Keynote on 3 generations of flexible learning - Groups, networks and collectives

1. Flexible Learning Pedagogy: Past and Networked Future Terry Anderson, PhD and Professor

3. Population Australia 22,000,000 Canada 34,000,00

4. Population Medals 2008 Bejing Australia 22,000,000 46 Canada 34,000,00 18

7. Winter Olympics

8. Australia Wins Winter Gold!

9. OZ’s Secret Weapon

12. Dealing with Distance Education Technological Determinism The Man with the Magic Lantern , a tribute to educator Ned Corbett

25. Focus on the Content and the Individual Learner

29. New Competitors eLearning in the USA: The Standard? The Benchmark? Rolf Schulmeister 2004 “ The teaching staff mainly consists of hired part-time lecturers who are still at the very entrance level to an academic career.”

30. Value of Good Canned content “The Great Courses” - $69-$199 (Canadian)

33. Is individual learning at a pedgagogical deadend?

36. 2. Constructivist Pedagogy of Flexible Learning Image from Constructivism in the library

37. Taxonomy of the ‘Many’ – A Conceptual Model Dron and Anderson, 2007 Group Conscious membership Leadership and organization Cohorts and paced Rules and guidelines Access and privacy controls Focused and often time limited May be blended F2F Metaphor : Virtual classroom

47. Group Network Shared interest/practice Fluid membership Friends of friends Reputation and altruism driven Emergent norms, structures Activity ebbs and flows Rarely F2F Metaphor: Virtual Community of Practice Dron and Anderson, 2007

51. Connectivist Tools http://www.go2web20.net/

53. Creating Incentive to Sustain Contribution to Networks The New Yorker September 12, 2005

54. Network Tool Set (example) Text Text Stepanyan, Mather & Payne, 2007

55. Access Controls in Elgg

56. Voicethread.com

57. Open Net Athabasca University Athabasca Landing E-Portfolios Profiles Groups/Networks Bookmark Collections Blogs Media lab Secondlife campus AUspace AlFresco CMS Moodle Library Course Development ELGG MY AU Login Registry OERs, YouTUBE Discovery Read & Comment rights Single Sign on CIDER Research/Community Networks Sample CC Course units and Branded OERs Passwords Passwords

58. University of the People 2009 Tuition Free Education? Using the power of peer learning and cooperation

59. Connectivist Learning in Collective Spaces

61. Collective Example: Terry’s Store at Amazon Drachsler, H., Hummel, G., & Koper, R. (2009). Identifying the Goal, User model and Conditions of Recommender Systems for Formal and Informal Learning. Journal of Digital Information, 10(2)

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