- 1.Keith Kirkwood School of Learning Support Victoria University
Melbourne Australia
2. Learning support consultation 3. 2007 los vegas
lasshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/7415612@N06/721645301/ 4. SNAP
is
A learning support platform,with Web 2.0 functionality and
flexibility,designed to support: 5. A new humanism
- self-actualization full potential
6. A new humanism
- self-actualization full potential
7. A new humanism
- self-actualization full potential
8. Supporting pedagogies
- Heutagogy(Hase & Kenyon, 2000)non-linearself-directed
learning
- Connectivism(Siemens, 2004)knowledge in the network; conceptual
connections essential
- Multiliteracies(Huijser, 2006)incorporate textual, visual,
video media in critical analysis
- Media Literacy(Wesch, 2009)student participation in content
creation and knowledge making
- Collaborative learning(Godwin-Jones, 2006)learning
opportunities for sharing, creating, reflecting
9. Peer learning primacy
- Is it time to consider a paradigm shift from teacher
instruction to peer-learning primacy?
- shifting the balance from an instruction focus of learning
support staff
- to facilitating or supporting peer learning
- is a timely response to the context of mass education
- and technological developments.
Van der Meer, J., & Scott, C. (2008). Shifting the balance
in first-year learning support: From staff instruction to
peer-learning primacy.Australasian Journal of Peer Learning, 1 ,
70-79. Available athttp://ro.uow.edu.au/ajpl/vol1/iss1/9/ 10.
Students supporting studentslearning at VU
- Peer mentor programs embedded infaculty-based courses
- Student rovers in the Learning Commons
- Writing centre for reading and writing support
- The SNAP! Platform = VU Learning Community
11. Students supporting studentslearning at VU
- Peer mentor programs embedded infaculty-based courses
- Student rovers in the Learning Commons
- Writing centre for reading and writing support
- The SNAP! Platform = VU Learning Community
Ratios of potential learning support: 1:400 LSS/student
ratio40000:40000 student/student ratio 12. 13. 14. 15. Tagcloud
made from the text of my conference paper (made with
www.wordle.net) 16. 17. 18. SNAP! and university ITS infrastructure
Outward-facing Pre-login Inward-facing Post-login VU website VU PLE
SNAP! 19.
- The world is run by those who show up
- (Robert B. Johnson, 1999)
20. Transparency and Open Government
- My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented
level of openness in Government.We will work together to ensure the
public trust and establish a system oftransparency, public
participation, and collaboration . Openness will strengthen our
democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in
Government.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/
21. We the People of the University of 22. 23. 24. Selected
references
- Farmer, M. (2009). LMS architecture proposal, parts
1-4,Meanwhile, back at the farm...Retrieved April 7 2009
fromhttp://michaelfarmer.info/blog/?tag=lms-proposal
- Hase, S., & Kenyon, C. (2000). From andragogy to
heutagogy.UltiBASE . Retrieved
fromhttp://ultibase.rmit.edu.au/Articles/dec00/hase2.htm
- Siemens, G. (2004). Connectivism: A learning theory for the
digital age.elearnspace . Retrieved
fromhttp://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
- Staley, D. J. (2009). Managing the platform: Higher education
and the logic of wikinomics.EDUCAUSE Review, 44 (1), 36-47.
Retrieved
fromhttp://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/ManagingthePlatformHigher/47934
- Wesch, M. (2009). From knowledgable to knowledge-able: Learning
in new media environments.Academic Commons Retrieved 24 February
2009,
fromhttp://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/knowledgable-knowledge-able