Does elearning have to be so awful?

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Does elearning have to be so awful?
With special thanks to Prof. Toshio Okamotoand
all the ICALT 2007 Committee Members
Time to mashup or shutup!

• Marc EisenstadtKeynote address, ICALT 2007
• Niigata, Japan, 18-20 July, 2007

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My concerns

• Straw poll results...
• Where are the kids (in this conference)?
• The If only... fallacy

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Schools are broken. If only
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Schools are broken. If only
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Schools are broken. If only
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Schools are broken. If only
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Schools are broken. If only
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Schools are broken. If only
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Enough already!
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1 Edu-Portals Ownership YouTube, NotSchool, CLUTCH







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1 Edu-Portals Ownership YouTube, NotSchool, CLUTCH
2 Laptops for all, with no vision






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1 Edu-Portals Ownership YouTube, NotSchool, CLUTCH
2 Laptops for all, with no vision Smartboards with vision!






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1 Edu-Portals Ownership YouTube, NotSchool, CLUTCH
2 Laptops for all, with no vision Smartboards with vision!
3 Web surfing, copy/pasting





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1 Edu-Portals Ownership YouTube, NotSchool, CLUTCH
2 Laptops for all, with no vision Smartboards with vision!
3 Web surfing, copy/pasting Blogging MTN Wikipedia MySpace





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Fails Succeeds
1 Edu-Portals Ownership YouTube, NotSchool, CLUTCH
2 Laptops for all, with no vision Smartboards with vision!
3 Web surfing, copy/pasting Blogging MTN Wikipedia MySpace
4 Learning Objects
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Fails Succeeds
1 Edu-Portals Ownership YouTube, NotSchool, CLUTCH
2 Laptops for all, with no vision Smartboards with vision!
3 Web surfing, copy/pasting Blogging MTN Wikipedia MySpace
4 Learning Objects Simulating solving, goal-based learning
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Fails Succeeds
1 Edu-Portals Ownership YouTube, NotSchool, CLUTCH
2 Laptops for all, with no vision Smartboards with vision!
3 Web surfing, copy/pasting Blogging MTN Wikipedia MySpace
4 Learning Objects Simulating solving, goal-based learning
5 CAL / authoring environments
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Fails Succeeds
1 Edu-Portals Ownership YouTube, NotSchool, CLUTCH
2 Laptops for all, with no vision Smartboards with vision!
3 Web surfing, copy/pasting Blogging MTN Wikipedia MySpace
4 Learning Objects Simulating solving, goal-based learning
5 CAL / authoring environments Cognitive tutor / environments
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Fails Succeeds
1 Edu-Portals Ownership YouTube, NotSchool, CLUTCH
2 Laptops for all, with no vision Smartboards with vision!
3 Web surfing, copy/pasting Blogging MTN Wikipedia MySpace
4 Learning Objects Simulating solving, goal-based learning
5 CAL / authoring environments Cognitive tutor / environments
6 IMS LMS
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Fails Succeeds
1 Edu-Portals Ownership YouTube, NotSchool, CLUTCH
2 Laptops for all, with no vision Smartboards with vision!
3 Web surfing, copy/pasting Blogging MTN Wikipedia MySpace
4 Learning Objects Simulating solving, goal-based learning
5 CAL / authoring environments Cognitive tutor / environments
6 IMS LMS SMS IM
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1 Edu-Portals Ownership YouTube, NotSchool, CLUTCH
2 Laptops for all, with no vision Smartboards with vision!
3 Web surfing, copy/pasting Blogging MTN Wikipedia MySpace
4 Learning Objects Simulating solving, goal-based learning
5 CAL / authoring environments Cognitive tutor / environments
6 IMS LMS SMS IM
7 School software maintenance contract
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Fails Succeeds
1 Edu-Portals Ownership YouTube, NotSchool, CLUTCH
2 Laptops for all, with no vision Smartboards with vision!
3 Web surfing, copy/pasting Blogging MTN Wikipedia MySpace
4 Learning Objects Simulating solving, goal-based learning
5 CAL / authoring environments Cognitive tutor / environments
6 IMS LMS SMS IM
7 School software maintenance contract Debugging clubs
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Fails Succeeds
1 Edu-Portals Ownership YouTube, NotSchool, CLUTCH
2 Laptops for all, with no vision Smartboards with vision!
3 Web surfing, copy/pasting Blogging MTN Wikipedia MySpace
4 Learning Objects Simulating solving, goal-based learning
5 CAL / authoring environments Cognitive tutor / environments
6 IMS LMS SMS IM
7 School software maintenance contract Debugging clubs
8 Edutainment
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1 Edu-Portals Ownership YouTube, NotSchool, CLUTCH
2 Laptops for all, with no vision Smartboards with vision!
3 Web surfing, copy/pasting Blogging MTN Wikipedia MySpace
4 Learning Objects Simulating solving, goal-based learning
5 CAL / authoring environments Cognitive tutor / environments
6 IMS LMS SMS IM
7 School software maintenance contract Debugging clubs
8 Edutainment BitTorrent GTA III Second Life?
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Fails

• top-down
• content provision
• centralist
• we know best

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• top-down
• content provision
• centralist
• we know best

• communities of practice
• common culture of use
• ownership of content

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Big changes happeningbut is it really different
this time?
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Microsoft to set up university in Banagalore

• 12 Jul 2007, 0453 hrs IST , Mini Joseph Tejaswi
  , TNNBANGALORE Microsoft Corporation has
  chosen Bangalore for its first-ever exclusive and
  independent educational venture in the world. The
  company will set up a university in the city to
  impart high-end computer education. The
  university may well be India's first run by a
  multinational company.

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http//schome.open.ac.uk
Ethics/philosophy session
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Climate change lecture
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Observing TRUTHS satellite
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Big changes happeningbut is it really different
this time?

• The power of social networking
• Semantic web for real dynamic links
• Location-enhanced presence
• Ubiquitous v-presence
• Web2.0

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Web2.0 secret sauce
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Web2.0 secret sauce
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But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that
we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away
from the control station in Houston, a giant
rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of
this football field,
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But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that
we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away
from the control station in Houston, a giant
rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of
this football field, made of new metal alloys,
some of which have not yet been invented, capable
of standing heat and stresses several times more
than have ever been experienced,
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But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that
we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away
from the control station in Houston, a giant
rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of
this football field, made of new metal alloys,
some of which have not yet been invented, capable
of standing heat and stresses several times more
than have ever been experienced, fitted together
with a precision better than the finest watch,
carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion,
guidance, control, communications, food and
survival, on an untried mission, to an unknown
celestial body, and then return it safely to
earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of
over 25,000 miles per hour,
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But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that
we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away
from the control station in Houston, a giant
rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of
this football field, made of new metal alloys,
some of which have not yet been invented, capable
of standing heat and stresses several times more
than have ever been experienced, fitted together
with a precision better than the finest watch,
carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion,
guidance, control, communications, food and
survival, on an untried mission, to an unknown
celestial body, and then return it safely to
earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of
over 25,000 miles per hour, causing heat about
half that of the temperature of the sun--almost
as hot as it is here today--and do all this, and
do it right, and do it first before this decade
is out
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But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that
we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away
from the control station in Houston, a giant
rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of
this football field, made of new metal alloys,
some of which have not yet been invented, capable
of standing heat and stresses several times more
than have ever been experienced, fitted together
with a precision better than the finest watch,
carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion,
guidance, control, communications, food and
survival, on an untried mission, to an unknown
celestial body, and then return it safely to
earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of
over 25,000 miles per hour, causing heat about
half that of the temperature of the sun--almost
as hot as it is here today--and do all this, and
do it right, and do it first before this decade
is out--then we must be bold.
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But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that
we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away
from the control station in Houston, a giant
rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of
this football field, made of new metal alloys,
some of which have not yet been invented, capable
of standing heat and stresses several times more
than have ever been experienced, fitted together
with a precision better than the finest watch,
carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion,
guidance, control, communications, food and
survival, on an untried mission, to an unknown
celestial body, and then return it safely to
earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of
over 25,000 miles per hour, causing heat about
half that of the temperature of the sun--almost
as hot as it is here today--and do all this, and
do it right, and do it first before this decade
is out--then we must be bold.
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The Mother Of All Virtual Univeristies
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Five OU success factors
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New initiative started 2006 OpenLearn

• Funded by the William and Flora Hewlett
  Foundation
• Open Educational Resources for the world
• Free software everything I am about to show you
  is freely available, including most of the source
  code

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Goals

• Make (some) OU learning materials freely
  available online
• Deploy leading-edge learning management tools for
  learner support
• Encourage the creation of non-formal
  collaborative learning communities
• Enhance international research-based knowledge
  about modern pedagogies for higher education

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Lovely Moodle extensions...authoring
templatesproduction factory
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But wait!Something is missing!
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Giving content a social life
From raw learning resources (what we push to
the learner)
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Giving content a social life
to layers of tools for sensemaking (what the
learners construct for themselves)
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Giving content a social life
creating a web of ideas, open and evolving
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Giving content a social life
creating a sensemaking community
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A missing layer in the Open Content infrastructure
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The sensemaking layer
sensemaking

• Social presence/identity
• P2P Collaboration
• Tools to facilitate emergent social structures,
  e.g.
• Multiple channels for interaction
• Self-organising groups
• Peer ratings
• Visualizations of community activity

• Knowledge Mapping
• Level 1 annotations, portfolios, web boards,
  blogs, wikis
• Level 2 semantic structure to
• provoke deeper personal reflection
• enable collaborative annotation and discourse

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Social Presenceand Identity
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Find me the person online who can really help me
now.
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• Who else is facing a similar problem?
• Where can I find complementary approaches?
• Has anyone found contrary evidence?

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BuddySpace
Expert Search returns NAMES not
documents! Social triangulation
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BuddySpace Web2.0 MSG
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Relevance to OpenLearn

• Fosters impromptu/informal interactions
• Well-known feel-good factor (seeing whos
  around)
• Encourages peer-group problem-solving

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Google Maps MSG clusters
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Google Maps Dynamic re-clustering
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Google Maps Click-to-chat
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Web2.0 Secret Sauce

• Open API, easy mashup with Google Maps
• Ability for others to deploy, e.g. Semantic GIS
  project

Presence everywhere Postings annotated with
live status,facilitating click-to-chat
now(any user can opt out of this)
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P2P Collaboration
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The FlashMeeting System
designed to be simple and lightweight3 years of
research 4,000 online meetings Different
communities of practice Highly varied
events Various communication channels
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Just go to URL, and it works!Click button to
raise your hand...Take turns automatically, or
click interrupt of you want
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Live voting, whiteboard, chat, slides
etc. Hundreds of similar tools Only
FlashMeeting is so simple and so scalable
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More secret sauce syndication!
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http//flashmeeting.open.ac.uk/public
You can see all our data. Check it out!
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FlashMeeting analysis
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Audio/VideoAngle Talk TimeRadiusTurns taken
ChatAngleCharacters typedRadiusMessages sent
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Do the shapes tell the story? (a question for
active research!)
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Knowledge MappingBeyond threaded discussions

• Forging meaningful links between annotations
• and simplifying remixing

ICALT work of Kashihara et al. Yang et al.
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Mapping the Iraq Debate
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Knowledge Mapping

• An entire curriculum learning path can be
  created, edited, and uploaded with this tool!

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So far

• Over 720 units published
• Over 7,500 hours of learning from current OU
  courses
• 800 hours from discontinued courses
• 11 topic areas represented, including study
  skills
• Most units are at Introductory level so far
• Over 500,000 visitors
• Over 30,000 registered users
• Majority of visitors new to the OU
• Achieving a high age of success in clearing 3rd
  party content, driving down clearance costs for
  text and still images

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Original objectives

• Make some OU learning materials freely available
  online
• Deploy leading-edge learning management tools for
  learner support
• Encourage the creation of non-formal
  collaborative learning communities
• Enhance international research-based knowledge
  about modern pedagogies for higher education

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Original objectives

• v Make some OU learning materials freely
  available online
• v Deploy leading-edge learning management tools
  for learner support
• v Encourage the creation of non-formal
  collaborative learning communities
• v Enhance international research-based knowledge
  about modern pedagogies for higher education

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Challenges for ICALT
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OpenLearn www.open.ac.uk/openlearnLabSpace
labspace.open.ac.ukMSG msg.open.ac.ukFlashMee
ting flashmeeting.open.ac.ukCompendium
www.compendiuminstitute.orgMe
m.eisenstadt_at_open.ac.uk