Comments for Social eLearning http://www.social-elearning.de Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:45:12 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on Are PLEs the inflection point? by Steve Wheeler http://www.social-elearning.de/?p=87&cpage=1#comment-1165 Steve Wheeler Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:45:12 +0000 http://www.social-elearning.de/?p=87#comment-1165 This is a useful perspective on personal learning Tillman. I agree that a kind of synchronisation of behaviour and massification of education (call it training) was instigated because of the needs of the Victorial Industrialisation of society. Such work practices are long gone, and society now needs workers who are able to team work, think critically and act creativly to work smartly. Our education systems are changing slowly to adapt to these new needs, but not fast enough, and we are now stuck with the paradigm of mass education, because it is 'cost effective'. We are now in a position to create (or support learners in creating) personal learning environments, through the new social media and Web 2.0 tools that are available. Will schools catch up? We shall see.... This is a useful perspective on personal learning Tillman. I agree that a kind of synchronisation of behaviour and massification of education (call it training) was instigated because of the needs of the Victorial Industrialisation of society. Such work practices are long gone, and society now needs workers who are able to team work, think critically and act creativly to work smartly. Our education systems are changing slowly to adapt to these new needs, but not fast enough, and we are now stuck with the paradigm of mass education, because it is ‘cost effective’. We are now in a position to create (or support learners in creating) personal learning environments, through the new social media and Web 2.0 tools that are available. Will schools catch up? We shall see….

]]> Comment on What’s in it for me? by TMA-1 http://www.social-elearning.de/?p=72&cpage=1#comment-318 TMA-1 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:25:45 +0000 http://www.social-elearning.de/?p=72#comment-318 You might be interested in those: MARTON F and SÄLJÖ (1976) "On Qualitative Differences in Learning — 1: Outcome and Process" Brit. J. Educ. Psych. 46, 4-11 RAMSDEN P (1992) Learning to Teach in Higher Education London: Routledge (0-415-06415-5) BIGGS J (1987) Student Approaches to Learning and Studying Hawthorn, Vic: Australian Council for Educational Researc ENTWISTLE N (1981) Styles of Learning and Teaching; an integrated outline of educational psychology for students, teachers and lecturers Chichester: John Wiley (0-471 10013-7) You might be interested in those:

MARTON F and SÄLJÖ (1976) “On Qualitative Differences in Learning — 1: Outcome and Process” Brit. J. Educ. Psych. 46, 4-11

RAMSDEN P (1992) Learning to Teach in Higher Education London: Routledge (0-415-06415-5)

BIGGS J (1987) Student Approaches to Learning and Studying Hawthorn, Vic: Australian Council for Educational Researc

ENTWISTLE N (1981) Styles of Learning and Teaching; an integrated outline of educational psychology for students, teachers and lecturers Chichester: John Wiley (0-471 10013-7)

]]> Comment on What’s in it for me? by Tweets die What’s in it for me? | Social eLearning erwähnt -- Topsy.com http://www.social-elearning.de/?p=72&cpage=1#comment-304 Tweets die What’s in it for me? | Social eLearning erwähnt -- Topsy.com Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:25:41 +0000 http://www.social-elearning.de/?p=72#comment-304 [...] Dieser Eintrag wurde auf Twitter von Jocelyn Nadeau und eDCSD, FEED THE TEACHER erwähnt. FEED THE TEACHER sagte: RT @timbuckteeth What's in it for me? PLEs and self motivated learning http://bit.ly/1CUBLG [...] [...] Dieser Eintrag wurde auf Twitter von Jocelyn Nadeau und eDCSD, FEED THE TEACHER erwähnt. FEED THE TEACHER sagte: RT @timbuckteeth What's in it for me? PLEs and self motivated learning http://bit.ly/1CUBLG [...]

]]> Comment on What’s in it for me? by Steve Wheeler http://www.social-elearning.de/?p=72&cpage=1#comment-303 Steve Wheeler Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:13:50 +0000 http://www.social-elearning.de/?p=72#comment-303 This is an interesting discussion Tillman, and as you suggest the entire argument hinges on whether we can relate formal learning demands to our own self interests. But I think it goes farther - if we are unable to self organise our own learning, we tend not to gain ownership of it. This is also vital in fostering intrinsic motivation - I will write another blog post later when I have reflected on it a little more. :-) Cheers Steve This is an interesting discussion Tillman, and as you suggest the entire argument hinges on whether we can relate formal learning demands to our own self interests. But I think it goes farther – if we are unable to self organise our own learning, we tend not to gain ownership of it. This is also vital in fostering intrinsic motivation – I will write another blog post later when I have reflected on it a little more. :-)

Cheers

Steve

]]> Comment on What’s in it for me? by Nick Shackleton-Jones http://www.social-elearning.de/?p=72&cpage=1#comment-302 Nick Shackleton-Jones Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:59:19 +0000 http://www.social-elearning.de/?p=72#comment-302 Sometimes people talk about informal learning like folks looking down the wrong end of a telescope: informal learning is just learning - formal learning is a weird cultural artifact that we might be better off calling 'information presentation sessions'. Informal learning - learning - is generally a response to challenges, so by definition we are interested. But I agree you can't always rely on people's intrinsic motivation - that's why your best school teachers are generally the enthusiatic, passionate ones - because they wrap the uninteresting data in emotional metadata, and do so extrinsically rather than intrinsically. We've done some research on this recently... when we ask about people's most significant learning they often cite people or experiences that have inspired them - so this is our challenge with PLEs - certainly to link to stuff they are already motivated to learn, but also to inspire and encourage them in new directions. The key, as always, is emotion. Sometimes people talk about informal learning like folks looking down the wrong end of a telescope: informal learning is just learning – formal learning is a weird cultural artifact that we might be better off calling ‘information presentation sessions’. Informal learning – learning – is generally a response to challenges, so by definition we are interested. But I agree you can’t always rely on people’s intrinsic motivation – that’s why your best school teachers are generally the enthusiatic, passionate ones – because they wrap the uninteresting data in emotional metadata, and do so extrinsically rather than intrinsically. We’ve done some research on this recently… when we ask about people’s most significant learning they often cite people or experiences that have inspired them – so this is our challenge with PLEs – certainly to link to stuff they are already motivated to learn, but also to inspire and encourage them in new directions. The key, as always, is emotion.

]]> Comment on This time it’s personal by DPhil-stuff » Blog Archive » Intrinsic and Extrinsic motivation and informal learning http://www.social-elearning.de/?p=63&cpage=1#comment-298 DPhil-stuff » Blog Archive » Intrinsic and Extrinsic motivation and informal learning Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:52:21 +0000 http://www.social-elearning.de/?p=63#comment-298 [...] couple of interesting blogs this morning. Steve Wheeler from Plymouth was responding to a blog from Tillman Swinke in Atlantis. Swinke is discussing personal learning and contrasting formal and informal learning [...] [...] couple of interesting blogs this morning. Steve Wheeler from Plymouth was responding to a blog from Tillman Swinke in Atlantis. Swinke is discussing personal learning and contrasting formal and informal learning [...]

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