Love the One You’re With …

Cyprien Lomas, Faculty of Land and Food Systems

Ulrich Rauch, Faculty of Arts

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

A new world?

The New Web

An internetworked constellation of disruptive technologies

A robust platform for facilitating and accelerating new creative disruptions

Delicious links

A view of the world

http://www.touchgraph.com

Online socialization• 55% of American youth (age 12-17) use

online social networking sites

55% of teens have created a personal profile

• 48% visit a social networking site daily or more than daily

• 91% use social networking to stay in touch with friends they see frequently; 82% for friends they see rarely

• 72% use social networking to make plans with friends

• 49% use it to make new friends

• 17% use it to flirt

Source: Lenhart, et. al., 2007

With permission: Marilyn Lombardi 2007

Participatory Culture• Co-creation

• Multimodal interaction

• Affinity-based self-organization

• Distributed cognition

With permission: Marilyn Lombardi 2007

04/10/23

A New OpportunityOER

• open publishing• open source application development• open courseware

Retrieved April 28th, 2007

Retrieved April 28, 2007

Culture of Sharing

The “publish and browse,” read-only Internet of yesterday is becoming a place where the knowledge, resources, and computing power of billions of people are coming together into a massive collective force.

Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams, “Wikinomics”

Innerspace and Interface

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/45/105996058_ba0a9a8225.jpg?v=0

Evolving towards Online Learning 3.0

Online Online LearningLearning

3.03.0Community-CenteredCommunity-Centered

PackagPackagee DeliverDeliver ConnecConnec

ttConversConvers

ee CoalesceCoalesce Co-CreateCo-Create

Online Learning Online Learning 2.02.0

Student-CenteredStudent-Centered

Online Online Learning 1.0Learning 1.0

Course-CenteredCourse-Centered

ProprietaryProprietaryEnterprise Enterprise LMS/CMSsLMS/CMSs

Open Source Open Source Application Application

ServicesServicesOpen Source Open Source

3D Meta-Medium3D Meta-Medium

with permission: marilyn lombardi 2007

Open Participatory Learning Structure

The Open University in the UK:Radical shift from the standard “transmission

model” of teaching bymoving beyond a curriculum focused on what is

known to anemphasis on teaching how one comes to

know.

Teach Less -- learn more (Singapore)

• Singapore

We know more than we can say ....

Social Construction of Understanding

New practise of “reading”

• more likely that many contexts co-exist simultaneously

http://www.holyshallot.com

Ancient Spaces

Wikinomics PlaybookLast Chapter of

Wikinomics: “Join us in peer

producing the definitive guide to the twenty-first-century corporation on www.wikinomics.com

The Perfect Storm of Opportunity• Open

Educational Resources

• Research (T&L)

• Change in our capacity to engage

Thank You!

cyprien.lomas@ubc.caulrich.rauch@ubc.ca