Beyond I'T' in M'K' Using Knowledge Media to Foster Next Generation Learning

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Beyond I.T. in M.K.Using Knowledge Mediato
Foster Next Generation Learning
Prof. Marc EisenstadtKnowledge Media
InstituteThe Open UniversityMilton Keynes,
UKM.Eisenstadt_at_open.ac.ukkmi.open.ac.uk
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1897 The great commercial highways
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1950s Information Appliance
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And now...
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Now turn to the next problem.If you have 3
Pepsis, and drink 1, how much more refreshed are
you? You the redhead in the Chicago school
system...
Partial credit!
The Simpsons(C) Matt Groening, 1997
Pepsi?
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The Virtual University?

• CMC
• WWW
• HTML
• TCP/IP
• IMS
• XML
• IRC
• VRML

Consider the UKs Open University....

• YUK

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The Mother of AllVirtual Universities
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Just this year...
160,000undergraduates
400 courses
15,000postgraduates
35,000non-degree
13,000outside UK
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Moreover...
4,000 exam venues(90 countries)
8,000 part-timetutors
110,000on-line
3,000,000through our doors
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More numbers
1998

• audiocassettes
• floppy disks
• videocassettes
• CD-ROMs
• hrs Broadcast TV

• 1,000,000
• 350,000
• 250,000
• 100,000
• 800

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More numbers
1998
2000
50,000 350,000

• audiocassettes
• floppy disks
• videocassettes
• CD-ROMs
• hrs Broadcast TV

• 1,000,000
• 350,000
• 250,000
• 100,000
• 800

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Web Presence
http//www.open.ac.uk 300 K hits per
month 6 K reservations per month (of
which about 50 new)
OUBS website 20 K hits per month OU/arts/
9 K OU/science/ 3 K /openscience/
(from TV) 13 K
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Just Look at e-Conferencing

110 K users 16 K conferences 180 courses
Average daily activity 7 K different users
51 K connections 20 K messages sent 150 K
messages read
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Quality Open/Distance Learning

• Open!
• Course team design process
• Strong personal student support
• Top 10 UK Teaching
• Effective logistics

(people, places, methods, ideas)
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The United States Open Universitywww.open.edu
And now
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Five key success factors
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Convergence
Telecomms
Computing
Knowledge Media
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Knowledge Management
Data mining
Configuration design
Organizational memory
Knowledge Systems
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Agents -gt Corporate Memory
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A newsletter, not a knowledge management
system.....

• Smart retrieval
• Find me stories related to knowledge management
  research
• who else works on medical informatics?
• Integrate with other sources, - e.g. web pages,
  mailing lists, personalised news feeds, etc.

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Ontology-driven Document Enrichment
Plus Virtual Participant scours discussions
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D3E-generated user interface
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Digital Audio
Text-to-speech
Special needs
Virtual Science Labs
Tactile multimedia
Multimedia Enabling Technologies
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Quality (shared) experience
Being there
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Wytch Farm Net
Aberdeen Net
PII 400Mz
Dual PII 300Mz
Event Server
AV Encoder
RN Server v5
SoundBlaster Audio
Mike 1
Mike 2
Mike 3
Audio Mix
34 Kbps streams
MM Server v7
Osprey100 Video
Typically PI 133Mz
RN v5 Encoder
Single 34 Kbps stream
Sunbury Net
Participant Clients
34 Kbps streams
Camera 1
Camera 2
Camera 3
Video Switch
Event Server
Presenter Client
RN Server v5
AV Setup
MM Server v7
Typically PI 133Mz
PII 400Mz
PI 166Mz
Single 34 Kbps stream
KMi StadiumSchematic
Event Manager
Slide Processor
Chat Processor
PII 400Mz
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Why is this the future of ed?

• Critical mass
• HCI -gt HHI (Human-Human Interaction)
• Net infinite CD/DVD
• Knowledge sharing new repositories
• Peer critiquing mentoring facilitating
• Great culture shift ownership/empowerment

Universal Knowledge Media