Keynote and close
2 keynote speaker(s)
704 Terry Anderson
Terry Anderson – Professor and Canada Research Chair in Distance Education at Athabasca University
opening slide -worldle tag cloud

• taxonomy of the many
• open learning

values

• we must continuously improve the quality/effectiveness/appeal/cost/time efficiency of the learning experience.
• student control is integral to life-long education and learning in 21st century
• education for elites is not sufficient for planetary survival

Harmonising disruptive technologies

• managing and aligning pedagogical, technical, and administrative issues is necessary when using emerging technologies
• takes leadership and disruption

no real systemic innovation since 1960s
net presence means creating and sustaining social capital
choosing the right tools http://www.go2web20.net
wengler’s ideas of community of practice
distributed web 2.0  group tools – wiggio
what motivates learners?

• personal and social relevance
• opportunity to do well abd be recognised
• chance  to meet cool peope and engage in coolactivities
• disequilibrium
• rewards

Google wave …
networks of practice rather than communities of practice?
network pedagogies – connectivism, participatory pedagogy, complexity
student organised networks
open education
open journals
open scholars
moodle plugin – brainify
open textbooks – flatworld
705 Closing session with the ALT-C 2009 and ALT-C 2010 conference co-chairs
Tom Boyle, Gilly Salmon, Richard Noss, Vanessa Pittard
Into something rich and strange – making sense of the sea-change
next year in Nottingham