Emerging Platforms in Distance Education
Juliann GarzaAna Vanessa Serrano
Technology Development•Devices are smaller and more powerful with increased functionality and portability• 1989 the magical year of the world wide web• 1996 the Advent of Internet 2.0• Conversion to a Digital backpack
Foundations of Educational Platforms• Learning Management System (LMS)
• 1st & 2nd Generation • Future Evolutions: custom needs and interoperability
• Learning Content Management System (LCMS)• Synchronous & Asynchronous: communication classifications• eLearning• eLearning 2.0 & Web 2.0
Principal Functions of Distance Education Platforms
5 principal functions:• Flexibility• Communication• Information sharing• Information access• Co-Operation
The 5 Categories of Web 2.0
• Communicative• Collaborative publishing•Documentative•Generative• Interactive
eLearning &Web 2.0
Social Networking• Blog•Wiki• Podcast• Twitter•Geotagging
What Today’s Students Want• Do not want to be lectured to.• They want to be respected, trusted and have their
opinions valued and counted.• They want to follow their interests and passions.• They want to create, using tools of their time.• They want to make decisions and share control• They want to cooperate and compete with each other. • They want an education that is not just relevant, but real.
(Prensky, M. 2010)
Partnering Pedagogy• Enhance participatory, collaborative, multimodal, democratic, and distributive approaches
Teacher StudentDoesn’t tell, asks! Doesn’t take notes, finds
out!Suggests topics and tools Researches and creates
outputSupplies context Produces output, adding
rigor, context and quality.
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