Approaching Integration
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This document discusses integrating user-owned technology into learning spaces and the benefits of doing so. It suggests leveraging technologies students already use like mobile phones, providing network access, and not banning useful tools like Google and Wikipedia. It also discusses using standards like Shibboleth and OpenID to expose institutional systems and allowing data portability. Building a "social stack" is proposed to help students organize information using personal tools, collaborate in groups, share on blogs and networks, and access internal and external feeds. The goal is to engage student technology and find common ground between educational institutions and the open web.
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Approaching Integration
- 1. Approaching Integration Miles Metcalfe
- 2. User-owned/User-used • Users own technology • Users use technology • Mobile phone • Facebook • Personal computer • Blogger • Music player • iTunes Music Store • PDA... how many • Amazon students do you see with one of those? • E-Bay
- 3. • Personalisation • Preferences • Choice • Investment of time • Better equipment • Better tools
- 4. Learning spaces • Laptop-friendly - plenty of power sockets • Network access is a given • Don’t be a mobile phone nazi • Leverage the technology • Involve learners in learning space design
- 5. Play well with others • Shibboleth? • Or OpenID? • IMS-Enterprise • Or Microformats?
- 6. Data-portability • http://dataportability.org/ • We are not alone • There is common ground between institutions and the extra-institutional web • Invent nothing
- 7. The VLE is not a silo • Expose institutional systems through standards-based conduits • Provide semantic sugar — microformats, RDFa • Syndicate what is useful
- 8. Build the scaffolding • Don’t start by banning Google and Wikipedia • Find ways to engage user-owned technology: • Back-channels • Mobile phone voting
- 9. Easily confused • TheirSpace • The technology is powerful, its application is infantile • Your Tools • Learners may not have heard of a desktop RSS aggregator
- 10. A “social stack” Personal Tools Organise your quot;stuffquot; - by tags, in a personal portal, with desktop tools (example: a desktop blog editor, an RSS reader, an iCal client). A personal learning environment. Group Collaboration Knowledge: groups/teams integrate knowledge in wikis and similar group systems. Blogs and Networks Some items shared within a personal network and discussed. Attention becomes interest. Social Signals Attention: store, share, tag and classify items of interest, links, resources. Feeds and Flows Internal and external RSS feeds - persisted searches, sites of interest, people of interest, from a VLE. The Headshift Social Stack After a model developed by http://www.headshift.com/
- 11. Some benefits • Extra-institutional resources • Extra-institutional communities of practice • Competencies recognised