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Let’s begin by asking…

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What is Education?

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Education is just…

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a story of stories.

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Someone wants to tell them

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Someone wants to listen to them

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Education happens

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when you put together…

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someone who wants to teach

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+someone who wants to learn

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It is a simple equation.

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Teacher

You have the time and place of the teacher

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Student

And the time and place of the student

TIME

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Teacher Student

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Traditional Education

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In traditional education both times and places are equal

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Virtual Education

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WWW

In virtual education times or places can be different

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And the connection is…

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WWW

Technology

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But virtual education

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has been around for centuries.

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Teachers and students

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in different times and places

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have been connected

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by a technology called

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Books!

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With thisancient technology

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someone in one time and place

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can tell a story

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to someone in a different time and place.

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Hopefully…

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Successful education

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was based on «expert users»

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of this ancient technology.

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That is good readers and good writers

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That is:good readers and good writers

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Yesterday:

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Berthe Morisot (1870) Johannes Vermeer (1670)

Reading+

Writing

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Today:

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Recording+

Playing back

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The process is the same

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The tools are different

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Different Media Different Speeds

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When education has a time and a place

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We havea course

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A course is a place

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where you can go

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to listen to a story

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Then a course is

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One story

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One story+

One host

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One story+

One host+

Several guests

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But today we have

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New principles

The MaterialsAtoms vs. BitsProcessing Information

vs. Moving ObjectsIntangibles

Collective KnowledgeGeneration of Ideas

OverinformationMisinformation

Gil Bruvel

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New principles

The PlaceDistance is redefinedFrontiers are obsoleteThe World is your audience

and your competitorChallenges and threats

are closer…one click apart

Gil Bruvel

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New principles

The TimeInstantaneous Interactive / FeedbackReal time / MultitaskingConstant Change

A Life Project vs. A Life of Projects

Gil Bruvel

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¡Help!

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There is a new arena

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for this ongoing conversation

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between teachers and students.

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The virtual classroom

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WWWVirtual Campus

Virtual ClassroomActivities

• Discussions• Questionnaires• Homework• Glossaries• Chats• Blogs• Wikis

Resources• Links• Readings• Learning Objects

Files• Folders• Documents• Videos / Audios

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A place full of tools

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for the host to find new ways

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to tell the story

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A story can be told in sequenceVirtual Classroom

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Virtual Classroom

Or not…

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It can be full of resources

Readings

Links VideosSimulations

Learning objects

Audios

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And activities

Discussions

Chats

HomeworkQuestionnaires

Blogs

WikisGlossaries

Puzzles

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But it will be lifeless

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without an active

interaction

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of all the participants

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So the resources

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and activities

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areimportant

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but not asimportant

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ascreating

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A community

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We can have

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the best of both worlds

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and go to school

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in many ways

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But some schools are not getting it right yet…

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and these are their 5 big mistakes…

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Big Mistake #1

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Believing thatVirtual Education = Massive Education

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Technology is a multiplier

… but education is a one to one process.

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There is no limit in the number ofParticipantsMaterialsActivitiesLinks

…but learning is not accumulation but assimilation.

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You don’t have one course of 250

… you have 250 courses of one.

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You should be concerned when your desertion rate is 40%.

…That is. If you enrol 1000 students into an 8 semester program.

Only 28 will be at the graduation ceremony.

…One out of 40 students.

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Big Mistake #2

#2

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Believing thatVirtual Education = Mysterious and Complex Education

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There is no mystery in connecting someone who wants to learn and someone who wants to teach.

…Give them the tools. They’ll do the magic.

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There is a myth that goes around: A good traditional teacher will not easily become a good virtual teacher.

...False. A good teacher is a good teacher with any tool.

…Unless you think that a «good» virtual teacher = a good actor.

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A halo of complexity and mystery is always convenient to create an elite group within the school for virtual education.

…We are transferring the vices and bureaucracy of old education to the new scenery.

…Welcome to the new and improved virtual inferno of politics and intrigue.

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Big Mistake #3

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Putting Technology before Pedagogy

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An educational system logic should be as follows:

Student ◄ Teacher ◄ Materials ◄ Technology

…Technology is the tool that helps the teacher create materials to share with the student

…Technology should be the bridge that allows the teacher – student interaction.

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But the real system usually works like this:

Student ◄ Materials ◄ Technology ◄ Teacher

…Teachers become subordinates of technology which dictates the way they should tell the story.

…See how far the teacher is. Probably that is why they call it

“distance” education.

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Big Mistake #4

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Underestimating yourTeachers and Students

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Some schools have developed a virtual education system, but it is a closed system.

…Closed to criticism, closed to experimentation, closed to innovation

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Standardization and modularity are the dogma.

…Teachers cannot move freely outside predetermined paths.

…Neither do students.

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Students receive predesigned “objects”, “packages”, “modules”. Not courses.

…A package is the product of a designer. A course is an unpredictable and single event

hosted by an educator.

…A module is predetermined, a course is contingent.Like the course of a river.

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Big Mistake #5

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Taking the Fun out of Education

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In some schools, virtual education and stress are synonyms.

…Control, supervision, measurements, indicators and reports have replaced the freedom and flexibility

that was originally promised in virtual education.

…Education was transformed into an industrial process.

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Education should be accidental, unpredictable, unscripted.

…There is plenty of room in virtual education for spontaneity.

…Students and teacher should be encouraged to take risks.

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All courses cannot be structured the same way.

…Uniformity and homogeneity can not be part of a human process.…Doing, thinking, watching, analizing, proposing, building: the same

ingredients cannot be equally formulated for all courses.…Some courses are intensive in communication, some in reading,

some in autoevaluation, some in theory, some in practice.

…The only constant for all courses is the genuine desire of both teachers and students to interact and have fun.

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Some schools are searching for the “formula” for virtual education. For the mould of the perfect course.

…”Virtualizing” a subject of study should not kill its charm.

…The labor of a virtual teacher should be amusing and fascinating.

Although we have to disobey our institutions to make it so.

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+ 1 More Big Mistake

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Making the same mistakes…

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and expecting different results.

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Thank you

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Guillermo RamírezOct. 2010

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