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Finding the sweet spot between web 2 and education Martin Weller

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Overview <ul><li>Web 2.0 </li></ul><ul><li>HE </li></ul><ul><li>The sweet spot </li></ul><ul><li>Facebook apps </li></ul><ul><li>SocialLearn </li></ul><ul><li>Edupunk and the gift culture </li></ul><ul><li>Twitter networks </li></ul><ul><li>Conclusions </li></ul>

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Web 2.0 characteristics Technology User generated content Informal learning Democracy Bottom-up Socially oriented Web as platform Harness collective intelligence Perpetual beta

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Higher education characteristics Controlled technology Us generated content Accredited learning We know best Top down Individual achievement Review before release Filtered intelligence Aim for perfection

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Finding the sweet spot Personal Professional Informal Formal Fun Work Content Social This is the future of work/learning/recreation

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OU Facebook apps Tony Hirst, Liam Green-Hughes, Stuart Brown

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What we learnt <ul><li>About facilitating dialogue </li></ul><ul><li>NOT controlling learner path </li></ul><ul><li>Viral spread </li></ul><ul><li>Support issues </li></ul><ul><li>Official endorsement? </li></ul><ul><li>Letting go of some control </li></ul><ul><li>Sweet spot: study-social, fun-work, institution-individual </li></ul>

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SocialLearn: A new OU?

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What principles should it embody? <ul><li>Openness </li></ul><ul><li>Flexibility </li></ul><ul><li>Disruptive </li></ul><ul><li>Perpetual beta </li></ul><ul><li>Democracy </li></ul><ul><li>Pedagogy </li></ul><dnwallace http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnwallace/848001061/>

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A reversal Student adapts to educational system

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System adapts to the learner

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Microlearner 2Learner Cloudworks Profile Writes to and imports goals, resources, stream Create goals, tasks Pull in and publish relevant content Pull in and publish relevant courses/designs Publicise study and learning story Making connections

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What we are learning <ul><li>Existing business models quickly unravel </li></ul><ul><li>Existing boundaries soon blur </li></ul><ul><li>Different competitors </li></ul><ul><li>Different audience </li></ul><ul><li>Sweet spot: informal-formal, content-social </li></ul>

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Edupunk

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What I learnt <ul><li>Prepared to do more when it’s fun </li></ul><ul><li>What you give away is what counts </li></ul><ul><li>EdTech is at a threshold now </li></ul><ul><li>It’s about how we use existing tools, not tools we create </li></ul><ul><li>Sweet spot: Fun-work, learning-creating, legal-illegal? </li></ul>

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Twitter networks

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What management can learn <ul><li>Informal groupings based on interest </li></ul><ul><li>Way of fostering belonging </li></ul><ul><li>Physical location less relevant </li></ul><ul><li>Institutional boundaries blurred </li></ul><ul><li>How do organisational structures adapt? </li></ul><ul><li>Sweet spot: Personal-Professional, Fun-Work, Informal-Formal </li></ul>

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Conclusions <ul><li>Make learning a gift economy </li></ul><ul><li>Embrace the social </li></ul><ul><li>Experiment (and create room for this) </li></ul><ul><li>Accept there will be mistakes </li></ul><ul><li>Think of technology as the metaphor for understanding new social processes </li></ul>

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Links <ul><li>Course Profiles </li></ul><ul><li>http://apps.facebook.com/courseprofiles/index.php </li></ul><ul><li>My OU Story </li></ul><ul><li>http://apps.facebook.com/myoustory/index.php </li></ul><ul><li>Me: Edtechie.net </li></ul><ul><li>Twitter.com/mweller </li></ul><ul><li>Ouseful.info </li></ul><ul><li>Liams blog- http://www.greenhughes.com/ </li></ul><ul><li>Stuart’s blog - http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/SocialCommunications/index.php </li></ul><ul><li>SocialLearn - http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/socialearn/ </li></ul>