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SocialLearn Workshop - Open Invite - July 1/2, 2008

Some eagle-eyed readers may well have picked up on reports about the SocialLearn workshop that was run over a couple of days last week for members of the OU community (see a write up here, here or here, or even this review from an OU workshop session on SocialLearn held yesterday). A second workshop is being held next week that is open to all-comers from the wider ed tech community:

You are invited to attend a workshop to hear about the OU’s SocialLearn project, and to contribute your views on social learning and teaching in a Web 2.0 world.

We are bringing together participants from educational institutions and business from across the country to discuss the potential and the pitfalls of learning, mentoring, and doing business on the Open, Social, Free and For-Fee Web.

* What are the characteristics of web-native learners, and what tools do they want/need?
* What new learning/business opportunities – and risks – are opened up by social networking and media sharing tools?
* What do you think of the prototype tools that we will preview?
* Do we need to reframe our ideas of learning and teaching?
* What is a university, if many of its current services were disaggregated to specialist providers on the Web?

If interested, please email SociaLearn with a brief statement of your background, and what you would hope to add to these discussions.

On confirmation of your place [which are running out fast - though I think there are still a couple available...], you will be invited to join the social network that provides our 24/7 space before, during and after the event. All accommodation, food and reasonable travel costs are covered. The workshop is a 24 hour event from noon 1-2 July, at Horwood House, near Milton Keynes.
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I'll also be running a SocialLearn workshop at the IWMW 2008 gathering in Aberdeen, assuming I manage to book a flight/train up there in time (hmmm.... maybe should do that now?!) so it'd be great to see you at either one or the other (or both!) of these events... :-)

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