Microblogging architecture and scenarios for learningin mobile groups

Carmen Holotescu Vladimir Cretu Gabriela Grosseck University Politehnica/ Timsoft University Politehnica West University

Timisoara, Romania

5th World Conference on Educational Sciences Sapienza University, Rome – Febr, 6-8, 2013

WCES13

Kaplan&Haenlein (2010): „social media is a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of User Generated Content (UGC)”. Jane Hart(2011): „Social technologies, aka social media, are a new breed of technologies that have emerged over the last few years and have changes the face of the Web.”

image: http://matetrack.webs.com/SOCIAL/SOCIAL.html

There are many definitions of Social Media, and they are evolving in timeBrian Solis (2010), “Defining Social Media: 2006 – 2010”

JESS3 Labs The Geosocial Universe 2.0Comparison between the total amount of registered users with the

percentage of people accessing the sites via mobile http://jess3.com/geosocial-universe-2

Amy Campbell (2010)3 characteristics of social media: the majority of content is user generated, a high degree of participation/interaction between users, and easily integrates with other sites.

Anthony J. Bradley (2010)6 core principles: participation, collective, transparency, independence, persistence, and emergence.

SOCIAL LEARNING becomes formal

Web2.0, eLearning2.0/Social Learning, Open Educational Resources, Learning Design, Social Learning Management Systems, Personal Learning Environments, Mobile Learning, Digital Curation, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)

Web2.0 / social networks have great impact in collaborative / social learning ( eLearning2.0 )

MICROBLOGGING: What is it? And why should I care?

Microblogging is a new form of blogging, with brief text updates of 140 characters, via Web, SMS, email, IM or 3rd party applications, which allows

real-time interactions between users.

Microblogging is a collaborative technologyphoto: http://media2.lelombrik.net/13501-14000/13845.jpg

Diagrammr at diagrammr.com/edit?key=dy4NKMc8XsZ embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/1644841

photo: http://www.heikkironkko.com/images/yolehti_jaiku.jpg

Microblogging platforms used in education

Mar 2006 Oct 2007 Jan 2008 Jul 2008Dec 2007 Mar 2008

Overview of the Microsphere Timeline

Sep 2008

4 platforms in Tops 100 Tools for Leaning 2009-2012: Twitter, Cirip, Yammer, Edmodo

Elizabeth Koh, An overview of microblogging, http://www.slideshare.net/elizabethkoh/an-overview-of-microblogging, slide 16

From Grosseck,Holotescu “Academic research in 140 characters and more” http://slideshare.net/ggrosseck

- 70000 users- interface in Romanian, English, German- Nominated by UNESCO Romania for "UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education" - April, 2012- Finalist at Seedcamp Zagreb, Jan 2010- In Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

Cirip.eu - a microblogging platform specially designed for education; launched in March, 2008, by Timsoft, a Romanian company specialized in

eLearning and mobile applications

Facilities Cirip.eu (1)

• public and private groups (courses, internal training, projects, events, internal communication, service, family, hobby, etc);• group communication via SMS• polls, quizzes – online or via SMS• feeds monitoring via SMS / sites / blogs / social networks / search feeds• statistics, visualizations, tags.

Cirip.eu TUTORIAL

Facilities Cirip.eu (2)

social network around multimedia objects

multimedia objects embedded in messages (part of the communication flow, created/recreated, openess to (small) OERs - Weller, Martin (2010)): - livestreaming, - images (flickr, tinypic), - audio (eok, trilulilu, deezer, blip.fm, vocaroo, mp3), - (live) video (youtube, dotsub, vimeo, screencastle, screenjelly, screenr, 220.ro, myvideo), - presentations/learning design (slideshare, capzles, voicethread, flowgram, photopeach, picasa, notaland, prezi, diagrammr, mindomo, mindmeister, spicynodes), - documents (odf, odt, pdf, doc, xls, txt, ppt, google docs/forms/spreadsheets)

Mobile learning features

On technological levelcreate, localize and join mobile groups access social media and open educational resources share opinionswork collaboratively on multimedia objectsparticipate in polls and quizzesreceive/send updates via SMScreate and manage mobile PLEs;recover password via SMS.

On pedagogical leveldevelop multimedia educational resources / learning objects by using mobile technologies specific for different subject areas, build mobile social learning environments engaging students in PBL, case studies, and collaborative projects capture and formally represent experience and new pedagogical approach as learning design objects - shared, discussed, validated, improved, and reused.

information and knowledge managementcourses enhancementdelivering entire online courseslearning from the streamcollaborative projects in universitiescommunities of practiceePortfoliossocial LMS.

Personal Learning Environments ( Networks ) - PLE/PLN

Educational uses

Users

Feeds

Social networks

announcementsmodules - LOM/SCORM objects

collaborative exercises

learning from the stream

multimedia messages

Cirip as a social network of

msLMS (mobile social Learning

Management Systems)

polls/quiz/ comments via SMS (f2f)

validations - interactions with users/experts/groups

Course Elements in a Mobile Group (1)

Course Elements in a Mobile Group (2)

Mindmeister mindmap at http://www.cirip.ro/status/25893812

cirip.ro/grup/lds

Learning Design Group

ConclusionsThe integration of social media, in particular microblogging, in academic courses demands a new pedagogy of the teaching and learning process and a rethinking of student assessment. “It is not only about bringing into education a set of new tools and technologies; it is about a change in the learning ethos. And the way in which such learning is assessed needs to be consistent with this change in learning philosophy” [Summary report on the

Workshop Assessing Learning in a Digital World. Online Educa Conference Berlin, 2010]

The mobile groups of Cirip.eu have proved to bring authenticity, collaboration and personalisation in the Higher Education teaching/learning process.

Thank you!

Carmen Holotescucirip.ro/u/cami13

twitter.com/cami13

Vladimir Cretu

Gabriela Grosseckcirip.ro/u/gabriela

twitter.com/ggrosseck