{"id":340,"date":"2017-09-30T09:47:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T16:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/?p=340"},"modified":"2017-10-01T16:11:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T23:11:13","slug":"assignment-6-abundant-content-for-lifelong-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/assignment-6-abundant-content-for-lifelong-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 6 &#8211; Abundant Content for Lifelong Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Krista Frate and May Bahador<\/p>\n<p>For this assignment, we chose to explore how to develop apps, in their most basic structure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.codingbyte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Develop-An-iOS-App-in-Xcode.jpg?x24246\" alt=\"Develop An iOS App in Xcode\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>http:\/\/www.codingbyte.com\/how-to-develop-an-ios-app-in-xcode\/<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Neither of us is familiar with the technical requirements, education, or process of building an app, and although we can think of apps we would like, the majority of them are already available! There are a plethora of available apps for anything a user can think of, and we recognized that to break into such a market, an idea would have to be really unique. Abundant pedagogy, abundant apps! That said, rather than try to come up with an original idea for an app, we settled on structuring the organisation of building an app.<\/p>\n<p>An aspect in Martin Weller&#8217;s 2011 article\u00a0<em>A Pedagogy of Abundance<\/em>\u00a0that stood out to us is &#8220;moderate scarcity to excessive abundance constitutes a challenge to higher education, and to individual information processing abilities&#8221; (p. 234). Searching for knowledge about to build an app was challenging and pointless; there is a great deal of information regarding how to organise building an app, but without the necessary knowledge or expertise in programming, coding, design, and at least some degree of user experience, this abundance of content struck us more as too much higher-level information. Despite the plethora of information, we would have appreciated an expert guiding us, whether physically or virtually, were we trying to build an app.<\/p>\n<p>For this assignment we were asked to compare our experience in this process with assumptions made in Weller&#8217;s article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Content is free \u2013 not all content is free and not yet.<\/li>\n<li>Content is abundant.<\/li>\n<li>Content is varied \u2013 content is no longer predominantly text-based.<\/li>\n<li>Sharing is easy \u2013 through the use of tools like social bookmarking, tagging and linking the \u2018cost\u2019 of sharing has largely disappeared.<\/li>\n<li>Social based.<\/li>\n<li>Connections are \u2018light\u2019 \u2013 as with sharing, it is easy to make and preserve connections within a network since they do not necessitate one to one maintenance.<\/li>\n<li>Organisation is cheap \u2013 Clay Shirky (2008, 31) argues that the \u2018cost\u2019 of organising people has collapsed, which makes informal groupings more likely to occur and often more successful.<\/li>\n<li>Based on a generative system \u2013 Zittrain (2008) argues that unpredictability and freedom are essential characteristics of the internet and the reasons why it has generated so many innovative developments.<\/li>\n<li>User-generated content \u2013 related to the above, the ease of content generation will see not only a greater variety of formats for content but courses being updated and constructed from learner\u2019s own content. (Weller 2011, p. 228-229).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The content we used in researching the organisation of building an app was all free and was without a doubt abundant. In addition, there were infographics, videos, wikis, and far more than simple text-based guides. It was also very easy to share our infographic, as well as view those of others who tweeted, facebooked, linked, or emailed their content. We have to assume the material is also socially-based because it is so easily shareable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/design\/DAChyMsKgRg\/FcnfEeqzf8qnM2sCKhP0qA\/view?utm_content=DAChyMsKgRg&amp;utm_campaign=designshare&amp;utm_medium=link&amp;utm_source=sharebutton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view the Infographic <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anderson, T. (2016). Chapter 3: Theories for learning with emerging technologies. In Veletsianos, G. (Ed).\u00a0<em>Emergence and Innovation in Digital Learning: Foundations and Applications<\/em>. Edmonton, AB: Athabasca University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Weller, M. (2011).\u00a0A pedagogy of abundance.\u00a0<em>Spanish Journal of Pedagogy<\/em>, 249, 223\u2013236.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Krista Frate and May Bahador For this assignment, we chose to explore how to develop apps, in their most basic structure. http:\/\/www.codingbyte.com\/how-to-develop-an-ios-app-in-xcode\/ Neither of us is familiar with the technical requirements, education, or process of building an app, and&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/assignment-6-abundant-content-for-lifelong-learning\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23,20],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt523","tag-lrnt-523","tag-malat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}