Blogging, podcasting and beyond: from real life to second life

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Blogging, podcasting and beyond from real life
to second life
Professor Paul MahargGlasgow Graduate School of
Law
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Social software
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Online games sims
Social software
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Mobile learning
Online games sims
Social software
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Augmented reality
Mobile learning
Online games sims
Social software
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social software?

• Emphasises
• networks of meaning
• Distributed learning across the internet and
  other forms of knowledge representation
• Collaborative learning at all levels

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Communications, c.1996-2006

• Still focused on
• Organisations, ie LMSs, silos of knowledge
• Products, ie handbooks, CDs, closely-guarded
  downloads
• Content, ie modules, lock-step instruction
• Snapshot assessment of taught content

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how does social learning shift thinking?

• Focus shifts to
• Organisation has weak boundaries, strong presence
  through resource-based, integrated learning
  networks, with open access, eg MIT OU open
  courseware
• Focus not on static content but on web-based,
  aggregated content
• E-comms as understanding conversation,
  just-in-time learning
• Assessment of situated learning

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RSS blogs?

• Online knowledge journals, largely chronological
  documents
• Useful for a resource that ties together dynamic
  comms with static documents, eg journal entries,
  files, syndications from other blogs
  newsreaders
• Can be public or private

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wikis?

• Think of an online, dynamic encyclopaedia
  Wikipedia, eg, or a developing set of definitions
  documents
• Useful for developing projects, developing
  knowledge, sharing knowledge in-house or via
  extranets
• Can be edited, shared among a community of
  readers / clients -- private or public

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e-portfolios

• Personal digital collection of information,
  reflection on learning and future plans
• Records and demonstrates a person's learning,
  career, experience and achievements.
• Belong to the learner - not the organisation
• Populated by learner
• Primarily concerned with supporting learning
• Lifelong and lifewide learning

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Online games sims
Social software
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online role-playing games

• use avatar technologies
• games simulations are continuous in time,
  whether you are playing or not
• fun
• learning experiences
• massive 14.5M users worldwide

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MMO data
Data courtesy of Bruce Sterling,
http//www.mmogchart.com/
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Second Life..
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DemocracyIsland
SL blogs
SL events
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Harvard Law School online course
http//blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/
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simulations in legal learning

• Are close to the world of practice, but safe from
  the (possible) realities of malpractice and
  negligent representation.
• Enable learners to practise legal transactions,
  discuss the transactions with other fee-earners,
  PSLs, and use a variety of instruments or tools,
  online or textual, to help them understand the
  nature and consequences of their actions
• Facilitate a wide variety of assessment, from
  high-stakes assignments with automatic fail
  points, to coursework that can double as a
  learning zone and an assessment assignment
• Encourage collaborative learning. The guilds and
  groups of hunters in multi-player online games
  can be replicated for very different purposes in
  legal education.
• Learners begin to see the potential for the C in
  ICT and that technology is not merely a matter
  of word-processed essays quizzes, but a form of
  learning that changes quite fundamentally what
  and how they learn.

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personal injury negotiation project

• Administration
• 280 students, 70 firms, 7 anonymous information
  sources
• 70 document sets, 35 transactions
• students have 12 weeks to achieve settlement
• introductory feedback lectures
• discussion forums
• FAQs transaction guideline flowcharts
• voluntary face-to-face surgeries with a PI
  solicitor

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PI project assessment criteria

• We require from each student firm a body of
  evidence consisting of
• fact-finding from information sources in the
  virtual community)
• professional legal research using WestLaw
  paperworld sources
• formation of negotiation strategy extending
  range of Foundation Course learning
• performance of strategy correspondence
  optional f2f meeting, recorded

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statistics
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statistics
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PI project (some of) what students learned

• extended team working
• real legal fact-finding
• real legal research
• process thinking in the project
• setting out negotiation strategies in the context
  of (un)known information
• writing to specific audiences
• handling project alongside other work commitments
• structuring the argument of a case from start to
  finish
• keeping cool in face-to-face negotiations
• more effective delegation
• keeping files
• taking notes on the process...

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Mobile learning
Online games sims
Social software
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mobile learning phones iPods

• Now, 3G broadband for phones
• Now over 40 functions in phones, eg
• Shoot video
• Play music
• Listen to podcasts / vodcasts
• Pay for yr lunch
• M-learning
• 4G will be global by 2010, giving us
• Seamless access to wireless technologies
• Projection facilities
• 5G?
• Holograph keyboards
• Sophisticated avatar control
• Context-aware technologies see
  http//www.andreas-p-schmidt.de/publications/abis0
  5_aschmidt.pdf

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podcasts
John Mayer, CALIhttp//caliopolis.classcaster.or
g/blog/
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video lectureenvironment
Main page
Text information panel
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webcast research
http//www.ggsl.strath.ac.uk/ltdu/research/default
.htm
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Information from http//blog.compete.com
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Augmented reality
Mobile learning
Online games sims
Social software
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Examples of AR

• Liver surgery planning using AR
• http//www.computer.org/portal/cms_docs_cga/cga/c
  ontent/Promo/promo3.pdf

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future tool
applications

• Ambient, pervasive, intelligent devices

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eg Social Network Analysis interaction patterns
Maarten de Laat, http//e-learning.surf.nl/e-
learning/english/3481
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professional comms learning post-2010

• Personalised learning spaces within organisations
• Integration of knowledge management, learning
  self-development
• Blurring of real virtual
• Knowledge and skills will be distributed across
  webs

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portrait of the PSL as designer

• If
• Knowledge and skills are distributed across webs
• Then
• User-created content will increase hugely in two
  areas
• collaborative gathering of information, eg
  Katrinalist.net
• Personalised media, eg MySpace, YouTube.
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• Shift in traditional role of KM and web
  dissemination
• Staff will spend more time designing social
  networks targeted at client groups, using
• re-usable, aggregated resources
• blended pure online comms
• just-in-time information learning
• salon masterclass models of group learning

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models of KM
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what havent we covered?

• Adapted content agent-generated content
• animations creative activities
• cybercartography e-books
• exhibits libraries
• live presentations PBL
• work-flow learning multi-channel learning
• video-conferencing tools
• and much more!

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contact details

• Email paul.maharg_at_strath.ac.uk
• Blog http//zeugma.typepad.com
• Presentation url http//zeugma.typepad.com/DSW.pp
  t
• Address Glasgow Graduate School of Law
• Lord Hope Building
• University of Strathclyde
• 141 St James Road
• Glasgow G4 0LU