Educational Social Software for Context Aware Computing:

Best Practices & Insights

VII Jornada de Proyectos Europeos de la Universidad de Murcia

Margarida Romero, Coordinadora Euro-CAT-CSCL, FP7 IAPP

Niki Lambropoulos, Research Fellow, LSBU

Margarida Romero, Coordinator, Ouak, Euro-CAT-CSCL, FP7 IAPP

Agenda

• Tools for Web 2.0 & E-Learning 2.0

• Our book

• What is ESS?

• ESS: The teacher perspective

• Educational Social Software Applicability & Evaluation

• Conclusions & Insights

Web.20 Emerging Technologies

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Web 2.0 – eLearning 2.0 - Book Idea!

Our book

Educational Social Software for Context Aware Computing: Collaborative Methods & Human Interaction

Objectives:

1.Educational Social Computing

2.Theoretical approaches

3.Design & engineering

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eLearning 1.0 eLearning 2.0

• Web 2.0 social and knowledge-based society: Self-organised communities & collaboration

• ESS affordances & eLearning analytical frameworks: Learner control in intra-cultural settings

• User-generated context: new skills and competencies (learning autonomy, self-regulation and metacognition)

What is ESS?

• Multiple intelligences are required

• Active engagement and interactive content

• New social media tools (forums, chats, blogs, wikis, interactive whiteboards, annotations, tags, platforms)

• New research methods & ethical considerations

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ESS: The teacher perspective

• Orchestrating eLearning activities

• E-tutoring & e-moderating

• Work within a Community of Practice (CoP)

• Active life-long training

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Educational Social Software Applicability & Evaluation

• Changes in the Educational Policies: attracting and retaining young/new employees

• ESS supports CSCL: new hybrid learning models

• Informal learning: Learning within social networks

• eLearning Ecology: forming new learning spaces 9/11

Conclusions & Insights

• Pedagogy 2.0 for Life-Long Learning• New requirements for Web 2.0 bring new learning

opportunities in eLearning 2.0• Scripts for multiple intelligences• Social media tools• Research methods & ethical considerations• E-tutors as e-moderators: orchestrating learning• ESS & CSCL• New learning ecologies: formal & informal user-

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Thank you for your attention!!

Contact Niki & Margarida

nikilambropoulos@gmail.com

margarida.romero@gmail.com

www.cat-cscl.eu

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