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Keynote presentation given at Carleton University, Ottawa Ontario, April 6, 2011.
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Teaching & Learning in a Networked Era
Dr. Alec CourosUniversity of ReginaAt Carleton UniversityApril 6/11
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bit.ly/carleton11
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Faculty Profile
The Blur
http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3974469907/
An Open Scholar
“Web 2.0 tools exist that might allow academics to reflect and reimagine what they do as scholars. Such tools might
positively affect -- even transform - research, teaching, and service responsibilities - only if scholars choose to
build serious academic lives online, presenting semi-public selves and becoming invested in and connected to the work of their peers and students.” (Greenhow,
Robelia, & Hughes, 2009)
Open Doctrine
“People donʼt buy what you do, they buy why you do it.”
(Simon Sinek)
context
significant change ...
Justin Bieber
Amanda Hocking
Maria Aragon
PS22 Choir
My Daughter
David Wiley
@opencontent
Then vs Now
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
Closed Open
David Wiley
@opencontent
Education vs Everyday
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
Closed Open
Why Do Students Go to University?
Content
Social Life
Degrees
Support Services
(Wiley, 2010)
Why Do Students Go to University?
Content
Support ServicesSocial Life
Degrees
WikipediaPLoS
OCW
Open Courses
Google Scholar
arXiv.orgFlatworld K
MCSEGCT
ACT
CCNACNE
MMOGsMySpace
Yahoo! AnswersQuora
Skype
(Wiley, 2010)
ChaCha
George Siemens
• “Informal learning is a significant aspect of our learning experience. Formal education no longer comprises the majority of our learning.”
•
Informal Learning
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
catalysts ...
Access
Mobile Computing
Free & Open Content
FreeTools/Networks
Personalization?
Participatory Media
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosauraochoa/3256859352/sizes/z/in/photostream/
42cc licensed flickr photo by jayRaz: http://flickr.com/photos/shnakepup/2935979173/
The greatest digital divide is between those who can read and write with media, and those who can't.Elizabeth Daly
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/24/obama-in-berlin-video-of_n_114771.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/24/obama-in-berlin-video-of_n_114771.html
Stats as of Jan 22/10 via Royal Pingdom
media stats (2009)
• 90 trillion emails sent annually from 1.4 billion email users
• 234 million websites
• 1.73 billion Internet users
• 126 millions blogs
• 350 million Facebook users
• 4 billion images on Flickr
• 2.5 billion photos uploaded every month on Facebook
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/11/great-scott-over-35-hours-of-video.html
viral videos & unintentional fame
pay attention to ...
•Properties: persistence, replicability, searchability, scalability, (de)locatability.
•Dynamics: invisible audiences, collapsed contexts, blurring of public & private spaces @zephoria
danah boyd
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/24/obama-in-berlin-video-of_n_114771.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/24/obama-in-berlin-video-of_n_114771.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg11glsBW4Y
intentional identity
Owing a domain name is about claiming your pieceof the internet. You’re no longer renting, you’re a home owner.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35723943@N00/2379057597/
Digital Residency/Digital Portfolios
Best Job in the World
Stephen Downes
• “Ten years ago, not one student in a hundred, nay, one in a thousand, could have produced videos like this. Itʼs a whole new skill, a vital and important skill, and one utterly necessary not simply from the perspective of creating but also of comprehending video communication today.
On Digital Video
Networks
http://www.flowtown.com/blog/the-2010-social-networking-map
Howard Rheingold
• “Understanding how networks work is one of the most important literacies of the 21st century.” (2010)
Network Literacies
Howard Rheingold
http://www.anduro.com/calgary-mayor-race.html
Politics
Services
Creative Projects
Personal Learning Network
So Why Not Education?
“networked learning is a process of developing and maintaining connections
with people and information, and communicating in such a way as to
support one anotherʼs learning.” (Wikipedia)
Crowdsourcing Example #1:
Deconstructed
Crowdsourcing Example #2:
Deconstructed
considerations
what does it mean to your programs if 21st century learning is:anywhere/anytime/anyone
baseline
ʻknow-whatʼ vs. ʻknow howʼ
transition
• sharing by default• publish, then filter• ʻlooseʼ trust & networks• rethinking privacy/publics• educators as learners• relevance of remix/mashup & multimedia• expertise/knowledge found in networks• minutia and presence as social bonding
mindset changes
practice
Massive Open Online Course
open teaching
network mentors
non-credit students
course trailers
aggregation
microblogging
shared resources
daily updates
What We Learned & Why It Matters to YOUR Courses
• Open access, low-cost, high impact.
• Courses become shared, non-local, learning events.
• Students immersed in a greater learning community.
• Rethinking of space/interaction (walled gardens, open spaces)
• Learning spaces controlled and/or owned by students.
• Development of emerging literacies, relevant for other courses.
• Pedagogy focused more on connecting & interactions; content important, but secondary.
• Development of sustainable, long-term, learning connections.
“I was able to go out and learn throughout the entire week, the entire year, and Iʼm still
learning with everyone.”
“The best part of the course is that itʼs not ending. With the connections weʼve built, it
never has to end.”
“The course ... has been the most profound pd experience Iʼve ever had. It forced me to critique & review my practice. I never knew how important social networks
were. Now, I couldnʼt be a teacher without being connected. Itʼs drastically changed my view of education.”
discussion
Obsolesence never meant the end of anything, itʼs just the beginning.
~ Marshall McLuhan
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