Apr 24

Written by: James Burke
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Clive’s presentation is available at:

• http://www.fastrak-consulting.co.uk/sowhat/player.html

The presentation has been produced by articulate (http://www.articulateglobal.com/) that is quite an impressive Windows application that produces Flash based presentations (including export to SCORM 2004)

I have viewed Web 2.0 applications as having 3 main themes:

• Software As A Service (SAAS)
  • API’s and Mashups
• Fragmented content
  • Everybody having the potential and becoming content publishers
• Social Networking
  • Communities developing around content

Current learning paradigms can be viewed as:

• Online self study
• Using the Internet as a collaboration channel for facilitated distance Learning
• Using the Internet for the delivery of short live online events and
• “Learners” doing it for themselves – googling…

Web 2.0 has seen rise to what I call the 4 C’s of Learning Community:

• Content
• Community
• Collaboration and
• Context

eLearning 1.0 is traditionally about:

• Content
• Delivery and Support of Content - VLE and
• System Management – MLE

There are quite a few limitations to this approach when applied to personalised learning.

Blended learning, in current usage terms, is about blending the best, and the most appropriate, online and offline teaching and learning methods.

Blended learning when combined with Web 2.0 / multi channel learning techniques, processes and tools is providing the foundation for eLearning 2.0.

A JISC project of note in this area is EMERGE:

• http://emerge.elgg.org/about.php

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