dr sara de freitas university of oxford: 23rd march 2007
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the challenges of social collaboration on the internet. dr sara de freitas university of oxford: 23rd march 2007. background. based at the london knowledge lab lsrc fellowship l4all research project manager - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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the challenges of social collaboration on the internet
dr sara de freitas
university of oxford: 23rd march 2007
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background
based at the london knowledge lab lsrc fellowship l4all research project manager
consultant to the jisc innovation strand (technology enhanced learning environments)
serious games research innovatech llp
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summary
1. self-organised criticality
2. social networks
3. web 2.0
4. implications for education
5. what are the challenges for social collaboration on the internet?
6. conclusions
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1: self-organised criticality
per bak (1987) what is soc? ‘established solely because of dynamical
interactions among individual elements of the system’ (per bak, 1996:1-2)
soc is so ‘far the only known general mechanism to generate complexity’ (per bak, 1996:1-2)
tendency of large complex systems to be susceptible to ‘avalanches’/events of all sizes – no external factors
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Source: University of Michigan, 2004
Yeast proteins: Sergei Maslov and Kim Sneppen, Specificity and stability in topology of protein networks, Science 296, 910-913 (2002).
High school dating: Data drawn from Peter S. Bearman, James Moody, and Katherine Stovel, Chains of affection: The structure of adolescent romantic and sexual networks, American Journal of Sociology 110, 44-91 (2004).
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bill cheswick, lumeta corp (2004)
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2: growth of social networks
rapid growth of online social networks – for social and business needs (e.g. friendster, friends reunited, linkedin)
wider opportunities for social collaboration (e.g. collaborative book/article writing)
larger and more distributed social groups emerging (e.g. myspace/live chat)
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self-organised communications and tools
blogs wikis (wikipedia) tagging and social book marking (del.icio.us) multimedia sharing (youtube, flickr, bit torrent) audio blogging and podcasting (odeo) rss and syndication mmorpgs (fanzine communities)
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significant change agents globalisation
global vs local control strategies vs open access
the internet fast access to information increasing amounts of data (161 billion gigabytes in
2006) mass user generated content - quarter of all data is
original - IDC estimates that 70% of content by 2010 will be user generated
user participation (1 billion in 2006) social interactions
distributed social networks
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3: what is web 2.0?
link to: http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
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4: what now for learning?
what implications… for learning, assessment, accreditation? for the universities?
need for better alignment between: policy development institutional processes empowering the learner?
new learning/new learner? exploratory learning game-based learning social interactive learning
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future learning
visions of future learning:
towards what end?
towards what skills?
personalised learning environments?
immersive learning environments?
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personalised learning environments
(wilson et al., 2006)
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immersive learning environments
exploratory learning interactivity immersion
game-based learning alternate reality gaming mobile gaming
simulations ‘gamesims’
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5: what are the challenges for social collaboration on the internet?
plagiarism debate
‘cut and paste’ generation
description over analysis
different forms of assessment
self-organised criticality
highly complex systems (e.g. social networks) are vulnerable to small ‘events’
changing skills
multimodality
different relationship to one another and to information
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6: conclusions
considerable challenges of social collaboration for education for society
need for a new vision for learning immersive learning environments
need for greater alignment policy, institutional practice and the learner
new opportunities for learning user generated content
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links
learning in immersive worlds report:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/eli_outcomes.html.
lsrc report out soon
any feedback/comments to sara de freitas: [email protected]