Bridging the Gap Between the CMS & the PLE

1. Open for Learning Bridging the Gap Between the PLE & the CMS Jon Mott Asst. to the Academic VP Brigham Young University OpenEd 2009 Vancouver, BC

2. the allure of the CMS

8. the case for & against the CMS APIs SIS EXTERNAL APPLICATIONS CMS CONTENT CUSTOM INTEGRATION ASSESSMENT GRADEBOOK COMMUNICATION REDUNDANT & NON-INTEGRATED APPLICATIONS COLLABORATION

9. enter the PLE

17. radical simplicity

19. Blackboard is trying to keep up. Michael L. Chasen, the company's chief executive, has told The Chronicle that the latest version of the software integrates some Web 2.0 tools and still offers plenty of features that blogging packages can't match, like online gradebooks.

20. CMS v PLE COURSES OPEN LEARNERS MODULAR OPEN-ENDED SEMESTERS COMMUNITIES INTEROPERABLE INSTITUTIONS CLOSED INTEGRATED PROPRIETARY

21. modularity

24. forces of inertia

28. administrivia

29. Bb Feature Usage @ BYU

30. forces of change

31. engaging “the former audience” (Dan Gillmor)

33. Meaning only comes into existence when two or more voices come into contact. Bakhtin

34. 3,000,000 Tweets / Day 80,000,000 YouTube Videos 13,000,000 Wikipedia Articles 3,600,000,000 Photos on Flickr 40,000,000,000 GB Data / Year 200,000,000 Facebook Accounts

35. Higher mental functioning in the individual derives from social life. Vygostsky

37. this is facebook

39. this is facebook on blackboard

41. CMS v. PLE Learning Network Size End of the Semester TIME

42. CMS v. PLE PLE Learning Network Size CMS SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER 3 SEMESTER 4 SEMESTER 5 SEMESTER 6 TIME

45. 99%

49. we’re reinventingthe past

52. permeable institutions YochaiBenkler “increasingly permeable boundaries”

53. the new landscape University Faculty Students Support Services Bookstore IT Infrastructure Libraries Academic Departments

54. the new landscape University Web 2.0 Apps PLEs Social Networks Open Content Mass Collaboration etc. Faculty Students Support Services Bookstore Libraries IT Infrastructure Academic Departments

55. permeable learning networks?

58. learners schools learners educational institutions. 2009 = the end of learning as usual?

62. the impetus

63. meaning = use Wittgenstein

66. time to leverage “architecture of participation” Tim O’Reilly

67. passive consumption sharing cooperation (collaboration) collective action

75. what’s going on in *their* brains?

79. “powering down” ≠ engaged

83. "We can't go on together with suspicious minds.” The King

85. authentic teaching behaviors

86. authentic learning activity

87. authentic measurement & accountability

89. An Open (Institutional) Learning Network Web Pages The Cloud University Network Web Pages Web Pages Web Pages STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM COURSE CONTENT STUDENT CONTENT LICENSED & PROPRIETARY CONTENT OPEN CONTENT ASSESSMENT TOOLS SOCIAL NETWORKING APPS COLLABORATION TOOLS GRADEBOOK LEARNING OUTCOMES PERSONAL PUBLISHING TOOLS PORTFOLIO

90. malleability = open modular interoperable

91. a radically simple idea

92. stand-alone gradebook Gary Brown A “Harvesting” Gradebook

93. loosely-coupled

97. Authentic Student Learning Activities REPORTING INTERFACE ASSESSMENT (SCORES) REPOSITORY

100. portfolio assessment

105. Loosely Coupled Portfolio Assessment PORTFOLIO REGISTRY PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT INTERFACE REPORTING INTERFACE ARTIFACT REPOSITORY PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT REPOSITORY PROGRAM & UNIVERSITY REPORTS

107. An Integrated Learning Portfolio & Assessment Strategy Student Learning Activity Program Evaluation Activity Program Assessment Interfaces Program LO Definition Artifact Submission Program Gradebooks REPORTING INTERFACE Artifact / Portfolio Registration ARTIFACT REPOSITORY ASSESSMENT (SCORES) REPOSITORY PROGRAM & UNIVERSITY REPORTS Cloud-Based Publishing & Organization Jon Mott, Brigham Young University. (CC-By) Image Credits – VistaIcons.com.

108. COURSE WEB SERVICE LO WEB SERVICE SIS WEB SERVICE COURSE SITES AIM - STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM LEARNING OUTCOMES WIKI GB WEB SERVICE 3RD PARTY WEB SERVICES CONTENT WEB SERVICES GRADEBOOK CONTENT STORES GRADEBOOK WEB BASED APPS PORTAL WEB SERVICE TESTING WEB SERVICE LIBRARY WEB SERVICE ROUTE Y TESTING CENTER LIBRARY

111. Learning Site

113. Blackboard Moodle UPortal Google Apps

114. 1999

115. "The clue train stopped there four times a day for ten years and they never took delivery." — Veteran of a firm now free-falling out of the Fortune 500 http://cluetrain.com

116. 95 theses

117. If you don’t know what you want your students to become, it doesn’t matter what you do.

118. http://www.slideshare.net/jonmott jonmott@byu.edu http://jonmott.com http://twitter.com/jonmott

119. Image Credits (by slide #) 3. “Ulysses & the Sirens” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_William_Waterhouse_-_Ulysses_and_the_Sirens_%281891%29.jpg 4. “Prefab House” http://www.flickr.com/photos/steffe/389190497 5. “Model picture of suburbia” http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnwardell/36924036 6. “Home for Sale” http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaybowalkin/1000063019 7. “Data Center Build Out” http://www.flickr.com/photos/skreuzer/354316053/ 10. Jared Stein – PLE Mapping http://www.flickr.com/photos/5tein/2314107350 11. Stephen Downes – PLE http://www.gliffy.com/pubdoc/1092065/L.jpg 12. Martin Weller – PLE http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/12/06/pwe_3.jpg 13. D’Arcy Norman – PLE http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnorman/2314258583/sizes/o 14. Scott Leslei – PLE http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/file/view/swl_ple2.gif 15. Alec Couros – PLE http://nwinton.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/the-networked-teacher.png?w=530&h=496 16. “Cloud Gate” http://www.flickr.com/photos/ancawonka/65927497 23. Holy Grail Screencaphttp://patdollard.com/wp-content/uploads/holygrail004.jpg 25. “That Huge Lecture Theatre” http://www.flickr.com/photos/teddy-rised/2814710002/ 26. Tombstone Generator http://www.activedayton.com/e/content/oh/media/entertainment/comics_games/tombstones/index.html 27. “Hard to Choose” http://www.flickr.com/photos/edublogger/546056545 32. Obama in Germany http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/2699346313/sizes/o 34. “information hydrant” http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2595497078/ 43. “ED+DS” http://www.flickr.com/photos/john/3374835896 44. “bridge to nowhere” http://www.flickr.com/photos/whalt/2042503265 45. Game Race cc-by-nc @jonmott 46. “Road Sign in Southern Utah” http://www.flickr.com/photos/mott/3638375571 47. “Japan: Osaka-jo outer moat, 1” http://www.flickr.com/photos/53537358@N00/3005861124 48. “The Secret Gardens at Tregwainton” http://www.flickr.com/photos/zawtowers/3758680364 50. & 51. Wikipedia Book http://www.rob-matthews.com/index.php?/project/wikipedia / 56. “The Fall of the Berlin Wall” http://www.flickr.com/photos/antaldaniel/2912118873 57. “HSM.07.09.02.R1.02.B” http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomas-merton/1518786870 59. Michael Chasen en Matthew Pittinskyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/pklaassen/68271156 59. Edupunk2 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/2533948716 60. Pushmi-Pullyuhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/91772025@N00/444044158/sizes/l 61. Chimera http://www.flickr.com/photos/dynamosquito/2814125967 64. “conversation” http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnorman/3812258149 65. Michael Bolton http://www.flickr.com/photos/alan-light/2089141748 68. Student w/ Scantron Image From “A Vision of Students Today” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o) 69. “ScantronTriforce” http://www.flickr.com/photos/dooom2000/3044127020/ 70. “Success! Undergrad Graduation” http://www.flickr.com/photos/m00by/2539347606/ 72. “Fast Food Drive-Thru Attendant” http://www.flickr.com/photos/pine_red/140919614 73. “I wish for a fulfilled life” http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanchow/3517557789/ 76. “Sneaky Messages” http://www.flickr.com/photos/tommyhuynh/1219122548/ 77. “Typical” http://www.flickr.com/photos/22916851@N08/2213292811/ 78. “16/365: Chinese New Year” http://www.flickr.com/photos/nin3rszxd/3230241116/ 80. “Using the iPod Book” http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctabu/117954644/in/photostream/ 81. “165.” http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoe-campbell/3714841958/ 82. Notes in Class cc-by-nc @dbiser 83. Elvis http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elvis_presley.jpg 84. “Candy Corn” http://www.flickr.com/photos/gunsotsu/1720203320 88. “ah” (stuck) http://www.flickr.com/photos/pikesville/131255519/in/photostream/ 97. 105. 107. Icon images courtesy of http://vistaicons.com 114. “Prince” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prince_%28musician%29.jpg 115. “Tube Train Approach” http://www.flickr.com/photos/skullyfm/3390155211 116. “Luther nails his 95 theses to the church door” http://archive.elca.org/archives/luther/Luther95Thesis.jpg