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Sustaining social networks

This afternoon I am presenting at the Educause Australasia 2009 conference at the Perth Convention Centre. The papers are being published post-conference, but here are links to the presentation as it stands 1 hour before the session.

Sustaining social networks in education [ppt 4896Kb]
Published on Education.au website: Papers and Presentations
Slideshare version
http://www.slideshare.net/pru_mitchell/sustaining-social-networks

Backroad Connections. (2003). What are the conditions for and characteristics of effective online learning communities? Australian National Training Authority.
http://pre2005.flexiblelearning.net.au/guides/community.pdf

boyd, d., (2007, August 6) Generation MySpace - Social networking and its impact on students and education. [Sound recording] Dulwich, Education.au.
http://www.educationau.edu.au/2007-generation-myspace

Canter, Marc (2008, September 1) How to build the open mesh, Marc's voice 
http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/09/01/how-to-build-the-open-mesh-presentation

Cho, H., Gay, G., Davidson, B. & Ingraffea, A. (2007). Social networks, communication styles, and learning performance in a CSCL community. Computers & Education 49(2), 309-329.

Dibben, K. (2003). Making online communities work. EDUCAUSE in AUSTRALASIA 2003 Conference.
http://www.educationau.edu.au/sites/default/files/online_communities_educause.ppt

Drumgoole, J. (2006). Web 2.0 vs Web 1.0. Copacetic
http://joedrumgoole.com/blog/2006/05/29/web-20-vs-web-10

Evans, V. (2007). Networks, Connections and Community: Learning with Social Software . Australian Flexible Learning Framework.  http://pre2009.flexiblelearning.net.au/flx/go/pid/377

Geer, R. (2005). Imprinting and its impact on online learning environments. ASCILITE 2005 Proceedings.  http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/brisbane05/blogs/proceedings/26_Geer.pdf

Geng, H. (2008). Investigation of elements in an online learning community (edna). unpublished.

Gray, B. (2004). Informal Learning in an Online Community of Practice. Journal of Distance Education, 19(1), 20-35. http://www.cndwebzine.hcp.ma/IMG/pdf/GRAY_article.pdf

Hayman, S. & Lothian, N. (2007). Taxonomy directed folksonomy: Integrating user tagging and controlled vocabularies for Australian education networks IFLA 73. Retrieved February 15 2009 from http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla73/papers/157-Hayman_Lothian-en.pdf

Johnson, K. (2008). It's all about me [Videorecording] TeacherTube. http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=66284

Johnson, S. (2006, December 16). It's all about us. Time 168(26) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1570717,00.html

Madden, M., Fox, S., Smith, A, & Vitak, J. (2007, December 16). Digital footprints: online identity management and search in the age of transparency, PEW/Internet. 
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2007/Digital-Footprints.aspx

McDermott, R. (2000, March). Knowing in Community: Ten Critical Success Factors in Building Communities of Practice. IHRIM Journal.   http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/knowing.shtml

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http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/help/me/pid/2033

Mitchell, P. (2007) Learning journeys: sharing the passion. ASLA XX Proceedings
http://www.educationau.edu.au/sites/default/files/PLE_ASLA.pdf

Mueller-Prothmann, T & Siedentopf, C (2003) Designing Online Knowledge Communities: Developing a Usability Evaluation Criteria Catalogue, 3rd European Knowledge Management Summer School http://www.providersedge.com/docs/km_articles/Designing_Online_K_Communities_-_Developing_Usability_Eval_Criteria_Catalogue.pdf

Nielsen, J. (2006, October 9). Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute. Alertbox
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/participation_inequality.html

Oliver, R., & Herrington, J. (2003). Exploring technology-mediated learning from a pedagogical perspective. Journal of Interactive Learning Environments, 11(2), 111.126.

Preece, J., Nonnecke, B. & Andrews, D. (2004). The top five reasons for lurking: improving community experiences for everyone. Computers in human behavior 20(2), 201-223.

Salmon, G. (2003). 5 stage model. E-moderating, 2 ^nd ed. London, Taylor & Francis.
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Smarr, J. & Canter, M. (2007, September 5). A Bill of Rights for users of Social Media. Open Social Web.
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ePortfolio Symposium Notes

Notes from the government, policy level breakout group at the Educause 2009 ePortfolio Symposium session. [Currently unformatted]

Facilitated by Gilliam Hallam, AeP

Participants: Andrew Higgins, Wendy Harper, Kim Flintoff, Kim Horville, Gabby

Education journey is not linear
How to draw together initiatives in many sectors and institutions
AFLF Business Framework  and AeP projects

Technical nitty gritty issues tend to dominate the current projects.

Thanks to Andrew Higgins  for being the wonderful devil's advocate:
Why would government want to fund this?
- common good argument
- economic drivers: skilling for the future, employability skills,
- efficiency

National registration and competency and certification recognition and standards: how to representing yourself nationally.State governments  prefer to keep hold of standards at their regional level (receipt of licence fees)
- RPL - mechanisms
- currency - document
- population mobility issues - students, partners, family members
- international shift towards ePortfolios, means of equivalency determination between qualifications, skills
- mobility across disciplines and how quickly can we move people into new careers
- NEDCAR example and the positive impact of
- experience log for trainees, eg

What are we asking government to fund?
- is it regulation
- national strategy for digitisation
- national strategy for cross-sectoral collaboration
- is it standards
- national identity system, privacy and legal frameworks

What's it going to cost us? What's the ROI?
- how to choose ePortfolio that adheres to standards so it is interoperability
Check SCOPE project and JISC projects

How does an ePortfolio help my daughter get into the army?

Tertiary institutions seem to want to brand your ePortfolio for life vs the personal learner managing their own

Is there a political risk to implementing national ePortfolio initiative?

What about disciplines, areas that don't have formalised professional associations and networks, eg performance art

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Posted at 02:00PM May 05, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]

Educause 2009 paper: Sustaining social networks in education

If web 1.0 was organized around pages, web 2.0 is organized around people  (Johnson, 2006)

This paper presented at Educause Australasia 2009 draws on experience in innovation projects at Education.au in the past two years considering how social networking might enhance professional learning for educators. The resulting service (me.edu.au) aims to put the individual rather than the institution at the centre of learning, and to provide individual educators with support as they step into Web 2.0. While professional learning and collaborative knowledge construction are desirable goals of professional social networking, this case study outlines challenges faced through the Innovate - Collaborate - Sustain phases of such projects. It provides an evaluation of Education.au's online professional networking project using the 5 stage process of computer mediated communication as a model (Salmon, 2003).

Slides on slideshare
Audio from conference
Sustaining social networks in education conference paper

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Posted at 03:10AM Apr 05, 2009 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[0]