Open & Collaborative Learning: How Social Networks Can Transform Learning
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Open & Collaborative Learning
How Social Networks Can Transform Education
Dr. Alec CourosApril 2010Southwestern Community CollegeSylva, North Carolina
Who is this guy?
risk
“Web 2.0 tools that might allow academics to reflect and reimagine what they do as scholars.
Such tools might positively affect -- even transform - research, teaching, and services responsibilities - only if scholars choose to
build serious academic lives online, presenting semi-public selves and becoming invested in and
connected to the work of their peers and students.” (Greenhow, Robella, & Hughes, 2009)
my blog, my hub
photo sharing
video sharing
social networking services
content sharing
copyleft
open cv
open teaching
changes
Free Tools
Open Content
“describes any kind of creative work in a format that explicitly allows copying and modifying of its information by anyone, not exclusively by a closed organization,
firm, or individual. (wikipedia)
Open Access
“The aim of the open access movement is to make scientific and scholarly literature openly accessible
to all users free of charge.” (open-access.net)
open access is beginning to expand to conferences, courses, and other educational events
Ubiquity
Personal Learning Networks
context
Each technology creates a new environment.
The effects of mediacome from their formnot their content.
Mario Couros
connected reality
quick stats (2009)
•90 trillion emails sent annually from 1.4 billion email users
• 234 million websites
• 1.73 billion Internet users
• 126 millions blogs
• 350 million Facebook users
• 4 billion images on Flickr
• 1 billion Youtube videos served daily.
Stats as of Jan 22/10 via Royal Pingdom
Stats as of March 17/10 via Mashable
David Wiley
@opencontent
Then vs Now
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
Closed Open
David Wiley
@opencontent
Education vs Everyday
Analog Digital
Tethered Mobile
Isolated Connected
Generic Personal
Consumption Creating
Closed Open
Teens are not connecting in the ways we fear. But, we need to pay attention to:
•Properties: persistence, replicability, searchability, scalability, (de)locatability.
•Dynamics: invisible audiences, collapsed contexts, blurring of public & private spaces
@zephoria
danah boyd
• Inspired by McLuhan’s “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.”
• Youtube & other social media mitigate “connection without constraint”. In many cases this leaves to “tremendously deep communities”.
@mwesch
Michael Wesch
practice
connecting educators
@kathycassidy
Grade 1 - Expert Visits
Grade 5 - Choir on Youtube
ps22chorus.blogspot.com
Grade 6 - Global Connections
@zbpipe
Around the World - 80 Schools
@langwitches
Highschool - Youtube Channel
@amhwrites
HigherEd - Open Courses
eci831.wikispaces.com
Professional Identities
PD Gone Wild
Real-time search
Real-time collaboration
Real-time streaming
ps22chorus.blogspot.com
Thinning Walls
Private Public
Closed Open
designing 4 openness
if you build it ...
non-credit students
social affordance
distributed conversations
culture of sharing
global classroom
invisible colleges
why this matters?
Disruptive media
Social Learning
New Possibilities
Power of Openness
Disruptive Education
Drive to Connect
new possibilities for
@willrich45
“I was able to go out and learn throughout the entire week, the entire year, and I’m still learning with
“The best part of the course is that it’s not
ending. With the connections we’ve built, it never has to end.”
“The course ... has been the most profound pd experience I’ve ever had. It forced me to
critique & review my practice. I never knew how important social networks were. Now, I couldn’t
be a teacher without being connected. It’s drastically changed my view of education.”
this is not going away
new possibilities for
social media provides engagement/motivation
development of meaningful learning communities
incredible possibilities for teaching and learning
good teaching is shared & transparent
web: couros.catwitter: courosagoogle: couros
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another
time. ~Tagore