a few notes about online education
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A few notes about online learning and the future of teachingeduOnline
TREBOR SCHOLZDepartment of Culture & Media Studies
Eugene Lang College, The New School
lastupdate:October19,2009
http://globalnerdy.com/2007/07/23/kids-say-email-is-only-for-talking-to-the-man/
making classes more relevant to the interests and modes of communication used by students
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content in many placesFacebook
Delicious
Seesmic
Flickr
YouTube
Blogs
Tweetworks
Wikis
Yammer
Podcast
How easy is it to find your content?Does it reside in places where your students gather?
web page culture
Social bookmarking
GamesVirtual Worlds
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Participation in New Social Media
1) Competence and skill to collaborate with peers in public
2) Critical evaluation of information sources
3) Capability to use instruments that enable collaboration
4) Playful experiments with new social media as a way of getting things done
5) Ability to effectively “socialize” your ideas
5 Competencies forParticipation Literacy
SELECTED TOOLSFacebook Pages, LinkedIn social networking service
Blogs blogging
Ning.com social networking, media sharing
Twitter micro-bloggingTweetworks: Twitter threaded conversationsTweetworks
micro-bloggingTweetworks: Twitter threaded conversations
Flickr photo
YouTube video, media sharing-YouTube only short video-Viddler allows private video, large files-Vimeo- large files, bad for slides, great for live video-Blip.tv high quality large video possible
Viddler.com
video, media sharing-YouTube only short video-Viddler allows private video, large files-Vimeo- large files, bad for slides, great for live video-Blip.tv high quality large video possible
Blip.tv
video, media sharing-YouTube only short video-Viddler allows private video, large files-Vimeo- large files, bad for slides, great for live video-Blip.tv high quality large video possibleVimeo
video, media sharing-YouTube only short video-Viddler allows private video, large files-Vimeo- large files, bad for slides, great for live video-Blip.tv high quality large video possible
Tumblr
Delicious social/bookmarking
Seesmic video conversations (asynchronous)
Profcast video casts/podcasts
Slideshare sharing
Seesmic conversation
Zoho collaborative writing
Google Reader RSS
Technorati Search
PbWiki wiki
Voicethread audio and video conversation (asynchronous)
Skype video conversations (synchronous)
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“Instructors set aside a few hours each week for students to drop by for conversation. These conversations can cover anything from a review of course content to the latest research findings or career advice.”
Open Office Hours on Facebook
Selected tools and services
Profcast to record lecture slides with audio (video casts)
ScreenFlow to record computer screen (segments of DVDs, screen interaction)
Selected tools and services
Video discussion of readings and hosting of guest speakers with Seesmic.tv
Selected tools and services
uchicagolaw: “Twitter allows us to give prospective students a bite-sized glimpse into what life here is like.”
selected from: http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2009/01/04/chronicle_hlp.html#comment52073
• Chat with your professor or other students after class
• Collaborate on a project. Start a conversation thread.
• In-class back channel
• Follow the tweets of professionals
• Share your teaching resources beyond the class room
Selected tools and services
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Multi-user Virtual Environment for Learning
Gamesandvirtualworldsas“gateways”topar6cipa6onliteracythatfostercollabora6veproblemsolving
Selected tools and services
Social networking sites for groups with NING
Selected tools and services
Cataloguing Book cataloguing parties in faculty’s houses
http://librarything.com/http://www.librarything.com/profile/trebor
Selected tools and services
Core Commitments for Online Education
1) Underwriting students for the commons
2) Open web standards for distributed, participatory learning
3) Digital libraries, learning communities, free & open journals
4) Free software
5) Mobile learning
6) Update peer review for the 21. century
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Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.
Firefox The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, weʼve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better.
AviaryPhoto-editing, logos, web templates, filters, color palettes, screen capture & more at Aviary.com
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
OpenOffice.orgis a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
Miro is the free open-source video platform.
VLC Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more.
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Free and Open Source Software
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
Most of our content should be available to all.
MIT faculty open access to their scholarly articles
March 20, 2009http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/open-access-0320.html
OpenCourseWare: Toward a Culture of Sharing
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http://sharewidely.org/
SHARE WIDELY tool to share and collaboratively build syllabi
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http://firstmonday.org/
Open access peer reviewed journalsexperiments with new models of peer review
http://ijlm.net/
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http://slideshare.net
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Pull all college-related content together in a social media dash board NetvibesSocial Media Dash Board
http://www.mogulus.com/thefutureofnewsHarvard University live cast of the Future of News course
tools: Ustream, Livestream
Live stream and archive large university lectures
What Can Be Done Right Now?In the classroom (Free software, Seesmic, Slideshare, SMC, blogs, wikis, Zoho, Screenflow, podcasts, video casts, live streaming)
Guest speakers via Skype or Seesmic
LibraryThing: Cataloguing party with students. Reference personal library of faculty online
Social media dash board to bring together social web presence of college in one place
Official Flickr stream and dedicated YouTube channel (photo gallery of all people at Lang)
Live stream and archive large university lectures
Twitter for administrative purposes: Twtpoll (quick feedback from students)
Twitter account to tweet all university events(calendar as twitter stream)
Students connect through Twitter, Flickr, Netvibes (i.e., freshmen with seniors, alumni with current students)
video essays
Mid-TermEducate faculty and students in the use of social media tools and services
Long-TermOpen Access: Invite faculty to make their syllabi and all of their research available to the public
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Twitter: trebors
Blog: http://www.collectivate.net/journalisms
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LibraryThing: http://www.librarything.com/profile/trebor
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