e-learning and new frontiers of web 2.0:

i-pertinent social tagging

web 2.0 …its impact on e-learning

• not just software … rather, a community• open access• peer production• not just consumers• but producers too• centrality of the “prosumer”

The challenges to be met by e-learning1. Think in terms of a “plural conception”2. Develop “communities”3. “Share” knowledge4. Put the emphasis on the

so-called “informal learning”

1 Think in terms of a “plural conception”

• … not culture

• … but cultures

• … not knowledge

• … but knowledges

2 Develop “communities”• Consider the experiences of emerging

communities

• Understand their strengths

• Redefine the relationship between learning and practice

3 “Share” knowledge• Reform our way of

thinking• Share resources• Interconnect the

systems of knowledge • Reward sharing

”Social tagging”• A new form of “networking”

• Going beyond taxonomies

• Assertion of folksonomies

• New ways to usethe networks

Beyond social tagging “for fun” • “Tagging” knowledge

resources– objective - metadata – subjective - tags

• Enable resources to be used and shared

How and what kind of “tags”• Tags consistent

with people’s– personal – learning– professional

experiences

• Pertinence

Beyond social tagging “for fun”• Tag clouds

– calculation of occurrences – representation of

folksonomies

“i-pertinent social tagging”• beyond the occurrence…

• evaluate the correlations between tags

• understand the relationships

• construct the social meanings of pertinence

“i-pertinent social tagging”• foster bottom-up processes

• organise knowledge

• social construction of meanings

• bring the community zeitgeist to the surface

4 Put the emphasis on “informal learning”

• Salvage experience

4 Put the emphasis on “informal learning”

• Help tacit knowledge come to the surface • Overcome the 20/80 paradox (Cross 2005)

• Govern, monitor and “accredit” informal learning

• Recognise and manage “pervasive education”

Thank you for your attention

• The paper is on www.thinktag.org• Use tags: e-learning, thinktag• d.dekerckhove@utoronto.ca• germano.paini@goaling.it