Evolving Personalized Learning Sphere

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Evolving A Personalized Learning Sphere:Synergy of People, Pedagogy and Content

September 10, 2011

Maria James VisuvasamBIIT, BICS InfoTech, Yelagiri Hills


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Decision Pointers for ICT Strategy

Establishing Technology-enabled Learning

Sphere

Setting up Organization-wide Educational

Content Repository (ECR)

Few suggestions for Quality Education

Presentation Scope


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Learning Sphere

Sphere of Knowledge

Unified body or collection of knowledge regarding a

specific subject, interest or otherwise area of

expertise possessed by an individual

It is much more

Spheres of Co-existence (Peter Sloterdijk)

Students, Teachers & Education Provider - Agents

of Shared Knowledge


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Synergy of Technologies & Practices

Information Architecture, Content and Social Technologies

People

PedagogyContent

People

ContextContent


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Refraction of Learning Sphere

People Learning Community

Pedagogy Knowledge Reciprocity between Teacher

and Learner

Content Technology-augmented content


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Factors for Learning Sphere

1. Learning Community in Social Networking

2. Versatile Learning Content Repository

3. Context as time-tested pedagogy

4. Technology Injections, adaption, integration and

stabilization

5. Prime Objective Better Learning Experience

6. Establishment of Standardization Body (eg. W3C,

IEEE LTSC, IMS, Dublin Core, Ariadne, ALIC)


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Learning Community in Social Networking

Class blogs (teacher's off hour class notes)

Class Wikis (collaborative student project)

Mobile apps (tweets, social update)

Interactive Whiteboards Digital Games (making complex problems simple)

Podcasts (for Lecture)

Portable DVD Players (useful course-based videos)

Video Conferencing using VOIP (connected learningcommunity)

Web-based 3D world (Second Life: virtual world)


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Learning Content Repository

OpenCourseWare (MIT)

SLOOP Project Repository of Free Learning Objects

www.sloopproject.eu

OER (Open Educational Resources) Initiatives of India NROC (National Repository of Online Courses)

www.montereyinstitute.org/nroc

Out of the Box Solutions Deploy Enterprise Content Management Systems (e.g.

SharePoint, Alfresco)

Transform Libraries into Content Repository for Granularity

and Reusabilty of learning content
http://www.sloopproject.eu/http://www.montereyinstitute.org/nrochttp://www.montereyinstitute.org/nrochttp://www.sloopproject.eu/


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IA for Education: Contextual Pedagogy

Drilled-down Ladder for Learning

1. Content

2. Collaboration

3. Competence

4. Experience

5. Knowledge

6. Wisdom


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Correlations of Framework

The Elements of User

Experience

BLOOMS TAXONOMY

Learning Learning Domain

Surface - WYSISYG Comprehension Cognitive

Skeleton the wireframe ApplicationPsychomotor

Structure

underlying scheme Analysis

Scope Synthesis

AffectiveStrategy Knowledge


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Technology Injection

OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) IT for poor children

Social Networking for Education (Discovery, Ning, Scitable

and whole lot plethora of webwares)

Learning Management Systems Blackboard, Moodle,

Claroline, Atutor, SAKAI Project

Adoption of EduTech standards: IMS, IEEE LTSC,

ARIADNE, ALIC

National Level Common Specification for TLE


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M-Learning

The next most feasible and practical step towards

connected learning community:

Just-in-time learning Ubiquitous dissemination

Anywhere, anytime learning service

Cost effective

Secure and interoperable


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Instructional Design

RECOURSE: http://tencompetence-project.bolton.ac.uk

Successor to RELOAD, Authoring tool for the creation of

IMS Learning Designs, created as an Eclipse-based

Rich Client Platform (RCP) desktop application

eLML: www.elml.org

eLML is an open source XML framework for creating

eLesson using XML.

General Knowledge Base: www.generalkb.com

Personal and Group Knowledgebase
http://tencompetence-project.bolton.ac.uk/http://www.elml.org/http://www.generalkb.com/http://www.generalkb.com/http://www.elml.org/http://tencompetence-project.bolton.ac.uk/http://tencompetence-project.bolton.ac.uk/http://tencompetence-project.bolton.ac.uk/


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Player in Learning Sphere

STUDENT is PROSUMER, not receiver of knowledge

Learning Experience is User Experience

Assistive learning scenarios(Instructor-lead learning,

Blended Learning)

Self-learning scenarios(eLearning) choice and selection of content

collaborative learning methodology

constructing ones personal learning path


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Recommendation for Future of Learning

Inclusion of IT Ethics in Curriculum

Insertion of Internship in or after K-12 before Higher Edu.

Institution of Compulsory Residential K-12 Education

Education of teachers in social learning methodology

Standardization of educational services


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SOME THANK YOU THOUGHTS

Student = User

Learning Experience = User experience

In Learning Sphere

Student = is King

Teacher = is Knowledge enabler

Content = is what Translated into knowledge

Technology = is Workhorse

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