Connected learning and
the role of context
How connecting content, people and semantics can create
new
learning opportunities
Prof Derek W. KeatsDeputy Vice Chancellor
(Knowledge & Information Management)
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
http://[email protected]
In ancient times people used computers to send email and...
... to surf the Web in web browsers
that only opened HTML pagesFeb 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!!!!Feb
1998
Then something changed...I only use email to talk to old
people.What's email?
Let us leave the 20th Century behind...
...and jump to the 21st Century
Miw Sher,
it's all
about the
conversations
Information
and services
on the web
have meaning
(semantics)
Context: what are you doing?
Where are you and
who is around you?
Temporal: what's happening
right now that might be relevant?
Semantic: automatically finding that which is meaningful and
suitable for my context, in this location, now?
Find all edibleflies that are active
nearby today
before dark?
The educator's fantasy...I just love
reading
text on my
computerso much!
Enter the Personal Learning Environment
Built on a stack of FOSS applications and libraries using
a suite of FOSS development and collaboration tools
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