1. The future for learning …will you be there? Gilly Salmon 4 th Learning & Teaching Conference 5 th January 2007 Prof of E-learning & Learning Technologies University of Leicester National Teaching Fellow “Imagination is the beginning of creation” George Bernard Shaw “The best way to predict the future is to invent it” Alan C. Kay Fellow at Apple Computer Inc

2. 1. Creating the future for learning? 2. The new toys 3. Examples from research at Leicester “Imagination is the beginning of creation” George Bernard Shaw “The best way to predict the future is to invent it” Alan C. Kay Fellow at Apple Computer Inc

3. Stakeholders in the future “Imagination is the beginning of creation” George Bernard Shaw “The best way to predict the future is to invent it” Alan C. Kay Fellow at Apple Computer Inc

4. Landing for gathers Research Heights Dot.com Marsh Shadowlands Techno Jungle Opportunity Falls Early Adopt River Temple Of Pedagogy Peaks of Duty Techie Firewall Mount Administration Spring of Innovation Government Cumulus Isle of Instead Of Management Camp As Well Bay E-learning University Land Hunters plain

5. Toys & technologies “Imagination is the beginning of creation” George Bernard Shaw “The best way to predict the future is to invent it” Alan C. Kay Fellow at Apple Computer Inc

9. “It’s made of people. It’s not content”” “People doing things together on the Web” “Platforms that other people can build on” “The two-way web where content finds you!” “Activities rather than applications” “Harnessing collective intelligence” Rich media: Audio-visual Photos Radio-waves Spatial and geographic Web linked with real, physical space Like –minds Profile matching Affinity Syndication Update on changing content Weblogs Wikis Folkssonomy Bookmarks, searchable by others Web 2.0

12. “The individual learner has many choices available for personal learning. The list of social software technology is long and is growing. …there is also a need for a response from formal education” Futurelab, Social software and learning.2006 P. 58

17. http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

21. http://openlearn.open.ac.uk /

23. Creating Learning Futures at Leicester Beyond Distance Research “Imagination is the beginning of creation” George Bernard Shaw “The best way to predict the future is to invent it” Alan C. Kay Fellow at Apple Computer Inc

24. Existing Students Existing Technology New Students Existing Technology Mission / Market Present New Present New Pedagogy/ Technology Existing Students New Technology New Students New Technology peripheral core

25. Media zoo www.le.ac.uk/beyonddistance/mediazoo

27. Resources http://www.atimod.com http://www.le.ac.uk/beyonddistance http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html http://tim.oreilly.com/ http://www.tagzania.com/ http://www.learnometer.net/ http://www.futurelab.org.uk/ http://www.heppell.net/ Learning futures conference at Leicester 9-10 th January NEXT WEEK!