Microlearning 080625

Slide 1: Informal e-learning! What does it mean? Microlearning 2008 Innsbruck, Austria Matthias Rohs 1 E-Learning Center 1 University of Zurich

Slide 2: Net Generation at Universities? What does the students do when they alone with a computer? If they learn something with the computer - how should we name that?

Slide 3: History of informal learning Long time ago 1900 2000 Informal e-learning Differentiation between Informal learning formal and informal learning was always Informal learning in ‣ schools part of learning ‣ adult education ‣ vocational training ‣ youth work ‣ environmental education ‣ universities ‣ ....

Slide 4: What is informal e-learning? 3 ways to define it! Define by Define by Define by authority ethomology use in practice

Slide 5: Use in practice How is the term informal e-learning is used in the academic discussion? Expert survey ‣ Online-questionaire ‣ 22 experts ‣ Germany, Switzerland, Austria, USA, GB ‣ Areas of e-learning, informal learning, Higher Education

Slide 6: Findings Criteria for the learning environment ‣ no pedagogical environment ‣ situated ‣ everytime, everywhere ‣ no certification Personal related criteria ‣ self-directed and motivated by personal need ‣ cooperative, dialog-oriented

Slide 7: Informal e-learning is defined by the following technologies, applications ... ‣ Search Engines ‣ Web 2.0 Applications • Social Bookmarks • Social Networks • Wikis • Podcasts • Weblogs • ... ‣ Wikipedia ‣ youtube ‣ Micro-publishing

Slide 8: ... but also by ... ‣ Everything supporting • personal Knowledge Management • communication and Collaboration ‣ not related to any Techology

Slide 9: How to support informal e-learning in higher education? ‣ Individual platforms for students (PLE) ‣ Credit points for informal learning ‣ Culture of openess and autonomy ‣ Understand, what students are doing ‣ Offering project and dialog-oriented methods ‣ Offering courses for (informal) learning How can we support informal e-learning in Higher Education?