Labyrinths of Learning Wikis in Education

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Labyrinths of LearningWikis in Education
Labyrinths of Leaning?
Harrie Manders Fontys University of Applied
Sciences HRM, Knowledge Circle Career Development
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WIKIQUOTES

• Imagination is more important than knowledge. For
  knowledge is limited, whereas imagination
  embraces the entire world, stimulating progress,
  giving birth to evolution
• Bron wikiquotes

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Projects

• From social software to reusable learning objects
  (Surf project)
• HRM Wiki (using the idea of creating a Canon of
  HRM as learning activity) (Grassroots project)
• A dictionary of Career Development
• Creawiki (workshops in creativity and Wikis)
• Labyrinthology (dutch publication, about career
  development)

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The Labyrinth

• Labyrinth David Bowie

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And then the Wikis
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Collaboration
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Co-creation
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openness
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Self organizing
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Connected
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Diversity
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Autonomy
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Chaos And the patterns?
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Evaluation results

• User-friendliness is good
• Low learning rate
• Openness (problem for newcomers)
• Collaboration (community feeling)(its a problem)
• Structuring (needs time)
• When is it finished?

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Philosophical-Pedagogic-didactical Background

• Connectivism
• Unfinished work (work in progress)
• Labyrinths of learning (wandering and looking for
  the unexpected, serendipity)
• Ars inveniendi (the competence to invent, find,
  discover, create, design, innovate )

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Connectivism
Free or controlled learning ?

• Georges Siemens
• Stephen Downes

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Unfinished work

• Teun van Aken, Wouter Reynaert

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Labyrinth of Learning idea

• The ars inveniendi as the thread of Ariadne
• Imagination
• Its a metaphor about labyrinths, mazes and
  mosaics

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Ars Inveniendi

• CREAWIKI
• Give each other a Euro !

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Ars Inveniendi

• CREAWIKI
• Give each other a good idea!

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Extra

• Wikiquotes
• Wikinews
• Wiki Commons
• Wikisources
• Wiktionary
• Wikibooks
• And Wikiversity

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What can you do ?

• Own wiki
• For example seedwiki
• Wikipedia
• Try idea of wikiversity
• The process of wikibuilding
• The spiral of learning
• www.centrumvoortalentontwikkeling.nl
• www.seedwiki.com
• www.hlo.du.nl

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Format reusable learning object

• Concept
• Procedure
• Description, history, other related conceps
• Example
• Learning goal