Transcript Whose eLearning is it anyway? - duo

“A second generation of web-based
communities”
- internet technologies and Durham University”
Aims
• Brief introduction to Web 2.0
• Provide a case study from Durham
• Look at how we engage with social and
collaborative technologies now and in the
future.
Web 2.0
‘….a perceived second generation of webbased communities and hosted services
— such as social-networking sites, wikis
and folksonomies — which aim to facilitate
collaboration and sharing between users .
Source: Wikipedia
Internet 2.0
• Web 1.0
• DoubleClick
• Ofoto
• Akamai
• mp3.com
• Britannica Online
• personal websites
• evite
• domain name speculation
• page views
• screen scraping
• publishing
• content management systems
• directories (taxonomy)
• stickiness
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Web 2.0
Google AdSense
Flickr
BitTorrent
Napster
Wikipedia
blogging
upcoming.org and EVDB
search engine optimisation
cost per click
web services
participation
wikis
tagging (“folksonomy”)
syndication
Keeping
YourHouse
use of web
2.0
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voting is still open)
Do you trust Wikipedia as a source?
22%
9%
70%
0%
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4.
Yes
No
Sometimes
Not sure
Do you have a Facebook profile?
87%
13%
1. Yes
2. No
Facebook – Groups
• I Couldn't Care Less If It Was University of
Durham or Durham University network
• The Dr Smith Appreciation Society
• Communist Revolutionary Front of
Durham University
• Durham Dictionary
• It's not Facebook procrastination, it's
history revision.
Whose eLearning is it anyway?
A case study exploring the boundaries
between student-owned social networks
and institutional VLEs
Case study: Facebook v. Blackboard
When I was a student…
Website
Information
One way
Along came the VLE…
VLE
Teacher-centred
Communication
and information
And then Web 2.0…
Formal
Un-moderated
Informal
Moderated
VLE
Closed
Facebook
Teachercentric
Individual
control
Open
Unstructured
Hierarchical
Where will students spend more time?
Jo went to investigate
Non-discussion boards
Jo heard students were using Facebook
What Jo found in Facebook…
• Student profiles declaring academic interests
• A ‘group’ for the module (she was invited to
join) She found…
• Social activity (some inappropriate for a VLE) “Wasn’t
that lecture boring”
• Support - “What should I revise?”
• Sharing – “Books and videos have you seen this on
You tube?”
• Critical Debate – “That historian doesn’t make sense” “
too much killing in that film”
COPS and Prisons
Negotiated enterprise
mutual accountability
interpretations
rhythms
local response
Joint
enterprise
Facebook
VLE
Shared
repertoire
Mutual
engagement
Engaged diversity
Doing things together
Relationships
Social complexity
Community maintenance
Panopticon VLE from Bayne and Land after Foucault (2002)
Styles, stories,
artefacts,
actions,
discourses
historical events
concepts
Community of Practice After Wenger(1998, p.73)
Crossing Boundaries
• Jo would find interesting postings in
Facebook
– Use these to inform classroom teaching
– Encourage students to post on Blackboard
Discussion boards.
VLE
Classroom
Facebook
Online survey of Durham students
If not, why not?
Unlikely to be as
extensive as the
existing networks
Unlikely to provide the
same quality
Likely to be more
censored/restricted
A certain being
watched feeling
Implications and responses
Students
spending time
in Facebook
Therefore less
in the VLE?
Divisive not
inclusive?
Engage?
Students are
learning in
Facebook
What are they
learning?
Ignore?
Ban or control?
Control how?
Whose space?
• There are a lot of students saying, 'If they
go on to Facebook, I'm moving out'," says
Gilly Salmon, professor of e-learning at
Leicester University. "There is the idea that
it's their environment, not ours."
Would you join a Facebook group set up by
the University itself?
43%
24%
43%
1. Yes
2. No
3. Depends
Duggites
Would you use similar tools to Facebook if run by
the University
58%
42%
1. Yes
2. No
Vive la difference
Accept separate spaces for student centred
informal learning and formal VLE
Use like Jo (if students let you)?
Bring affordances of tools in where
relevant to formal education
‘Mash up’ VLE and Facebook
Wikis in duo
– a website that allows visitors to add, remove,
edit and change content, typically without the
need for registration. It also allows for linking
among any number of pages. This ease of
interaction and operation makes a wiki an
effective tool for mass collaborative authoring.
Example: duopedia
Blogs in duo
– “A blog is a user-generated website where
entries are made in journal style and
displayed in a reverse chronological order”
(source: Wikipedia). The term is generally
thought to be an abbreviation of the words
"web-log".
Example: duo system blog
Social bookmarking (scholar)
Which would you use in duo?
38%
69%
42%
27%
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Blogs
Wikis
Tags
None
The future is virtual? Second Life.
References and Acknowledgements
Many thanks to Dr. Jo Fox for providing the case study
material for this presentation.
References
• Wenger, E. (1998) Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and
Identity. Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press.
• Land, R and Bayne, S (2002) 'Screen or monitor? Surveillance and
disciplinary power in online learning environments' (html) in Rust, C.
(ed) Improving Student Learning using Learning Technology.
(Oxford, OCSLD). pp125-38