the role of open educational resources in personal learning
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With major announcements in the world of open educational resources, such as the funding of college OERs announced in the U.S., or the creation of OER-University being supported by WikiEducator and the Commonwealth of Learning, as well as with the success of the OpenCourseWare consortium and other initiatives, attention is now turning to the development of OERs, the role that they play, and how the process should be managed. In this talk, I argue that rather than think of OERs as contenmt objects, containing knowledge and information intended for transfer to the student, OERs should be thought of as the raw material a learner works with through the practice of managing their own learning. More specifically, the role of open educational resources is to function as a vocabulary of multimedia ‘words’ with which learners converse with each other and with experts in the field. The main emphasis of this presentation was to speak of the role of OERs in the development of learning networks - these networks that are the characteristic result of conversations, and in which our academic and scientific communities are contained.TRANSCRIPT
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The Role of Open Educational Resources in Personal Learning
Stephen DownesNational Research
Council Canada29 March 2011
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The Argument in One Slide
• Learning and cognition happen in a network• Networks need to be open in order to function
http://www.clipcanvas.com/video-footage/gfx-graphics-neural-network-human-7728.html
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Openness?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJUDx7iEJw
• Freedom to run, to read, to share, to modify• Perspectives on freedom, as holder, as searcher
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Openness in Education
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxwtMXEhH0I
• Openness – standards, software, systems• Openness – educational resources, courses, assessment
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Open Standards
• Learning Object Metadata SCORM• Learning Design, Common Cartridge, Tools Interop
http://vimeo.com/17570724
http://www.imsglobal.org/metadata/http://ltsc.ieee.org/wg12/
http://www.adlnet.gov/
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Open Source Software
• Moodle• Sakai, Elgg, Atutor, LAMS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvCIv5KCbeE&fmt=22
http://moodle.org/
http://www.schoolforge.net/
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Open Educational Resources
• Projects: OCW, Khan, MERLOT• Licensing: GFDL; CC by, SA, NC, ND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw5k98GV7pohttp://www.oergrapevine.org/OER_projectshttp://wiki.oercommons.org/mediawiki/index.php/Projects
http://creativecommons.org/
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Sustainability Issues
• Models: Endowment, Membership, Donations… • Issues: Lock-in, high-bar, flooding, conversion
http://ijello.org/Volume3/IJKLOv3p029-044Downes.pdf
http://www.downes.ca/post/7804
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
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One thesis:
That new media constitute a vocabulary, and then when people create artifacts, they are, literally, “speaking in LOLcats”
It’s not just LOLCats, of course…http://www.flickr.com/photos/nobodyssweetheart/40898054 61
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What do you suppose this artist is saying?
Gaping Void
http://www.gapingvoid.com/ http://thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/26/50-viral-images-part-two/
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The Accidental Tourist…
9-11 Tourist Guy
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blphoto-wtc.htm
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Iconic…
Hindenberg Tourist Guy
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blphoto-wtc.htm
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Ironic…
Kanye Interrupts Tourist Guy
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blphoto-wtc.htm
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There are other languages…
The first thesis is to be taken literally
New media is a language
The artifacts are words
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/3827/virusbignl0.jpg
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Body language, for example…
http://forum.xcitefun.net/body-language-actions-do-speak-louder-than-words-t13371.html
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Clothing, uniforms, flags, drapes…
http://www.armystrongstories.com/blogAssets/wayne-wall/12%20JUN%20Arab%20Clothing.jpg
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Maps, diagrams, graphics…
http://www.armystrongstories.com/blogAssets/wayne-wall/12%20JUN%20Arab%20Clothing.jpg
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But more…
The same sort of thing underlies inference and belief
We understand the future in the same way we understand the past, by studying the signs - S. Downes http://www.downes.ca/post/20
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This means getting beyond narrow text-based conceptions we have of media
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Conceptions Like:
• messages have a sender and a receiver
• words get meaning from what they represent
• truth is based on the real world
• events have a cause, and causes can be known
• science is based on forming and testing hypotheses
These, taken together, constitute, a static, linear, coherent picture of the world
The world, as though it were a book, or a library
Not everyone sees it that way
This is the same issue facing old vs new depictions of OERs
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OERs as Language, not Content
• We have to stop treating online resources – including educational materials - as though they were ‘content’
• The people who actually use them have moved far beyond that
• These artifacts constitute a new language; they are (if you will) the words is a large, complex, post-linguistic vocabulary
• That’s why they need to be open
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A frame for understanding new mediaMorris, Derrida and a little Lao Tzu
Syntax Cognition
Semantics Context
Pragmatics Change
We need this frame because if we aren’t looking for these things, we just won’t see them.
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Syntax
Forms: archetypes? Platonic ideals?Rules: grammar = logical syntaxOperations: procedures, motor skillsPatterns: regularities, substitutivity (eggcorns, tropes)Similarities: Tversky - properties, etc
Not just rules and grammar
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Semantics
- Sense and reference (connotation and denotation)- Interpretation (Eg. In probability, Carnap - logical space; Reichenbach - frequency; Ramsey - wagering / strength of belief)- Forms of association: Hebbian, contiguity, back-prop, Boltzmann - Decisions and decision theory: voting / consensus / emergence
theories of truth / meaning / purpose / goal
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/csnotes/fall02/semantics.gif
Semantics
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Pragmatics
• Speech acts (J.L. Austin, Searle) assertives, directives, commissives, expressives, declarations (but also - harmful acts, harassment, etc)• Interrogation (Heidegger) and presupposition• Meaning (Wittgenstein - meaning is use)
use, actions, impact
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Cognition
• description - X (definite description, allegory, metaphor)• definition - X is Y (ostensive, lexical, logical (necess. & suff conds), family resemblance - but also, identity, personal identity, etc• argument - X therefore Y - inductive, deductive, abductive (but also: modal, probability (Bayesian), deontic (obligations), doxastic (belief), etc.)• explanation - X because of Y (causal, statistical, chaotic/emergent)
reasoning, inference and explanation
http://www.mkbergman.com/category/description-logics/
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Context
- explanation (Hanson, van Fraassen, Heidegger)- meaning (Quine); tense - range of possibilities- vocabulary (Derrida); ontologies, logical space- Frames (Lakoff) and worldviews
placement, environment
http://www.occasionbasedmarketing.com/what-it-is
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Change
- relation and connection: I Ching, logical relation- flow: Hegel - historicity, directionality; McLuhan - 4 things- progression / logic -- games, for example: quiz&points, branch-and-tree, database- scheduling - timetabling - events; activity theory / LaaN
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21st Century Skills Languages
The ‘skills’ described by Jenkins – performance, simulation, appropriation, etc - are actually languages and should be understood in terms of these six dimensions
http://spotlight.macfound.org/btr/entry/new_media_literacies/
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21st Century Languages
Languages
Elements
Performance Simulation Appropriation
Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics
Cognition
Context
Change
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Example: Performance - Syntax Languages
Elements
Performance (the ability to adopt alternative identities for
the purpose of improvisation and discovery)(subcategories?)
Syntax:- Forms- Rules- Operations- Patterns- Similarities
- Presentation acting, method acting- “Know your lines” etc http://filmtvcareers.about.com/od/gettingthejob/a/GJ_Actor_Tips.htm
- Stanislavski’s system (etc…) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislavski%27s_system
- Ritual Performance (etc.) http://www.let.rug.nl/koster/papers/JHP.Koster2.Edit.pdf
- Comparing Tales (etc.) http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2343/
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A third thesis:
Fluency in these languages constitutes “21st century learning”
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• Autonomy – each node is self-governing• Diversity – nodes encouraged to have varying states• Openness – unhindered movement of signals, nodes• Interactivity – knowledge and learning are emergent
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4126240905912531540#
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Open Courses
• MOOC: Massive Open Online Course• Network Design, Community Based
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc
http://cck11.mooc.ca/
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• Aggregate – gather resources from wherever they may be
• Remix – mash up, put together, join• Repurpose – localize, adapt, mark up, tag, review, lip dub• Feed forward – as video, slides, graphics, text
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPEuu5mpC4s
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• Big Data, Web of Data, Semantic Web, RSS, Geo, FOAF…• Mash-ups, APIs, the Cloud, Social Network
The Open Learning Ecosystem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLL6x_TNMSo
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• http://www.downes.ca • Free Learning
Stephen Downes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0iI0pgTUx0