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SocialLearn update - Mar 18, 2010
- 1. KMi Seminar, 18 March 2010
SocialLearn Project
update
Simon Buckingham Shum
Knowledge Media Institute
Open University UK
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- 2. 1969 “open” 2010
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- 3. “Open”: 1969
People Places
founding principles…
Methods Ideas
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- 4. “Open” in the world of Web 2.0+
Open IP Open Economics
Open Communities Open Data Standards
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- 5. “social
learning”
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- 6. “Social Learning” has many intellectual traditions
Computer-supported
Group learning collaborative learning
Communities of practice
Apprenticeship
“Social Learning is a
Wicked, social problems fundamental epistemological
shift, beyond participation.
Encompasses both
understanding and practices.”
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- 7. New OU reader on
Social Learning
Systems &
Communities of
Practice
Chris
Blackmore
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- 8. “social learning”
SocialLearn Project working definition: social
learning can take place when users can…
clarify their intention – learning rather than
browsing
ground their learning – by defining their question or
problem
engage in focused conversations – increasing their
understanding of the available resources.
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- 10. shifting
educational
landscape
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- 11. The industrial-era university (school/college)
Nation building
Builds national Benefactors pay
industrial strength
Repository of
knowledge
A canon of (libraries)
knowledge
Scholars
Knowledge
development
Objective
Disciplines
truth, facts
and subjects
Teaching
Students Examination:
subordinated – pass or fail
Monopoly: Elite professional
– access to knowledge and social class
– granting degrees
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Figure: Hardin Tibbs
- 12. The emerging learning model
Globally connected
Builds free- Nation/state and
market industrial market-based
strength
A knowledge funding
Participatory saturated
learning environment
Lifelong
discourse
learning
Facilitating and
guiding the Subjective,
Modules and
development of qualitative,
competencies
the whole person
meaning
Students as Flexible delivery
customers, and assessment
learner-centric
Vocational focus,
Branding in a competitive career-ready
environment, eroded accredited, everyone
monopoly
‘learning or earning’
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Figure: Hardin Tibbs
- 13. How do we make the future learner-centric
(but not an echo chamber where you’re never out your comfort zone)?
Personalised information Learner-selected
feeds and mobile tools peer network
Personalised Learner-selected
resource archives mentors
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- 14. Learner-centred universe
Chat, My real-world
conferencing, learning
blogging, context
posting My identity
My learning record
My privacy settings My online
Share, learning /
network, join, How far teaching
participate My learning and how reputation
My learning
buddies fast I want
space
(richly resourced,
rewarding, safe, Find a
Create, offer My in control of my
and find learning teacher /
own learning) tutor, or a
learning projects My devices
materials student,
& platforms or a co-
My learning needs, learner
my aspiration,
Share /
my curriculum
publish my
My choice of
learning
online tools
Learning /
Knowledge
maps
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- 15. designing for
online social
learning
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- 16. Social learning technology:
candidate dimensions of the design space
everyday social media social media tuned for learning?
“friends” like me + learning peers/mentors who both
affirm and challenge
1-many from the start + 1-1 mentoring
rapid information exchange + learning conversations
no reflection required by the UI reflection encouraged by the UI
tag clouds + meaningful connections
generic web analytics + learning analytics
recommendations based on + recommendations based on
navigation, ratings, purchases… learning profiles and activities
myriad activity traces in the cloud + a secure e-portfolio to evidence
learning
informal personal endorsements + verifiable accreditation by trusted
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- 17. social, improvable,
conceptual artifacts
beyond sharing media documents, what is
special about learning that motivates digital
support for shareable, improvable,
CONCEPTUAL artifacts?
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- 18. Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking
cf. Engeström’s wildfire learning activities: we need inquiry, trails, history, consolidation,
argument, landmarks, places, exploration
Learners and educators can make many levels of contribution…
Ask a Question
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- 19. Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking
…inquiry, trails, history, consolidation, argument, landmarks, places, exploration
Learners and educators can make many levels of contribution…
Ask a Question
Answer a
Question
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- 20. Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking
…inquiry, trails, history, consolidation, argument, landmarks, places, exploration
Learners and educators can make many levels of contribution…
Ask a Question
Post a
comment
Answer a
Question
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- 21. Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking
…inquiry, trails, history, consolidation, argument, landmarks, places, exploration
Learners and educators can make many levels of contribution…
Ask a Question
Post a
comment
Answer a
Question
Support/Challenge
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- 22. Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking
…inquiry, trails, history, consolidation, argument, landmarks, places, exploration
Learners and educators can make many levels of contribution…
Ask a Question
Post a
comment
Answer a
Question
Support/Challenge Add Resources
to enhance
contributions
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- 23. Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking
…inquiry, trails, history, consolidation, argument, landmarks, places, exploration
Learners and educators can make many levels of contribution…
Build a Learning path to help answer a Question
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- 24. Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking
…inquiry, trails, history, consolidation, argument, landmarks, places, exploration
Learners and educators can make many levels of contribution…
Build a Learning path to help answer a Question
Add Reflection
points to help
consolidate
learning
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- 25. Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking
…inquiry, trails, history, consolidation, argument, landmarks, places, exploration
Learners and educators can make many levels of contribution…
Build a Learning path to help answer a Question
Add Reflection
points to help
consolidate
learning
Add Resources Add Activities to
to enhance build/assess
any step learning
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- 26. Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking
…inquiry, trails, history, consolidation, argument, landmarks, places, exploration
Learners and educators can make many levels of contribution…
Forge new Paths from existing Paths…
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- 27. Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking
…inquiry, trails, history, consolidation, argument, landmarks, places, exploration
Learners and educators can make many levels of contribution…
Forge meaningful connections between any Question, Step, Path…
is inconsistent with
resolves
is a counterexample of
refutes
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- 28. Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking
…inquiry, trails, history, consolidation, argument, landmarks, places, exploration
Questions
Activities
Answers Connections Assessment
Documents Learning
Paths
Data Reflection
Dialogue Argumentation
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- 30. sociallearn
beta 2
(for beta1 report see OU-internal Oct’09
eLearningCommunity webcast)
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- 31. The SocialLearn Space provides the ‘glue’ to
connect diverse websites, providing friends,
analytics and recommendations
OU VLE PhD-Skills ORO
Interoperability via Google OpenSocial Gadgets/FriendConnect
1. Profile
SocialLearn Space 2. User Interface
3. Social Graph
4. Services 31
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- 32. Google Gadgets & OpenSocial
http://opensocial.org / directory.opensocial.org
Major social
media players
are now
OpenSocial
Gadget
“containers”
The Gadget
Directory is
analogous to
the iPhone
AppStore –
thousands of
apps
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- 33. Cloudworks People Recommender gadget in
an iGoogle portal (or any other OpenSocial container)
People
Recommender
gadget
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- 34. Other candidate gadgets…
SocialLearn
PhD Skills Gadget
Path Gadget
I’m Stuck Gadget
Mentor Gadget
Plus…
From KMi: eg. Flashmeeting, Virtual Microscope, ROLE…
From OU: eg. Library
From other educational institutions, eg. Moodle
From SocialLearn developer community
From e-science projects, eg. MyExperiment
From Google: eg. Calendar; Gmail, Reader…
From the global Gadget Directory: thousands more… 34
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- 35. web apps
aggregating data from, and providing services to,
diverse OU and external platforms
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- 36. web apps:
cloudworks
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- 37. Cloudworks: A social space to share/discuss
educational ideas/resources (IET) http://cloudworks.ac.uk
Seed your Cloud with
introductory text or
embedded media,
and then invite
discussion and links
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- 38. Cloudworks: A social space to share/discuss
educational ideas/resources (IET) http://cloudworks.ac.uk
Seed your Cloud with
introductory text or
embedded media,
and then invite
discussion and links
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- 39. Cloudworks: A social space to share/discuss
educational ideas/resources (IET) http://cloudworks.ac.uk
Seed your Cloud with
introductory text or
embedded media,
and then invite
discussion and links
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- 40. Embedding Google Gadgets in Cloudworks
People
Recommender
gadget
Cloud
Recommender
gadget
Cloudstream
Recommender
gadget
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- 41. web apps:
phd skills
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- 42. Embedding a Google Gadget in PhD-Skills website
http://phdskills.open.ac.uk
A generic PhD skill from the
national Research Councils
framework
Cloudstream
Recommender gadget
showing relevant activity
in Cloudworks (test
example)
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- 43. web apps:
cohere
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- 45. Cohere: web annotation + semantic connections
http://cohere.open.ac.uk
Connections
filtered by Contrast
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- 46. Cohere: web annotation + semantic connections
http://cohere.open.ac.uk
Connections
filtered by Lineage
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- 47. Cohere: web annotation + semantic connections
http://cohere.open.ac.uk
Connections filtered
by Consistency
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- 48. web apps:
ELLIment
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- 49. Embedding lifelong learning skills in SocialLearn
ELLI: Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory
Bristol University School of Education: what makes some people
interested in learning throughout their lives, while others drop out of the
system early on?
Web questionnaire generates a learning map with 7 dimensions
describing capacities to learn: basis for a mentored conversation
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- 50. ELLIment (rapid prototype – Thomas Ullman, OU)
Choose your Editable ELLI
mentor profile accessed
from Learning Shared record of
notes, activities,
Warehouse
objectives, etc
Private or
Shared
reflections
AV channel of
choice
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- 51. research
opportunities…
there are intruiging conversations now waiting to develop
with social learning researchers
opportunities for KMi research to synergise with
SocialLearn?...
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- 52. R&D opportunities to test socio-semantic technologies in
an open source service infrastructure
Merging social graphs
Analytics and recommendation
from the cloud
engines working off content and
social networks?
SIOC for modelling
and merging identity?
Ontologies relevant to learning/
academic research?
Text processing to improve
automated user profiling based
on their online ?
Semantic web services?
Multimedia/semantic search
engines looking for a testbed? Relevant widgets/apps
for learners/
researchers?
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