danuše bauerová vŠb – technical university ostrava, czech republic
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Danuše Bauerová VŠB – Technical University Ostrava, Czech Republic. P7, VSB-TUO: Creation and design of virtual learning and communication environment ( & webpage ). Integrative Learning and Personal Credit Portfolio Creation. Openness and Connection. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Danuše BauerováVŠB – Technical University
Ostrava, Czech Republic
Integrative Learning and Personal Credit Portfolio Creation
P7, VSB-TUO:
Creation and design of virtual learning and communication
environment (& webpage)
Openness and Connection
Content AGGREGATION and Knowledge SHARING↓
in a Learning Environment
Principle of today learning and communication
• Content is open and moves fluidly through learning activities in authentic problem spaces
• Expertise is openly shared
WSU
Openess and sharing shift the paradigm
Content and objectives of the presentation
Communication environmentI. Communication environment
for the PARTNERS communication during Dante project
II. Communication and LEARNING environment
Objectives of the presentation1. To point out
… principles and strategy of today learning, mainly bottom-up strategy
2. To stress… the way to our objectives
3. To open debate WSU:
Communication (and learning) environment on the Dante project
1. Net structured communication of 8 partners (approx. 20-30 people)
2. Communication of partners with learning teams (target group) – organization of learning process (in 1+ 8 languages)
3. Net structured communication among members of target groupduring learning process
4. Communication as the main topic of learning content, i.e. what they learn
• One to one• One to many• Many to many
Communication and learning environment
Learners(= targed group
&partners as well)are learned
& are able to coocreate
the outputs
LEARNING BY
DOING (about
communication by
communication)
learners become teachers
Google Apps
Principles and strategyCloud based learning,
the web2.0 strategy
Open global dialog
Buttom-up strategy
Integrative learning
Network structure
Connectivism
Individual pathway Positive digital identity
Principles and strategyof the Dante project
Which web application we will use?
Who will be the creator and designer of the handbook and guidelines?
Who will be the teachers?
What will be the output?
How we will integrate the learning?
How we will encourage our target group members to develop their personal digital identity?
How to MINIMISE TEACHING
(the predicted) in order to MAXIMISE LEARNING?
How to MAXIMISE processes of NEGOTIATION
of meaning enabled by INTERACTION?
TEACHER-CENTRED LEARNER-CENTERED APPROACH
!?!
“What should LEARNERS be doing TO LEARN these new skills?” (Not: “What should I be doing to teach them these new skills?”)
LEARNER-CENTERED APPROACH
OLD model
NEWmodel
SPACE and TIME
IDEAS
SHARING
NEGOTIATION OF MEANING
Cloud-based Learning
CLOUD-COMPUTING is a recent INNOVATION
where applications ARE HELD ON THE INTERNET
and ACCESSED DIRECTLY as and when needed
rather than residing on your hardware or even on a server.
OPEN GLOBAL DIALOG
The WEB 2.0 technology allows CONTINUAL RESPONSE of all attendants involved
in the NETWORK composed of participants EQUAL WITH EACH OTHER
The hierarchical structure is replaced with a network
The educator presents learners with challenges, not with exactly given problems with sharply defined goals.
Challenges are only supposed to evoke particular situations of their future practical life.
IMPROVING OF THEIR LEARNING!
CLOUD-LEARNING in practice
- Social NETWORKING- peer learning: teachers and learners as coleagues, - sharing with co-workers, - acting globally:
Course Learning Environment as an extension of PLEs.
- Usage of Web 2.0 tools for learner ACTIVITIES
- Learner as a PROSUMER - customers are also the producers: - learning materials production by all community,
learners include
- Trusting users as CO-DEVELOPERS (of the Dante handbook and guidelines)
Knowledge can be organized in a conceptual framework only
Network – the web is created by the many for the many: multiple authors, multiple pathway!
Continual connections change content permanently
NO „FINAL VERSION“ (of the Dante handbook and guidelines as well)!
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Creating (Personal) Learning Environments – CONNECTIVISM
PLE is a part of our learners´ output!
The PLE are Web sites or services where learners are able
to produce learning content or reflection and store documentations about their learning processes.
The PLE holds the learner´s knowledge in a HOLISTIC manner.
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PLE: The output is USER GENERATED
learning environments.
The output of the learning process on the Dante project
Learners design their virtual Personal Learning Environments (PLEs),
in which they COLLECT their learning materials, CONNECT them together into a new context and try to find their meaning.
By doing these activities learners LEARN.
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Personal Credit Portfolio - communities
ePortfolio• can help to document the learning
that happens in learning communities,• provides a space for learners to actively
integrate their learning experiences and• share them with another, or even with broader
communities of peers, families, and employers.• Learners have an opportunity to interact with learners
who have different backgrounds and life experiences.• Including multiple forms of evidence.
Conclusion of the „Principles and strategy part“
The quality of product of education process
is tracing
the quality of the achieved
DIALOG and Ideas
Sharing!
Connectivism22
Learners´ abilities to integrate learning
Fostering learners’ ABILITIES to integrate learningis one of the most important goals
and CHALLENGES for VET.
Learners’ abilities to integrate learning• across courses, • over time, • and between school and community life.
Steps of communication among Partners during Dante project
1. Create Dante virtual group– Gmails & groups & mailing lists
2. Archive activities chronologically– Blogger; Google Calendar + Doodle
3. Stop emailing attachments. Start sharing. Cooperate.– Google Drive, Google Docs (shared folders)
4. Share news many to many through social web, without emails.– Google+ (community) – everybody knows everything!
5. Create an integrative space of the Dante project– Google Sites?
6. Use cloud computing. Synchronize data. No flash disk etc.– Integrative environment of Google Apps
7. Use Next Google application– Google Groups - forums– Google Sites– Google Hangouts - online meetings, webinars– YouTube – archive of Google Hagnouts + videocontent– Screen sharing - Google, Skype
8. Control own integrative personal environment– Google Dashboard
Steps of communication among target group 1. Create Dante virtual group
– Gmails & groups & mailing lists
2. Archive activities chronologically– Blogger; Google Calender + Doodle
3. Stop emailing attachments. Start sharing. Cooperate.– Google Drive, Google Docs (shared folders)
4. Share news many to many through social web, without emails.– Google+ (community) – everybody knows everything!
5. Create an integrative space of the Dante project– Google Sites
6. Use cloud computing. Synchronize data. No flash disk etc.– Integrative environment of Google Apps
7. Use Next Google application– Google Groups - forums– Google Sites– Google Hangouts - online meetings, webinars– YouTube – archive of Google Hangouts + video content– Screen sharing - Google, Skype
8. Control own integrative personal environment– Google Dashboard
Same steps as ours were.
Google Drive
Google Drive is a file storage
and synchronization service provided by Google, which enables user – cloud storage, – file sharing – and collaborative editing.
Create (and cocreate!) Upload
Example of Google Drive
Google Community
Google+ communities are places for people to get together and talk about the interests they share.
Example of Google Community
Many other Google Apps
How do we find what other application can be used?
… and what about other application?
Google Apps Learning Center
You can learn what you wish or need!
Dante project could use the proffesional
Learning Environment (a part of our work is ready)
Why?
Why should schools use Google Apps? • Because it is amazing, free, efficient,
convenient, and enhances collaboration.
Continual communication, sharing and creation of Dante project OUTPUTS content of the web pages
is generated partly automatically
Partners communication = learning of partners by doing the teachers & the guidelines
creators the main project outputs:
Dante Project Portfolio
Environment for Dante project dissemination,
evaluation & sustainability
Learning environment for the target group
outputs of learning process: Personal Learning
Portfolios
PUBLIC WEB pages created
continually
Conclusions
Doubts of participants of Dante project and of the learning proces
• …
• Why do I need to share what I do? Why should there be a „social“ aspect to my efforts?
• It´s a lot of work. Why is this worth my time?
“Integrative learners do not separate learning from life…”
Personal CREDIT: a paper?My personality keeps me afloat!
LEARNER-CENTERED APPROACH
It is not easy • for anybody to submit to change
from a hierarchical structure to a network structure,
• to accept for bankers, salesman, all learners, and educators, as well as
that the knowledge is henceforward not seen• as “product, • something that is
• static, • hard and organized • and defined by experts”
Siemens (2006).
[email protected] 38IMPROVING OF LEARNING!
LEARNER-CENTERED APPROACH
Each of the participants (not only our learners but we as well)
is going through HIS OWN HELL brought on by the Internet!
For years, we were used to having control over our learning. • Our thinking was determined by a hierarchical structure of instruction.
The network structure of information • is not static, • but gives the individuals and whole community the ability to comprehend them
– a feat unattainable using the old methods.
[email protected] 39IMPROVING OF LEARNING!
Questions, comments, discussion
• We should practice what we would teach (moderate) our learners
• We should improve the Dante project communication environment
Principles and strategyof the Dante project
Which web application we will use?
Who will be the creator and designer of the handbook and guidelines?
Who will be the teachers?
What will be the output?
How we will integrate the learning?
How we will encourage our target group members to develop their personal digital identity?
…TAUGHT LESS…
…STUDIED MORE…
Thank you for your attentiveness!!
Danuše BAUEROVÁ
EkF VŠB-TU Ostrava
JÁN ÁMOS KOMENSKÝ