Presentation slides for the session at the ETUG 2010 Fall Workshop in New Westminster, British Columbia Presenter: Stuart Berry, Camosun College Description: This session will discuss the broader implications and issues of the use of social networking software within both formal and informal learning environments. Two Examples of the use of the ELGG Social Software Environment to Support Learning Part 1: Academic Blogging Circle Glenn Groulx will showcase collaborative and cooperative blogging methods to facilitate discussion and build bridges between faculty, alumni, students, and administrators using the Academic Blogging Circle within an ELGG environment. Part 2: Living Archives Stuart Berry will discuss his doctoral research project with online students within the ELGG environment to facilitate student interaction, knowledge creation, and to encourage the use of an online archive to act as bridges between and among different cohorts of learners.

1. Two Examples of the Use of the ELGG
Social
Software Environment to Support Learning
Enhancing Learning Environments: Making course
archives available for current and future learning
Stuart C Berry (Athabasca University Doctoral Candidate)
School of Business
Camosun College
ETUG Fall Workshop 2010

2. Athabasca University’s ELGG Environment
The Landing

3. Athabasca University’s ELGG Environment
The Landing
Access Controls…
A sense of security
and
A sense of bounded openness

4. The Landing – A Research Environment
The Use and Value of an Online Archive

5. The Landing – A Research Environment
Three research areas: (Questions)
1. Supporting knowledge Creation
1. Examining the Value of the Archive
2. Potential Downsides to the Use of the Archive

6. The Landing – A Research Environment
Existing Online Courses
No Archive
Each new course begins at same zero point

7. The Landing – A Research Environment
Build and maintain an Archive
Integrate the Archive into current and future course iterations
An Archive is an organic, evolving,
and integrated part of a course

8. The Landing
Challenges as a Learning Environment
LMS versus Social Networking Environment
Bounded, contained environment
Versus
Open, connected network environment
with limited boundaries and no real centre

9. The Landing
Challenges as a Learning Environment
New questions to consider

10. The Landing
Challenges as a Learning Environment
Are socially networked learning environments
acceptable or suitable spaces from within which
formal online learning can occur?

11. The Landing
Challenges as a Learning Environment
If more formal learning can effectively occur
within these social networked environments
then what can be done to structure socially
networked learning environments such that
they become suitable learning environments?

12. The Landing
Challenges as a Learning Environment
Or

13. The Landing
Challenges as a Learning Environment
Should we instead be seeking to enable learners
to rethink and redirect their learning focus
such that the attributes of networked learning
spaces become the norm and are not morphed
to match more traditional learning environments?

14. Social Networked Learning Environments
Where Do We Go From Here?

15. Questions ???
Stuart C Berry, B.A., M.A., (Doctoral Candidate)
School of Business
Camosun College
stuberry@shaw.ca
http://faculty.camosun.ca/stuberry
Thank You