Collaborative & Cooperative Learning:

The how and the why

http://innovationwatch.com

Steve WheelerUniversity of Plymouth

Learning & Skills Group Conference: Olympia 2, London, 8 June 2010

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• Collaboration & Cooperation• The Social Web (Web 2.0)• Social Web tools• Personalised Learning• Personal Web Tools• Problem Based Learning• Formal & Informal Learning

In the available time....

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Competition

http://www.twilightblue.eu

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Cooperation

http://sites.google.com/site/dragonsrunningclubsale

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Cooperation

http://sites.google.com/site/dragonsrunningclubsale

http://www.green-me.co.uk

Collaboration

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“For the first time we are preparing students for a future we cannot clearly describe.” - David Warlick

http://communications.nottingham.ac.uk/podcasts/

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"In the times of rapid change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

- Eric Hoffer

washingtonrebel.typepad.com

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www.newmediamusings.com

Is learning simply about gaining knowledge...? cc

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... or making connections?

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“It's not what you know that counts anymore. It's what you can learn.”

– Don Tapscott

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http://www.nationalpost.com

... and it’s often self organised

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How do we get people to collaborate?

http://media1.break.com/

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The Social Web(Web 2.0)

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What is Web 2.0…?

“Web 2.0 is the architecture of participation” – Eugene Barsky

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“The Web will be understood not as screenfulls of text and graphics but as a transport mechanism, the ether through which interactivity happens” – Darcy DeNucci (1999)

What is Web 2.0…?

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“Nobody really knows what it means...If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along” – Sir Tim Berners-Lee

“Web 2.0 is all about harnessing collective intelligence” – Tim O’Reilly (2009)

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Learning 2.0

User generated

content

Architecture of participation

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Learning 2.0

ToolsCollaborating

Sharing

Voting

Networking

User generated

content

Architecture of participation

Tagging

If it ain’t participative, it ain’t social media

Wisdom of Crowds...

vs

Stupidity of Mobs

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What is the Social Web? Web 1.0 Web 2.0Britannica WikipediaPersonal Website BloggingPage views Cost per clickPublishing ParticipationContent Management WikiDirectories (Taxonomy) Tagging (Folksonomy)‘Stickiness’ SyndicationMaps Mapping (Mashup)

Source: Tim O’Reilly http://www.oreillynet.com

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What does the Social Web offer?

• User generated content

• Reflective spaces• Creative tools• Creative

Commons• Self organisation

(folksonomies)

• Social networks• Participation• Collaboration• Repurposing• Mixing and Mashing • Voting and debate• Tagging and Sharing• Global communication

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Some Social Web tools

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Wikis

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Social Tagging

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Mashups

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Social Presence Tools

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Syndication (RSS)

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Document Sharing

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Blogging

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Podcasting

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Photo Share

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Video Share

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Social ‘tagging’

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Using your post-its... ...label 3 or 4 things in the room you consider to be significant

http://1.bp.blogspot.com

Taxonomies are defined by the community

Folksonomies define a community

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Digital Natives?

http://tatango.com

What does the ‘Net Generation’ expect?

http://socialenterpriseambassadors.org.uk

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anytime

personalised

anyplacehttp://ithalas.com

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What is personalised learning?

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Personalised learning?

http://www.delasallewaterford.com

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Personalised learning?

http://www.hseb.utah.edu

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Where are we and where have we come from?

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Trends in training

Just for me Apprenticeship model

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Trends in training

Just in case

Just for me Apprenticeship model

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Standardised Courses

Trends in training

Just in time

Standardised Courses

Apprenticeship model

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Just in case

Bespoke Course

Trends in training

Just for me

Apprenticeship model

Personalised Learning

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Just in case

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Standardised Courses

Bespoke Course

Trends in training

Apprenticeship model

Personalised Learning

Personal Learning Environment

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Just in case

Just in time

Just for me

Standardised Courses

Bespoke Course

What is a Personal Learning Environment?

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Personalisation of learning means ensuring that individual differences

are acknowledged

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You are your own ‘VLE’

Services Tools

Formats Content

Channels Networks

Aggregation

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PLEs, PLNs and PWs

Personal Learning Network

Personal Web

PersonalLearning

Environment

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Choosing Social Web tools

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How many

tools could you use?

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Some Learning 2.0 tools…WikiBlogFlickr (Photo sharing)YouTube (Video sharing)Twitter (Micro blog)Delicious (Social tagging)Slideshare (Sharing slides and docs)

How could you use any of these in your own training?

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Think...

• What would you use them for?• How would your learners use them?• What added value would they bring?• What might be the problems?

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Problem Based Learning

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“We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.”

~ Sir Tim Berners-Lee

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www.topnews.in

Join all nine dotsUsing four straight Lines. Do not takeYour pen from the Paper and do not Go back over any Lines.

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a man enters a field with an unopened package and dies. Why?

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a man enters a field with an unopened package and dies. Why?

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Formal and Informal Learning

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Formal and Informal learning

Formal Learning Informal Learning

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70%30%

Self organised learning

Formal Learning Informal Learning

Self Organised Learning

In SOL people take responsibility for their

own learning and put this into successful action.

Source: http://www.equal-works.com

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Self organised learning

For successful self organised learning the essential components are:

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Thank you for listening

Questions?

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UK: International Licence.

Steve Wheeler swheeler@plymouth.ac.uk University of Plymouth, United Kingdom

Learning & Skills Group Conference: Olympia 2, London, 8 June 2010