a bridge in the cloud?

Steve WheelerUniversity of Plymouth

http://www.freefoto.com

Learning management systems and the personal learning environment: A bridge in the cloud?

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The PLE as a counter argument to the LMS

http://open.salon.com

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What is Edupunk?

• A resistance to commodification and commercialisation of learning

• A ‘do-it-yourself’ attitude • Thinking and learning for

yourself• Unleashing the ‘anarchy of the

web’

Edupunk philosophy

“Edupunk is student-centered, resourceful, teacher- or community-created rather than corporate-sourced, and underwritten by a progressive political stance.”

Source: Stephen’s Web: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=44760

LMS PLETENSION

Institutional Personal

The LMS/PLE Landscape

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LMS PLE

Good for secure organisation, storage and delivery of content

Not good for opening up content or personalised learning

Uses free/open tools that can be personalised

Loosely aggregated tool set and not fully secure

TENSION

Institutional Personal

The LMS/PLE Landscape

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Personalisation of learning means ensuring that individual differences are

acknowledged

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Funnels and Webs

Ivan Illich

http://zumu.com

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One size does not

fit all

Participation, not passive reception of knowledge

Learning Webs

From this .... ..... To this

http://sm.irsd.k12.de.us http://blogs.silverlight.net

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The LMS

“Institutions that use LMS are in

danger of turning the Web back into

a funnel”

(Wheeler, 2009)

http://www.chemistryland.com

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Trends in Education

Just for me Apprenticeship model

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Trends in Education

Just in case

Just for me Apprenticeship model

Standard Curriculum

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Factory education model?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com

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Factory education model?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com

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Synchronisation

Batch processing

Compartmentalisation

Standardisation

Trends in Education

Just in case

Just in time

Just for me Apprenticeship model

Standard Curriculum

Bespoke Curriculum

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Trends in Education

Just in case

Just in time

Just for me

Just for me Apprenticeship model

Standard Curriculum

Bespoke Curriculum

Personalised Learning

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Trends in Education

Just in case

Just in time

Just for me

Just for me Apprenticeship model

Standard Curriculum

Bespoke Curriculum

Personalised Learning

Personal Learning Environment

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A system that helps learners take control of and manage their own learning. This includes providing

support for learners to

Personal Learning Environment

Source: Wikipedia

set their own learning goals

manage their learning

communicate with others

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A system that helps learners take control of and manage their own learning. This includes providing

support for learners to

Personal Learning Environment

set their own learning goals

manage their learning

communicate with others

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User Generated Content

The one and only...

http://chrissaad.wordpress.com

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You can be your own ‘LMS’

Services Tools

Formats Content

Channels Networks

Aggregation

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Formal and Informal learning

Formal Learning Informal Learning

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20% 80%Source: Cofer, D. (2000). Informal Workplace Learning.

We cannot ‘manage’ self-organised learning for our students.

We can only create conducive environments within which students will organise their own learning.

Self Organised Learning

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Personal Web Tools

n = 56 Teachers

Microblogging 46 Twitter, Plurk, TumblrBlogging 26 Wordpress, BloggerCollaborative writing 12 Wikispaces, Etherpad, Google Docs, PBTask Management tool 10 RTM, Ubiquity, EvernoteSearch engine 13 Google, YahooSocial network 12 Facebook, LinkedIn, NingSocial tagging/bookmark 24 Delicious, Diigo, Xmarks, StumbleuponSocial presence 14 Skype, Adobe ConnectImage/Video sharing 12 Flickr, Picassa, YouTubeE-mail 16 Gmail, other e-mail web servicesE-Portfolio 2 MaharaOther organisational tool 3 Dropbox, Coda, ZoteroAggregators (incl. RSS) 7 Feedly, Friendfeed, Netvibes, iGoogle

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Top 5 teacher web tools (n=56)

Microblog Blog Social tagging E-mail Social presence Search engine Social network Collaborative writing

Image sharing0

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Personal Learning

Environment

Blog

LMS

Social Network

External Services Web 2.0

E-Portfolio

Aggregator

Adapted from David Delgado, 2007

Personal Learning Environment Model

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External Services Web 2.0

Self organised

Institutionallymanaged

Adapted from David Delgado, 2007

E-Portfolio

Aggregator

Social Network

Personal Learning Environment Model

Blog

LMS

Personal Learning

Environment

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Functions of a Personal Learning Environment

PLE

Find content

Create content

Organise content

Share content

Reuse content

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Functions of a Personal Learning Environment

PLE

Find contentFind people

Create content

Organise contentDiscuss

Collaborate

Connect

Share content

Compete Reuse content

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Functions of a Personal Learning Environment

PLE

Find contentFind people

Create content

Organise content

Communicate

Discuss

Collaborate

Connect

Share content

Compete Reuse content

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LEARNING

Generating Content

Sharing Content Organising Content

Blog Mashup

Wiki

Tagging

Personal Web Tools

E-portfolio

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Anatomy of a PLE

PersonalWeb Tools

Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html

PWTs are any web tools, (usually Web 2.0) chosen

by learners to support their lifelong learning.

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Personal Learning Network

PersonalWeb Tools

Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html

Learning content is not as important now as where (or who) to connect to, to

find it.

PWTs are any web tools, (usually Web 2.0) chosen

by learners to support their lifelong learning.

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Anatomy of a PLE

PersonalLearning Environment

Personal Learning Network

PersonalWeb Tools

Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html

PLEs are not only personal web tools and personal learning networks. PLEs

are much wider than this, taking in experiences and realia, as well as learning through TV, music, paper based materials, radio &

more formal contexts.

Learning content is not as important now as where (or who) to connect to, to

find it.

PWTs are any web tools, (usually Web 2.0) chosen

by learners to support their lifelong learning.

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Anatomy of a PLE

Cloud Learning Environment

PersonalLearning Environment

Personal Learning Network

PersonalWeb Tools

Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html

Cloud Learning

Environment

InstitutionalLearning

Management System

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CLE tools developed on top of Google Apps for Education

A social and a technical

bridge

Source: George Siemens www.connectivism.ca/http://www.sciencedaily.com

Connectivism

We live in a techno-social world

Learning occurs inside and outside of people – we store our knowledge in

computers and in other people – George Siemens

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Since we cannot experience everything, other people’s experiences, and hence other people,

become the surrogate for knowledge.

http://bradley.chattablogs.com

‘I store my knowledge in my friends’ is an axiom for collecting knowledge through collecting people. - Karen Stephenson

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Thank you!

E: swheeler@plymouth.ac.ukB: steve-wheeler.blogspot.comT: @timbuckteeth

Picture by Helen Keegan

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