the sweet spot for education
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In this I argue that there is a 'sweet spot' between web 2.0 and higher education, which combines the best of personal/public, fun/work, institution/individual, etc and that we should work to exploit this.TRANSCRIPT
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Finding the sweet spot between web 2 and education
Martin Weller
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Overview
• Web 2.0• HE• The sweet spot• Facebook apps• SocialLearn• Edupunk and the gift culture• Twitter networks• Conclusions
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Web 2.0 characteristicsTechnologyUser generated contentInformal learning
Democracy
Bottom-up
Socially oriented
Web as platformHarness collective intelligencePerpetual beta
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Higher education characteristicsControlled technology
Us generated content
Accredited learning
We know best
Top down
Individual achievement
Review before releaseFiltered intelligenceAim for perfection
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Finding the sweet spot
Personal Professional
Informal Formal
Fun Work
Content SocialThis is the future of work/learning/recreation
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OU Facebook apps
Tony Hirst, Liam Green-Hughes, Stuart Brown
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What we learnt
• About facilitating dialogue• NOT controlling learner path• Viral spread • Support issues• Official endorsement?• Letting go of some control• Sweet spot: study-social, fun-work,
institution-individual
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SocialLearn: A new OU?
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What principles should it embody?
Openness
Flexibility
Disruptive
Perpetual beta
Democracy
Pedagogy
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A reversal
Student adapts to educational system
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System adapts to the learner
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Microlearner
2Learner
Cloudworks
Profile
Writes to and imports goals, resources, stream
Create goals, tasks
Pull in and publish relevant content
Pull in and publish relevant courses/designs
Publicise study and learning story
Making connections
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What we are learning
• Existing business models quickly unravel
• Existing boundaries soon blur
• Different competitors
• Different audience
• Sweet spot: informal-formal, content-social
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Edupunk
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What I learnt
• Prepared to do more when it’s fun
• What you give away is what counts
• EdTech is at a threshold now
• It’s about how we use existing tools, not tools we create
• Sweet spot: Fun-work, learning-creating, legal-illegal?
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Twitter networks
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What management can learn
• Informal groupings based on interest
• Way of fostering belonging
• Physical location less relevant
• Institutional boundaries blurred
• How do organisational structures adapt?
• Sweet spot: Personal-Professional, Fun-Work, Informal-Formal
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Conclusions
• Make learning a gift economy
• Embrace the social
• Experiment (and create room for this)
• Accept there will be mistakes
• Think of technology as the metaphor for understanding new social processes
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Links
Course Profileshttp://apps.facebook.com/courseprofiles/index.phpMy OU Storyhttp://apps.facebook.com/myoustory/index.php
Me: Edtechie.netTwitter.com/mwellerOuseful.infoLiams blog- http://www.greenhughes.com/Stuart’s blog -
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/SocialCommunications/index.php
SocialLearn - http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/socialearn/