学习的革命之在线学习与个人学习环境the-future-of-online-learning-and-personal-learning-environments.ppt

It looks like nothing before… Like open source Like Social Networks Like blogs and blogging Like wikis and collaborative writing Like tagging and Digg and… It looks like Web 2.0 * The Future of Online Learning and Personal Learning Environments Stephen Downes April 18, 2007 Online Learning Has been around since 1995 or so Really grew with the World Wide Web Has advanced tremendously Many positive developments in the last few years worth sharing… Open Source Applications Learning Management Systems such as Moodle, Sakai, Bodington, ATutor Development and CommunityTools such as LAMS, Connexions, ELGG, Drupal, WordPress Supporting Software such as Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Audacity Open Educational Resources MIT’s OpenCourseWare project and the OpenCourseWare Consortium Open University’s Open Courses OER initiatives Hewlett, Wellcome, OECD, UNESCO Creative Commons and CC materials in Flickr, Yahoo, Google, Wikipedia, Wikiversity, etc. New Environments Multimedia explosion podcasts, vodcasts, YouTube, Slideshare, more Mobile computing mobile phones, PDAs, etc. The 3D web Second Life is a start, we will see more of this Access… One-to-one computing such as the Maine laptop project, now spreading rapidly One Laptop per Child has launched – computers in Nigeria Wireless access 3G networks, WLAN… Stallman The Internet of 2007 The Concept… Learning is centered around the interests of the learner This learning is immersive – learning by doing The computer connects the student to the rest of the world Game Based Learning Types: Branching, Spreadsheet, Game, Lab… http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/view.cgi?dbs=Articlekey=1116274375 Workflow (Informal) Learning Types: Community of Practice, Environment, Visualization… / Online Learning at the Crossroads On the one hand – we have developed tools and systems intended to support traditional classroom based learning On the other hand – we could