Minds on Fire

2. Open Education:
Social Learning

a) Based on the article, what do you understand by social learning?

a) Evident Social Learning through conversations, enquiries, interactions via the many social platform (real and virtual) and technological advances.

Small Group networking to Class Sharing tools

Wikis, blogs, forums, discussion etc

Expanded Learners: Student + Social friends + Virtual Avatars

Extension to rural areas with no web capabilities

Available use of telescopes, microscopes and scientific tools

b) Based on the article, explain the difference between learning about and learning to be? Give examples to explain the difference based on the context of your work.

b) From "I think I am, therefore I am" to "We participate, therefore we are" and "Learn to be"

Mastering a field of knowledge involves not just "learning about" the subject but "learning to be" a full participant in the field.

Illustration
When young, you learn about many occupations, e.g. doctor, teacher, policeman.
When you inspire to become a doctor, you will immerse into the field of practices.

Applications
Learning to be: COP
Learning about: eSILK

Others

Evident Social learning through conversations, enquiries, interactions via the many social platform (real and virtual) and technological advances.

Small Group networking to Class Sharing tools

Wikis, blogs, forums, discussion etc

Expanded Learners: Student + Social friends + Virtual Avatars

Extension to rural areas with no web capabilities

Available use of telescopes, microscopes and scientific tools

Free access for all to multiple e-courses, materials, expert fields and resources.

From "I think I am, therefore I am" to "We participate, therefore we are" and "Learn to be"

Novice and expert participation in various interest/specialised fields

Eevryone can learn from everyone through comments, gaps, quality and crtiques.

Control measures needsed to ensure quality of such forums, such as Experts as administrators.

Light: Group studies = better engaged, better prepared and better learning

"Predictor":
Questions unanswered

Accessibility to all?

Language of Web 2.0 is not all English-based?

Web 2.0 onto mobile platforms?

Intellectual Property??

Profit / Losses for Educational Centres

Need to re-think how to sustain such centres?

Is Web Learning >> Classroom Learning??

Loss of social and inter-personal skills and EQ?

CyberSlacking?

Assessment of Learning 2.0

Learning and Application is different. Context needs to be taken into considerations when solving problems.
e.g. I learn new media in this course, but I may not be able to apply even one tool in my area of work.

1. What has changed?

3. The Long Tail

Real World Commerce: 20% of Titles = 80% of sales
e-Commerce: We sold more books today that didn't sell at all yesterday than we sold today of all the books that did sell yesterday.

Inumerable learning opportunities on the web for distributed cognitive apprenticeship, deep knowledge, passion, peer learning and interest.

c) Based on the article, give examples of how people learn using Web 2.0/new media. Provide some examples of how these examples can be applied to your context of your work.

c) Emergence of Learning 2.0 - it goes beyond providing free access to traditional course materials and educational tools and creates a participatory architecture for supporting communities of learners.

Examples of New Media
Wikis, blogs, forums, discussion, social network etc

Applications
Knowledge transfer and collaboration in Training Institutes via LEARNet platforms, i.e. blogging, journaling, reflection, feedback.

Acquiring new knowledge at a constant pace

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