Education as an industrial process- Graham Attwell

Universities are physical entities because of scarcity

Classrooms aggregate
demand to supply

Traditional libraries aggregate
scarce content resources

The invention of computers
changed all that, right?

Perhaps not computers, how about the World Wide Web?

Perhaps not!

A lot of
what is done
with Internet
technologiesin education...19th Century Pedagogy

21st Century Minds

21st Century Technology

Enter Education 3.0

Reusable
learning
content - students - institutional

The choices
students
make - Individual
- Credibility

Collaboration - Cross
institution - Decentralized - Non-
institutional - Individual

Recognition of learning achieved - derived
from RPL

Education 3.0 characteristics

Allow for alternative space, time, technology

Set own learning goalsGlobal infrastructureManage own learningContentAutogogy

Communication

People network

Opportunities for
personal learning

Enter the Personal Learning Environment

KEWL3: eLearning platform developed as a collaboration of African Universities led by UWC

The KEWL3 challenge

Create a system that supports institution-alized eLearning while still supporting personalized learning opportunities

Setting & tracking learning goals

manage their learning: content and process

communicate with others
in the process of learning

Integration with global infrastructure

Easy use of popular
sources of content

Filters

Mashups

Podcasting

Blogging

Presentation sharing

Personal learning desktop

Some caveats

PLE is not a magic pill!

Of course, some things remain scarce and require aggregation

Laboratory
experienceClinical
experience.. Oh duh!

Practical
experience

Let's build a PLE for the
concept Education 3.0

Attribution credits

This document uses material from the following sources:

History of personal learning environments at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_ learning_environments (GNU-FDL)

The personal learning environments blog at http://zope.cetis.ac.uk/members/ple (BY-NC-SA)

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Industrial revolution

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Web

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Classroom, Mongolia

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Library books

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Magic pill

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PLE is People

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Currie lab

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Is a crime

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Blackboard mashups

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Speech Bubble

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Filters

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