Online Educa 2008
Keynote, December 4, 2008
Harold Elletson
2064 registered delegates from 91 countries
- Sweden 76
- Finland 79
- Spain 88
- Poland 90
- Norway 149
- Netherlands 237
- UK 247
- German 291
Optimism is here, a small bright light in a world dark with the credit crunch and Mumbai terrorism.
Joseph Pierre Ndiaye, Sengal. Senegal is host country for eLearning Africa this year. Permanent secretary to the minister of education. Il parle en Français. Il lit son papier. Alors, pas de spontanéité.
How can a wi-fi net be soooooo slow? It takes me five minutes to make a tweet.
Michael Wesch. “The explainer.”
- Ubiquitous networks
Ubiquitous computing
Ubiquitous information
At unlimited speeds
About everything
Everywhere
From anywhere
On all kinds of devices
$12.79 to produce a SuperBowl commercial, $2,600,000 to broadcast it.
Michael plays The Machine Is Using Us in double time. When he uploaded it, two days later, there were 253 views on YouTube. Digg picked it up. Two days later, more than 1000 had viewed the video. (For an academic, this was amazing! Michael took screenshots.)
You are not going to turn passive consumers into active participants on the internet. (ABC chief) YouTube is growing at 10,000 videos a day. > old media
- User-generated content (YouTube)
User-generated filters (Digg)
User-generated organization (Delicious)
User-generated distribution
User-generated commentary (blogs)
User-generated ratings (Technorati)
= a new user-generated mediascape
= a social revolution
Papua New Guinea
subsistence based
eat snakes, spiders
no identity: unmediated
How many like school? Almost no one
How many like learning? More than half
teaching has not changed; learning has changed
Norbert Bolz, celebrity professor. From knowledge management to identity management.
- Serious play. Paradise of work. Communication and mobility. Communication is fun. Work time converging with free time (at least for successful people).
Self design. Brand You. Ego casting.
Identity management. Social wealth.
Attention management. Knowing more and more about less and less. Ignorance. Takes trust.
Linking value. Surplus value of the 21st century. Strength of weak ties. (Strong ties are not communication-rich.)
Michael Wesch is an impossible act to follow. Nonetheless, listening to Bolz repeat other people’s ideas, professor-style, is a jarring difference.
Roger Larsen, of Fronter, is promoting open-source collaboration tools. Fronter is async and uses Elluminate for sync. Fronter is an LMS, CMS, eportfolio, admin, and collaboration. Roger talks of open source as a concept but sells a closed system.
Operating system for learning.
- authentication
- integrate and launch apps
- store and manage files
- personalize
- secure area as well as open
’98 LMS. ’03 MLE = managed learning environment, 05 Personal Learning Environment, 08 CWE Collaborative Working Environment
“I’m not going online here…” (Last time Roger was on the big stage, his net connection famously crashed.)
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