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Jon Mason Education.au Ltd

Jon Mason Education.au Ltd. Standards for e-learning: Is there a future?. Jon Mason jmason@educationau.edu.au. Content. Process. Standards for e-learning: Is there a future?. More importantly: … What standards? & Why standards? … & Who will develop them?. Why?.

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Jon Mason Education.au Ltd

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  1. Jon MasonEducation.au Ltd

  2. Standards for e-learning:Is there a future? Jon Mason jmason@educationau.edu.au

  3. Content Process

  4. Standards for e-learning:Is there a future? More importantly: … What standards? &Whystandards? … & Who will develop them?

  5. Why? • Standards are a natural artifact of any human society • Communities of practice develop standards (& conventions, protocols, fashions, etc) But …

  6. Standards are misunderstood • As a means for corporate dominance in the marketplace • As a means for government regulatory control • As an encroachment on personal freedom of expression

  7. Standards are misunderstood … & in the eLearning world … the province of techo’s!

  8. How to model the problem space? • Processes & Functions • Concepts • Components • Services • Frameworks • Sustainable infrastructure • Use Cases

  9. Conventional Institutionalized Centralized Established Sources of power, influence and new ideas Self-organized Diffused Decentralized Emergent High acceptance Widespread adoption Technology empowers Aligns with human needs Driven by society Acceptance and adoption of technology in society Partial acceptance Patchy adoption Technology frustrates Runs counter to needs Driven by technology Critical Uncertainties

  10. Technology empowers Web of Confidence Vanilla Sources of power, influence and new ideas Emergent Acceptance and adoption of technology in society Established Back to the Future U Choose Technology frustrates

  11. Technology Empowers Established Power Emergent Power Technology Frustrates

  12. What is common to each scenario? All will utilise standards in various forms!

  13. http://mapageweb.umontreal.ca/turner/meta/english/

  14. Other Tensions

  15. Communities of Practice Formal Informal Content Process Technology Pedagogy Boundaries Networks Continuities Discontinuities

  16. Technology Pedagogy • No clean boundary between technical & pedagogical issues - e.g., metadata & ‘soft’ infrastructure • Interoperability - semantic - cultural - political - syntactic - technical

  17. Terminology

  18. Purpose-built e-learning standards e-learning Standards Standards harnessed through innovation in e-learning

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  21. Standards: utilize & define boundaries enable networks facilitate development of systems

  22. Questions – What if …

  23. “The paomnnehil pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mind deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.” - personal email correspondence, Aug 2003

  24. What Technology? • information & communications • nano- • bio- • a fusion? • Many technologies will shape society’s acceptance or otherwise

  25. Who

  26. Who Else?

  27. Standards Protocols Conventions Etiquettes Fashions Normes Mores innovations heterodoxies orthodoxies Communities of Practice

  28. Conceptual Challenges • What is content? • new data-types & object-types constantly appearing • Boundaries • Where are the boundaries between content, context, & learning activities? • What are digital objects & what are digital collections? • Where are the boundaries between data, information, & knowledge? • Modeling knowledge • extending the scope of metadata assignment & use

  29. Source: Chris Blackall, ANU, 2003

  30. Will a Knowledge Economy Emerge? Is e-learning meshing with knowledge management?

  31. How What Who Why Where If When Know

  32. No Boundaries or Rules? www.nbor.com

  33. Interfaces Boundaries by another name A critical success factor in technology adoption

  34. Technology empowers Web of Confidence Vanilla Sources of power, influence and new ideas Emergent Acceptance and adoption of technology in society Established Back to the Future U Choose Technology frustrates

  35. What does each scenario indicate about e-learning standards? • Back to the Future a content-delivery-centric dumbing down (‘know-what’) • UChooseportlets, wikis, weblogs, e-portfolios • Virtually Vanillablended dumbing down, content-access, competencies (‘do-what’ & ‘know-what’) • Web of Confidence ‘access management’ solved, hi-trust systems

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