The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
Stephen Downes April 18, 2007
The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
Online Learning Has been around since 1995 or so Really grew with the World Wide Web
Has advanced tremendously
Many positive developments in the last few years worth sharing…
The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
Open Source Applications Learning Management Systemssuch as Moodle, Sakai, Bodington, ATutor
Development and CommunityToolssuch as LAMS, Connexions, ELGG, Drupal, WordPress
Supporting Softwaresuch as Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Audacity
The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
Open Educational Resources MIT s OpenCourseWare projectand the OpenCourseWare Consortium
Open University s Open Courses
OER initiativesHewlett, Wellcome, OECD, UNESCO
Creative Commons and CC materialsin Flickr, Yahoo, Google, Wikipedia, Wikiversity, etc.
The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
New Environments Multimedia explosionpodcasts, vodcasts, YouTube, Slideshare, more
Mobile computingmobile phones, PDAs, etc.
The 3D webSecond Life is a start, we will see more of this
The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
Access… One-to-one computingsuch as the Maine laptop project, now spreading rapidly
One Laptop per Child has launched – computers in Nigeria Wireless access3G networks, WLAN…
The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
The Internet of 2007
It looks like nothing before…– – – – Like open source Like Social Networks Like blogs and blogging Like wikis and collaborative writing – Like tagging and Digg and…
It looks like Web 2.0Stallman
The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
The Concept… Learning is centered around the interests of the learner This learning is immersive – learning by doing The computer connects the student to the rest of the world
The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
Game Based Learning
Types: Branching, Spreadsheet, Game, Lab…http://www.downes.ca/cgibin/website/view.cgi?dbs=Article&key=1116274375
The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
Workflow (Informal) Learning
Types: Community of Practice, Environment, Visualization… /
The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
Online Learning at the Crossroads On the one hand – we have developed tools and systems intended to support traditional classroom based learning
On the other hand – we could (should?) be developing tools and systems to support immersive learning We should be developing for dynamic, immersive, living systems…
The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
First Iteration: User-Produced Media Blogs and Blogging
Podcasting and Vodcasting Game mods and other multimedia
The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
Web 2.0: The Learning Network The e-Portfolio lives in the intersection between the worlds for education, work, and home A model for e-Portfolio as a learnermanaged construct Key requirement is easy-to-use tools and hosting services*
*E.g. the “e-Portfolio-as-blog” approachScott Wilson: http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/scott/entries/20050523083528
The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
The Idea of the PLE…
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/ple/resources/edf.ppt
The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
Plex Personal Learning Environment Example
http://reload.ces.strath.ac.uk/plex/
The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
Collecting and Filtering RSS
http://www.downes.ca/mygluframe.htm
The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
RSS Writr
http://www.downes.ca/editor/writr.htm
The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
Edu_RSS Viewer
http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?action=viewer
The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
Edu_RSS 0.2
http://www.downes.ca/edurss02.htm
The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
The Challenge…
How to find the right resource… at the right time for the right person
The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments
The old way – use descriptions
/Papers/ITS%202000/ITS%202000.htm
Dublin Core Learning Object Metadata
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