ples, web 2.0 and e-learning

PLEs, Web 2.0 and E-learning

David Jones

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Web 2.0 Characteristics• Abundance• Social/open• Mash ups - pro-sumer• Ease of use

Lectures were once useful; but now, when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

Guess who and when?

Lectures were once useful; but now, when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. Samuel Johnson - 1781

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CQU site #2

19 Sep 2006 - No Google entry12 Jan 2007 - #50 Google entry26 Jun 2007 - #24 Google entry15 May 2008 - #13 Google entry

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Usability

http://webfuse.cqu.edu.au/Courses/EDED11448/

Dual pressures

• Technology– Web 2.0

• Conceptual– social learning theory, – situated/contextual learning– Connectivism

• Paradigm change

Technology