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Category: 04 | eLearning 2.0 / Education 2.0
Learnstreams ...
.. in Forbes (print edition) thoughts from David Gelernter, professor of computer science at Yale, and author of "Mirror Worlds" and the brilliant manifesto "The Second Coming", featuring the conecept of "lifestreams" interfaces - a must-read for anyone interested in web/e-learning 2.0.
He presents his vision of the future of online higher education and claims that "outside the top tier [schools], more and more students will discover that electronic courses offer education with less fun, less atmosphere, less political nonsense--and a lot more choice and less cost. Good teachers will be liberated to peddle knowledge around the world. Top scholars with international reputations may discover, to their astonishment, that they can earn nearly as much as their dentists. Students will be liberated to buy education from suppliers all over the globe” (42). Gelernter also suggests that “[c]omputerized courses will never be as good as small seminars with first-rate teachers. But they might be better than big lectures with mediocre teachers” (42).
via Kairosnews: A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy (special focus on high education and literacy in the digital age). You should put it on your blogroll.
He presents his vision of the future of online higher education and claims that "outside the top tier [schools], more and more students will discover that electronic courses offer education with less fun, less atmosphere, less political nonsense--and a lot more choice and less cost. Good teachers will be liberated to peddle knowledge around the world. Top scholars with international reputations may discover, to their astonishment, that they can earn nearly as much as their dentists. Students will be liberated to buy education from suppliers all over the globe” (42). Gelernter also suggests that “[c]omputerized courses will never be as good as small seminars with first-rate teachers. But they might be better than big lectures with mediocre teachers” (42).
via Kairosnews: A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy (special focus on high education and literacy in the digital age). You should put it on your blogroll.
the failing of "e-learning culture"
... again at Learning Circuit: Peter Isackson taregting the "failing of e-learning culture", with good discussion (Masie himself, among others). I don't share the general view on technology, but I certainly agree very much with the main point:
"Listening to Eliott Masie correctly telling me (through an audio feed) that memory sticks will allow all sorts of things that no one could have imagined made me realize why I seriously doubt that any of what he describes will ever make an impact on learning. I feel exactly the same way about games, simulations and all kinds of “ideal” and idealized content (and I’ve spent twenty years of my life designing, producing and publishing the stuff). It all makes sense… but, when all is said and done, it just doesn’t seem to take off, even though we can usually get it to work (and even prove that it can produce results)."
"Listening to Eliott Masie correctly telling me (through an audio feed) that memory sticks will allow all sorts of things that no one could have imagined made me realize why I seriously doubt that any of what he describes will ever make an impact on learning. I feel exactly the same way about games, simulations and all kinds of “ideal” and idealized content (and I’ve spent twenty years of my life designing, producing and publishing the stuff). It all makes sense… but, when all is said and done, it just doesn’t seem to take off, even though we can usually get it to work (and even prove that it can produce results)."
"microplatforms" (not our term, this time) for elearning 2.0 ...
... good post/discussion about elearning 2.0 over at the Learning Circuit blog. Initiated by Mark Oehlert (who seems to be the right hand of Elliott Masie ...):
"I've been asking the same questions for months now. Why aren't we applying Web 2.0 concepts to learning? I call it Learning 2.0. It's hard to find any examples. I would say the web is the platform, not the application. Then we have a collection of "loosely joined" microplatforms like flickr, del.icio.us, and salesforce.com. Which leads to your question: Where are the cool microplatforms for learning?"
Bryan Menell, CEO of Fusion Learning Systems, blogging himself at the learning20-blog.
"I've been asking the same questions for months now. Why aren't we applying Web 2.0 concepts to learning? I call it Learning 2.0. It's hard to find any examples. I would say the web is the platform, not the application. Then we have a collection of "loosely joined" microplatforms like flickr, del.icio.us, and salesforce.com. Which leads to your question: Where are the cool microplatforms for learning?"
Bryan Menell, CEO of Fusion Learning Systems, blogging himself at the learning20-blog.
Education 2.0, eLearning 2.0 ...
... obviously Microlearning and Microknowledge are closely related to the so-called Web 2.0, based on microcontent. Richard McManus writes here about the impact of Web 2.0 on education:
"Take a look at what the education community is doing with the Web, for example. They are not only starting to use the tools of Web 2.0 - blogs, wikis, podcasts, etc. They're also adapting to a new generation of kids who are growing up on the Web, the so-called 'Digital Natives'. The challenge for educators now and for the future is to learn and teach Internet literacy, converse and collaborate with their students using Web tools, and help our children make sense of the huge amounts of information and media that surround us."
Here are some further links on "Education 2.0", again by McManus at his blog on "Web 2.0" (http://www.readwriteweb.com).
See also the good sum-up by Bryan Alexander on Schools and the Web 2.0.
"eLearning 2.0" is the other term lately used for the emerging forms of learning in a Web 2.0-environment . See Stephen Downes' presentation here for a very good overview.
"Take a look at what the education community is doing with the Web, for example. They are not only starting to use the tools of Web 2.0 - blogs, wikis, podcasts, etc. They're also adapting to a new generation of kids who are growing up on the Web, the so-called 'Digital Natives'. The challenge for educators now and for the future is to learn and teach Internet literacy, converse and collaborate with their students using Web tools, and help our children make sense of the huge amounts of information and media that surround us."
Here are some further links on "Education 2.0", again by McManus at his blog on "Web 2.0" (http://www.readwriteweb.com).
See also the good sum-up by Bryan Alexander on Schools and the Web 2.0.
"eLearning 2.0" is the other term lately used for the emerging forms of learning in a Web 2.0-environment . See Stephen Downes' presentation here for a very good overview.
Education 2.0 ...
... Richard McManus writes here about the impact of Web 2.0 on education:
"Take a look at what the education community is doing with the Web, for example. They are not only starting to use the tools of Web 2.0 - blogs, wikis, podcasts, etc. They're also adapting to a new generation of kids who are growing up on the Web, the so-called 'Digital Natives'. The challenge for educators now and for the future is to learn and teach Internet literacy, converse and collaborate with their students using Web tools, and help our children make sense of the huge amounts of information and media that surround us."
Here are some links on "Education 2.0", again by McManus at his blog on "Web 2.0" (http://www.readwriteweb.com).
And here is a good sum-up by Bryan Alexander on Schools and the Web 2.0.
"Take a look at what the education community is doing with the Web, for example. They are not only starting to use the tools of Web 2.0 - blogs, wikis, podcasts, etc. They're also adapting to a new generation of kids who are growing up on the Web, the so-called 'Digital Natives'. The challenge for educators now and for the future is to learn and teach Internet literacy, converse and collaborate with their students using Web tools, and help our children make sense of the huge amounts of information and media that surround us."
Here are some links on "Education 2.0", again by McManus at his blog on "Web 2.0" (http://www.readwriteweb.com).
And here is a good sum-up by Bryan Alexander on Schools and the Web 2.0.