This presentation was prepared for the OpenLearn 2007 workshop and is aimed to provide a basic overview on floss-like learning scenarios for educational settings. Currently one can find two types of floss-like learning scenarios that we described as an ‘inside’ and an ‘outside’ approach. The most promising scenario would be however a mixed inside/outside approach.
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Floss Com: Floss / Open Source Like Learning Models
1. Learning the Open Source Way
Opening up education through
FLOSS-like approaches?
OpenLearn 2007 conference Milton Keynes, UK – 29.10.2007
2. FLOSS-like learning basics
FLOSS as a learning environment
Looking at FLOSS in particular and the web in general we can see
that:
Content is not something static but dynamic
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Learning resources are manifold
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Users are also active creators
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Support and learning resources are closely connected
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Open and transparent structures foster re-use and discourse,
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but also continuous improvement and evolutionary growth
Existence of a wide range of possible activities to engage at
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around the core product
Self-studying and learning from what others did are the pre-
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dominant form of learning
3. FLOSS Principles for formal education?!?
Differences when translating FLOSS to education
Materials are usually the product of few authors
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Not many contributions from people other than authors
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Basic software usage (and experience): word processor
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Infrequent releases, feedback only seldom considered
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Distribution dependent on publishers
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Prior learning outcomes and processes are not systematically
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available (role of mailing lists/forums and commented code)
No or small community and related community services
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No continuous development cycle
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Partly taken from Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Teo Romera - Edukalibre Project
5. FLOSS Principles for formal education?!?
Observations
Students, teachers and free learners partly use the same web spaces
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and might be connected in an unorganized way
●Teachers’ output might be made available at repositories for the general
public (e.g. OER)
●Students’ outputs (e.g. Projects, presentations, papers) are in general
‘lost’, or in the best case available at an internal LCMS
●Students’ learning processes are ‘lost’, or in the best way recorded at
informal learning spaces at the web (e.g. discourse at forums)
●Students’ activities do not become part of the course (e.g. Collaborative
group works)
●Students’ support is divided into formal support (usually not recorded) and
informal support at the web (recorded, but somehow lost for future
students)
●Re-use? Partly / Peer-review? Partly / Collaborative content production?
Partly / Communities & evolutionary growth? No
9. FLOSS Principles for formal education?!?
Observations
Students, teachers and free learners partly use the same web spaces
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and might be connected in an unorganized way
●Teachers’ output might be made available at repositories for the general
public (e.g. OER)
●Students’ outputs are not ‘lost’, but might be accessible only on a internal
level
●Students’ learning processes are ‘lost’, or in the best way recorded at
informal learning spaces at the web
●Students’ activities become part of the course
●Students’ support is divided into formal support (usually not recorded) and
informal support at the web (recorded, but somehow lost for future
students)
●Re-use? Higher than traditional / Peer-review? Higher than traditional /
Collaborative content production? Higher than traditional / Communities &
evolutionary growth? No
12. FLOSS Principles for formal education?!?
Observations
Students, teachers and free learners use the same web spaces and are
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connected in an organized way
●Teachers’ output might be made available at repositories for the general
public (e.g. OER)
●Students’ outputs are not lost, but widespread at informal learning spaces
at the web
●Students’ learning processes are not lost, but widespread at informal
learning spaces at the web
●Students’ activities do not become part of the course
●Students’ support is divided into formal support (usually not recorded) and
informal support at the web (recorded, but somehow lost for future
students)
●Re-use? Low / Peer-review? Yes / Collaborative content production? Yes
/ Communities & evolutionary growth? No
15. FLOSS Principles for formal education?!?
Observations
Students, teachers and free learners use the same web spaces and are
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connected in an organized way
●Teachers’ output is made available at repositories for the general public
(e.g. OER)
●Students’ outputs are not ‘lost’ and become part of the course or are a
further learning resource
●Students’ learning processes are not ‘lost’, with information where to find
them recorded at informal learning spaces at the web
●Students’ activities become part of the course
●Students’ support is divided into formal support (usually not recorded) and
informal support at the web (recorded, but somehow lost for future
students) within known established and mature support environments
●Re-use? Yes / Peer-review? Yes / Collaborative content production? Yes /
Communities & evolutionary growth? Yes
17. FLOSS-like learning basics
In which way is the FLOSS-like approach different from the OER
movement?
At the current OER movement
We create repositories, but not learning communities
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Content is defined and produced in the traditional way
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Content is static, not manifold and rarely updated
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Formal students do not directly engage with OER and thus do
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not engage with external students or free learners
Students' / Free learners' learning processes and learning
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outcomes do not become part of something (course, learning
resource, product, etc)
Support and learning resources are not connected
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We don't really look at motivations and activities to attract free
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learners to become active contributors
18. FLOSS Principles for formal education?!?
Some questions
How could a FLOSS-like approach in educational settings be applied?
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Which structures would be required for applying it?
How could the FLOSS support model benefit formal education
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How could the concept of “re-use”, “collaborative content creation” and
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“peer review” be translated to formal education
What are the FLOSS equivalent motivations and activities in an
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educational setting?
What are the similarities and differences between FLOSS and education
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communities?
What are the barriers or obstacles to a FLOSS-like approach in
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education?
Are there examples of formal educational environments similar to FLOSS
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communities from which we could learn?
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20. FLOSS Principles for formal education?!?
Thank you!
Further information at: www.flosscom.net
Contact:
andreasmeiszner@spi.pt
or
A.Meiszner@open.ac.uk