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Sensemaking & SocialLearn…in 5 mins

Simon Buckingham Shum

Knowledge Media Institute, Open U, Milton Keynes, UK

Open U: http://www.open.ac.uk/about

SocialLearn: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/sociallearn

Me: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/sbs

Social Computing Symposium, Redmond, Oct. 2008

Licensed under Creative Commons

Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 License

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Sensemaking

“Sensemaking is about such things as

placement of items into frameworks,

comprehending, redressing surprise,

constructing meaning, interacting in pursuit

of mutual understanding, and patterning.”

Karl Weick, 1995, p.6

Sensemaking in Organizations

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In sensemaking communities

Ideas and ways to arguetruth/plausibility are offirst order importance

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In sensemaking communities

Ideas and ways to arguetruth/plausibility are offirst order importance

Representationsexternalise anddistribute cognition,mediate discourse,negotiate boundaries

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In sensemaking communities

Ideas and ways to arguetruth/plausibility are offirst order importance

Representationsexternalise anddistribute cognition,mediate discourse,negotiate boundaries

Arguably, social computing forsensemaking will make it easy to shareand annotate representations andoverlay conceptual and social networks

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Ideas as embeddable social objects,overlayed on a social network

http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/sbs/2008/10/science-web2-social-notworking

cohereweb.net

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SocialLearnis one tool in

cohereweb.net

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What does a University look like as aWhat does a University look like as a

disaggregated, interoperabledisaggregated, interoperable suite of suite of

learning serviceslearning services integrated via an integrated via an

open web platformopen web platform competing in a competing in a

online marketplaceonline marketplace??

Why SocialLearn?

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The Digital Commons: you are what youshare. Open Educ. Resources movement.

Why SocialLearn?

How to make it sustainable?

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dudu??

Why SocialLearn?

An online marketplace brokering learners, mentors and providers?

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Learner-centric environment

Personalised, mobile

instruction and

information feeds

Personalised

resource archivesLearner-selected

learning mentors

Learner-selected

peer support network

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The Social Learner…! Connected via the SocialLearn API, they could smoothly

exchange important learner-centric data

API

API

API

API

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Web Dashboard [Contacts + Stream]

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From 30,000 feet…

SocialLearn

server

and Website

• Identity

• Portfolio

• Activity History

• Social Network

2Learner

manage your

learning goals

Micro

Learner

micro-blog your

thoughts,

learning goals

and resources

Coherecohereweb.net

manage connections

between learning

goals/resources/ideas

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Social computing pedagogy?…

learning conversations

learning design patterns

learning exchanges

learning paths

learning relationships

learning architectures forparticipation

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Business scenarios

B2C“Facebook for Learning”

“Life/Learning Coach”“eduBay”

B2BCorporate CPD

HEIsPublishers

OUX Extension of currentOpen U services

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Acknowledgements

http://flickr.com/photos/thefangmonster/352439602/sizes/s/

http://cohere.open.ac.uk

http://flickr.com/photos/luc/1824234195/sizes/s/

http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/

http://kosmar.de/archives/2005/11/11/the-huge-cloud-lens-bubble-map-web20/

http://web-2-0.gemzies.com/show/entry_3402/RSS_logo.html?tag=1554