Toolbox 2.0: Web-based OER for Connectivism Learning - ELSE 2014
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Toolbox 2.0: Webbased OER for Connec9vism Learning Mark Frydenberg Bentley University, USA Diana Andone Politehnica University of Timisoara ELSE 2014
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Toolbox 2.0: Web-based OER for Connectivism Learning Paper presented at ELSE 2014 _ International Conference on eLearning and Software for Education, 24-25 April 2014, Bucharest http://www.elseconference.eu/ Using Open Educational Resources (OER) provides opportunities for collaboration both in the classroom and beyond. Many universities have embraced video conferencing tools such as Skype and Google Hangouts for common learning activities with students in classrooms across the street, across the country, or across the globe. This paper describes an ongoing collaboration between two universities, one in the United States and the other in Romania, where students use synchronous and asynchronous communication tools to complete a combined work product during the course of a semester. The project requires students to create, curate and publish digital media using established and emerging open educational and social media tools such as VoiceThread, ThingLink, SoundCloud, and YouTube. Each year, students work in groups with their international partners to create digital media artifacts that share their findings related to a current technology trend. Students chronicle their work, share resources, and collaborate using the ViCaDiS (Virtual Campus for Digital Students) platform and select the means of digital communication that they deem most appropriate for the various tasks involved. In the process, they also experience global cultures while communicating with international partners, and develop critical thinking and problem solving skills while using the Web as a research tool. This paper presents an analysis of student and faculty experiences over a five-year period using a variety of open educational tools as resources for creating an international Connectivist, learning environment. The analysis is based on authors’ records, initial and final surveys of student experiences each year, and their feedback. The paper concludes with recommendations on using these tools as OER in an international collaborative learning environment using Connectivist principles, thus creating a Connectivist OER (xOER).
Transcript of Toolbox 2.0: Web-based OER for Connectivism Learning - ELSE 2014
Toolbox 2.0: Web-‐based OER for Connec9vism Learning
Mark Frydenberg Bentley University, USA
Diana Andone Politehnica University of Timisoara
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Connec9vism
G. Siemens, “Connec9vism: learning as network crea9on,” ASTD Learning News, vol. 10, no. 1, 2005. S. Downes, “An introduc9on to connec9ve knowledge,” S, 22 December 2005. [Online]. Available: hPp://www.downes.ca/post/33034. ELSE 2014
TalkTech -‐ Connec9vism
Learning and knowledge rest in diversity of
opinions.
Learning is a process of connec9ng specialized nodes or informa9on
sources.
Capacity to know more is more cri9cal than what is
currently known
Decision-‐making is itself a learning process.
Choosing what to learn and the meaning of
incoming informa9on is seen through the lens of
a shiVing reality.
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TalkTech project 2008-‐2013 UPTimisoara Romania
BU, Boston, USA
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TalkTech 2008 – 2013 Where We Are
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TalkTech 2008 – 2013 Students
Bentley University • IT 101, Informa9on
Technology • 50 students • Spoke English • Web literate • PC Literate • Age 18-‐21
UP Timisoara • TMM, Technologies of
Mul9media • 40 students • Spoke English • Web literate • PC Literate • Age 21-‐24
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587 students involved, no dropout
TalkTech 2008 – 2013 Students
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ViCaDiS campus
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TalkTech 2008 – 2013 2008
• Create a web page with images, a video, a PowerPoint or Google presenta9on, a recorded audio conversa9on, or a combina9on of any of these that presents your group’s understanding of a current issue in technology and culture
• Post content and group progress to a collabora9ve Google Site TalkTech2008
2009
• Research a web-‐based collabora9on tool
• Create a wiki page with images, blog entry, video or video tutorial of a tool; post link on ViCaDiS
2010
• Create a short video evalua9ng two similar online collabora9on tools (screen sharing, forms, presenta9ons, video conferencing, scheduling, project management, mind mapping) from the perspec9ves of usability and entrepreneurship
• Summarize findings in a Google Doc or video. ELSE 2014
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TalkTech2010 project
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TalkTech 2008 – 2013 2011 • Create a presenta9on in which your group analyzes and discusses the poten9al of
various start-‐up Internet companies • Use VoiceThread to add comments or narra9on to the presenta9on’s slides;
integrate in ViCaDiS blog 2012 • Create a presenta9on in which your group researches innova9ve methods used in
business by promising start-‐up companies • Use VoiceThread to add comments or narra9on to the presenta9on’s slides;
integrate in ViCaDiS blog 2013 • Research popular web or mobile apps • Create an interac9ve image using ThingLink Annota9ons must include audio and
video clips in which interna9onal partners appear simultaneously discussing their topic
• Post ThingLink to ViCaDiS blog
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TalkTech 2008 – 2013
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• Mul9cultural • Online – different 9mezones • Simulate real wolrd work in an IT company • Students freely choose the tools, communica9on, working 9me and hours
• All students finished and delivered the ar9fact
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TalkTech 2008 – 2013 OER Tools
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TalkTech 2008 – 2013
• Connec9vist OER -‐ xOER • introduced students to real-‐world technology topics and trends and facilitated their use of a variety of OER and tools within an interna9onal educa9onal context
• create the learning and working environment for producing the final ar9fact, in a self-‐organized, networked-‐based and quite oVen complex and chao9c manner
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Curaj!
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CONTACT Dr.eng. Diana Andone Director e-Learning Center Tel: +40.256403300, Email:
[email protected] Web Elearning.upt.ro
UPT – CeL Campus Virtual www.cv.upt.ro
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