Future Learning Landscapes

Yvan Peter – Université Lille 1Serge Garlatti – Telecom

Bretagne

Multiple innovations

A number of technologies and uses are emerging and developing Mobile & pervasive learning Web 2.0 Semantic web

What about convergence ?

Setting the stage

Mobile learning Developing theory

Conversation theory, use of activity theory…

Emerging frameworks For software architecture & design

Context management To drive adaptation and the learning

situation

Challenge

Level of embeddedness

Level of mobility

Pervasive computing

Traditional computing

Ubiquitous computing

Mobile computing

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High

Challenge From mobile to

pervasive/ubiquitous learning A seamless environment to keep

learning across context An easy and meaningful interaction

with the environment A localised accumulation of

knowledge and efficient retrieval according to the learner’s needs

Web 2.0

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 - features Switching from a traditional

publishing model to individual contributions Easy publishing (AJAX, blogs, wiki) Multiple media : text, photo, video

Leveraging collective intelligence Social bookmarking, tags & folksonomies

The web as a platform Everything through your browser

Web 2.0 - features The “long tail”

On any topic you could find a critical mass of people to contribute

Composability Open APIs, open formats, REST style

communication Enable mashups: data, services

Push model for information No more need to check every web site for

changes RSS & ATOM feeds

Types of applications

Blogs Personal publication + comments Linking facilities at the level of

information & people For education

Reflection, diary, assignment publishing Course information & follow up

(answering questions…)

Types of applications

Wikis Collaborative writing & content

organisation For education

Supporting group and project work Annotated reading list Practicing writing skills

Types of applications Social bookmarking

Keep reference of interesting material Organising information with tags Taking benefit from worthy resources found

by the others For education

Organisation of a corpus of useful references (reading list)

Supporting group gathering of information on a subject

Types of applications

Media-sharing facilities Sharing photos, videos,

presentations, recordings… For education

images & videos can be provided Annotation on the images or video can

support specific explanations

Types of applications

Social networking Keeping in touch with relations,

forming and supporting communities For education

Course animation outside the class

Types of applications

Syndication & notifications Easy notification of updates,

automatic media distribution (podcast episodes)

For education A way to keep an eye on learners’

progress A way to distribute course content

automatically

Divergent phenomenon Inclusion of web 2.0 services into learning

Teacher lead use / outside the learning environment

Integration of Web 2.0 into learning platforms (e.g., Moodle)

Institutional resistance & personal interest If it is not managed by the institution and/or

teacher, it is rejected Learners may already have their own spaces on

the web. Why use the institutional one ?

Emerging paradigm Personal Learning Environment

Learner led learning environment Built by the learner for a specific &

personal learning goal Mashing up the services that will support

best the goal No institutional drive or control

It is not technology but Web 2.0 technology enabled this and supports it.

Challenge How to combine the management of the

learning and freedom of support services? The teacher needs to be able to “deploy”

his/her learning design Learners may choose their personal

environments & services and must be directed in their activities

The teacher has to keep an eye on what is going on and to provide directions

Semantic Web

Semantic Web The Semantic Web isn't just about putting data

on the web. It is about making links, so that a person or machine can explore the web of data.  

With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other, related, data through a network of RDF triples.

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Semantic Web

Linked Data: Published data according to standards

RDF / RDFS / OWL SPARQL Access Point

Query language + Access protocol

The Web will be

a Tremendous Global Database

Opportunity

A global, distributed and open architecture perspective Composed of social web

environments, institutional learning environments and personal learning environments exposing, sharing, and connecting data on the Web.

Opportunity

It will be possible To reuse, analyze and manage

content across web application sources,

To monitor and analyze user activities and content production, to get user traces and to provide guidance and advices according to user activities and needs.

Opportunity

Combination of all these resources and techniques allow getting contextual data from web environments and sensors

Convergence at last…

Convergence

Can be used to conceptualize and design the next generation of learning landscapes relying on pervasive computing, social media and semantic web standards

Imagine... A natural interaction with

knowledge Related to the environment & across

all environments (class, home…) Mixing personal choice of environment

& institutional drive on the learning objectives & process

Enabling the learner & teacher to follow up the activities across services & environments