1. Connected learning and the role of context
How connecting content, people
and semantics can create new learning opportunities
Prof Derek W. Keats
Deputy Vice Chancellor (Knowledge & Information Management) The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

2. In ancient times people used
computers to send and...

3. ... to surf the Web in web browsers that only opened HTML pages
Feb 1998
... to surf the Web in web browsers that only opened HTML pages

4. In those days, you actually had to search yourself!!!!
Feb 1998
Search = find stuff that was posted weeks, months or years ago, and if we are lucky has been 'spidered' by now, and don't bother trying to give me meaninful information.
In those days, you actually had to search yourself!!!!

5. I only use email to talk to old people.
What's ?
Then something changed...

6. Let us leave the 20th Century behind...

7. ...and jump to the 21st Century

8. Miw Sher, it's all about the conversations

10. Information and services on the web have meaning (semantics)

11. Context: what are you doing?

12. Where are you and who is around you?

13. Temporal: what's happening right now that might be relevant?

15. Semantic: automatically finding that which is meaningful and suitable for my context, in this location, now?

16. flies that are active nearby today before dark?
Find all edible
flies that are active nearby today before dark?

17. I just love reading text on my computer
so much!
The educator's fantasy...

18. Enter the Personal Learning Environment

19. Built on a stack of FOSS applications and libraries using a suite of FOSS development and collaboration tools

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