Open for LearningBridging the Gap Between

the PLE & the CMS

Jon MottAsst. to the Academic VPBrigham Young University

OpenEd 2009Vancouver, BC

the allure of the CMS

EXTERNALAPPLICATIONS

SIS CMS

GRADEBOOK

CONTENT

ASSESSMENT

COMMUNICATION

COLLABORATION

APIs

CUSTOMINTEGRATION

REDUNDANT & NON-

INTEGRATED APPLICATIONS

the case for & against the CMS

enter the PLE

radicalsimplicity

Blackboard is trying to keep up.

Michael L. Chasen, the company's chief executive, has told The Chronicle that the latest version of the software integrates some Web 2.0 tools and still offers plenty of features that blogging packages can't match, like online gradebooks.

CMS v PLE

CLOSED

INTEGRATED

PROPRIETARY

OPEN

MODULAR

INTEROPERABLE

COURSES

SEMESTERS

INSTITUTIONS

LEARNERS

OPEN-ENDED

COMMUNITIES

modularity

forces of inertia

administrivia

Feature Percentag

e

Course Materials / Documents 85.9%

Gradebook 78.0%

Announcements 68.9%

Email 68.1%

Assessments / Quizzes 30.7%

Discussion Board 13.5%

Other (e.g., Reserve, Dropbox) 12.2%

Virtual Classroom 2.0%

Lightweight Chat 0.4%

Bb Feature Usage @ BYU

forces of change

engaging“the former audience”

(Dan Gillmor)

Meaning only comes intoexistence when two ormore voices come into

contact.

Bakhtin

3,000,000 Tweets /

Day80,000,000 YouTube Videos

13,000,000 Wikipedia Articles200,000,000 Facebook Accounts

3,600,000,000 Photos on Flickr40,000,000,000 GB Data / Year

Higher mental functioningin the individual derives

from social life.

Vygostsky

this is facebook

this is facebookon blackboard

TIME

CMS v. PLE

End of the Semester

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SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER 3 SEMESTER 4 SEMESTER 5 SEMESTER 6

CMS

PLE

CMS v. PLE

99%

we’re reinventingthe past

permeable institutions

Yochai Benkler“

increasingly permeable boundaries

”

University

Support ServicesBookstore

IT InfrastructureLibraries

Academic Departments

Faculty Students

the new landscape

University

Support ServicesBookstoreLibraries

IT InfrastructureAcademic Departments

Faculty Students

Web 2.0 Apps

PLEs

Social Networks

Open Content

MassCollaboration

etc.

the new landscape

permeablelearning

networks?

learners

learners

schools

educational institutions.

2009 = the end of learning as usual?

the impetus

meaning = use

Wittgenstein

time to leverage“architecture ofparticipation”

Tim O’Reilly

passive consumption

sharing

cooperation(collaboration)

collective action

what’s going onin *their* brains?

“powering down”≠

engaged

"We can't go on

together with

suspicious minds.”

The King

authenticteachingbehaviors

authenticlearningactivity

authenticmeasurement

& accountability

THE CLOUD

STUDENTCONTENT

UNIVERSITY NETWORK

An Open (Institutional) Learning Network

LICENSED & PROPRIETARY

CONTENT

PORTFOLIO

STUDENTINFORMATION

SYSTEM

OPENCONTENT

SOCIAL NETWORKING

APPS

PERSONALPUBLISHING

TOOLS

LEARNINGOUTCOMES

COURSECONTENT

Web Pages

Web Pages

Web Pages

Web Pages

COLLABORATIONTOOLS

ASSESSMENTTOOLS

GRADEBOOK

malleability=

openmodular

interoperable

a radicallysimple idea

stand-alonegradebook

Gary BrownA “Harvesting” Gradebook

loosely-coupled

Authentic Student Learning Activities

ASSESSMENT(SCORES)

REPOSITORYREPORTINGINTERFACE

portfolioassessment

PORTFOLIO REGISTRY

PORTFOLIOASSESSMENTREPOSITORY

ARTIFACTREPOSITORY

REPORTINGINTERFACE

PROGRAM &UNIVERSITY

REPORTS

Loosely Coupled Portfolio Assessment

PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT INTERFACE

ASSESSMENT(SCORES)

REPOSITORY

STUDENT LEARNINGACTIVITY

ARTIFACTREPOSITORY

PROGRAM &UNIVERSITY

REPORTS

ProgramGradebooks

Program Assessment Interfaces

An Integrated Learning Portfolio & Assessment Strategy

PROGRAMEVALUATION

ACTIVITY

Cloud-Based Publishing & Organization

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Artifact Submissio

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Program LO Definition

Jon Mott, Brigham Young University. (CC-By) Image Credits – VistaIcons.com.

REPORTINGINTERFACE

CONTENT STORESWEB BASED APPS

AIM - STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

GRADEBOOK

ROUTE Y TESTING CENTER

LEARNING OUTCOMES WIKI

COURSE SITES

LIBRARY

LOWEB

SERVICE

SISWEB

SERVICE

PORTALWEB

SERVICE

GBWEB

SERVICE

TESTINGWEB

SERVICE

LIBRARYWEB

SERVICE

COURSEWEB

SERVICE

3RD PARTYWEB

SERVICES

CONTENTWEB

SERVICES

GRADEBOOK

LearningSite

Blackboard Moodle UPortal Google Apps

1999

"The clue train stopped there four times a day for ten years and they never took delivery."

— Veteran of a firm now free-falling out of the Fortune 500

http://cluetrain.com

95 theses

If you don’t knowwhat you want yourstudents to become,

it doesn’t matterwhat you do.

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Image Credits (by slide #)3. “Ulysses & the Sirens” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_William_Waterhouse_-_Ulysses_and_the_Sirens_%281891%29.jpg4. “Prefab House” http://www.flickr.com/photos/steffe/389190497 5. “Model picture of suburbia” http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnwardell/36924036 6. “Home for Sale” http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaybowalkin/1000063019 7. “Data Center Build Out” http://www.flickr.com/photos/skreuzer/354316053/ 10. Jared Stein – PLE Mapping http://www.flickr.com/photos/5tein/2314107350 11. Stephen Downes – PLE http://www.gliffy.com/pubdoc/1092065/L.jpg 12. Martin Weller – PLE http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/12/06/pwe_3.jpg 13. D’Arcy Norman – PLE http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnorman/2314258583/sizes/o 14. Scott Leslei – PLE http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/file/view/swl_ple2.gif 15. Alec Couros – PLE http://nwinton.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/the-networked-teacher.png?w=530&h=496 16. “Cloud Gate” http://www.flickr.com/photos/ancawonka/65927497 23. Holy Grail Screencap http://patdollard.com/wp-content/uploads/holygrail004.jpg 25. “That Huge Lecture Theatre” http://www.flickr.com/photos/teddy-rised/2814710002/ 26. Tombstone Generator http://www.activedayton.com/e/content/oh/media/entertainment/comics_games/tombstones/index.html 27. “Hard to Choose” http://www.flickr.com/photos/edublogger/546056545 32. Obama in Germany http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/2699346313/sizes/o 34. “information hydrant” http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2595497078/ 43. “ED+DS” http://www.flickr.com/photos/john/3374835896 44. “bridge to nowhere” http://www.flickr.com/photos/whalt/2042503265 45. Game Race cc-by-nc @jonmott 46. “Road Sign in Southern Utah” http://www.flickr.com/photos/mott/3638375571 47. “Japan: Osaka-jo outer moat, 1” http://www.flickr.com/photos/53537358@N00/3005861124 48. “The Secret Gardens at Tregwainton” http://www.flickr.com/photos/zawtowers/3758680364 50. & 51. Wikipedia Book http://www.rob-matthews.com/index.php?/project/wikipedia /56. “The Fall of the Berlin Wall” http://www.flickr.com/photos/antaldaniel/2912118873 57. “HSM.07.09.02.R1.02.B” http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomas-merton/1518786870 59. Michael Chasen en Matthew Pittinsky http://www.flickr.com/photos/pklaassen/68271156 59. Edupunk2 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/2533948716 60. Pushmi-Pullyu http://www.flickr.com/photos/91772025@N00/444044158/sizes/l 61. Chimera http://www.flickr.com/photos/dynamosquito/2814125967 64. “conversation” http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnorman/3812258149 65. Michael Bolton http://www.flickr.com/photos/alan-light/2089141748 68. Student w/ Scantron Image From “A Vision of Students Today” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o) 69. “Scantron Triforce” http://www.flickr.com/photos/dooom2000/3044127020/ 70. “Success! Undergrad Graduation” http://www.flickr.com/photos/m00by/2539347606/ 72. “Fast Food Drive-Thru Attendant” http://www.flickr.com/photos/pine_red/140919614 73. “I wish for a fulfilled life” http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanchow/3517557789/ 76. “Sneaky Messages” http://www.flickr.com/photos/tommyhuynh/1219122548/ 77. “Typical” http://www.flickr.com/photos/22916851@N08/2213292811/ 78. “16/365: Chinese New Year” http://www.flickr.com/photos/nin3rszxd/3230241116/ 80. “Using the iPod Book” http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctabu/117954644/in/photostream/ 81. “165.” http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoe-campbell/3714841958/ 82. Notes in Class cc-by-nc @dbiser83. Elvis http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elvis_presley.jpg 84. “Candy Corn” http://www.flickr.com/photos/gunsotsu/1720203320 88. “ah” (stuck) http://www.flickr.com/photos/pikesville/131255519/in/photostream/ 97. 105. 107. Icon images courtesy of http://vistaicons.com 114. “Prince” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prince_%28musician%29.jpg 115. “Tube Train Approach” http://www.flickr.com/photos/skullyfm/3390155211 116. “Luther nails his 95 theses to the church door” http://archive.elca.org/archives/luther/Luther95Thesis.jpg