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Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review

Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review
© 2008 John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler. Text illustrations © 2008 Susan E. Haviland. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license ( EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 1 (January/February 2008): 16–32 John Seely Brown and Richard P. John Seely Brown is a Visiting Scholar and Advisor to the Provost at the University of Southern California (USC) and Independent Co-Chairman of a New Deloitte Research Center. Comments on this article can be posted to the web via the link at the bottom of this page. More than one-third of the world’s population is under 20. —Sir John Daniel, 1996 The world has become increasingly “flat,” as Tom Friedman has shown. It is unlikely that sufficient resources will be available to build enough new campuses to meet the growing global demand for higher education—at least not the sort of campuses that we have traditionally built for colleges and universities.

Social learning theory is a perspective that states that people learn within a social context. It is facilitated through concepts such as modeling and observational learning. [ 1 ] [ edit ] Theory According to Social Learning theory, models are an important source for learning new behaviors and for achieving behavioral change in institutionalized settings. [ 2 ] Social learning theory is derived from the work of Albert Bandura which proposed that observational learning can occur in relation to three models: [ 3 ] • Live model – in which an actual person is demonstrating the desired behaviour • Verbal instruction – in which an individual describes the desired behaviour in detail, and instructs the participant in how to engage in the behavior • Symbolic – in which modeling occurs by means of the media, including movies, television, Internet, literature, and radio. An important factor of Bandura’s social learning theory is the emphasis on reciprocal determinism. 1. 2. 3. 4. [ edit ] Criminology [ edit ] Applications

Don't Confuse Technology With Teaching - Commentary By Pamela Hieronymi This spring, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a $60-million venture to offer free classes online. Just last month the University of California at Berkeley said it would also join the effort. John Hennessy, president of Stanford, recently predicted that a technology "tsunami" is about to hit higher education. As we think about the future of education, we need to sharpen our understanding of what education is and what educators do. Education is not the transmission of information or ideas. Educators are coaches, personal trainers in intellectual fitness. Just as coaching requires individual attention, education, at its core, requires one mind engaging with another, in real time: listening, understanding, correcting, modeling, suggesting, prodding, denying, affirming, and critiquing thoughts and their expression. A set of podcasts is the 21st-century equivalent of a textbook, not the 21st-century equivalent of a teacher.

L'éducation aux réseaux sociaux L’homme est un animal social. (Aristote) L’université a vu le jour à une époque où le progrès se mesurait en siècles. Malgré tout, elle s’adapte assez bien à l’accélération de l’évolution. La télévision, quand elle fait bien son travail, apporte une autre dimension à l’éducation de haut niveau. Pour un aperçu de l’efficacité de la télévision à traiter des sujets d’actualité, voyez le reportage de PBS sur les réseaux sociaux (Growing up Online: Just how radically is the Internet transforming the experience of childhood?). Le phénomène de l’émancipation des jeunes dans un monde virtuel a évidemment de profondes répercussions sur l’école, où ils passent le plus clair de leur temps réel. On accuse facilement les jeunes d’agir de façon irresponsable. (Image thématique : Network 12, par Rick Wedel) Par ricochet : Études : le Web renforce les relations sociales Internet et les réseaux sociaux (Pew Internet) Wealth of Networks : ouvrage gratuit L’humanité en réseau Vers l’éducation 2.0

bozarthzone Communication, Relationships and Care: A Reader - Martin Robb, Sheila Barrett Les médias sociaux et l'enseignement: Service de soutien à la formation - Université de Sherbrooke Depuis quelques années, une nouvelle famille de technologies web fait beaucoup parler d’elle. Il s’agit des médias sociaux, un nouveau type de sites web où les visiteurs peuvent participer activement à l’élaboration du contenu du site. Il en existe une grande diversité, depuis les sites de réseautage privé ou professionnel (Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn) aux sites de partage de contenu (YouTube, Flickr, Digg), en passant par les sites de création collaborative (Wikipédia). Généralement, les médias sociaux sont des sites web partageant la plupart des caractéristiques suivantes : une partie du contenu est générée par les usagers (visiteurs) du site plutôt que par l’éditeur;les usagers du site peuvent interagir;on peut savoir quel contenu vient de quel usager. L’expression «web 2.0» désigne habituellement les sites web s’inscrivant dans ce courant du read/write web. Nous avons préparé une liste avec quelques exemples de médias sociaux très populaires. Facebook Site de Facebook LinkedIn YouTube

Social Networking: Bridging Formal and Informal Learning by Clark N. Quinn "The recognition that learning is 80% informal suggests that we need to support natural connections between people who can help one another. And we can distribute that support between employees, partners, or customers. You can see real benefits, but you’ve got to have a way to think about them!" There’s been much justifiable excitement about social media recently; are you on top of it? There are lots of social networking tools with weird-sounding names: blogs, wikis, Twitter (also known as micro-blogs), Ning, Facebook, and more. Things are not getting slower: we are seeing decreasing time to market for products and services, more information coming in, and fewer resources with which to cope. What we need, going forward, is the ability to take a continuous read on the environment and to adapt quickly. The ability to adapt comes both from a good background of theory, and from the ability to problem-solve and innovate. Informal learning payoffs in real life What’s the value of a discussion?

What's Wrong with Job Interviews, and How to Fix Them Comment les enseignants peuvent utiliser Facebook à leur avantage. Partout, les étudiants ont une page Facebook. Puisque les élèves sont déjà impliqués, tous les enseignants doivent faire c’est faire fonctionner à leur avantage. Les salles de classe du monde entier sont remplis d’étudiants qui aimeraient être passé du temps sur Facebook. Avouons-le, Facebook a totalement pris en charge, et il est temps pour les enseignants de l’utiliser à leur avantage. Avant d’aller plus loin l’enseignant devrait s’assurer tout étudiant a accès à un ordinateur et une page Facebook. En supposant qu’ils ont tous le faire, maintenant vous pouvez commencer. Créer une Page de classe La première chose que l’enseignant doit faire est de créer une page pour sa classe. Une fois que la page est créée et la classe est ajoutée, il est maintenant temps pour descendre de l’entreprise. Un jour la question Sur la page, l’enseignant peut poster une question par jour. Book Review Écrire un résumé peut parfois obtenir un peu ennuyeux et banales. Question de mathématiques

Building a Performance Ecosystem By combining the power of the human brain with technology in a way that facilitates work, collaboration and communication, leaders can turn learning into multifaceted performance support. The competitive landscape is more dynamic than ever, and the defining success factors have shifted. Things are moving faster, and organizations have to be more nimble, responding to changes in their audiences, competitors and the context of work. Survival requires continual innovation, and at the core is learning faster than everyone else. Former Thomson Reuters CLO Charles Jennings highlights the 70:20:10 framework for thinking about organizational learning: 10 percent of what we need to know to do our jobs comes from courses, 20 percent from mentoring or coaching, and 70 percent is learned on the job through independent initiative. Lots of the opportunities to improve come through the network, through the people we learn with and from.

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