creation

14. Jafari Model

15. PLEX Project

16. Elgg – PLE?

17. So what?

18. Learning?

19. Social Media?

20. Noise?

21. Too much frakingnoise in frakingsocial media that I can’t frakinglearn anything?

22. Try this...

27. Your own Personal Learning Environment: Use current social sites Mix in some more - discover Self-cast, listen and learn Record micro-learnings Reflect and document learnings Document achievements You win: you learn We win: you add (meaningfully) to the knowledge collective

28. @danstuartdanstuart.me