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Don’t Get Too Comfortable –The Landscape of eLearning is
Changing
Lesley BlickerDirector of IMS Learning and Next Generation TechnologyAcademic Innovations
Wanted…
Visionaries looking towards the future of eLearning delivery models
People interested in the state of learning management systems, immersive learning environments, interoperability, Web 2.0, and how it all fits into T&L
Academics wanting to close the gap between current baby boomer teaching practices and next gen student learning styles
On the Agenda Today
My representation of the eLearning timelineWhat is Web 2.0 and why all the fuss? **Next Generation Learning Management
SystemsPersonal Learning EnvironmentsVirtual Worlds
** Big chunk
The Bar, Presently
Concepts
Critical thinkingScaffolded and/or quest-based learning
Problem-based learning; solving real world problems
Knowledge
Application, Synthesis
Skills
Analysis
We Need to Raise the Bar
Concepts
Critical thinkingScaffolded and/or quest-based learningProblem-based learning;
solving real world problems
Knowledge
Application, SynthesisSkills
Analysis
eLearning Time Line
1. Internet courses, first and second iterations of LMS Home-grown course applications followed by
vendor-developed “enterprise-level” LMSs (D2L, Vista, BB)
Beginning of Open Source Entrants (Moodle, Sakai)
Overarching web design?
1990s…2004
Dot-com era
2005…2010
"Web 2.0: a knowledge-oriented environment where human interactions generate content that is published, managed and used through network applications (coined by Tim O’Reilly in 2004)” –From Wikipedia
Interoperability Mashups 3D immersive environments, future of web-
interface
eLearning Time Line
Overarching web design?
Characteristics of Browser-based content, with client-server
relationship (information pushed out one direction)
Characteristics of
http://www.webware.com/html/ww/100/2008/winners.html
Characteristics of
Summary Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0
Web 1.0 = Linking to documents/static Web pages
Web 2.0 = Linking people
Socialization + Socialization + Applications +Applications +Technology =Technology =
Has its own Categories
From 101 Web 2.0 Teaching Tools, http://oedb.org/library/features/101-web-20-teaching-tools. Nov 2007
Aggregators
Uses of RSS in Education
Keep current in news, education, politics and professional organizations
Receive updates to your favorite blogsSubscribe to and network with educational bloggers in your
field of studyShare your feeds with other educators and vice-versa Make announcements to students after class Track student blogs and wikis Subscribe to Podcasts Students can track each other's blogs or share their feeds
with each other, creating a collaborative research environment
Students can become more globally aware by subscribing to news and current affairs sites
Source: CR2.0 (Classroom 2.0) Wiki. ttp://www.classroom20wiki.com/
Gives students the opportunity to express differing perspectives on information and resources through informal organizational structures
Assign students to create sets of bookmarks on particular topics
(Teachers/faculty) To create sets of bookmarks on particular topics
(Teachers/faculty) Can then share sets of bookmarks with others when working on collaborative units
Uses of Bookmarking in Education
http://www.flickr.com/explore/
http://lblicker.wordpress.com/
M. Wesch video, Information R/evolution (3:11)
Everything is Miscellaneous, by David Weinberger
The New Organization of Information
http://oedb.org/library/features/101-web-20-teaching-tools
Examples – Asynchronous and Synchronous
Gliffy (video)
Mooseworks: http://mooseworks.ning.com/
Web Conferencing (WebEx demo)
Real Time Minute – J. Finklestein
Wikipedia
684 million visitors annuallyMore than 75,000 active contributorsOver 10 million articles in more than 250
languagesIn English, there are 2.38 million articles
Source: wikipedia.org
Source: Mashable at http://mashable.com/2006/10/31/top-10-slideshow-sites-on-myspace/
Source: Mashable at http://mashable.com/2006/10/31/top-10-slideshow-sites-on-myspace/
http://lblicker.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/cool-tool-rockyoucom/
Cable in the Classroom video
Mashups
Definition: Web applications that combine data from more than one source into a single integrated tool
Microsoft PopflyYahoo Pipes
7 Cool Mashup Sites video
NYC Google - Subway Route Mashup
The Best Education Mashups
Source: http://mashupawards.com/category/education/
Studying Earth Science? Earthquakes in the Last Week uses Google Maps with data provided by the U.S. Geological Survey to show earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or greater in the past seven days
Uses of Mashups in Education
Where are We Heading Next?
Learning Management SystemsIn the 3rd Phase of Add-Ons and Bundling
Adding more tools in general
Adding Web 2.0-like tools or proprietary mashups Going some measure towards integration with other
software or increasing interoperability via open APIs But may still lack sufficient agility for early adopters
who think the current IMS format is too limiting
Current IMS (CMS) – What’s the Beef?
Unilateral publication formats
Labeled as false start; replicated existing classrooms
Assumes more passive consumer of information
Monolithic and they don’t play well with others (API’s not truly open) – lack of interoperability
IMS (CMS) – Future
Will be a part of a mix of systems for tracking learning experiences
Will run side-by-side at institutions with other more flexible and interoperable approaches
Primarily will handle administrative functions
Will morph to an LMOS (Learning Management Operating System), backbone for layering
LMOSfrom The Nose, Blog by Al Essa
The learning platform of the future will The learning platform of the future will need a substrate that performs the need a substrate that performs the mundane but essential bookkeeping mundane but essential bookkeeping functions such as authentication, functions such as authentication, authorization, and integration with authorization, and integration with back-end systems. The LMOS should back-end systems. The LMOS should look more like the linux kernel: a lean, look more like the linux kernel: a lean, mean traffic cop that sits below the mean traffic cop that sits below the application layer and mediates access application layer and mediates access to common services. to common services. http://tatler.typepad.com/nose/2007/10/suns-project-da.html
PLEs (Personal learning environments)Virtual or immersive environmentsMobile technologies as add-ons (field
based measurements, competency tracking, assessment)
The Offerings
Personal Learning Enviornments (PLEs)
A space at which the learner is at the center and can select or add resources without moving from that point
Carousel metaphor
http://elgg.org/
Contrary View – Leigh Blackall
Questioning the PLE:
Why do we need a PLE when we already Why do we need a PLE when we already have the Internet? The Internet is my have the Internet? The Internet is my PLE, ePortfolio, VLE what ever. Thanks to PLE, ePortfolio, VLE what ever. Thanks to blogger, bloglines, flickr, delicious, blogger, bloglines, flickr, delicious, wikispaces, our media, creative wikispaces, our media, creative commons, and what ever comes next in commons, and what ever comes next in this new Internet age, I have a strong this new Internet age, I have a strong online ID and very extensive and online ID and very extensive and personalised learning environment. personalised learning environment.
Source: http://learnonline.wordpress.com/2005/11/13/die-lms-die-you-too-ple/
Virtual Worlds
Immersive Virtual World Options
Second Life CroquetSun Microsystems WonderlandJohnson Center for Virtual Reality
Current Academic Technologies
Learning management systems Plagiarism software Limited video streaming Podcasting Wikis, blogs, RSS feeds Simple games and simulations, and early use of ILEs Content authoring tools (lodeStar, Raptivity) Web conferencing tools (WebEx, Elluminate) 3D imaging software (Autodesk) and spatial technologies (GIS) Learning Objects/Repositories and Emergence of federated
search capabilities Web 2.0/Social technologies (Facebook, Google Docs, You
Tube), social bookmarking, folksonomies, cloud tags (more limited in academia to date)
What’s Coming
Continued explosion of Web 2.0 tools Folksonomies, social bookmarking, tagging Immersive vritual worlds as learning environments Simulations – more need for people to create subject-
specific scenarios and branching rules 3D modeling, robotics, GIS, “mashups” Mobile technologies (as add-ons) Receding importance of the IMS; move towards an LMOS PLEs, packaging of ILEs and digital 2D assets in a new
form of an IMS Move away from 2D digital assets to 3D in LORs Reduced need for 2D Web designers, increased need for
3D game/graphic designers
Interoperability !!!
Lesley BlickerDirector of IMS Learning and Next Generation TechnologyAcademic InnovationsW: 651-201-1413C: [email protected]
Lesley’s Blog: http://lblicker.wordpress.com/