April 27, 2008
PLEs, e-portfolios and communities
Posted by oskarcasquero under architecture, eportfolio, ideas, reflections, social[3] Comments
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Posted in Gabinete de Informática on 2008/04/24
April 27, 2008
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Posted in Gabinete de Informática on 2008/04/24
April 27, 2008
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April 27, 2008
The PLE. With a PLE, the user seeks to manage all the information he is confronted with - all the knowledge on the internet, in fact. Given the vast amount of data out there (of varying degrees of reliability) the individual has to develop the skill of being able to find and manage the right stuff. This is the central issue for a PLE. I agree wholeheartedly that the PLE is a necessary development and his approach is highly effective, if still somewhat ad hoc.
The PLS. Our focus is very different. Rather than trying to manage all the knowledge an individual might wish to manage, we start from a specific content area and build a ready-made learning system arto help him manage that. The user accesses the PLS as essentially a complete solution to a specific problem rather than an ad hoc kit. Our solution includes:
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Posted in Learning about Learning on 2008/04/27
March 31, 2008
March 25, 2008
Vía Ramón Ovelar
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No sé muy bien de dónde llega este esquema porque el post habla de otro post donde se centran en la posibilidad de convertir cursos de OpenCourseware en items de feeds RSS (muy en la línea de lo que contaba Pernías en el taller del curso de Alcalá). En cualquier caso, Downes recupera, a colación de este tema, un esquema de PLE. Unos días más tarde otro post de Downes enlaza con una entrada al blog de Tony Karrer donde hace un listado de las funciones de un PLE.
March 18, 2008
March 10, 2008
Algunas características de OpenOffice 3:
¿No recuerda un poco a openoffice como pieza central de un entorno hiperconectado, de la misma forma que nuestro editor xhtml es el núcleo en el que editar y crear los contenidos que se difunden desde el PLE?
March 5, 2008
Los servicios sociales que más éxito han tenido y más han perdurado en el tiempo (delicious, Flickr y YouTube) tienen en común que a la prestación de un servicio interesante en sí mismo para el usuario final (gestión de enlaces favoritos, fotos y vídeos almacenados en un servidor) aúnan la gestión inteligente de información común a grupos de usuarios. Por ejemplo, el primer impulso para acudir a YouTube no es conocer a otras personas con las que formar una red social, sino que se usa porque es la mejor forma de almacenar, compartir (en principio con mis amigos) y encontrar videos interesantes. Tras convertirse en un usuario, es cuando uno descubre además otros valores añadidos del uso de una aplicación de red social.
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What I found interesting and I disagreed with was the statement that:
The essential ingredient of next generation social networking, social operating systems, is that they will base the organization of the network around people, rather than around content.
First, I don’t necessarily consider the social operating system to be “next generation social networking” – rather it’s a layer that allows us to have transportable information between all the places that knows about our information. Social networking sits on top of this and provides interfaces that allow us to interact.
Second, I don’t agree that next generation social networking will be based around people rather than around content. My personal experience is that content and social networks are intertwined. Blogs are both content and a social network. There is a social network around del.icio.us, YouTube, Flickr, etc. I’m much more likely to form and keep a social network when there is common interest in some form of content. And as we see more and more niche networks forming – they will almost invariably form around content. In fact, the Social Operating System will make it more likely that common interest and content will be the tie that binds.
Posted in eLearning Technology on 2008/02/04
March 3, 2008
The concept of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) exists, but actual PLEs only exist as theoretical combinations of skills, methods and tools. The concept of a Personal Learning Environment Framework gets it even farther from some actual system.
There will be Social Network Operating Systems that will allow us to pull together our highly personal environments. In the 2008 Horizon Report, they discuss various technology trends including. Their comments around Social Operating Systems is interesting:
The issue, and what social operating systems will resolve, is that today’s tools do not recognize the “social graph”—the network of relationships a person has, independent of any given networking system or address book; the people one actually knows, is related to, or works with. At the same time, credible information about your social graph is embedded all over the web: in the carbon-copy fields of your emails; in attendee lists from conferences you attend; in tagged Flickr photos of you with people you know; in your comments on their blog posts; and in jointly authored papers and presentations published online.
Certainly, what we are seeing with OpenSocial and DataPortability represents a possible future state where we can avoid some of this issue. If we could focus on building our “destination” on top of a set of open protocols that provide us with the social graph for users but that allows us to control our destiny, I believe that’s the right model in most cases. It reduces friction for end-users and still gives us the leverage you want.
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Posted in eLearning Technology on 2008/02/04
March 3, 2008
Cuando hablamos de aprendizaje, la percepción general es la correspondiente a cursos reglados, es decir, aprendizaje formal. No obstante, el proceso de aprendizaje a lo largo de su vida consta de otros muchos elementos en los que el individuo aprende de manera autónoma (reflexión, prueba y error, cursos no tutorizados) y social (pero no tutorizada, por ejemplo: observando a otros, preguntando a otros, leyendo a otros).
Tradicionalmente, la tecnología educativa ha estado ligada a las plataformas educativas administradas por las instituciones y se ha prestado poca atención al aprendizaje informal. La razón de este hecho se debe buscar en la falta de consenso a la hora de evaluar y certificar este tipo de aprendizaje. Afortunadamente, iniciativas como el sistema de créditos ECTS basado en competencias y sistema de e-portfolio Europass ponen de manifiesto el interés de los paises europeos por tratar de resolver esos problemas.
In the context of a knowledge society, where being information literate is critical, the e-portfolio system can provide an opportunity to support one’s ability to collect, organise, interpret and reflect on learning and practice. In this sense, an e-portfolio is a purposeful collection of learning record that demonstrates efforts, progress and achievement in one or more areas over time. Many different kinds of records can be used in a e-portfolio: samples of writing such as blog and wiki entries, documents, both finished and unfinished; images and photographs; audio and video files; research projects; observations and evaluations of supervisors, mentors and peers; and reflective thinking about all of these.
For example, Europass e-portfolio is a dossier of documents that help citizens to communicate in a clear and easy way their aptitudes, qualifications and certifications adquired along their lifes, not only among countries but also among sectors. The principal aim of Europass is to facilitate the mobility of students and workers through the UE member states. Europass includes a set of five documents, being the Curriculum Vitae its main element and alowing to complete it with the rest of documents (Language Passport, Mobility Document, …)
A PLE might be understood to be an e-portfolio system as it is the main door to the student’s life-long learning and, therefore, it is the best tool for capturing and displaying learning records. The intention is to enable the development of an e-portfolios within the PLE that learners can carry on using throughout life. This approach should include repositories, process tools, and opportunities for both students and teachers to draw out and present e-portfolios at particular times and for particular purposes and audiences.