E-learning 2.0 – social networking and personal learning environments.

Mart Laanpere,

head of the Centre for Educational Technology

mart.laanpere@tlu.ee

Rise of the network society

• Manuel Castells: the new type of society, structural transformations in relationships of power, production and experience

• The Space of Places vs. Space of Flows, binary time and space

• Power of identity: the Self vs. the Net

• Three types of identity: legitimizing, resistance and project identity

Communities of practice• Praxis: knowledge hidden in action

• Lave & Wenger: “knowledge immersion” in communities of practice

• Apprenticeship learning

• Legitimate peripheral participation

• Web 2.0 and community building

• Examples: Plone developers, FLOSSE-POSSE, LeMill

Web 2.0 in a nutshell

• Web 2.0: back to the beginning of the Web

• Read-only WWW >> Read-write WWW

• Personal publishing of thoughts, moments, experiences (blogs, Wikis, Flickr, YouTube)

• Distributed architecture creates new problems that are solved by tagging, social recommendation systems (Del.icio.us, Furl), RSS aggregators (Technorati), syndication of content, interoperability of tools

Web 2.0: SOCIAL software

• Information technology >> Interaction technology

• From consumer to (co)author: Web 2.0 helps involving learners in creating knowledge objects

• Culture of sharing and re-mixing

• On half-way from buzzword to normal practice

Collaborative sense-making• Metadata – data about data

•Hard ontology (hirearchical taxonomy) vs. soft ontology (folksonomy)

• Tagging

• Examples: Flickr, Del.icio.us

Personal learning environment• PLE – term coined by Scott Wilson

• Radical constructivism – learner takes responsibility not only for choosing his/her learning objectives and activities, but also for learning environment

• PLE diagrams

• ELGG – open source software for building PLE and social networks

Intellectual Property Rights

• Copyright and Copyleft

• Predecessors of open licenses:

• 1969 RFC (Request For Comments)

• 1971 Project Gutenberg

• 1998 Open Content license (David Wiley)

• 1999 GNU Free Documentation License (FDL)

• 2001 Creative Commons (creativecommons.org)

Creative CommonsCC license grants five basic rights to user:

• copying

• distributing

• displaying or performing in public

• migrating to another type of media

• creating derivates

• BY: attribution

• NC: non-commercial

• SA: share-alike