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Connecting formal and informal learning in HE through a mobile multimedia microblogging environment
Carmen Holotescu Gabriela Grosseck University Politehnica/ Timsoft West University
Timisoara, Romania
Social Mobile Networking for Informal Learning London, Nov, 21, 2011
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New trends in education What is microblogging?Overview of the microsphereCirip.eu – platform around
objects2.0(Mobile) Learning contexts on
Cirip.euFormalizing PLELearning from the streamLearning designs as meta-
objects – continuos learning for teachers
image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/atmosphear/
SOCIAL LEARNING becomes formal
RSS/blogs-2004, podcast–2005, vlog–2006, video–2007microblogging-2008-2011, augmented realitylocation based applications - 2010-2011
Web2.0 / social networks have great impact
in collaborative / social learning ( eLearning2.0 )
JESS3 Labs The Geosocial Universe 2.0Comparison between the total amount of registered users with the percentage of
people accessing the sites via mobile http://jess3.com/geosocial-universe-2
What is it? And why should I care?
Microblogging is a new form of blogging, with brief text updates of 140 characters, via Web, SMS, email, IM or 3rd party applications, which allows
real-time interactions between users.
Microblogging is a collaborative technologyphoto: http://media2.lelombrik.net/13501-14000/13845.jpg
Diagrammr at diagrammr.com/edit?key=dy4NKMc8XsZ embedded in the note at cirip.ro/status/1644841
Cirip.eu - a microblogging platform specially designed for education; launched in March, 2008, by Timsoft, a Romanian company specialized in
eLearning and mobile applications
Facilities Cirip.eu (1)
• public and private groups (courses, internal training, projects, events, internal communication, service, family, hobby, etc);• group communication via SMS• polls, quizzes – online or via SMS• feeds monitoring via SMS / sites / blogs / social networks / search feeds - jobs, weather, reactions)• statistics, visualizations, tags.
Cirip.eu TUTORIAL
Facilities Cirip.eu (2)
social network around multimedia objects
multimedia objects embedded in messages (part of the communication flow, created/recreated, openess to (small) OERs - Weller, Martin (2010)): - livestreaming,
On technological levelcreate, localize and join mobile groups access social media and open educational resources share opinionswork collaboratively on multimedia objectsparticipate in polls and quizzesreceive/send updates via SMScreate and manage mobile PLEs;recover password via SMS.
On pedagogical leveldevelop multimedia educational resources / learning objects by using mobile technologies specific for different subject areas, build mobile social learning environments engaging students in PBL, case studies, and collaborative projects capture and formally represent experience and new pedagogical approach as learning design objects - shared, discussed, validated, improved, and reused.
information and knowledge managementcourses enhancementdelivering entire online courseslearning from the streamcollaborative projects in universitiescommunities of practiceePortfoliossocial LMS.
Personal Learning Environments ( Networks ) - PLE/PLN
Educational uses
Users
Feeds
Social networks
Learning contexts on Cirip.eu
Materials:•announcements
•materials as LOM/SCORM objects
•multimedia messages
Course elements:
announcements
modules - LOM/SCORM objects
collaborative exercises
learning from the stream
multimedia messages
Cirip as a social network of
msLMS
polls/quiz/ comments via SMS (f2f)
validations - interactions with users/experts/
groups
Formalizing PLE on cirip.eu
Mindmap at http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show_public/29895908embedded in the note at http://www.cirip.ro/status/11937282
Continuos
Persistent
Relevant
Connecting / integrating
Mobile
Scalable
Open to OERs
Fiable
Distributed
Universal
Cirip.eu - social network of PLEs
cirip.ro/grup/plebcnLearning from the stream
time capsule with messages in 140 characters sent by participants, practitioners, teachers , trainers, students and others interested in PLE, from twitter, cirip, blogs, SNs
to constitute a framework for communication / sharing / learning in the PLE domain
to be a source of real-time information, connections with practitioners worldwide …
to offer access to all the group content, visualizations and statistics for future reflections
The aims of the group PLEBCN :
The first message in the group
Mar Camacho's Presentation Note http://www.cirip.ro/status/3161801
Students perspective on PLE http://cirip.ro/grup/siac10
cirip.ro/grup/ldsActivating in Learning Design group