Conole Ilta

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Innovating into the future: sharing and discussing 2.0

Gráinne Conole, Open University, UKLaunch of the ILTA website1/10/09

More info, slides and references:

http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/2392

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+Converging practices

Modern technologies Modern pedagogy Web 2.0 practices

Location aware technologies

Adaptation & customisation

Second life/immersive worlds

Google it!

“Expert badges”, World of warcraft

User-generated content

Blogging, peer critiquing

Cloud computing

From individual to social

Contextualised and situated learning

Personalised learning

Experiential learning

Inquiry learning

Peer learning

Open Educational Resources

Reflection

Distributed cognition

+Paradoxes

Open Educational Resources

Little evidence of reuse

New technologies offer new pedagogical opportunities

Potential for reuse with Open Educational Resources

Liberating learning beyond formal structures

Array of technologies

Not fully exploited

New pedagogies New learning models

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Changing practices through use of social networking

Many repositories of good practice, but little impact

Blogging

Facebook

Twitter Slideshare

Flckr

Youtube

Commenting

Live commentary

Tagging

RSS feeds

Embedding

Following

Sharing: Cloudworks

+Cloudworks: Harnessing web 2.0

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Clouds: Learning & teaching ideasDesign or case studiesTools or resourcesQuestions or problems

Cloudscapes:ConferencesWorkshopsCourse teamStudent cohortResearch themeProject

Key concepts

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+User profile

+Activity stream

+Features Dynamic list of clouds + new comments

Comments on clouds + cloudscapes

Can “follow” people + cloudscapes

RSS feeds of cloudscapes + people

Embedding: pictures, video, presentations

Twitter feeds for people +cloudscapes

Email alerts

Activity streams

+Emergent patterns of use

Events: conferences and workshops ALT-C conference, 8-11th September 2009 http://cloudworks.ac.uk/index.php/cloudscape/view/1870

Discussions: Flash debates Is Twitter killing blogging? http://cloudworks.ac.uk/index.php/cloud/view/2266

Eliciting expertise Literature review of educational technologist http://cloudworks.ac.uk/index.php/cloudscape/view/1872

Aggregating resources En Rumbo Spanish course http://cloudworks.ac.uk/index.php/cloudscape/view/776

+Conclusions

Motivation: helping teachers/designers make more innovative use of technologies to create better learner experiences

Approach: development of a range of resources, tools, methods and events to support this

Evidence-base and agile development: on-going evaluation and reflection to enhance understanding and drive future developments

Reflection: How effective is this? Where to next? Is it transferable? How “open” can we really expect teachers/learners to be?