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Digital
  Learning
 Ecosystems:
    rethinking virtual
learning environments
  in the age of social
          media
Conceptual mess

   Educational software

   Virtual classroom

   Virtual Learning Environment

   Course/Learning Management System

   E-learning platform

   Problems:
       disconnected from pedagogical
        theories, praxis and practices
       Pedagogical neutrality
       Infertile research programme
Generations of learning
technology
Internet has changed

   Web 2.0: read-write Web

   Social media

   Quickly evolving and integrated services

   Business ecosystems in digital world:
    Apple, Google
The role of language in social
construction of reality

   Heidegger: language is a house of being

   Gadamer: language speaks us

   Implicit structures and values within a
    language (vocabulary) affect the social
    reality constructed with this language

   Example: the concept of „e-learning‟
       Proposed by Jay Cross (a business
        consultant) as a metaphor (cf. e-mail)
       Picked up by EU policymakers in 2000
       Forsaken by policy discourse by 2007
Languages of education

   Languages of „theorists“ and „practitioners“
    in education

   Examples: instructional design vs.
    Didactics, competencies, learning goals and
    effectiveness, strategies &
    tactics, andragogy, learning as curing from
    stupidity, teacher as project
    manager, psychologist, service provider

   „Civil war“ between educational paradigms
R.Rorty: researchers as
heroes-poets

   Heroes (turn-makers) in the domain of
    research are the poets who are able to re-
    describe the field in a new way, with new
    “powerful” words

   Evolution of a vocabulary: from metaphors to
    strict terminology (encyclopedias and
    handbooks as graveyards of metaphors)

   Contingency and incommesurability of
    vocabularies

   Survival of vocabularies is partly dependent
    on fruitfulness of research programmes
    based on them
How about vocabulary shift:
Digital Learning Ecosystems

   Digital Learning Ecosystem: an adaptive
    socio-technical system consisting of
       mutually interacting digital species
        (tools, services, content used in learning
        process) and
       communities of users
        (learners, facilitators, experts) together
        with
       their social, economical and cultural
        environment.
Questions to discuss

   What are advantages and disadvantages of
    Digital Learning Ecosystems approach in
    contrast with traditional views on virtual
    learning environments?

   To what extent the DLE researchers can
    borrow the concepts and research methods
    from ecosystems ecology?

   Which are the main research problems, the
    big research questions and appropriate
    methods for DLE-focused research
    programme?
Key concepts in ecosystems
ecology

   Ecosystem: a community of living organisms
    (plants, animals and microbes) in
    conjunction with the nonliving components of
    their environment (things like air, water and
    mineral soil), interacting as a system.

   Nutrient cycle, energy flow

   Self-regulation

   Biota, niche, habitat

   Biodiversity, disturbance, succession
Concept mapping task

   Ecosystem

   Digital Ecosystem

   Digital Learning Ecosystem

   Species

   Services

   Users

   Communities

   What are the advantages and disadvantages
    of DLE approach?

   How much concepts and relations can we
    project from biological to digital world?
Digital Learning Ecosystems

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Digital Learning Ecosystems

  • 1. Digital Learning Ecosystems: rethinking virtual learning environments in the age of social media
  • 2. Conceptual mess  Educational software  Virtual classroom  Virtual Learning Environment  Course/Learning Management System  E-learning platform  Problems:  disconnected from pedagogical theories, praxis and practices  Pedagogical neutrality  Infertile research programme
  • 4. Internet has changed  Web 2.0: read-write Web  Social media  Quickly evolving and integrated services  Business ecosystems in digital world: Apple, Google
  • 5. The role of language in social construction of reality  Heidegger: language is a house of being  Gadamer: language speaks us  Implicit structures and values within a language (vocabulary) affect the social reality constructed with this language  Example: the concept of „e-learning‟  Proposed by Jay Cross (a business consultant) as a metaphor (cf. e-mail)  Picked up by EU policymakers in 2000  Forsaken by policy discourse by 2007
  • 6. Languages of education  Languages of „theorists“ and „practitioners“ in education  Examples: instructional design vs. Didactics, competencies, learning goals and effectiveness, strategies & tactics, andragogy, learning as curing from stupidity, teacher as project manager, psychologist, service provider  „Civil war“ between educational paradigms
  • 7. R.Rorty: researchers as heroes-poets  Heroes (turn-makers) in the domain of research are the poets who are able to re- describe the field in a new way, with new “powerful” words  Evolution of a vocabulary: from metaphors to strict terminology (encyclopedias and handbooks as graveyards of metaphors)  Contingency and incommesurability of vocabularies  Survival of vocabularies is partly dependent on fruitfulness of research programmes based on them
  • 8. How about vocabulary shift: Digital Learning Ecosystems  Digital Learning Ecosystem: an adaptive socio-technical system consisting of  mutually interacting digital species (tools, services, content used in learning process) and  communities of users (learners, facilitators, experts) together with  their social, economical and cultural environment.
  • 9. Questions to discuss  What are advantages and disadvantages of Digital Learning Ecosystems approach in contrast with traditional views on virtual learning environments?  To what extent the DLE researchers can borrow the concepts and research methods from ecosystems ecology?  Which are the main research problems, the big research questions and appropriate methods for DLE-focused research programme?
  • 10. Key concepts in ecosystems ecology  Ecosystem: a community of living organisms (plants, animals and microbes) in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment (things like air, water and mineral soil), interacting as a system.  Nutrient cycle, energy flow  Self-regulation  Biota, niche, habitat  Biodiversity, disturbance, succession
  • 11. Concept mapping task  Ecosystem  Digital Ecosystem  Digital Learning Ecosystem  Species  Services  Users  Communities  What are the advantages and disadvantages of DLE approach?  How much concepts and relations can we project from biological to digital world?