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Presentation slides for the session at the ETUG 2010 Fall Workshop in New Westminster, British ColumbiaPresenter: Stuart Berry, Camosun CollegeDescription: This session will discuss the broader implications and issues of the use of social networking software within both formal and informal learning environments.Two Examples of the use of the ELGG Social Software Environment to Support LearningPart 1: Academic Blogging Circle Glenn Groulx will showcase collaborative and cooperative blogging methods to facilitate discussion and build bridges between faculty, alumni, students, and administrators using the Academic Blogging Circle within an ELGG environment.Part 2: Living Archives Stuart Berry will discuss his doctoral research project with online students within the ELGG environment to facilitate student interaction, knowledge creation, and to encourage the use of an online archive to act as bridges between and among different cohorts of learners.
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Two Examples of the Use of the ELGG Social
Software Environment to Support Learning
Enhancing Learning Environments: Making course archives available for current and future learning
Stuart C Berry (Athabasca University Doctoral Candidate)
School of BusinessCamosun CollegeETUG Fall Workshop 2010
Athabasca University’s ELGG EnvironmentThe Landing
Athabasca University’s ELGG EnvironmentThe Landing
Access Controls…
A sense of securityandA sense of bounded openness
The Landing – A Research Environment
The Use and Value of an Online Archive
The Landing – A Research Environment
Three research areas: (Questions)
1. Supporting knowledge Creation
1. Examining the Value of the Archive
2. Potential Downsides to the Use of the Archive
The Landing – A Research Environment
Existing Online Courses
No Archive
Each new course begins at same zero point
The Landing – A Research Environment
Build and maintain an Archive
Integrate the Archive into current and future course iterations
An Archive is an organic, evolving, and integrated part of a course
The LandingChallenges as a Learning Environment
LMS versus Social Networking Environment
Bounded, contained environment
Versus
Open, connected network environmentwith limited boundaries and no real centre
The LandingChallenges as a Learning Environment
New questions to consider
The LandingChallenges as a Learning Environment
Are socially networked learning environments acceptable or suitable spaces from within which formal online learning can occur?
The LandingChallenges as a Learning Environment
If more formal learning can effectively occur within these social networked environments then what can be done to structure socially networked learning environments such that they become suitable learning environments?
The LandingChallenges as a Learning Environment
Or
The LandingChallenges as a Learning Environment
Should we instead be seeking to enable learners to rethink and redirect their learning focus such that the attributes of networked learning spaces become the norm and are not morphed to match more traditional learning environments?
Social Networked Learning EnvironmentsWhere Do We Go From Here?
Questions ???
Stuart C Berry, B.A., M.A., (Doctoral Candidate)
School of BusinessCamosun [email protected] http://faculty.camosun.ca/stuberry
Thank You
