An Open Social Learning Experience
Index
Motivation
The idea and how it grew up
What really happenned
Evaluation
Conclusions
More questions
The skeleton !
motivation Need for innovation
New social, educational and technological context
The objective
To test an open learning model, understood as a virtual learning environment open to the Internet community, based on the use of open resources and on a methodology focused on the participation and collaboration of users in the construction of knowledge.
Motivation
The idea: to do something 'Open'
…then... Questions, so many questions
What environment? What subject?What is the methodology? and the role of the facilitator?How to organize it?…
The Process
What environment?
A social network
More than 300 millions of users
Easy to use
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Question 1
What subject?
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Open contents with CC (A)
Travelling is interesting for many people
Web 2.0
And it was just after And it was just after holidays !! :Dholidays !! :D
Viajes 2.0
Question 2
What is the methodology?
Objective:We want a learning community able to self-manage their learning process
Teacher:Expert, non-teacher
Question 3
Activities:The Internet as the global repositoryLearning activities: foros y blog
how long
marketing
enrolment
range
certification
How to organize it?
5 weeks
Through facebook and UOC
Questionnaire
no filters
email and gift
The Process
44Results and closing
33production
22assimilation
11Presentation – ‘I feel lost’
blogs
mss n-p
forums
Let’s go to reality: what happenned?
Presentation
Production
1.- Quantitative dataCatalan edition:
37 users joined13 participated8 created a blog4 blogs7 discussion fòrums 87 posts in total
Spanish edition:
52 users joined 14 participated 12 created a blog 8 blogs 9 discussion forums 155 posts in total
2.- Users evaluation (20 users)
3.- Etnographic evaluation
Evaluation
The degree of freedom of this methodology improved my participation
I had fun carrying out the learning activities in the course
The role of the facilitator is necessary in a course developed through Facebook
Users’ evaluation: some items
Self-assess your participation in the ‘non-course’
¿What’s your global evaluation of the ‘non-course’?
Users’ evaluation: more items
...And they s aid
“It is a funny way of learning”
“Five weeks were not enough”
“We missed email notifications”
“It is an interesting tool to attract young people”
“I did not like observing how so many students joined but did not
participate” (the ‘free’ hypothesis)
“At the beginning I felt I was not sure I was assimilating the
contents ”
Users’ evaluation: their opinions
And what about the ones who jo ined the
‘ - ’ ?non cours e but did not partic ipate
“Finally I did not have time enough”
“I was a bit lost within the Facebook structure “
“I did not want such a ‘self-learning’ methodology, felt it was too
open”
“I did not know when the course was starting – no notifications”
“Personal issues”
Analyzing non-participation
The activity of the facilitator importantly conditioned learners’ activity
The amount of social learning depended on each forum
The influence of specific active users was very relevant in the engagement and dinamization of the activity in the forums
An etnographic evaluation
The structure of the activity is still quite ‘facilitator-
centered’
Five weeks is not enough time
Lack of commitment with free courses
Facebook and its rigid architecture
The trend to return to traditional ways to learn
Some conclusions
How to bridge between the ‘1.0 habits’ of users and an
open proposal like this?
How to determine specific functions and tasks of the
facilitator and how to switch control to the community?
How to evaluate learning experiences based on the use
of social networks and social learning in general?
How to deal with the sensations of feeling lost,
dispersion... how to face the chaos?
Time for reflection…
Thank you ! :D
People who participated in the project:
Gemma Aguado
Magí Almirall
Elena Barberà
Carles Fernàndez
Eva Patrícia Gil
Roger Griset
Julià Minguillon
Pepe Mora
Ana Maria Rodera
Pablo Rebaque
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