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Open Learning and the Metauniversity

Open Learning and the Metauniversity. Stephen Downes National Research Council Canada November 14, 2005. What we need…

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Open Learning and the Metauniversity

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  1. Open Learning and the Metauniversity Stephen Downes National Research Council Canada November 14, 2005

  2. What we need… • “We need a system that is optimized toward slotting in new pieces as they become available, not as an after-thought or an add-on, but as a fundamental characteristic of the system.” • Michael Feldstein, August 7, 2005 http://mfeldstein.com/index.php/the_long_tail_of_learning_applications/

  3. Learning as a network phenomenon… • Web of user-generated content (eg. Wikipedia)… • Social networks and communities (entails a genuinely portable (and owned)identity • Networks of interactions (aggregate, remix, repurpose, feed forward) – syndication • The personal learning centre

  4. E-Learning 2.0…

  5. Properties of successful networks… • Charles Vest – three key attributes: • Diversity (many objectives) • Interwoven (many activities) • Open (many minds) • Charles M. Vest, SAC, August 8, 2005 http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cdb/2005/08/08/opencourseware-sac2005

  6. Diversity… The idea of making everything the same – anything the same – is fundamentally misguided

  7. Interwoven… The idea that our different activities are distinct is fundamentally misguided

  8. Open… The idea that we can store knowledge in closed repositories is fundamentally misguided

  9. The Metaversity

  10. Resource Profiles

  11. Resource Production

  12. Repositories

  13. Rights

  14. Resource Aggregation

  15. Common Environment

  16. Personal Identity

  17. Environment Interface

  18. Syndication

  19. Community

  20. Takeaway… • Charles Vest talked about a ‘meta-university’ • This (if I may be so audacious) is the information architecture of the meta-university • The key is not large, integrated systems, but rather, small, flexible bits that can be connected • This applies to metadata too

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