Future Learning Landscape Introduction

Future Learning Landscape Workshop - EC-TEL 2009 1

Future Learning Landscapes

Towards the Convergence of Pervasive and Contextual computing, Global Social Media and Semantic Web in Technology Enhanced

Learning

Yvan Peter – Université Lille 1Serge Garlatti – Telecom Bretagne


Multiple innovations

A number of technologies and uses are emerging and developing Mobile & pervasive learning Web 2.0 Semantic web

What about convergence ?


Setting the stage


Mobile learning Developing theory

Conversation theory, use of activity theory…

Emerging frameworks For software architecture & design

Context management To drive adaptation and the learning

situation


Challenge

Level of embeddedness

Level of mobility

Pervasive computing

Traditional computing

Ubiquitous computing

Mobile computing

HighLow

Low

High


Challenge From mobile to

pervasive/ubiquitous learning A seamless environment to keep

learning across context An easy and meaningful interaction

with the environment A localised accumulation of

knowledge and efficient retrieval according to the learner’s needs


Web 2.0


Web 2.0


Web 2.0 - features Switching from a traditional

publishing model to individual contributions Easy publishing (AJAX, blogs, wiki) Multiple media : text, photo, video

Leveraging collective intelligence Social bookmarking, tags & folksonomies

The web as a platform Everything through your browser


Web 2.0 - features The “long tail”

On any topic you could find a critical mass of people to contribute

Composability Open APIs, open formats, REST style

communication Enable mashups: data, services

Push model for information No more need to check every web site for

changes RSS & ATOM feeds


Types of applications

Blogs Personal publication + comments Linking facilities at the level of

information & people For education

Reflection, diary, assignment publishing Course information & follow up

(answering questions…)



Wikis Collaborative writing & content

organisation For education

Supporting group and project work Annotated reading list Practicing writing skills


Types of applications Social bookmarking

Keep reference of interesting material Organising information with tags Taking benefit from worthy resources found

by the others For education

Organisation of a corpus of useful references (reading list)

Supporting group gathering of information on a subject



Media-sharing facilities Sharing photos, videos,

presentations, recordings… For education

images & videos can be provided Annotation on the images or video can

support specific explanations



Social networking Keeping in touch with relations,

forming and supporting communities For education

Course animation outside the class



Syndication & notifications Easy notification of updates,

automatic media distribution (podcast episodes)

For education A way to keep an eye on learners’

progress A way to distribute course content

automatically


Emerging paradigm Personal Learning Environment

Learner led learning environment Built by the learner for a specific &

personal learning goal Mashing up the services that will support

best the goal No institutional lead or control

It is not technology but Web 2.0 technology enabled this and supports it.


Challenge How to combine the management of the

learning and freedom of support services? The teacher needs to be able to “deploy”

his/her learning design Learners may choose their personal

environments & services and must be directed in their activities

The teacher has to keep an eye on what is going on and to provide directions


Semantic Web


Semantic Web The Semantic Web isn't just about putting data

on the web. It is about making links, so that a person or machine can explore the web of data.

With linked data, when you have some of it, you can find other, related, data through a network of RDF triples.

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Semantic Web

Linked Data: Published data according to standards

RDF / RDFS / OWL SPARQL Access Point

Query language + Access protocol

The Web will be

a Tremendous Global Database


Challenge

A global, distributed and open architecture perspective Composed of social web

environments, institutional learning environments and personal learning environments exposing, sharing, and connecting data on the Web.


Challenge

It will be possible To reuse, analyze and manage

content across web application sources,

To monitor and analyze user activities and content production, to get user traces and to provide guidance and advices according to user activities and needs.


Challenge

Combination of all these resources and techniques allow getting contextual data from web environments and sensors


Convergence at last…


Imagine A natural interaction with

knowledge Related to the environment & across

all environments (class, home…) Mixing personal choice of environment

& institutional view on the learning objectives & process

Enabling the learners & teachers to follow up the activities across services & environments

Future Learning Landscape Introduction

Education

mobile learning

mobile pervasive learning

semantic web

pervasiveubiquitous

learning situation

web site

types of applications

education organisation