Connecting formal and informal learning in HE through a mobile multimedia microblogging environment

Carmen Holotescu Gabriela Grosseck University Politehnica/ Timsoft West University

Timisoara, Romania

Social Mobile Networking for Informal Learning London, Nov, 21, 2011

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New trends in education What is microblogging?Overview of the microsphereCirip.eu – platform around

objects2.0(Mobile) Learning contexts on

Cirip.euFormalizing PLELearning from the streamLearning designs as meta-

objects – continuos learning for teachers

image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/atmosphear/

SOCIAL LEARNING becomes formal

RSS/blogs-2004, podcast–2005, vlog–2006, video–2007microblogging-2008-2011, augmented realitylocation based applications - 2010-2011

Web2.0 / social networks have great impact

in collaborative / social learning ( eLearning2.0 )

JESS3 Labs The Geosocial Universe 2.0Comparison between the total amount of registered users with the percentage of

people accessing the sites via mobile http://jess3.com/geosocial-universe-2

What is it? And why should I care?

Microblogging is a new form of blogging, with brief text updates of 140 characters, via Web, SMS, email, IM or 3rd party applications, which allows

real-time interactions between users.

Microblogging is a collaborative technologyphoto: http://media2.lelombrik.net/13501-14000/13845.jpg

Diagrammr at diagrammr.com/edit?key=dy4NKMc8XsZ embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/1644841

photo: http://www.heikkironkko.com/images/yolehti_jaiku.jpg

Microblogging platforms used in education

Mar 2006 Oct 2007 Jan 2008 Jul 2008Dec 2007 Mar 2008

Overview of the Microsphere Timeline

Sep 2008

4 platforms in Tops 100 Tools for Leaning 2009-2011: Twitter, Cirip, Yammer, Edmodo

Elizabeth Koh, An overview of microblogging, http://www.slideshare.net/elizabethkoh/an-overview-of-microblogging, slide 16

From Grosseck,Holotescu “Academic research in 140 characters and more” http://slideshare.net/ggrosseck

From Grosseck,Holotescu “Academic research in 140 characters and more” http://slideshare.net/ggrosseck

The most popular microblogging system

Launched in July, 2006

Robust, elegant and simple

More than 200 million users

Numerous mash-ups

Social Social networking networking

in 140 in 140 characterscharacters

twittertwitter

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124372363@N01/2417123304/sizes/o

Twitter educational uses:Classroom community

Collaboration

Project Management

Assessing opinion

Conference / research

Virtual classroom

Learning experiences

Personal Learning Network

Reference services

- 25000 users

- interface in Romanian, English, German

- Finalist at Seedcamp Zagreb, Jan 2010

- In Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

Cirip.eu - a microblogging platform specially designed for education; launched in March, 2008, by Timsoft, a Romanian company specialized in

eLearning and mobile applications

Facilities Cirip.eu (1)

• public and private groups (courses, internal training, projects, events, internal communication, service, family, hobby, etc);• group communication via SMS• polls, quizzes – online or via SMS• feeds monitoring via SMS / sites / blogs / social networks / search feeds - jobs, weather, reactions)• statistics, visualizations, tags.

Cirip.eu TUTORIAL

Facilities Cirip.eu (2)

social network around multimedia objects

multimedia objects embedded in messages (part of the communication flow, created/recreated, openess to (small) OERs - Weller, Martin (2010)): - livestreaming,

- images (flickr, tinypic),

- audio (eok, trilulilu, deezer, blip.fm, vocaroo, mp3),

- (live) video (youtube, dotsub, vimeo, screencastle, screenjelly, screenr,

220.ro, myvideo),

- presentations/learning design (slideshare, capzles, voicethread, flowgram,

photopeach, picasa,

notaland, prezi, diagrammr, mindomo, mindmeister, spicynodes),

- documents (odf, odt, pdf, doc, xls, txt, ppt, google docs/forms/spreadsheets)

Mobile learning features

On technological levelcreate, localize and join mobile groups access social media and open educational resources share opinionswork collaboratively on multimedia objectsparticipate in polls and quizzesreceive/send updates via SMScreate and manage mobile PLEs;recover password via SMS.

On pedagogical leveldevelop multimedia educational resources / learning objects by using mobile technologies specific for different subject areas, build mobile social learning environments engaging students in PBL, case studies, and collaborative projects capture and formally represent experience and new pedagogical approach as learning design objects - shared, discussed, validated, improved, and reused.

information and knowledge managementcourses enhancementdelivering entire online courseslearning from the streamcollaborative projects in universitiescommunities of practiceePortfoliossocial LMS.

Personal Learning Environments ( Networks ) - PLE/PLN

Educational uses

Users

Feeds

Social networks

Learning contexts on Cirip.eu

Materials:•announcements

•materials as LOM/SCORM objects

•multimedia messages

Course elements:

announcements

modules - LOM/SCORM objects

collaborative exercises

learning from the stream

multimedia messages

Cirip as a social network of

msLMS

polls/quiz/ comments via SMS (f2f)

validations - interactions with users/experts/

groups

Formalizing PLE on cirip.eu

Mindmap at http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show_public/29895908embedded in the note at http://www.cirip.ro/status/11937282

Continuos

Persistent

Relevant

Connecting / integrating

Mobile

Scalable

Open to OERs

Fiable

Distributed

Universal

Cirip.eu - social network of PLEs

cirip.ro/grup/plebcnLearning from the stream

time capsule with messages in 140 characters sent by participants, practitioners, teachers , trainers, students and others interested in PLE, from twitter, cirip, blogs, SNs

to constitute a framework for communication / sharing / learning in the PLE domain

to be a source of real-time information, connections with practitioners worldwide …

to offer access to all the group content, visualizations and statistics for future reflections

The aims of the group PLEBCN :

The first message in the group

Mar Camacho's Presentation Note http://www.cirip.ro/status/3161801

Students perspective on PLE http://cirip.ro/grup/siac10

cirip.ro/grup/ldsActivating in Learning Design group

Thank you!

Carmen Holotescucirip.ro/u/cami13

twitter.com/cami13

Gabriela Grosseckcirip.ro/u/gabriela

twitter.com/ggrosseck