21st Century Learning Environments
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Course Development
Carla Piper, Ed. D.
John Seely Brown (Xerox PARC) and USC (2007)
New Learning Environments in the 21st Century Exploring the Edge
21st Century Learning Environments
“We have moved from lecture halls to homes, cars, and ipods
offering anytime, anywhere delivery while
increasing interaction as well”
John Seely Brown, 2007
How is 21st Century Learning Different?
“The concept of lifelong learning—a term used all too glibly—is now more
important than ever."• Skills learned today are apt to be out-of-date all
too soon. – Lifelong, passion-based learning enabled by the Net– Students intrinsically motivated by being a member
of a community of practice.– Informal learning not conducted in a structured
formal setting– Interplay exists between the cognitive and social
bases of learning– “Learning to be” rather than “learning about” or
“building up stocks of knowledge.”
John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler (2008)
Open Educational Resources (OER)
• New culture of sharing• Content is freely contributed and
distributed with few restrictions or costs.
• Open Source – Mozilla, Open Office, Moodle
• MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative– open access to undergraduate- and
graduate-level materials and modules – more than 1,700 courses in virtually all
disciplines.
John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler (2008)
Minds on Fire: Learning 2.0
• Social learning is the greatest impact of the internet and the full impact has not yet been realized.
• Content is socially constructed through conversations about that content and through grounded interactions, especially with others, around problems or actions.
• Informal learning is taking place both on and off campus via the online social networks.
• Social life of Internet-based virtual education can coexist with and extend traditional education.
Web 2.0• Blurs the line between producers and
consumers of content • Shifts attention from access to
information toward access to other people.
• Participatory medium ideal for supporting multiple modes of learning
• New kinds of online resources— such as social networking sites, blogs, wikis, and virtual communities allow people with common interests to meet, share ideas, and collaborate in innovative ways.
Brown & Adler (2008)
Learning Communities• Build a community of students and
scholars as well as provide access to educational content.
• Provide students with access to rich (sometimes virtual) learning communities built around a practice.
• These communities are a part of a new form of technology-enhanced learning— Learning 2.0
Brown & Adler (2008)
John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler (2008)
From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0
• Check out Classroom 2.0 - http://www.classroom20.com/
• Take the Tour - Classroom 2.0 - http://live.classroom20.com/
• Take a "Tour of Web 2.0" webcast video for an Elluminate session.
Ten Web 2.0 Trends That Will Have a Profound Impact on Education
• A New Publishing Revolution • A Tidal Wave of Information • Everything Is Becoming Participative • The New Pro-sumers • The Age of the Collaborator • An Explosion of Innovation • The World Gets Even Flatter and Faster • Social Learning Moves Toward Center
Stage • The Long Tail • Social Networking Opens Up the Party
Web 2.0 in EducationSteve Haragon
Educational Shifts with Web 2.0 in Education
• From consuming to producing • From authority to transparency • From the expert to the facilitator • From the lecture to the hallway • From access to information to access to
people • From learning about to learning to be • From passive to passionate learning • From presentation to participation • From publication to conversation • From formal schooling to lifelong learning • From supply-push to demand-pull
Web 2.0 in EducationSteve Haragon
Looking Forward: Trends that Affect the Future
• Gaming and Virtual Worlds• Tools for e-learning design and
development• Expanding role for assessment and
alternative credntialing• Tools for data management and learning
support• Changing economies• Communities of Practice
David MerrillTextbook:
pp. 345-349
Resources• Wikipedia• Web 2.0 in Education• EduTech Wiki• Virtual Schools in the 21st Century• New Learning Environments in the 21st
Century: Exploring the Edge (2007)
• Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (2008)
• Classroom 2.0• Reiser & Dempsey (2006). Trends and
Issues in Instructional Design and Technology.
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