Informal learning in the blended mix
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In formal learning in the blended mix
anything new?or
a corporate bandwagon for trainers and e-vendors?
a cost effective cut-back on estate?
an exciting new landscape of pods and virtual spaces?
a turn to liberating pedagogies?
Image: supernova
Blended, crushed and pulverised . . .?
WebCT Vista, the industry's premier Academic Enterprise System (AES), is
specifically built to address the mission-critical challenges of enterprise-
scale deployment. WebCT Vista provides a state-of-the-art teaching and
learning environment that streamlines course management for faculty,
offers capabilities to help improve student outcomes, and creates powerful
efficiencies institution-wide …
At the institutional level, WebCT Vista offers an enterprise-wide solution for
institutions to fully leverage their content and learning assets, reliably
scale their e-learning environment and support the growing needs of
diverse constituencies.
webct
MMU is committed to e-learning, with an MLE that will provide a sound e-learning structure...
e-learning at MMU ... is now ubiquitous and mainstream.
MMU has agreed the use of a single VLE ... to support a high quality location-independent experience for staff and students that encourages and stimulates
independent, autonomous learners.
E-benchmarking Report
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wiphey/31092052/
And the learners?
In the WebCT model the students 'belong' to us, log-in to us, navigate according to our decisions, publish at our discretion on our server ...
We have control and they get … a rather lonely learning experience
And very different to their other digital learning experiences
Fully half of all teens and
57% of teens who use the
internet could be
considered content
creators, according to a
survey by Pew Internet
and American Life Project.
By the time he or she has
reached 21 years of age, the
average NetGener will have
spent:
10,000 hours playing video
games,
200,000 e-mails,
20,000 hours watching TV,
10,000 hours on cell phones, and
under 5,000 hours reading
(Bonamici et al. 2005).
Digital natives
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=195492568&size=m
The gamer’s learning style
Ignores any hint of formal instruction. They are self-directed learners.
Includes trial and error and approaching a problem from different angles.
Relies heavily on learning from peers with a distrust of information from authorities.
Focuses on small, focused bits of information
Demands just-in-time information. They don’t want to learn about what they might need.
Is not focused on books and reading.
Karl Kapp
informal learning
the degree of informality of learning is the degree to which you have been told what to do
i.e. informal learning by definition can only be influenced by creating an environment and not by direct instruction.
juliette white
Informal learning is social
communication
conversation
connection
community
Does webct take all this on board?
Social software is something that can support communication, conversation, connection, and community
blogs
Adding the blog to webct
Content blog
http://feed2js.org/
Keeping track - rss
http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english
Getting it into webct
But what a faff!
Warwick university has hosted its own blogging service since 2005
4593 blogs
91990 entries
14798 tags
194081 comments
111162 images
Brighton & Elgg
Easier to use a Wiki
Where are we now …? Bewildered, confused …?
Why do we always want to integrate and
standardise?
Might separate tools be better?
The whole thing then becomes a learning
experience – changing technologies
picking and choosing the most
appropriate for you and the task.
Image: JakeBrewer
Isn’t this the students’ elearning system?Is it yours?
And content?
A question of content
A question of content
If content is becoming an almost free commodity - should we be basing our elearning work on it?
Should we be teaching students different skills using a different pedagogy?
Blended, crushed and pulverised . . .?
management learning systems
digitalising classrooms
formal learning
personal learning environments
connecting and extending ideas through the power of networks
informal learning exploiting a variety of technologies
Webct vista?
Formal learning spaces
Learning for the masses
Competitive
Restricted and constructed
All about instruction
lecturers content
Management learning systems
Digitising the classroom
Informal learning spaces
Personal learning
Collaborative
Creative and extended
Personal authorship
Knowledge and understanding
Personal learning spaces using
powerful networks