guest lecture elearning 2.0

eLearning 1.0 vs. 2.0

dr. Steven Verjans – Open Universiteit

December 12th 2007

Who knows - or is active on - …?

YouTube MySpace Facebook Skype Last.FM Del.icio.us Box.net Netvibes Live messenger RSS

Proper introduction

Me 1.0 Me 2.0

Assignment 1 (M. Vanbuel - 2007)

Where did you get info? Google Wikipedia

Which applications did you use? Word (anyone using OpenOffice?) Browser (which ?) E-mail MSN / Live Messenger? BlackBoard anyone?

Similar assignment (1987)

Library / encyclopedia Copies (copy machine)

Text & pictures

WordPerfect 5.1 (1990) IBM PC (DOS)

Max. 640 kB memory 4,77 MHz speed 3,5” floppy disks

VIZAWrite (1986) Commodore 64

64 kB memory 5” floppy disks Data tape

eLearning in history?

CD-Rom / CD-i technologies in the 1990’s Offline learning Early multimedia Edutainment – Anyone ever use this?

Broadcasting (BBC & Open University) 1971-2006 Now delivered on DVD

E-Learning in school / college

Underlying learning

model?

e-Learning 1.0 (formal ed.)

Quality / certification / degree Closedness / structure Expert driven – focused on individual learner We decide for you – we know all there is to know Just a different mode of delivery

Studienet

Smartschool

Underlying learning model?

Source: http://elearning.surf.nl/e-learning/artikelen/4142

e-Learning 2.0 (informal)

Experience / work-based Openness to society / less structure Learner driven – focused on group learning We decide together – Nobody knows everything Different mode of learning – Builds on Web2.0

Now let’s get to work !

What is RSS?

RSS-feedreader

Who uses RSS? Which feedreader? http://www.google.com/ig/

Go to iGoogle: http://www.google.com/ig/ Play around a bit, add content Go to the website of a newspaper, and look for

the RSS logo. Copy the URL of the rss feed Paste it into iGoogle (add rss feed)

Social bookmarking

Demo

http://del.icio.us/ - Link Register Install toolbar

Finally

Educational institutions will probably end up somewhere in the middle - eLearning 1.5

Why? Need certain level of control and local data /

information for quality and certification reasons Fear of chaos

If weare going

in the

wrong

direction,technologywill get us

there FASTER!

A. Haddad, “technologies for education”