A. Dias de Figueiredo, 1999 Information Society Technology Conference, IST’99, Helsinki, November 22-24, 1999 Slide 1 IST’99 HELSINKI, November 22-24, 1999 NET LEARNING Session Organizations and Learning Technologies: How to Make them Meet – the Ultimate Alignment Imperative António Dias de Figueiredo Department of Informatics Engineering University of Coimbra, Portugal

A. Dias de Figueiredo, 1999 Information Society Technology Conference, IST’99, Helsinki, November 22-24, 1999 Slide 2 People learn … … by being told Traditional schools and training paradigm CONTENT is “delivered” to them …

A. Dias de Figueiredo, 1999 Information Society Technology Conference, IST’99, Helsinki, November 22-24, 1999 Slide 3 People learn … … by accessing resources Self-study paradigm They have access to CONTENT

A. Dias de Figueiredo, 1999 Information Society Technology Conference, IST’99, Helsinki, November 22-24, 1999 Slide 4 People learn … … by collaborating collaborative paradigm They access CONTENT in a world of CONTEXT

A. Dias de Figueiredo, 1999 Information Society Technology Conference, IST’99, Helsinki, November 22-24, 1999 Slide 5 How do you use THE NET for people to learn … … by being told? You pipe CONTENT through THE NET

A. Dias de Figueiredo, 1999 Information Society Technology Conference, IST’99, Helsinki, November 22-24, 1999 Slide 6 … by accessing resources? How do you use THE NET for people to learn … You let them have access to CONTENT through THE NET

A. Dias de Figueiredo, 1999 Information Society Technology Conference, IST’99, Helsinki, November 22-24, 1999 Slide 7 … by collaborating? How do you use THE NET for people to learn … What?!

A. Dias de Figueiredo, 1999 Information Society Technology Conference, IST’99, Helsinki, November 22-24, 1999 Slide 8 There is no doubt that part of the future of learning is to be found on CONTENT … … but a significant part of it – maybe the most significant part – is to be found on CONTEXT

A. Dias de Figueiredo, 1999 Information Society Technology Conference, IST’99, Helsinki, November 22-24, 1999 Slide 9 … on the production of CONTENT and on the “delivery” of CONTENT… We have been concentrating, so far, … We already know a lot about it! We can even contemplate standardization. And that’s good!

A. Dias de Figueiredo, 1999 Information Society Technology Conference, IST’99, Helsinki, November 22-24, 1999 Slide 10 But … … activity rich, interaction rich, and culturally rich social environments? … what do we know about how to make learning happen in …

A. Dias de Figueiredo, 1999 Information Society Technology Conference, IST’99, Helsinki, November 22-24, 1999 Slide 11 The tools we use for intellectual mediation profundly influence the sense we make of the World (Vygotsky) The conceptualisation of knowledge is a social artifact that is maintained through communities of peers (Kuhn)

A. Dias de Figueiredo, 1999 Information Society Technology Conference, IST’99, Helsinki, November 22-24, 1999 Slide 12 … that of building CONTEXT-RICH VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES … The biggest challenge of NET LEARNING environments is …

A. Dias de Figueiredo, 1999 Information Society Technology Conference, IST’99, Helsinki, November 22-24, 1999 Slide 13 … where individual and collective learning takes place and where the learners take responsibility not just for their individual learning but also for the cooperative construction of spaces of belonging where collective knowledge develops.

A. Dias de Figueiredo, 1999 Information Society Technology Conference, IST’99, Helsinki, November 22-24, 1999 Slide 14 How can THE NET be used to strengthen and improve the creation of this CONTEXT? How can it be managed?

A. Dias de Figueiredo, 1999 Information Society Technology Conference, IST’99, Helsinki, November 22-24, 1999 Slide 15 CONTE X T! case studies debatesdirected dialogues panel discussions problem solving projects question posing role playing simulations small group discussions socratic dialoguesstory telling story listening action learning incidental learning project based learning learning by doing situated learning learning by reflection learning by teaching learning from mistakes

A. Dias de Figueiredo, 1999 Information Society Technology Conference, IST’99, Helsinki, November 22-24, 1999 Slide 16 learning by reflection situated learning CONTE X T! case studies debatesdirected dialogues panel discussions problem solving projects question posing role playing simulations small group discussions socratic dialoguesstory telling story listening action learning incidental learning learning by designing learning by doing learning by teaching learning from mistakes ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING Educational Research Educational Research Organisational Learning CONSTRUCTIVISM ACTIVITY THEORY, ACTION LEARNING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMET THE ALIGNMENT IMPERATIVE!

A. Dias de Figueiredo, 1999 Information Society Technology Conference, IST’99, Helsinki, November 22-24, 1999 Slide 17 communities of practice WORK communities of learning EDUCATION communities of interests CULTURE & LEISURE In the future we are inventing, they are… … a SINGLE TYPE OF COMMUNITY

A. Dias de Figueiredo, 1999 Information Society Technology Conference, IST’99, Helsinki, November 22-24, 1999 Slide 18 The exploration of this alignment is critical for the positioning of Europe in the emerging Knowledge Society. It should be put very high in our collective Agenda for Research, Development … … and Action!

A. Dias de Figueiredo, 1999 Information Society Technology Conference, IST’99, Helsinki, November 22-24, 1999 Slide 19 The PROMETEUS special interest group on Organisational and Cooperative Learning is putting its core on this vision … … and you are invited to join in!