Can Socialisation and Mass Personalisation CoExist

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Can Socialisation and Mass Personalisation
Co-Exist?
Mary Kiernan and Ray Stoneham
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The idea of the PLE
Web 2.0 and the personal learning experience of
the net generation Scott Wilson 2006
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Individuality vs Mutuality
Stephen Downes Beyond Management Ed-Media 2009
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I am an individual
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True Personalisation is idealistic

• We still need
• students to meet fixed learning outcomes
• who will function in society
• to meet employers needs esp teamworking and
  communication.
• It will work for some
• those who are very focused and
• those who have the joy of individual learning

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Serendipity verses synergy?

• Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle
  and finding a farmers wife Julius Comroe Jr.
  (1976).

Pfizer were testing their new drug for angina
with surprising side effects.
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Synergy The sum of the whole is greater than
the sum of the individual parts Dunn
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The loneliness of the truly personalised learner

• They may socialise but never experience
  socialisation
• Does this matter? We argue that it is essential.

How can we provide socialisation in a
personalised environment?
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