Jon Mason Education.au Ltd

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Jon MasonEducation.au Ltd
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Standards for e-learningIs there a future?
Jon Mason jmason_at_educationau.edu.au
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Process
Content
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Standards for e-learningIs there a future?
More importantly What standards? Why
standards? Who will develop them?
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Why?

• Standards are a natural artifact of any human
  society
• Communities of practice develop standards (
  conventions, protocols, fashions, etc)

But
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Standards are misunderstood

• As a means for corporate dominance in the
  marketplace
• As a means for government regulatory control
• As an encroachment on personal freedom of
  expression

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Standards are misunderstood
in the eLearning world the province of
techos!
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How to model the problem space?

• Processes Functions
• Concepts
• Components
• Services
• Frameworks
• Sustainable infrastructure
• Use Cases

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Critical Uncertainties
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Technology empowers
Web of Confidence
Vanilla
Sources of power, influence and new ideas
Emergent
Acceptance and adoption of technology in society
Established
Back to the Future
U Choose
Technology frustrates
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Technology Empowers
Emergent Power
Established Power
Technology Frustrates
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What is common to each scenario?
All will utilise standards in various forms!
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http//mapageweb.umontreal.ca/turner/meta/english/
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Other Tensions
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• No clean boundary between technical pedagogical
  issues - e.g., metadata soft infrastructure
• Interoperability - semantic - cultural -
  political - syntactic - technical

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Terminology
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Boundaries
Networks
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• What creates value in the information economy?
• Who creates it?
• How is it created?

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Standards utilize define boundaries enable
networks facilitate development of systems
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Questions What if
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The paomnnehil pweor of the hmuan mnid.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde
Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the
ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng
is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit
pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can
sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae
the huamn mind deos not raed ervey lteter by
istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. - personal
email correspondence, Aug 2003
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What Technology?

• information communications
• nano-
• bio-
• a fusion?
• Many technologies will shape societys acceptance
  or otherwise

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Who
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Who Else?
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Communities of Practice
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Conceptual Challenges

• What is content?
• new data-types object-types constantly
  appearing
• Boundaries
• Where are the boundaries between content,
  context, learning activities?
• What are digital objects what are digital
  collections?
• Where are the boundaries between data,
  information, knowledge?
• Modeling knowledge
• extending the scope of metadata assignment use

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Source Chris Blackall, ANU, 2003
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Will a Knowledge Economy Emerge? Is e-learning
meshing with knowledge management?
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Know
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No Boundaries or Rules? www.nbor.com
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Interfaces Boundaries by another name A
critical success factor in technology adoption
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Technology empowers
Web of Confidence
Vanilla
Sources of power, influence and new ideas
Emergent
Acceptance and adoption of technology in society
Established
Back to the Future
U Choose
Technology frustrates
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What does each scenario indicate about e-learning
standards?

• Back to the Future a content-delivery-centric
  dumbing down (know-what)
• UChoose portlets, wikis, weblogs, e-portfolios
• Virtually Vanilla blended dumbing down,
  content-access, competencies (do-what
  know-what)
• Web of Confidence access management solved,
  hi-trust systems