Janine’s blog

The latest Australian Flexible Learning framework online event kicked off today. Whilst the site requires login, a public facing e-Show nTell blog  is also happening. I believe a recording will be available and I look forward to that.

e-learning with an emphasis on learning – Ron Oliver

 I was unable to attend Ron Oliver’s opening keynote but the slides are available on the event blog together with some screenshots (1 and 2) of the audience interaction. I really like his 3 circles description of learning design – the intersection of

• learning tasks
• learning resources
• learning supports

Naturally each of these is a deep study in itself and he goes into exploration of each. 

[As posted to ict-learning email discussion list 30-Sep-07 http://lyris.education.tas.gov.au:8080/read/messages?id=39489]

I have just finished listening to a presentation titled  Can MOODLE become more SUPPLE? from the New Zealand Moodle Moot which finished yesterday (mentioned on Stephen Downes’ OLDaily e-newsletter).

The presentation discusses the need for traditional LMS/VLE systems (which are essentially Web 1.0 technologies) to move on and embrace Web 2.0 and thus morph into PLEs – Personalised Learning Environments. The presenter makes a case for Moodle being ahead of the game in this regard because of its open philosophy. Regardless of your views in the LMS wars, the discussion about learning design and how educational thinking needs to move on so that student use of web 2.0 is acknowledged and made use of, is great food for thought. The presentation is in Slideshare so you see the slides and hear the audio.

Moodlemoot website is at http://www.elearning.org.nz/ One of the most interesting slides in the presentation is one taken from another place. It shows a future possibility where educational organisations focus on providing the infrastructure and tools to collect learning evidence from whatever sources the student chooses to use.  See visual representation of this

Some postings on oz-teachers this week included recommended links to people keeping their finger on the pulse and thinking deeply about the use of Web 2.0 tools in education.

• Jane Hart maintains a directory at the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies and a personal blog
• Richard McManus’ Read/Write Web blog
  

and following on from their popular presentations on Web 2.0 at ACEC2006:

• Kathy Schrock’s Shedding Light on Web 2.0 site includes recent presentations.
• Ken Price’s Web 2.0 and education: best friends or worst enemies presentation