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Ubiquitous Learning - Spatio-Temporal Dimensions of Learning
Ubiquitous Learning—so that learning extends beyond the walls of the classroom and the cells of the timetable. Learning that breaks out of these spatial and temporal confinements, should be as good as, or even better than, the best traditional classroom learning. It should also produce habits of mind appropriate to our times, producing lifelong learners, able to learn and to share knowledge throughout their lives, in all contexts, and grounded in those contexts.
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Comment: Make a comment below this update about the ways in which ubiquitous learning technologies can change the nature of learning. Respond to others' comments with @name.
Post an Update: Make an update introducing a ubiquitous learning concept on the community page (not your personal page - because only peers will see that!). Define the concept and provide at least one example of the concept in practice. Be sure to add links or other references, and images or other media to illustrate your point. If possible, select a concept that nobody has addressed yet so we get a well-balanced view of ubiquitous learning. Also, comment on at least three or four updates by other participants. Ubiquitous learning concepts might include:
- Ubiquitous computing
- Cloud computing
- Web 2.0
- The flipped classroom
- Blended learning
- Over-the-shoulder learning
- Virtual schools
- The internet of things
- Mobile learning
- Social media learning
- Networked learning
- Informal learning
- Lifelong and lifewide learning
- Work and community-based learning
- Learning management systems
- ePortfolios
- Collaborative workspaces
- MOOCs
- Suggest a ubiquitous learning concept in need of definition!
Dashboards and mashups can be powerful tools in both learning and teaching contexts. They allow for the integration of various data sources and visual representations of information, which can enhance understanding and engagement.
Experiences:
Data Visualization: Dashboards help in visualizing complex data sets, making it easier for students to grasp concepts and trends at a glance. I have seen teachers use them to track student performance and engagement metrics, which can lead to more informed instructional decisions.
Real-time Feedback: In a learning environment, dashboards can provide students with immediate feedback on their progress through formative assessments, enabling timely interventions and personalized learning experiences.
Collaborative Projects: Mashups, which combine content from different sources, foster collaboration among students. For example, a project might involve combining maps, social media feeds, and historical data to create a comprehensive view of a topic, promoting critical thinking and analysis.
Challenges:
Technical Skills: One of the main challenges is the varying levels of technological proficiency among both teachers and students. Training may be required to ensure everyone is comfortable using these tools effectively.
Data Overload: While dashboards can present valuable data, they can also lead to information overload if not designed thoughtfully. It’s important to prioritize the most relevant metrics to avoid confusing users.
Integration Issues: Combining data from multiple sources can sometimes lead to compatibility issues, requiring additional time and effort to ensure everything works smoothly together.
Overall, using dashboards and mashups in education can greatly enrich the learning experience, but careful planning and execution are essential to overcome the associated challenges.
Dashboards and mashups can be powerful tools in both learning and teaching contexts. They allow for the integration of various data sources and visual representations of information, which can enhance understanding and engagement.
Experiences:
Data Visualization: Dashboards help in visualizing complex data sets, making it easier for students to grasp concepts and trends at a glance. I have seen teachers use them to track student performance and engagement metrics, which can lead to more informed instructional decisions.
Real-time Feedback: In a learning environment, dashboards can provide students with immediate feedback on their progress through formative assessments, enabling timely interventions and personalized learning experiences.
Collaborative Projects: Mashups, which combine content from different sources, foster collaboration among students. For example, a project might involve combining maps, social media feeds, and historical data to create a comprehensive view of a topic, promoting critical thinking and analysis.
Challenges:
Technical Skills: One of the main challenges is the varying levels of technological proficiency among both teachers and students. Training may be required to ensure everyone is comfortable using these tools effectively.
Data Overload: While dashboards can present valuable data, they can also lead to information overload if not designed thoughtfully. It’s important to prioritize the most relevant metrics to avoid confusing users.
Integration Issues: Combining data from multiple sources can sometimes lead to compatibility issues, requiring additional time and effort to ensure everything works smoothly together.
Overall, using dashboards and mashups in education can greatly enrich the learning experience, but careful planning and execution are essential to overcome the associated challenges.
Dashboards and mashups can be powerful tools in both learning and teaching contexts. They allow for the integration of various data sources and visual representations of information, which can enhance understanding and engagement.
Experiences:
Data Visualization: Dashboards help in visualizing complex data sets, making it easier for students to grasp concepts and trends at a glance. I have seen teachers use them to track student performance and engagement metrics, which can lead to more informed instructional decisions.
Real-time Feedback: In a learning environment, dashboards can provide students with immediate feedback on their progress through formative assessments, enabling timely interventions and personalized learning experiences.
Collaborative Projects: Mashups, which combine content from different sources, foster collaboration among students. For example, a project might involve combining maps, social media feeds, and historical data to create a comprehensive view of a topic, promoting critical thinking and analysis.
Challenges:
Technical Skills: One of the main challenges is the varying levels of technological proficiency among both teachers and students. Training may be required to ensure everyone is comfortable using these tools effectively.
Data Overload: While dashboards can present valuable data, they can also lead to information overload if not designed thoughtfully. It’s important to prioritize the most relevant metrics to avoid confusing users.
Integration Issues: Combining data from multiple sources can sometimes lead to compatibility issues, requiring additional time and effort to ensure everything works smoothly together.
Overall, using dashboards and mashups in education can greatly enrich the learning experience, but careful planning and execution are essential to overcome the associated challenges.
Dashboards and mashups can be powerful tools in both learning and teaching contexts. They allow for the integration of various data sources and visual representations of information, which can enhance understanding and engagement.
Experiences:
Data Visualization: Dashboards help in visualizing complex data sets, making it easier for students to grasp concepts and trends at a glance. I have seen teachers use them to track student performance and engagement metrics, which can lead to more informed instructional decisions.
Real-time Feedback: In a learning environment, dashboards can provide students with immediate feedback on their progress through formative assessments, enabling timely interventions and personalized learning experiences.
Collaborative Projects: Mashups, which combine content from different sources, foster collaboration among students. For example, a project might involve combining maps, social media feeds, and historical data to create a comprehensive view of a topic, promoting critical thinking and analysis.
Challenges:
Technical Skills: One of the main challenges is the varying levels of technological proficiency among both teachers and students. Training may be required to ensure everyone is comfortable using these tools effectively.
Data Overload: While dashboards can present valuable data, they can also lead to information overload if not designed thoughtfully. It’s important to prioritize the most relevant metrics to avoid confusing users.
Integration Issues: Combining data from multiple sources can sometimes lead to compatibility issues, requiring additional time and effort to ensure everything works smoothly together.
Overall, using dashboards and mashups in education can greatly enrich the learning experience, but careful planning and execution are essential to overcome the associated challenges.
Dashboards and mashups can be powerful tools in both learning and teaching contexts. They allow for the integration of various data sources and visual representations of information, which can enhance understanding and engagement.
Experiences:
Data Visualization: Dashboards help in visualizing complex data sets, making it easier for students to grasp concepts and trends at a glance. I have seen teachers use them to track student performance and engagement metrics, which can lead to more informed instructional decisions.
Real-time Feedback: In a learning environment, dashboards can provide students with immediate feedback on their progress through formative assessments, enabling timely interventions and personalized learning experiences.
Collaborative Projects: Mashups, which combine content from different sources, foster collaboration among students. For example, a project might involve combining maps, social media feeds, and historical data to create a comprehensive view of a topic, promoting critical thinking and analysis.
Challenges:
Technical Skills: One of the main challenges is the varying levels of technological proficiency among both teachers and students. Training may be required to ensure everyone is comfortable using these tools effectively.
Data Overload: While dashboards can present valuable data, they can also lead to information overload if not designed thoughtfully. It’s important to prioritize the most relevant metrics to avoid confusing users.
Integration Issues: Combining data from multiple sources can sometimes lead to compatibility issues, requiring additional time and effort to ensure everything works smoothly together.
Overall, using dashboards and mashups in education can greatly enrich the learning experience, but careful planning and execution are essential to overcome the associated challenges.
Collaborative Intelligence in e-Learning Ecologies
Collaborative intelligence refers to the shared intellectual capacity that emerges when groups of people work together to solve problems, create knowledge, or innovate. In the context of e-learning ecologies, it involves leveraging digital tools, platforms, and methodologies to enable and enhance collective problem-solving and knowledge-building efforts. The goal is to combine the strengths, skills, and perspectives of diverse individuals in a collaborative environment to achieve outcomes that surpass the capabilities of any single contributor.
Example in Practice: Peer-to-Peer Learning with AI Integration
A standout example of collaborative intelligence in e-learning is AI-supported peer-to-peer learning platforms, where learners engage in collaborative projects with the assistance of AI tools. Platforms like Perusall and Peergrade enable students to collaboratively annotate texts, provide peer feedback, and refine their understanding through guided discussions.
Example:
In a blended learning setting, students use Perusall to annotate course readings. AI algorithms highlight areas where the group’s understanding may be weak, prompting collaborative discussions. For example, in a history course, learners collaboratively dissect a primary source document. One student points out bias, another links it to broader historical contexts, and a third refines the group’s interpretation based on peer feedback. The AI ensures everyone is participating meaningfully, flags gaps in understanding, and nudges the group toward deeper insights.
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Pesonalised Learing as Ubiquitous Learning
I would like to share about personalized learning especially through platforms such Coursera, edX and udemy. Personalised learning as a concept ubiquitous learning, focuses on enabling learners to tailor their educational experiences to their unique needs and pace. This approach stands in contrast to the traditional classroom settings, where learners are limited by the fixed curriculum defined by faculty.
Take for example Coursera, personalized learning is enabled through the algorithms that analyse the behaviour of students and their preferences, that is the metadata on each learner. When I explore a course on data analytics, for instance, Coursera’s system identifies my interest and recommends complementary courses—like machine learning, data visualization, or even soft skills like leadership in tech environments. This dynamic approach ensures my learning journey is with my goals.
Personalized learning on Coursera empowers me to chart my own learning path. I can choose from a bouquet of courses across disciplines and tailor my learning to my career aspirations. Unlike traditional classroom settings, where I might be restricted to a limited selection offered by my faculty, Coursera removes these barriers and grants me access to a global classroom. This opportunity ensures that my learning remains relevant and adaptable in today’s fast-changing world, especially in my chosen field of career as a project manager.
Personalized learning tailors educational experiences to the unique needs, interests, and learning paces of individual students.
AI tools provide prompts, suggestions, and resources to ensure discussions are productive.
Update on Blended Learning
Blended learning is transforming education by combining traditional face-to-face instruction with online learning experiences. This hybrid model creates a flexible, engaging, and personalized approach to teaching and learning, leveraging the strengths of both physical and virtual environments.
Key Features of Blended Learning
Flexibility: Students can learn at their own pace and revisit content as needed.
Personalization: Educators can tailor instruction using data from online interactions to address individual learning needs.
Engagement: Multimedia resources, interactive activities, and virtual collaboration tools enhance student involvement.
Accessibility: Students can access materials anytime, breaking down barriers of time and geography.
Common Blended Learning Models
Flipped Classroom: Students engage with online materials (e.g., videos, readings) before class, allowing in-person sessions to focus on active learning and problem-solving.
Station Rotation: Students rotate through different learning stations, including online activities, group discussions, and teacher-led instruction.
Enriched Virtual: Students attend occasional in-person sessions while most learning happens online.
Benefits of Blended Learning
Improved Outcomes: Studies show that combining in-person and online learning can enhance understanding and retention.
Collaboration: Platforms like Microsoft Teams and Google Workspace foster real-time collaboration among peers and educators.
Skill Development: Students build digital literacy and self-regulation skills vital for lifelong learning.
Blended learning represents a versatile and effective educational approach that combines the best of traditional and digital methods to create richer, more adaptable learning ecosystems.
Lifelong and lifewide learning
The internet has reinforced the need for lifelong and lifewide learning, which was already being considered in the 1940s. Some of the guiding documents have yet to explore this issue and it has yet to go beyond adults of working age and vocational training. These moments, to mention more than one concept explored in this module, can occur through informal learning or community-based learning.
A practical example of this is the work carried out in Portugal by Senior Universities and other projects, such as Smart-eu, which, using approaches with seniors only or intergenerational approaches, deal with media literacy issues with these audiences, whether in a face-to-face or online format.
Your comment highlights an important and often underexplored dimension of lifelong and lifewide learning—its application beyond vocational training to include informal, community-based, and intergenerational contexts. The example of Portugal's Senior Universities and initiatives like Smart-eu is particularly inspiring, showcasing how tailored approaches can address media literacy among seniors and foster intergenerational collaboration.
This not only emphasizes the inclusivity of lifelong learning but also demonstrates how it adapts to evolving societal needs, such as digital proficiency. The flexibility of offering both face-to-face and online formats ensures accessibility and relevance, especially in a rapidly digitalizing world.
Your focus on learning as a continuous and holistic journey is a reminder of its transformative potential, enriching lives across generations.
Flipped classroom
Ubiquitous learning processes can take place anywhere, anytime. It doesn't matter whether classroom walls surround us with a teacher and classmates, or if we are located somewhere outside and trying to share our learning experiences through the internet or any technology-mediated learning. This is especially helpful when teachers are pressed for time and are obliged to assign something as a homework assignment; however, it might not be limited to only homework assignments but can also be changed to an e-learning context.I implement a flipped learning approach to enhance my students' listening comprehension skills. Due to time constraints and curriculum requirements, I take the initiative to flip the listening activities myself. I provide my students with audio tracks from listening tactics books that feature three levels: Basic, Developing, and Expanding, allowing them to choose four tracks that match their individual proficiency levels. I ask them to listen to these tracks at home while employing active listening techniques. They listen until they reach the limits of their short-term memory and can no longer retain more information, after which they articulate the information they heard aloud. This method gradually builds their concentration, short-term memory, and overall comprehension. After completing the listening activities, I facilitate discussions in class where students share their experiences, progress, and thoughts about the tracks with their classmates. This collaborative dialogue reinforces their learning and fosters a supportive classroom environment.