6. Personal Online Learning Networks
Learning is lifelong. Online learning facilitates lifelong learning in ways not possible even three years ago. With two billion people online; a host of open resources; and a rapidly growing online specialized and continuing education segment, the sky is the limit. University of Illinois Springfield Center for Online Learning, Research and Service Associate Director Shari Smith leads this week's discussion of ways in which personal online learning networks are changing the world and how we learn!
Live presentation
On Thursday, August 4, at 2:00 pm Eastern, 1:00 pm Central, noon Mountain; 11:00 am Pacific time in the U.S. - 7:00 pm London time, we will host a live Web conference on the weekly topic. We plan to provide hundreds of streams of the "live" Thursday sessions in both flash format and non-flash (mobile) format so that participants can view the panels. A Twitter back channel will also be encouraged for ongoing discussion of the panel. The hour-long conversation will be recorded and the URL for the recording will be made available the following day, August 5.
Joining us for the live session will be:
Shari Smith, Moderator, Associate Director, Center for Online Learning, Research and Service, University of Illinois Springfield
George Siemens, Founder and President of Complexive Systems Inc., Athabasca University
George Siemens is a strategist and researcher at the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute at Athabasca University. Formerly, he was the Associate Director, R & D, Learning Technologies Centre at University of Manitoba. He is the founder Complexive Systems Inc., an research and learning lab focused on assisting organizations develop approaches to meet the needs of changing learners, employees, and global education and business environments. Siemens has keynoted and presented at national and international conferences. His publications and personal blogs can be accessed at www.elearnspace.org and www.connectivism.ca.
Jason Rhode, Assistant Director, Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center, Northern Illinois University
Jason Rhode is an experienced instructor, instructional designer, course developer, and program director with over a decade of experience in the field of online learning. He serves as the Assistant Director of the Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center at Northern Illinois University where he is responsible for developing and offering training programs and support for faculty and staff on teaching with technology and related topics, providing leadership on technology-related issues, and performing supervisory functions at the Center. He designs and teaches online and blended courses in instructional design and educational technology and enjoys sharing his expertise designing and teaching online and with others. More details and links to connect with Jason are at niu.edu/jrhode.
Nancy Rubin, Product Education Specialist, Learning Objects
Nancy Rubin is an experienced educator, trainer, and social learning practitioner, with over 10 years of experience in the field of eLearning.An early adopter of Web 2.0 applications, Dr. Rubin has incorporated social media in her own teaching and learning, and has conducted numerous trainings and workshops on social software for learning.Dr. Rubin works with Learning Objects’, a company specializing in social learning applications for teaching and learning, as an educational technology strategist. Her twitter name is @nancyrubin. Dr. Rubin often writes about Personal Learning in her blog, Objects of Interest.
Live Sessions
Slides from the Live Session: http://goo.gl/Cxl9p
Live panel discussion sessions will be held each Thursday at 2:00 pm eastern daylight, 1:00 pm central daylight, noon mountain daylight, 11:00 am pacific daylight and 7:00 pm London time. They may be viewed live online at:
http://www.uis.edu/technology/live/edumooc.html
Your screen will look like this:
The audio of the panel and slides will appear on the left of the screen
For this session, we will be using the Twitter hashtag #edumooc6. The #edumooc6 twitter back channel feed will appear center screen
A Twitter compose gadget will appear on the right for those with Twitter accounts to upload tweets
The session will be recorded and be made available online for those who wish to view later.
Resources
You are encouraged to visit these resources as we examine the topic of the week. Our weekly lists are not comprehensive, but rather they are a sampling of the range of resources available for each weekly topic. All of the sites we list are open; that is, they do not require paid subscriptions. Please take advantage of your eduMOOC Google Group to discuss these sites and recommend additions.
Blogs and Wikis
- George Siemens ElearnSpace http://www.elearnspace.org/blog
- George Siemens http://www.connectivism.ca
- Stephen Downes Online Learning Daily http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm
- Jay Cross Informal Learning http://www.informl.com
- Brent MacKinnon Social Media Tools for Work and Learning http://www.socialmediatools.ca
- Stephen Downes Free Learning http://www.downes.ca/freelearning.htm
- David Truss http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com
- EduBloggerCon http://www.edubloggercon.com
- Ted Curran http://www.tedcurran.net
- e-Literate by Michael Feldstein
Blog Posts
- Kathleen Morris - Using Twitter to Build Your PLN
Podcasts and Video
- What if Students built the LMS? Penn State Learning Design Community Hub
- Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! TED Talks Filmed Feb 2010
Sites
- Coursekit http://www.coursekit.com
- elgg. social networking engine http://www.elgg.org
- Comparison of social networking engines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_social_networking_software
- Building a PLN by Michelle Bourgeois http://sites.google.com/site/buildingapln
- History of Personal Learning Environments From Wikipedia
- Cultivate Your Personal Learning Network by Ted Curran http://www.tedcurran.net/2011/05/cultivate-your-personal-learning-network
- Using Twitter for Teaching, Learning and Professional Development in Higher Education http://sites.google.com/site/twitterinedu
Ezines, Journals and Articles
- Stanford Students Start Their Own Course-Management Web Site, by Ben Wieder, April 8, 2011
- Journal of Online Learning and Technology (JOLT) by Merlot http://jolt.merlot.org/
- The Evolving LMS Market, Part I by Michael Feldstein, posted December 21, 2010
- The Evolving LMS Market, Part II by Michael Feldstein, posted December 22, 2010
- Wharton Start-Up, Coursekit, Wants to Replace Blackboard by Peter Cohan, May 23, 2011
- 7 Things You Should Know About ...LMS Alternatives Educause, July 2010
- First Monday http://firstmonday.org/
- O'Hear Steve, e-Learning 2.0 - how Web Technologies are shaping education, ReadWriteWeb August 8, 2006
- O'Hear, Steve Elgg - social network software for education, ReadWriteWeb August 11, 2006
- Bryk,Anthony S., Gomez, Louis M. and Alicia Grunow (2011) Getting Ideas into Action: Building Networked Improvement Communities in Education Carnegie Foundation
- Bueschel, A. C., "Listening to Students About Learning" Strengthening Pre-Collegiate Education in Community Colleges (SPECC). Standford, Calif;: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2008.
- Dobson, T. and John Willinsky (2009). Digital Literacy. I D. Olson and N. Torrance (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook on Literacy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Beyond Student Perceptions: Issues of Interaction, Presence, and Performance in an Online Course, Anthony G. Picciano July 2002
- Mohamed Amine Chatti (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Mohammad Ridwan Agustiawan (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Matthias Jarke (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), and Marcus Specht (Open University, Netherlands) Towards a Personal Learning Environment Framework, 2010.
- "Think Tank: Flip-thinking - the new buzz word sweeping the US" The Telegraph June 17, 2011
- 52 ideas on using social media within HR by Michael Specht
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