Evolving A Personalized Learning Sphere:

Synergy of People, Pedagogy and Content

September 10, 2011 Maria James Visuvasam
BIIT, BICS InfoTech, Yelagiri Hills

Presentation Scope
Decision Pointers for ICT Strategy Establishing Technology-enabled Learning Sphere Setting up Organization-wide Educational Content Repository (ECR)

Few suggestions for Quality Education

Learning Sphere
Sphere

of Knowledge

Unified body or collection of knowledge regarding a specific subject, interest or otherwise area of expertise possessed by an individual

It is much more Spheres of Co-existence (Peter Sloterdijk)

Students, Teachers & Education Provider - Agents of Shared Knowledge

Synergy of Technologies & Practices

Information Architecture, Content and Social Technologies

People

People

Content

Pedagogy

Content

Context

Refraction of Learning Sphere

People Learning Community
Pedagogy Knowledge Reciprocity between Teacher and Learner

Content Technology-augmented content

Factors for Learning Sphere

1. Learning Community in Social Networking
2. Versatile Learning Content Repository 3. Context as time-tested pedagogy

4. Technology Injections, adaption, integration and

stabilization

5. Prime Objective Better Learning Experience

6. Establishment of Standardization Body (eg. W3C, IEEE LTSC, IMS, Dublin Core, Ariadne, ALIC)

Learning Community in Social Networking

Class blogs (teacher's off hour class notes) Class Wikis (collaborative student project) Mobile apps (tweets, social update) Interactive Whiteboards Digital Games (making complex problems simple) Podcasts (for Lecture) Portable DVD Players (useful course-based videos) Video Conferencing using VOIP (connected learning community) Web-based 3D world (Second Life: virtual world)

Learning Content Repository

OpenCourseWare (MIT) SLOOP Project Repository of Free Learning Objects www.sloopproject.eu OER (Open Educational Resources) Initiatives of India NROC (National Repository of Online Courses) www.montereyinstitute.org/nroc
Out of the Box Solutions Deploy Enterprise Content Management Systems (e.g. SharePoint, Alfresco) Transform Libraries into Content Repository for Granularity and Reusabilty of learning content

IA for Education: Contextual Pedagogy

Drilled-down Ladder for Learning
1.

Content

2.

Collaboration Competence Experience Knowledge Wisdom

3.

4.

5.

6.

Correlations of Framework

The Elements of User Experience Surface - WYSISYG Skeleton the wireframe Structure underlying scheme Scope Strategy

BLOOMS TAXONOMY

Learning

Learning Domain

Comprehension Cognitive Application Analysis Synthesis Knowledge Affective Psychomotor

Technology Injection
OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) IT for poor children
Social Networking for Education (Discovery, Ning, Scitable and whole lot plethora of webwares)

Learning Management Systems Blackboard, Moodle, Claroline, Atutor, SAKAI Project

Adoption of EduTech standards: IMS, IEEE LTSC, ARIADNE, ALIC National Level Common Specification for TLE

M-Learning
The next most feasible and practical step towards connected learning community: Just-in-time learning Ubiquitous dissemination Anywhere, anytime learning service Cost effective Secure and interoperable

Instructional Design
RECOURSE: http://tencompetence-project.bolton.ac.uk Successor to RELOAD, Authoring tool for the creation of IMS Learning Designs, created as an Eclipse-based Rich Client Platform (RCP) desktop application
eLML: www.elml.org eLML is an open source XML framework for creating eLesson using XML.

General Knowledge Base: www.generalkb.com Personal and Group Knowledgebase

Player in Learning Sphere

STUDENT is PROSUMER, not receiver of knowledge Learning Experience is User Experience

Assistive learning scenarios (Instructor-lead learning, Blended Learning)

Self-learning scenarios (eLearning)
choice and selection of content collaborative learning methodology constructing ones personal learning path

Recommendation for Future of Learning

Inclusion of IT Ethics in Curriculum
Insertion of Internship in or after K-12 before Higher Edu. Institution of Compulsory Residential K-12 Education

Education of teachers in social learning methodology Standardization of educational services

SOME THANK YOU THOUGHTS

Student = User Learning Experience = User experience
In Learning Sphere Student = is King Teacher = is Knowledge enabler Content = is what Translated into knowledge Technology = is Workhorse