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SocialLearn Project update
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Simon Buckingham Shum Knowledge Media Institute Open University UK
KMi Seminar, 18 March 2010
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“open”
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1969 2010
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“Open”: 1969
People Places
Methods Ideas fo
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“Open” in the world of Web 2.0+
Open IP
Open Communities Open Data Standards
Open Economics
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“social learning”
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Apprenticeship
“Social Learning” has many intellectual traditions
Computer-supported collaborative learning Group learning
Communities of practice
Wicked, social problems “Social Learning is a
fundamental epistemological shift, beyond participation.
Encompasses both understanding and practices.”
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New OU reader on
Social Learning Systems &
Communities of Practice
Chris Blackmore
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“social learning”
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SocialLearn Project working definition: social learning can take place when users can…
clarify their intention – learning rather than browsing
ground their learning – by defining their question or problem
engage in focused conversations – increasing their understanding of the available resources.
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“social learning”
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trust • affirmation • challenge
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shifting educational landscape
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The industrial-era university (school/college)
Knowledge development
Teaching
A canon of knowledge
Repository of knowledge (libraries)
Scholars
Students subordinated
Examination: – pass or fail
Builds national industrial strength Benefactors pay
Monopoly: – access to knowledge
– granting degrees
Nation building
Elite professional and social class
Disciplines and subjects
Objective truth, facts
Figure: Hardin Tibbs
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The emerging learning model
Facilitating and guiding the
development of the whole person
Participatory learning
discourse
A knowledge saturated
environment Lifelong learning
Students as customers,
learner-centric
Flexible delivery and assessment
Builds free-market industrial
strength
Nation/state and market-based
funding
Branding in a competitive environment, eroded
monopoly
Globally connected
Vocational focus, career-ready
accredited, everyone ‘learning or earning’
Modules and competencies
Subjective, qualitative, meaning
Figure: Hardin Tibbs
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How do we make the future learner-centric (but not an echo chamber where you’re never out your comfort zone)?
Learner-selected mentors
Learner-selected peer network
Personalised information feeds and mobile tools
Personalised resource archives
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Learner-centred universe
My learning space
(richly resourced, rewarding, safe, in control of my own learning)
Find a teacher /tutor, or a student, or a co-learner
Create, offer and find learning materials
Share /publish my
learning
My learning needs, my aspiration, my curriculum
My identity My learning record My privacy settings
Learning /Knowledge
maps
Chat, conferencing,
blogging, posting
My online learning /teaching
reputation My learning buddies
How far and how
fast I want
My choice of online tools
My real-world learning context
My learning projects My devices
& platforms
Share, network, join,
participate
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designing for online social
learning
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Social learning technology: candidate dimensions of the design space
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everyday social media
“friends” like me
1-many from the start
rapid information exchange
no reflection required by the UI
tag clouds
generic web analytics
recommendations based on navigation, ratings, purchases…
myriad activity traces in the cloud
informal personal endorsements
social media tuned for learning?
+ learning peers/mentors who both affirm and challenge
+ 1-1 mentoring
+ learning conversations
reflection encouraged by the UI
+ meaningful connections
+ learning analytics
+ recommendations based on learning profiles and activities
+ a secure e-portfolio to evidence learning
+ verifiable accreditation by trusted platforms
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social, improvable, conceptual artifacts
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beyond sharing media documents, what is special about learning that motivates digital
support for shareable, improvable, CONCEPTUAL artifacts?
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Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking cf. Engeström’s wildfire learning activities: we need inquiry, trails, history, consolidation, argument, landmarks, places, exploration Learners and educators can make many levels of contribution…
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Ask a Question
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Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking …inquiry, trails, history, consolidation, argument, landmarks, places, exploration
Learners and educators can make many levels of contribution…
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Ask a Question
Answer a Question
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Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking …inquiry, trails, history, consolidation, argument, landmarks, places, exploration
Learners and educators can make many levels of contribution…
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Ask a Question
Answer a Question
Post a comment
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Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking …inquiry, trails, history, consolidation, argument, landmarks, places, exploration
Learners and educators can make many levels of contribution…
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Ask a Question
Answer a Question
Post a comment
Support/Challenge
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Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking …inquiry, trails, history, consolidation, argument, landmarks, places, exploration
Learners and educators can make many levels of contribution…
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Ask a Question
Answer a Question
Support/Challenge
Post a comment
Add Resources to enhance contributions
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Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking …inquiry, trails, history, consolidation, argument, landmarks, places, exploration
Learners and educators can make many levels of contribution…
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Build a Learning path to help answer a Question
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Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking …inquiry, trails, history, consolidation, argument, landmarks, places, exploration
Learners and educators can make many levels of contribution…
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Add Reflection points to help consolidate learning
Build a Learning path to help answer a Question
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Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking …inquiry, trails, history, consolidation, argument, landmarks, places, exploration
Learners and educators can make many levels of contribution…
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Add Resources to enhance
any step
Add Reflection points to help consolidate learning
Add Activities to build/assess learning
Build a Learning path to help answer a Question
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Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking …inquiry, trails, history, consolidation, argument, landmarks, places, exploration
Learners and educators can make many levels of contribution…
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Forge new Paths from existing Paths…
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Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking …inquiry, trails, history, consolidation, argument, landmarks, places, exploration
Learners and educators can make many levels of contribution…
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Forge meaningful connections between any Question, Step, Path…
is inconsistent with
refutes
is a counterexample of resolves
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Mediating social artifacts for sensemaking …inquiry, trails, history, consolidation, argument, landmarks, places, exploration
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Questions
Answers
Dialogue Argumentation
Data
Activities Assessment
Reflection
Documents Learning Paths
Connections
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Social + Conceptual networks
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sociallearn beta2
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(for beta1 report see OU-internal Oct’09 eLearningCommunity webcast)
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PhD-Skills
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SocialLearn Space 1. Profile 2. User Interface 3. Social Graph 4. Services
OU VLE
Interoperability via Google OpenSocial Gadgets/FriendConnect
The SocialLearn Space provides the ‘glue’ to connect diverse websites, providing friends, analytics and recommendations
ORO
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Google Gadgets & OpenSocial http://opensocial.org / directory.opensocial.org
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Major social media players are now OpenSocial Gadget “containers”
The Gadget Directory is analogous to the iPhone AppStore – thousands of apps
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Cloudworks People Recommender gadget in an iGoogle portal (or any other OpenSocial container)
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People Recommender
gadget
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Other candidate gadgets…
SocialLearn PhD Skills Gadget Path Gadget I’m Stuck Gadget Mentor Gadget
Plus… From KMi: eg. Flashmeeting, Virtual Microscope, ROLE… From OU: eg. Library From other educational institutions, eg. Moodle From SocialLearn developer community From e-science projects, eg. MyExperiment From Google: eg. Calendar; Gmail, Reader… From the global Gadget Directory: thousands more… 34
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web apps aggregating data from, and providing services to,
diverse OU and external platforms
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web apps: cloudworks
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Cloudworks: A social space to share/discuss educational ideas/resources (IET) http://cloudworks.ac.uk
Seed your Cloud with introductory text or embedded media,
and then invite discussion and links
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Cloudworks: A social space to share/discuss educational ideas/resources (IET) http://cloudworks.ac.uk
Seed your Cloud with introductory text or embedded media,
and then invite discussion and links
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Cloudworks: A social space to share/discuss educational ideas/resources (IET) http://cloudworks.ac.uk
Seed your Cloud with introductory text or embedded media,
and then invite discussion and links
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Embedding Google Gadgets in Cloudworks
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People Recommender
gadget
Cloud Recommender
gadget
Cloudstream Recommender
gadget
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web apps: phd skills
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Embedding a Google Gadget in PhD-Skills website http://phdskills.open.ac.uk
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Cloudstream Recommender gadget
showing relevant activity in Cloudworks (test
example)
A generic PhD skill from the national Research Councils
framework
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web apps: cohere
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Cohere: web annotation + semantic connections http://cohere.open.ac.uk
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Cohere: web annotation + semantic connections http://cohere.open.ac.uk
Connections filtered by Contrast
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Cohere: web annotation + semantic connections http://cohere.open.ac.uk
Connections filtered by Lineage
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Connections filtered by Consistency
Cohere: web annotation + semantic connections http://cohere.open.ac.uk
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web apps: ELLIment
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Embedding lifelong learning skills in SocialLearn ELLI: Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory
Bristol University School of Education: what makes some people interested in learning throughout their lives, while others drop out of the system early on?
Web questionnaire generates a learning map with 7 dimensions describing capacities to learn: basis for a mentored conversation
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Editable ELLI profile accessed
from Learning Warehouse
Shared record of notes, activities,
objectives, etc
Private or Shared
reflections
Choose your mentor
AV channel of choice
ELLIment (rapid prototype – Thomas Ullman, OU)
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research opportunities…
there are intruiging conversations now waiting to develop with social learning researchers
opportunities for KMi research to synergise with SocialLearn?...
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Text processing to improve automated user profiling based
on their online ?
R&D opportunities to test socio-semantic technologies in an open source service infrastructure
Analytics and recommendation engines working off content and
social networks?
Merging social graphs from the cloud
SIOC for modelling and merging identity?
Relevant widgets/apps for learners/researchers?
Ontologies relevant to learning/academic research?
Multimedia/semantic search engines looking for a testbed?
Semantic web services?