Emerging Platforms in Distance Education

Juliann GarzaAna Vanessa Serrano

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9JJ_Luhvr4

Shift Happens

Technology Development•Devices are smaller and more powerful with increased functionality and portability• 1989 the magical year of the world wide web• 1996 the Advent of Internet 2.0• Conversion to a Digital backpack

Foundations of Educational Platforms• Learning Management System (LMS)

• 1st & 2nd Generation • Future Evolutions: custom needs and interoperability

• Learning Content Management System (LCMS)• Synchronous & Asynchronous: communication classifications• eLearning• eLearning 2.0 & Web 2.0

Principal Functions of Distance Education Platforms

5 principal functions:• Flexibility• Communication• Information sharing• Information access• Co-Operation

The 5 Categories of Web 2.0

• Communicative• Collaborative publishing•Documentative•Generative• Interactive

eLearning &Web 2.0

Social Networking• Blog•Wiki• Podcast• Twitter•Geotagging

What Today’s Students Want• Do not want to be lectured to.• They want to be respected, trusted and have their

opinions valued and counted.• They want to follow their interests and passions.• They want to create, using tools of their time.• They want to make decisions and share control• They want to cooperate and compete with each other. • They want an education that is not just relevant, but real.

(Prensky, M. 2010)

Partnering Pedagogy• Enhance participatory, collaborative, multimodal, democratic, and distributive approaches

Teacher StudentDoesn’t tell, asks! Doesn’t take notes, finds

out!Suggests topics and tools Researches and creates

outputSupplies context Produces output, adding

rigor, context and quality.