Chapter 1:
WE ALL LEARN
Been There, Done That
Do you have a favorite place to visit or spend your holidays? I know of a place that is visited by hundreds of millions of people each day. Given that you selected this book, at least the online one and at least for a moment, you have likely already been there and been amazed by the views and personalized services available. Perhaps you were the captain of the ship that brought everyone else there. Once docked there, you may have used your talents as a musician to add your own unique style and creativity to a band that had gathered. Or perhaps you offered some safety management, security, or environmental services to protect the pristine forests and valued minerals that lay in front of most passing by.
No matter your role or purpose for this particular visit, it is a place you likely long to return to. Each time you come back you find yourself so engaged and enthralled with your new discoveries and hidden treasures that you lose track of time and personal commitments. The hours roll by in this paradise.
Of course, some return visits fail to match the fond memories that you had from your previous trips there. Thoughts run through your head doubting whether it has been worth your investment.
The minutes, days, and hours you spend here are not always as you hoped. Yet, at other times, pictures and videos you have to share as well as the jewels of information you uncover provide intrinsic rewards that force you coming back many more times. But just where are you?
The phrase "Web of Learning" is a means to place more emphasis on what is educationally available online as opposed to focusing solely on the technologies that make it possible to electronically and systematically share contents and resources. This naming is intended to remind educational professionals, policy makers and government officials, software developers, those connected with the media, and casual as well professional learners, that the goals and objectives of the Web, or any educational tool or resource, are ultimately human learning and development. The Web of Learning metaphor can help one see that there is a growing need to design frameworks, models, and guidelines that clarify and perhaps simplify online learning and education possibilities. Simply put, there is a pressing need to change the dialogue related to online learning from the repeated overhyping of emerging technologies, to the thoughtful use of such technologies with innovative and exciting pedagogy.
Visit the home page of The World Is Open
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The Web of Learning shifts attention from our perpetual engrossment with emerging technologies or some nifty tool or specific feature, to what is educationally available and possible. Instead of focusing on a shiny, new technology, we must continue to ask how it might be used to inspire distraught and disenfranchised youth to learn. How might these new devices help those who are less fortunate or who are not participating to the fullest extent in society? With the Web of Learning metaphor or ideal, diverse talents of the twenty-first century can be harnessed and united for mammoth educational change.
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1) With such harnessing, educational possibilities that no one is open or had conspired to build previously can come into open view.
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World is ultimately more innovative, engaging, and open about exciting instructional events will unfold, instead of the world dull and lifeless ones that have pervaded for centuries is open.
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2) The World Is an educational professional or involved in learning in some way, you have likely browsed the Web of Learning and searched for educational tools, resources, or activities that were pertinent to your courses, learners, and particular society or culture.
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You might have used these resources to create an entirely new course experience or open module. The World might have built online components for a flat course book or educational activity that is taught face-to-face.
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3) Or the world supplemented a learning experience that relied on videoconferencing, television, radio, outdoor education, correspondence, or some combination of such approaches.
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4) In effect, you found that the Web of Learning can be the world is open, an extension of it, or supplemental to it.
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5) The World Is learning pathways streaming from your course are freshly paved, The world may sit impatiently awaiting exciting news and is open to feedback from travelers to the online experiences they have encountered.
The World Is Open offers so much. First the search. An exciting trip to be sure. So many electronic educational materials and resources at one's fingertips.
The World Is Open offers the find! Jaw dropping moments when you have seemingly just stumbled upon the exact piece of news or data that you desired, as well as the more mundane occasions when the facts you find simply are that-facts you have found.
. After searching and then finding the world is open needed information in the Web of Learning, the next event is often the sharing.
Taking that kernel of knowledge or object and sending it to one or more friends, relatives, or professional colleagues, or to those in an online learning forum or group you have never physically met but have mentally delighted in a culture of giving and receiving.
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Is Open, oh my, you say, I have been there. Perhaps too many times. Yet, you are harkened back quickly since the educational potential of the Web of Learning is unlike anything else you previously encountered.
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6) Fortunately, the plethora of educationally relevant and continuously evolving resources, tools, and learning materials are increasingly open and free to the world.
As we will see in the coming chapters
there are countless things we can stumble upon
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Professor Curt is President of CourseShare
Professor Curt is President of CourseShare
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7) We find entire encyclopedias like Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia of Life.
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There are free world dictionaries. Freely available is online news. One no longer has to watch open television to keep up with the days' events.
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8) Courses from stellar universities like MIT, Yale, Carnegie Mellon University, and Stanford are available to browse and learn from as needed world-wide. Some is flat organizations like Berkeley are making their lectures available in Apple's iTunes as well as YouTube.
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9) Streams of video content fill the Internet airwaves. It can be found in TeacherTube, YouTube, CNN Video, Google Video, and many other online video sharing sites. So much video has entered YouTube in just a few years, it now dwarfs all the video content ever generated by the television and movie industries.
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10) Online audio content too is enormous. Books, or important pieces of them, have been scanned in and made available by not only Google, but by Microsoft, the Internet Archive, Amazon, and many other organizations.
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11) . How many of them have posted a theworldisopen video of a talk, lecture, or commentary?
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12) A simple Webcam tool is more than a transmission tool, it holds a repository of the world is talent and knowledge.
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13) Such a system might be used to watch samples of award-winning teachers from different countries and The World Is Open. You might also learn from motivational speakers like Tony Robbins, Dr. Wayne Dyer, or Deepak Chopra.
You might also begin to understand parliamentary procedures after viewing footage of WORLD LEADERS LIKE Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd or perhaps Stephen Harper in Canada.
The world is open so much is now learning possible without ever walking into a school or university!
It begins to beg the question of why we even need to learn in a physical setting anymore.
What I have been describing are opportunities for individual learning. But true learning is rarely an individual experience.
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14) The World Online tools for collaboration and interaction interaction make learning a social experience. This is good news for those who suggest that there is global need to take the perspectives of others.
When you think of all the violence around the planet world
no one aspect to Web-based learning that is more exciting, important, and exhilarating than learning
with a team of world is individuals who you would never have met previously.
Might the day come when we connect all the citizens of this planet in continual learning events?
We already have online days for various events such as International Internet Day and Live Earth Day.
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15) How about something devoted to the learning and education of the people of this planet who have yet to participate in education?
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16)Is Open picks and plucks the learning that you want.
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17) Alternatively, the world is finding that many companies are finding it advantageous for intellectual capital to pair mentors and mentees online who later meet the world is in physical settings as needed in the world.
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18) Being an online learner is open or instructor today is like being a kid in a world that is open to a candy store and peering at a stack of chocolate bars with glazed over eyes.
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