Transcript Info - IMS Global Learning Consortium

Background
• Learning is a ‘social’ thing
• ‘Connecting’ with others to learn
– Think about some recent learning you did, either
formal or informal – (how) did it involve others?
– A ‘good teacher’ is a leading learner in a
community of learners
– How do you find an expert?
The rise of the Social Web
• Evolution of the ‘Web’
– Realising the promise of the inventors of the Web:
• A platform for collaboration
• Web 1.0 --> Web 2.0
– Empowerment of the individual (learner)
– Publishing --> participation
– Taxonomy --> folksonomy (tagging)
– LMS --> Personal Learning Environment (PLE)
• Fused: a platform for learning
Streaming your education
• What is a lifestream?
– From the lifestream blog, it is ‘a chronological
aggregated view of your life activities both online
and offline.’
• Why do it?
– For the benefit of others
– Promote your online identity
– To follow people
– To enhance your learning
Fused
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Activity streaming for teaching and learning
Aggregates content from all over the Web
Anywhere, anytime learning
Can be deployed as a public or private service
Realising the potential of the Web for learners
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Create
Discover
Participate
Share
An Exemplar
• me.edu.au, the first public implementation of FusED
• Provides Australian education and training
professionals with an online networking and profile
space
• Use me.edu.au to:
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Create an online professional profile
Connect with educators who have similar interests
Share links, news, photos, ideas, opinions
Blog about your work and professional learning
Aggregate your online activity to showcase what you are
doing online
Let’s take a look…
What
people are
doing
Popular
communities
…about me
Link to my
blog
Some stuff
about me
Aggregated
list of my
activity on
the Web
My activity can be
anywhere on the
Web. It is all
aggregated by Fused
blogging
Blogs are an
important part of
a collaborative
learning
environment
In Fused you may
choose an
external one or
the one provided
Here’s an
external one
Here’s a
friend’s blog,
using the
inbuilt Fused
blog
blogging
collaboration
Finding
and
connecting
with
others is
key to
learning
Use Fused
to subscribe
to people
Communities
Create/join,
and contribute
to a community
of interest
Search
Find and connect
to people,
communities,
content etc
Share
Tag and
share
content
with friends
and
communities
Anything
you create
can be
exported
Import
your
bookmarks
/ tags
from
Delicious,
Diigo etc
Organise
your stuff
iFusED
• Did we say anywhere, anytime? Meet iFusED
Some important stuff
• Fused is built on standards:
– Those standards and specifications must be:
• Lightweight
• Easy to use
• Web 2.0 friendly
• Must integrate with other services
• All content created by users belongs to them
– Can import/export all their content at any time
• The Web is the platform
– Fused brings it all together for learning
So..why use Fused?
Lets’ see that again
Fused
• For more information on Fused please go to
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http://educationau.edu.au/fused