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New Perspectives on 21st Century Danish Air Force Education
Blended learning, new tools and web 2.0
Claus Witfelt, 2009
Agenda• The design of the new Royal Danish Air Force
Academy captains course• The concept of blended learning and the 3
steps: past, present and future• Web 2.0 • Blended learning: way to go….. - and all of the above with English integrated!
CLAUS WITFELT, CONSULTANT, NET-BASED LEARNING
THE ROYAL DANISH AIR FORCE ACADEMY
AIR FORCEACADEMY
WINGS
WINGS
WINGS
The 21st century learner
• Digital native – power technology user• Online 24-7• Uses rich media• 1st person shooter games• Social networking• Mobile technology
Blended Learning• Modular captains cource (new)• 25-30% distributed or net-based learning• LMS (ICECORE) backbone tech (organisation
students)• Web 2.0 auxiliary tech
students students • Other tools
Modular design
Module: Joint I with EnglishModule: Political Science and Conflict Theory with EnglishModule: Operations with EnglishModule: Joint II with EnglishModule: Leadership with English Module: Methodology Module: English – the language
The anatomy of modulesTeaching at the Academy
Net-basedlearning”Focus period”
Contact with wings
Implications of modular design
• Focus• Providing flexibility for learners (possibility of
postponing modules• Enabling distance/net-based learning• Integration of English in all modules
The 3 steps: past - present - future
• Step 1: Streamlining communication: learning management system (a.o. SiteScape and ICECORE)
• Step 2: Netbased learning, work and communication on stereoids: web 2.0
• Step 3: Enriching netbased learning periods
STEP 1: ICECORE Learning management system with web 2.0 functionality
http://www.kablink.org
Message-area for each class
Folders and workspaces for the subjects
ICECORE – forums with e-units, assignments, hand-ins, texts etc….
Our experience: Used a lot by teachers and administration => It is (fairly – no system is better than its users!) user-friendly; it works!
21st century learners do not communicate in FORUMS – they use web 2.0 tools!
Step 2: Enriching students’ work, communication and learning in
netbased periods
”NET-BASED SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS WHICH CAN BE USED IN EDUCATION, WORK AND STUDIES”
A working definition of web 2.0
Web 2.0/Social software features
• The web is the platform• User-generated content creates the value• Social software – creates relations• Profiling and sharing• ”The Digital eco-systems”• Open source
Rich media example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1IRkqbUoXY&feature=PlayList&p=2CCD3789D7C93E90&index=0&playnext=1
F-117 Nighthawk: Vocab training
Technologies I• Social bookmarking - Del.icio.us• Tools: Mindmapping - Bubbl.us• Start pages• Publishing Blogs/wiki, wikipedia • Media libraries - YouTube, Flickr• Digital telephony – SKYPE DOCS.GOOGLE.COM • Google Maps, Google Earth• Communities – NING• Social networking
Bubbl.us – online mindmapping
Del.icio.us – a bookmark-database
Google: Online office, portal etc.
Google Docs: a wiki…
http://www.google.com/ig?t=2
Personal startpages
Blogs, push-button publishing
NING – point and click communities!
Extra tools (non-web 2.0)
• Infomedia (newspaper library)• Digital dictionaries• Scribo – guide to POPBL• Digital reference management
Themes for discussion• Use the digital ecology: meet students’
needs and stimulate creativity• Security (Data and military)?• Reliability/Validity/Liability
Teachers Control?Commercial interests?The public voice?
Quote• ”We feel superior, thanks to web 2.0”
Scenarios for continuous development
• Enrich focus periods?• Rich media? Web 2.0 for CALL?• Student competence vs teacher competence• Simulation and 3D• CSCL – computer-supported collaborative
learning• Mobile learning
Mobile learning
3D Work
Simulation Negotiation via interpreter in CIMIC
operations