VI Firehose: Challenges and Solutions to Opening Learning

The Firehose session is an opportunity for the OER developers and Learning Science researchers to communicate the challenges and resources they have and to identify potential collaborators. Each person who signs up to speak at the Firehose, has a 2-5 minutes to identify the challenge or resource they either have or are seeking. As each person speaks, Simon Buckingham Shum will use idea mapping software to capture the challenges and resources and map the connections. 

Firehose agenda: http://www.cmu.edu/oli/symposium2008/agenda/Firehose.pdf

RESULTS

Here is the interactive web export from the real time maps created on Day 1, and the thematic map derived from these on Day 2, once they had been tagged and analysed a little further: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/file.php/2824/kmap/1205245197/OLI2008-PowerExport.html

JPEG image of the top level map from the session:

firehose.jpg

The top level themes (raised by at least 2 people) were: 

oli-themes.jpg

These maps can be downloaded as XML and edited in Compendium: drag and drop this zip file onto a Compendium window: 

I am fixing some bugs, after which the maps will be uploaded to our Web 2.0 knowledge mapping tool Cohere [http://cohereweb.net] enabling anyone to add to the maps, and I'll post the link here...

Compendium: freely available Java application inc. source code,  with an active user community whom we support online and at an annual workshop: http://CompendiumInstitute.org 

The OpenLearn version that hides some of the more complex features,  and sets up a new project automatically on installation,  can be downloaded once you have registered and signed into OpenLearn: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?name=KM

(this page also demonstrates the integration of Compendium with the open source Moodle VLE) 

Dialogue Mapping: Compendium as meeting facilitation: http://www.cognexus.org/id41.htm

Conversational Modelling: the systematic use of templates, tags and transclusions to create a more structured hypermedia database through participatory modelling: http://jodi.tamu.edu/Articles/v01/i04/Selvin

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