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Terry Anderson, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Distance Education

Terry Anderson, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Distance Education. Introduction. Terry Anderson’s CV in Wordle Tag Cloud. Introduction. Values. We can (and must) continuously improve the quality, effectiveness, appeal, cost and time efficiency of the learning experience.

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Terry Anderson, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Distance Education

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  1. Terry Anderson, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Distance Education

  2. Introduction Terry Anderson’s CV in Wordle Tag Cloud Introduction

  3. Values • We can (and must) continuously improve the quality, effectiveness, appeal, cost and time efficiency of the learning experience. • Student control and freedom is integral to 21st Century life-long education and learning. • Education for elites is not sufficient for planetary survival

  4. Something there is thatdoesn’t love a a wall,that wants it down” Robert Frost

  5. Boundless Learning • Boundless Content • Boundless Connections • Bounding the Boundless Boundless: having no bounds; unlimited; vast www.yourdictionary.com Image by Jack Ruttan

  6. Learning • Behaviorist : Learning occurs when new behaviors or changes in behaviors are acquired as the result of an individual’s response to stimuli. • Cognitivist: Learning is a change in knowledge stored in memory. • Constructivist: Learning is the process where individuals construct new ideas or concepts based on prior knowledge and/or experience.Leilani Carbonell-Pedroni in 2001 • Connectivist: • Learning is building networks of information, contacts and resources that are applied to real problems. (Anderson, 2009) • the learning of knowledge - is distributive, that is, not located in any given place (and therefore not 'transferred' or 'transacted' per se) but rather consists of the network of connections formed from experience and interactions with a knowing community. Downes, 2006 • Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources. • Learning (does he mean knowledge??) may reside in non-human appliances. (Siemens, 2004)

  7. “Learning is the lifelong process of transforming information and experience into knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes.” Jeff Cobb, 2009

  8. Boundless Access to Learning Content • Open Educational Resources (OERs) • Open Courses • Free resources

  9. OER Definition • “open provision of educational resources enabled by information and communication technologies, for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for non-commercial purposes.” • UNESCO 2008 http://www.unesco.org/iiep/eng/focus/opensrc/opensrc_1.htm

  10. Types of OERs • Learning objects, units, textbooks, scholarly articles IRRODL.org • Multimedia objects (Flash etc.) • Courses, programs full curriculum • Tools, FOSS

  11. Boundless Opportunity to Re-purpose OERs • Reuse - Use the work just exactly as you found it. • Rework - Alter or transform the work • Remix – Combine work with other works • Redistribute – Share with others. • Dave Wiley http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/355

  12. Millions of OERs are available Project Gutenberg

  13. Who Pays for Free content? • ‘Freemium: free & “pro” versions • 1% of users support all the rest • Advertising: provide a special audience • Cross-Subsidies: free lunch if you buy beer • Zero-Marginal Cost: online music • Labor Exchange: Digg or Google 411 • Gift Economy: $$$ aren’t everything Chris Anderson’s Taxonomy of Free Wired: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free?currentPage=all

  14. Is Language a Boundary? • Of course, if not I would be talking Finnish! • But re-use/re-mixing does occur across language: • “In LeMill, where the content is created by teachers, we find the users create and share material both within thelanguagecommunity and across them, indicating that the purpose of the platform fits and supports the typical activities that the meta-community carries out in order to achieve its goals.” • Vuorikari, & Koper, (in press) Journal of Educational Technology & Society

  15. The Political Economy of Peer Production Michael Bauwens • produce use-value through the free cooperation of producers • a 'third mode of production' neither for-profit or public • NOT exchange value for a market, but use-value for a community www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=499

  16. Prod-Users:From production to produsage Axel Bruns 2008 • Users as active participants in production of artifacts: • Examples: • Open source movement • Wikipedia • Citizen journalism (blogs) • Immersive worlds • Distributed creativity - music, video, Flickr

  17. Boundless Access to Open Courses George Siemens & Stephen Downes Introduction au technologieémergentes Dave Cormier Alec CuorosOpen Access Course: Social Media & Open Education (Fall 2009)

  18. Boundless Opportunity to control the Social Construction of Technology • Education Technology is, by definition, technologically mediated and thus is influenced by technological determinism • BUT…. • Interpretative Flexibility • each technological artifact has different meanings and interpretations • Relevant Social Groups • many subgroups can be delineated • Design Flexibility • A design is only a single point in the large field of technical possibilities • Problems and Conflicts • Different interpretations often give rise to conflicts between criteria that are hard to resolve technologically • (Wikipedia, Sept, 2009)

  19. Boundless access through Open Access Books Upcoming Emerging Technologies in DE edited by George Veletsiano www.irrodl.org

  20. Currently, somewhat bounded access to Free Courses

  21. Boundless Access to Individuals asfree tutors • http://www.khanacademy.org/ See calculus derivatives: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAof9Ld5sOg

  22. Boundless Access Using Open Access Journals • Open Access Journals have increased citation ratings: • Work in progress with Olaf Zawacki-Richter, Ferne University, Germany • Analysis of Google citations for 12 Distance Education Journals (using Harzing’s Publish or Perish tool) • 6 open access, 6 commercially published • Early results show roughly equal citations/paper, but recent gains in citations by open access journals

  23. Boundless Opportunity to write and assign Assign Open Textbooks

  24. Boundless Access to Learning Networks

  25. Net presence means Creating and Sustaining Social Capital • “Relationships, more than information, determine how problems are solvedor opportunities exploited.” Looi 2001, P. 17)

  26. Boundless Interaction over Research

  27. Boundless Opportunities to create and connect to Networks EnablingOpenScholarship

  28. Boundless Connections through Web 2.0 Applications http://www.go2web20.net over 3000 apps

  29. Boundless opportunities to comment, tag, share and connect with others • Bookmarking and Annotation add value • Cite-u-like, Brainify, Diigo, Delicious etc • VLE additions like Margenalia.

  30. Placing Boundaries on the Boundless Good fences make good neighbors” Robert Frost

  31. Placing Boundaries on the Boundless A good fence helpeth to keepe peace between neighbours; but let vs take heed that we make not a high stone wall, to keepevs from meeting.[1640 E. Rogers Letter in Winthrop Papers (1944) IV. 282]

  32. Boundless Opportunities for • Unanticipated consequences • Challenges of net privacy/presence • Emergent adaptation by students and teachers • Misuse and exploitation

  33. Creating Boundaries by Recommendations/input of others

  34. Boundless Opportunity to be effective Change Agents • Open scholars develop tools and techniques to help cross-pollination, sustain and grow effective learning networks. • Open Scholars help birth new institutions and reform existing schools From (Looi 2001).

  35. Boundless Opportunities to “help” students • ““We’re trying to really understand the true behavior of the student … and then use that information to be able to make informed, data-driven decisions about how we can help students.” Adam Lange, Rio Salado College

  36. Boundless Opportunities to waste time Save Time by using the efforts of others I haven’t got the time to save!

  37. Boundless living requires effective information management • “Personalisation will respect the fact that information use is individual and contextual: in terms of information and knowledge, one person’s overload is another’s life blood”. (Bawden &Robinson, 2009 p. 187)

  38. Social Networking helps us create our own boundaries Text Text Stepanyan, Mather & Payne, 2007

  39. Boundary Controls in Elgg

  40. Open Net Research/Community Networks OERs, YouTUBE MY AU Login Discovery Read & Comment rights Passwords Passwords AlFresco CMS Course Development Athabasca Landing E-Portfolios Profiles Groups/Networks Bookmark Collections Blogs Athabasca University Sample CC Course units and Branded OERs ELGG Single Sign on Moodle AUspace Media lab Registry Library CIDER Secondlife campus

  41. "He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.”Chinese Proverb Your comments and questions most welcomed! Terry Anderson terrya@athabascau.ca http://cde.athabascau.ca/faculty/terrya.php Blog: terrya.edublogs.org

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