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Collaborative &
Cooperative Learning:
The how and the why

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In the available time....

•Collaboration & Cooperation

•The Social Web (Web 2.0)
•Social Web tools
•Personalised Learning
•Personal Web Tools

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•Problem Based Learning
•Formal & Informal Learning
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Competition

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 Cooperation

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http://sites.google.com/site/dragonsrunningclubsale
 Cooperation

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http://www.green-me.co.uk

Collaboration
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“For the first time
we are preparing
students for a
future we cannot
clearly describe.”

- David Warlick

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http://communications.nottingham.ac.uk/podcasts/
"In the times of rapid
change, learners

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inherit the Earth, while
the learned find
themselves beautifully
equipped to deal with
a world that no longer
exists."
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- Eric Hoffer
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Is learning
simply about
gaining
knowledge...?

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www.newmediamusings.com
connections?
... or making

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“It's not what you
know that counts

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anymore. It's what
you can learn.”

– Don Tapscott

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http://www.nationalpost.com
... and it’s often self organised

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How do we get people to collaborate?

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http://media1.break.com/
 (Web 2.0)
The Social Web

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 What is Web 2.0…?

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“Web 2.0 is the architecture of participation” –
Eugene Barsky

“The Web will be understood not as screenfulls of

text and graphics but as a transport mechanism, the

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ether through which interactivity happens” – Darcy
DeNucci (1999)
 What is Web 2.0…?

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“Nobody really knows what it means...If Web 2.0
for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to
people. But that was what the Web was
supposed to be all along” – Sir Tim Berners-Lee

“Web 2.0 is all about harnessing collective

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intelligence” – Tim O’Reilly (2009)
Architecture of participation

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Learning 2.0

User generated content

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Architecture of participation
Sharing

Collaborating

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Tools

Tagging
Learning 2.0

User generated content

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Voting

Networking
If it ain’t participative, it ain’t social media
 vs

Stupidity of Mobs
Wisdom of Crowds...

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 What is the Social Web?
Web 1.0 Web 2.0

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Britannica Wikipedia
Personal Website Blogging
Page views Cost per click
Publishing Participation
Content Management Wiki
Directories (Taxonomy) Tagging (Folksonomy)
‘Stickiness’ Syndication

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Maps Mapping (Mashup)

Source: Tim O’Reilly http://www.oreillynet.com

 What does the Social Web
offer?
•Social networks • User generated

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•Participation content
•Collaboration • Reflective spaces
•Repurposing • Creative tools
•Mixing and Mashing • Creative
Commons
•Voting and debate
• Self organisation
•Tagging and Sharing
(folksonomies)

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•Global communication
•
•
•
•
 Some Social Web tools

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 Wikis

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 Social Tagging

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 Mashups

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 Social Presence Tools

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 Syndication (RSS)

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 Document Sharing

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 Blogging

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 Podcasting

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 Photo Share

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 Video Share

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 Social ‘tagging’

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Using your
post-its...
...label 3 or 4
things in the
room you
consider to be
significant

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http://1.bp.blogspot.com
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Taxonomies are defined by the
community

Folksonomies define a community

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http://tatango.com
Digital
Natives?

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 What does

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the ‘Net
Generation’
expect?

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http://socialenterpriseambassadors.org.uk
 anytime

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personalised

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anyplace
http://ithalas.com
 learning?
What is personalised

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Personalised learning?

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http://www.delasallewaterford.com
Personalised learning?

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http://www.hseb.utah.edu
 we come from?
Where are we and where have

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 Trends in training

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Just for me Apprenticeship model

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 Trends in training

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Just for me Apprenticeship model

Just in case Standardised Courses

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 Trends in training

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Just for me Apprenticeship model

Just in case Standardised Courses

Bespoke Course Just in time

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 Trends in training

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Just for me Apprenticeship model

Just in case Standardised Courses

Bespoke Course Just in time

Personalised Learning Just for me

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 Trends in training

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Just for me Apprenticeship model

Just in case Standardised Courses

Bespoke Course Just in time

Personalised Learning Just for me

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Personal Learning Environment
 Environment?
What is a Personal Learning

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 Personalisation of learning means
ensuring that individual differences
are acknowledged

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 You are your own ‘VLE’

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Aggregation

Services Tools

Formats Content

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Channels Networks
PLEs, PLNs and PWs

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Personal
Learning
Network
Personal
Learning
Environment

Personal
Web

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 Choosing Social Web tools

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 = 45
= 43
= 43
How many

tools could
you use?

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 Some Learning 2.0 tools…
•Wiki

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•Blog

•Flickr (Photo sharing)

•YouTube (Video sharing)

•Twitter (Micro blog)

•Delicious (Social tagging)

•Slideshare (Sharing slides and docs)

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•

How could you use any of these in your own training?

•

•
 Think...

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• What would you use them for?
• How would your learners use them?
• What added value would they bring?
• What might be the problems?
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•
 Problem Based Learning

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“We need
diversity of
thought in the
world to face the
new challenges.”

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www.topnews.in
~ Sir Tim Berners-Lee
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Join all nine dots
Using four straight
Lines. Do not take
Your pen from the

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Paper and do not
Go back over any
Lines.
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a man enters a field with an unopened
package and dies. Why?

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a man enters a field with an unopened
package and dies. Why?

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 Formal and Informal Learning

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Formal and Informal learning

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Formal Learning Informal Learning

30%
70%

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Self organised learning

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Formal Learning Informal Learning

Self Organised Learning

In SOL people take
responsibility for their
own learning and put this
into successful action.

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Source: http://www.equal-works.com
 Self organised learning
• For successful self organised learning the

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essential components are:
•

• Communication
• Reflection
• Collaboration
• Community
• Creative Tools

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• Amplification
•
•

•
 Thank you for listeni

Questions?
www.etsu.edu/math
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University of Plymouth, United Kingdom

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