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Creating a Learning Network

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Creating a Learning Network

Stephen Downes

ABED – Curitiba, Brazil October 7, 2014

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DS106 – Grant Potter

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• Flash

• _HTML5

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Shoutcast Icecast SAM Broadcaster Centova Cast Computer Mobile Phone FTP File Upload Digital Signal Streaming Media Server Auto DJ

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Digital Signal Speakers Headphones Digital Signal Processor Edcast, Nicecast Files Playlist Stereo Mix Mic Media Player Or Mixxx

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.pls file – points to mp3 files online

Local file Web file

Streaming source

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Stream .pls File RSS

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Create MP3 files and upload them to the web

Audacity

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Newsletter

Web page

Email newsletter

RSS feed

Twitter @OLDaily

OLDaily

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Email RSS Web Twitter Posts commentary Links ₋ Title ₋ URL ₋ Feed ₋ Author

OLDaily

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Links

RSS Reader

Email

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Email

₋ Google groups ₋ Mailing Lists ₋ Subscriptions ₋ Alerts

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RSS

₋ Feedly

₋ Old Reader ₋ Outlook

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Social Media ₋ Twitter ₋ Facebook ₋ Google+ ₋ LinkedIn ₋ Groups ₋ Channels ₋ Hashtags

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• Content Sources

• Blogger / Wordpress

• Content management system • _{Social media}

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MOOC

Participants Posts & Articles

Blogger - Wordpress

Posts & Tweets

Hashtags

Groups

Google, Yahoo Groups

Channels

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Posts & Articles

Blogger - Wordpress

Posts & Tweets

Hashtags

Groups

Google, Yahoo Groups

Channels

YouTube, Flickr, Soundcloud

Links Email RSS Twitter Posts Web

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RSS content

• Feed list

• Submit feed - RSS

• Blog, twitter, group, etc.

• _{Sign up account API} • Relays

• Yahoo Pipes

• IFTTT

• Hootsuite

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Daily news

• Announcements • Calendar of events • Posts

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Calendar

• _{(broken bit)}

• _{List of events}

• Calendar formats

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Events

• _{- BB Collaborate}

• _{Recordings / URL + Player (Java)}

• _{Others – Webx, Wiziq, Adobe Connect}

• _{Webcasting =}

• Conferencing tool (any of above or Skype) +

• Webcasting tool – YouTube, LiveStream, Ustream

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The design is based on putting the

learner at the center

Scott Wilson (left), Tim Hand (right)

https://www.google.com/search?q=ple+diagrams

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LPSS Core Projects

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Resource Repository Network

• _{Manage and} discover list of sources and resources • Maintain authentication and credentials

• Support APIs and

metadata standards

• Gather, analyze

and sort resources and/or metadata

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Personal Cloud

• _{Manage list of local and} remote storage systems • Maintain security,

encryption,

authentication and credentials

• _{Include local or}

personal device storage • _{Manage and}

synchronize resource sets and data

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Personal Learning Assistant

• _{Collect contextual}

information for system

• Display resources of

various formats,

inclusing SCORM, LTI,

etc.

• _{Support (scaffolded)}

authoring

environments

• _{Project LPSS capacity}

into external software

and devices

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Competency Recognition and Development

• _{Import or create}

competency

definitions

• _{Analyze interactions}

for skills and learning

gaps

• _{Support development}

of learning plans

• _{Provide resource and}

service

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Personal Learning Record

• _{Collect full record of interactions}

with all resources, external systems

• _{Support learning activity data}

exchange formats (eg. xAPI)

• _{Collect and present a person’s}

personal portfolio

• _{Display certifications and}

credentials (eg. badges)

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Implementation – from MOOC to

Personal Learning

• MOOC-REL (OIF)

• _ALECSO

• _MINT

• _SHARE

• _Badges

• _Simulator

• Workplace T&D

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Implementation Projects

Ultimately, the

objective is to

support individual

learning in a

network

http://integralleadershipmanifesto.com/manifesto/making-subject-object/

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Corporate / institutional clouds

• xMOOCs

• Content libraries • _OAI

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3rd party services

• Recommender / indices / translation • Simulations / multiplayer games

• IoT

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Why is this important?

• _{Because technology is not}

just a tool

• It gives us the capacity to do

new things (the ‘affordances

argument’)

• _{It represents an extension of}

our perceptions (the

McLuhan argument)

• _{“We shape technology, and}

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What kind of learner we become

depends on what kind of learning

technology we choose

http://singularityhub.com/2012/10/15/19th-century-french-artists-predicted-the-world-of-the-future-in-this-series-of-postcards/ http://www.alter-inc.com/wearable.html

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Stephen Downes