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Stephen Downes December 10, 2013

Notes for UNCTAD's Advisory Group on "Developing skills, knowledge and capacities through innovation: E-Learning, M-Learning, cloud-Learning". Stephen Downes December 10, 2013. Issues of Access. Technological Access Power and demand From AAAA (Any Access At All) to BB (Broadband)

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Stephen Downes December 10, 2013

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  1. Notes forUNCTAD's Advisory Group on "Developing skills, knowledge and capacities through innovation: E-Learning, M-Learning, cloud-Learning" Stephen Downes December 10, 2013

  2. Issues of Access • Technological Access • Power and demand • From AAAA (Any Access At All) to BB (Broadband) • The many faces of mobile • Cognitive Access • Literacy and digital literacy • Time to learn • Something of Value

  3. Traditional E-Learning • The Course as Course • Web course tools (outlines and tests) • Course content (learning objects) • Design pedagogy and instruction • The Course as Book • Design pedagogy and instruction • Course content (learning objects) • Web course tools (outlines and tests)

  4. What is the MOOC? • Massive • By design, not as a success term • Open • (By ‘open’ we don’t mean ‘closed’) • Online • (To support access, community and openness) • Course • In the traditional, pre-industrial sense

  5. MOOC as a form of OER • Open Educational Resources • The UNESCO definition (and program) • The ‘Educational’ in Educational • OERs as Courseware • OER University • The MOOC as a collection of OERs • Logic Model / Stages of Openness

  6. Models of Sustainability • Commercial Models • Upselling and Extended Services • Advertising and marketing • Product and Labour Support • Non-commercial Models • Public Knowledge • ‘Giving’ Knowledge for Free • Apache, Wikipedia and Open Source

  7. Learning Communities • Local vs Localization • Self-Organizing Learning Communities • “I have a question…” • Scaffolding and Support

  8. Informal Learning • Many reasons to MOOC • Learning in order to know • Learning in order to do • Completing the learning • Completing the task • Community as support and authority • Mutual dependence vs dependence • Independence

  9. Technology and Support • Learning and Performance Support Systems • Resources and repositories • Software as a service • The cloud infrastructure • Storage as a service • The personal learning record • Personal learning assistant • Analytics, competence and assessment

  10. Home and Away • The Udacity Option • (Give up and focus on corporate learning) • The Coursera Option • Focus on the Elite Experience? • Learning communities in US embassies? • The Triad Model • The host-provider framework

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