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Personal Learning Environments Shifting the Locus of Control. Oleg Liber CETIS, University of Bolton. Changing…. Technologies Students Pedagogies Environment Institutions State education system Global education. Before VLEs. Technology Web, ftp, gopher, email, newsgroups
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Personal Learning EnvironmentsShifting the Locus of Control Oleg Liber CETIS, University of Bolton
Changing… • Technologies • Students • Pedagogies • Environment • Institutions • State education system • Global education
Before VLEs • Technology • Web, ftp, gopher, email, newsgroups • Little interoperation • No learner management • Enthusiast driven • Students • Mainly young, homogenous • Mainly on campus • Pedagogy • Formal, face to face delivery
Age of the VLE • Technology • Content delivery • Discussion groups • MCQ • Limited learning management • Invented by enthusiasts • Students • More part-time • Access • Widening participation • Pedagogy • More distance learning • Greater support requirements
VLE approaches • Technical approaches • Website plus database (BB, WebCT …) • Rich client (Colloquia) • Organisational issues • University as ISP • “Big System” management model • Constrain diversity
Why VLEs have succeeded • Not disruptive innovation • Easily adopted to support existing classroom/course paradigm • Widely incorporated • Which benefits proven? • Pedagogic • Cost • Access
Post VLE • New developments since 1996 • Mobile phones, SMS, camera phone • Digital photography, Flickr • Blogs, RSS • MP3 players, media players, PDAs • iTunes, podcasting • Pen drives, smart drives, SD cards… • Instant messaging • Internet gaming • Bandwidth!
Institutional concerns • Traditionally institutions provide technology • Classrooms, labs, library etc. • Since 1990s institutions are ISPs • Email address, file store, homepages, records • Assume students have no technology • Also eportfolio hosting, VLE/LMS, content, services • Now constraining technological use by students • IM, P2P, Blogs, MP3, mobile phones, PDA • Staff and student skills training • Huge variety • But modern students need to use multiple systems
Technology Moodle Eportfolio system Course catalogue Content Authentication and authorisation College A Knowledge Teaching University B Knowledge Teaching Technology WebCT Eportfolio system Course catalogue Content Authentication and authorisation University C Knowledge Teaching Technology Fronter Eportfolio system Course catalogue Content Authentication and authorisation
Issues for eLearning • Technological: • adaptable to changing technologies • Interoperability • SOA • Institutional • Changing nature of service provision • Pedagogic • Ownership and creative use of technical system by teachers and students • Shifting locus of control
Service Service College A Knowledge Teaching Resources Service Technology PLE Eportfolio Content Relationship Management Tools University B Knowledge Teaching Resources University C Knowledge Teaching Resources Service Service Service
Post VLE – Personal Learning Environments • Students • Mobile, learn anywhere • Technologically aware, capable • Multiple courses, formal/informal • Technology • Personal • Interoperable, standards based • Extensible, service-oriented • Institutions • Service based • Technology requirements • Flexible courses • Learner centred
Before… • Course built at institution • Consumed by learner • Learners are managed VLEs provide no management tools for learners • Learners “fit” into course Can only choose elective modules • Learners belong to institution One institution at a time is typical Do customers shop only at one shop?
…After • Course aggregated by learner • From several sources • Content, peers, support, teaching • Elements provided by institution • Content, peers, support, teaching, certification • Learners aggregate/manage elements • Courses are customised to learner • Learners are free agents • “… shop at several shops…”
PLE implications • Student have own email address, PLE, e-portfolio • Commercial ISP provides core services • Also web-services (instrumentation), resources • State provides Services, resources, learning space, information • University provides Student support Specialised web services Content, teaching
JISC funded Reference Model project • DfES • “A collaborative approach to personalised learning activities” (DfES e- Strategy summary p.3) • http://www.dfes.gov.uk/publications/e-strategy/docs/e-strategysummary.pdf • Philosophy of eLearning and PLEs Why technology? What “caused” VLEs? What “caused” eLearning? • Use cases – scenarios for use of PLE What will the future be like? • Reference model – defining the scope of PLEs • Prototypes Examples of possible PLEs
AOLInstantMessenger iChat MSNMessenger Colloquia Groove ELGG Outlook Chandler AppleMail Eudora Thunderbird iCal Sunbird Shrook NetNewsWire Blogger Drupal Wordpress XJournal Google Amazon 43Things Flickr Furl Technorati del.icio.us http://www.writeboard.com/ SynchroEdit Flock WiredReach NetVibes eyeOS Writely SuprGlu BaseCamp TaDaList
Prototypes • Desktop application: • Resources: create, get, post and organise • Bookmarks, feeds, other sources • People: find, meet, collaborate, communicate, organise • Activities: receive, design, create, participate • Instrumentation: pluggable web-services • Portal application: • Mimics desktop prototype
Importance of standards Resources: RSS, Atom, Content packages, SCORM…. People: FOAF, LIP, ePortfolio… Activities: Learning Design… Instrumentation: XMPP, WSDL, SOAP…
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