The Evolution of Learning:
from Classroom to Cloud
Dr. Minjuan Wang
Professor of Educational Technology
San Diego State University (CA, USA)
EBTIC Research Fellow
mwang@mail.sdsu.edu
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San Diego, California
Mind that Moves the World!
http://www.sdsu.edu
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http://edtec.sdsu.edu
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Agenda
1. Classroom
2. Online learning
3. Mobile learning
4. Cloud learning
5. EduHub
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Minjuan Wang & Laura Bock
The Evolution of Learning
Knowledge
Creation/
Exchange
Open up time and place
for learning
Open up time and place
for extended operations and
improved decision making
Personal
Devices
Empowered
Real Work &
Learning
Indistinguishable
Skills
Transfer
Information
Transfer
Controlled
Data and analysis
where
and when you need it
Decentralized
Centralized
AuthorityCentered
RecipientCentered
TeamCentered
Community-Centered
(real and virtual)
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Classroom As in the Award-Winning Movie: Not
One Less
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Breeze/Adobe Connect
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Blended/Hybrid Classroom Using AdobeConnect
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Online Learning:
teach & research
An instructional Design Model
& a sample product
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Cybergogy for Engaged
Learning
(Wang & Kang, 2006; 2007)
• Pedagogy: teaching
methods for k-12
• Andragogy: for adults
• Cybergogy: for online
http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/
en/Cybergogy
learning
w i n e k n o w•Self-regulated
•Ownership of learning
for the modern wIne novIce
•Generative learning
•Knowledge construction
Cognitive
presence
•Feeling confident
•Feeling secure
•Feeling comfortable
•Feeling curious
Engaged
Learning
Emotive
presence
Social
presence
•Sharing
•Cohesiveness
•Acceptance
•Collaborative
learning
Online Learning Environment
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About Presence (the Lana example)
•Social presence/visibility
–presenting oneself as a “real person” in a virtual learning environment
•Cognitive presence
–sharing information and resources, and constructing new knowledge
•Emotive presence
–expressing feelings of self, others, learning
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wine know
for the modern wIne novIce
Course Design
Framework
Cognitive Factors
Cognitive
Factors
Keller’s ARCS
Constructivism
Adult Learning Theory
Cognitive Load Theory
Behaviorism
Engaged
Learning
Emotive Factors
• Feeling of self
• Feeling of community
• Feeling of learning
atmosphere
• Feeling of learning
process
• Prior knowledge/Experience
• Achievement of goals
• Learning activity
• Cognitive/learning style
Emotive
Factors
Social
Factors
Social Factors
Online Learning
Environment
• Personal attributes
• Context
• Community
• Communication
Social Constructivism
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Research on Mobile
Learning
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OLD DEFINITION
Focused mainly on learning
with mobile devices;
techno-centric
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NEW DEFINITION
Focuses on learner mobility,
learner- and communitycentered
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Learner Mobility
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Two-Way Satellite
Shanghai
Telecom
ADSL
Xin Jiang
University
Ning Xia
University
Yan’an
University
Tibet西藏大学
University
Classroom
教室群
Cluster
SJTU，ZJU
XJTU
2.5G/3G
Mobile Users
IP Network
Available Everywhere
Updatable Anytime
IP TV broadcasting
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E-Learning Classroom (hybrid)
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Mobilegogy (Track 2A.1)
Research on Cloudbased Learning：
iLearning on iCampus
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The intelligent campus (iCampus) initiative
~ URL: http://ic12.intelligentcampus.org/~
“We shape our buildings, and
our buildings shape our lives.”
- Churchill
Commercial in confidence
© British Telecommunications plc 2010
A Recent Article from Chronicle
• A Technological Cloud Hangs
Over Higher Education
– The instructor becomes the
multimedia rainmaker who summons
from the cloud…
– Library is in the cloud
– Lecture Demos in the cloud
– Everything is in the cloud—even
some of the most popular instructors.
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Cloud Learning
» A shared pool of learning courses, digital assets and resources are
provided to learners and instructors, via computers and other
devices on-demand, similar to a public utility - you can plug into it
from anywhere
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Cloud Learning
Cloud
Learning
Application & Service Cloud
Platform & Database Cloud
Infrastructure Cloud
Cloud learning is built on the three services
models (infrastructure, platform, and software)
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CL: Characteristics
• Storage & Share
• Universal Accessibility
• Collaborative Interaction
• Learner Centered
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Mobile Cloud Education (
MCE or MCL, a novel unification of cloud and mobile learning, is a
relatively new concept that holds great promises for the future
development of education (Hirsch & Ng, 2010).
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iTunes University (iTU)
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Cloud Based Initiatives
College of Future Could Be Come One,
Come All
Coursera.com:
Social entrepreneurship company partnering with universities to offer
free online courses
Udacity.com
New cloud education venture, aspires to “build a free virtual campus
which could reach the whole world”
Cloud Based Initiatives
A MCL System prototype
Cloud Architecture (More in
Track 2A.4)
cloud-based
mobile portal
Display
and
access
①SOA
Learning
Course
center
center
center
learning
portfolios
resource
base
internet learning
platform
web service
Personal
user
information
Personal
Learning
Course
Subsidiary
center
center
center
function
② based on HTML5 cloud
application architecture
multi-screen in one
Identification
continuous learning
mobile browser
mobile application
mobile browser
upload and sharing
download and management
Cloud management can synchronize learners’ progress and record to the “cloud”, so
as to support learning on different devices without interruption.
View one Lesson: the Fantastic Fountain
Learner login
Course learning
Course testing
Course comment
Finishing course
learning
The Education Hub Initiative
A Global
Education
Network with
International links
that spawns
from the UAE.
Connection of the iClassroom@KAU to an
international “EduHub”
CONNECTED BY ICLASSROOMS
THE I-TECHNOLOGIES IN PLACE AT U OF
ESSEX
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Selected Publications
• IEEE Transactions on Education
• British Journal of Educational Technology
(BJET)
• Educational Technology Research and
Development (ETRD)
• Educational technology and society
• Open Education Research
• Computers and Education
See: http://tinyurl.com/minjuan
Copies available by email.
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Questions
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