For the past ten years, the eLocus founder Kallen Williams has been developing a system that will enable learners and teachers an easier, more connected manner of enlightenment.
Via P2P (peer to peer) and ECM/WCM (digital content managing) research and innovation, eLocus Kinetics transcends the world of curriculum control and takes the technology to the hearts and minds of learners of all ages.
With the mission to make education accessible to everyone eLocus aims to enable access to information globally while fostering a revolution in teaching without being a content developer.
Beginning with the secondary school level, eLocus plans to leverage the powerful early adopters of social networking, teenagers, with teachers who understand their role as knowledge facilitators and are adept with making the most of technology to maximize learning benefits. “One third (35%) of American adult internet users have a profile on an online social network site... 65% of online American teens” make up this market, source from a PEW survey dated January 14th.
While the trend towards adopting social networking shows no sign of slowing down, Education has shown very little in the way of harnessing the technologies which will allow greater information saturation and presentation. eLocus requires funding to develop this concept, in it’s early development stage, to establish a solid team of advisors and developers with an eye of economic viability.
The reason for this opportunity? It is not common for ECM and WCM to be brought together to manage both documents in storage and presentation of information in a package intuitive and useful to learners at all levels. Students can track their own progress, access course content on the fly or the night before a final exam, Teachers can adopt and modify their content to individual needs and see immediately which students need assistance and in which areas. Parents can assess the success of their children and have real time feedback with teachers on a day to day basis if needed.
Today, concepts such as student tracking, course flexibility are being implemented by learning.com, but lack the ultimate killer app to truly jump into the Peer to Peer world which most students already exist.
By making eLocus useful to students for their own social needs as well as a solid controlled framework for learning, adoption rates can likely parallel Facebook and Myspace. There is no reason eLocus could not also be applied in vocational training, distance and adult education, internal corporate needs and beyond.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Day One (or day 10,001)
A quick introduction, my name is Kallen Williams, I'm what you'd call a person who hasn't committed his life to 'getting by' with an office job. My life has been an on-going process of investigating what makes the world, and the society around me tick.
Such a life does present unique and also common challenges. For all intents and purposes I'm an artist who uses his mind to explore and unravel the unknowns and the 'truths' that are given to explain the unknowns.
I am 38 years old now, which seems pretty old to me, and find myself after 10 years of self employment as a computer technician, facing 'what really makes my life worth-while'. Yes, I've spent the last 2-3 years playing WOW (world of Warcraft) because in many ways that technological environment comes closest to what I envision as the transcending path education and information needs to take.
How so? First, the immediate real time communication that occurs between people in groups (guilds) to achieve goals is one of the vital dynamics required to make any knowledge receivable. For the very same reason that overhead notes for a high school economics class will almost never lead to real learning.
Today however, after 10 years of investigating, reading, learning and creative thinking, I have realized that this is the number one important thing in my life. Mixing or creating electronic music, creating pen and ink art are also up on the list but nothing else will make the largest positive impact on the world and individual's lives.
I have been investigating going the non-profit route, and it would appear that i will not be able to go that route else risk the loss of future development once a few steps are taken and the collective board decides its accomplished enough.
My vision sees the development of new data-basing and information infrastructures once the basic basic basic item achieves an appropriate number of user's seats (or park benches, reclining sofas, under warm duvets).
Number one issue comes down to lack of money, that's the downside to taking the time in life to just enjoy and appreciate the world around you and taking the time to really critically look at ones self and the universe as it happens. Its a good thing that good ideas are discovered through the self-created currency of curiosity.
I am not a programmer, so building this tool on my own doesn't seem realistic time wise. My job right now is to help others drink the electric kool-aid (as it were) and see my vision. I need to build a team of like minded people who believe anything can be created.
I do not believe that course management software really does anything to advance education, all it does is shift papers from on desk to another inside the same dismal institution, ultimately changing nothing for the better.
Needed to start is a creative programmer, and 1 assistant to help me organize my focus. From there, a larger team will be built including a financial adviser, education adviser, grant writer-fundraiser, a software development team (including a database specialist, p2p specialist, people experienced in client-server based systems, among others) and market facilitators.
It's a struggle to get things started, but ultimately this is my main life goal. I am looking for anyone who is willing to help or knows someone that could contribute ideas or information to this project.
Such a life does present unique and also common challenges. For all intents and purposes I'm an artist who uses his mind to explore and unravel the unknowns and the 'truths' that are given to explain the unknowns.
I am 38 years old now, which seems pretty old to me, and find myself after 10 years of self employment as a computer technician, facing 'what really makes my life worth-while'. Yes, I've spent the last 2-3 years playing WOW (world of Warcraft) because in many ways that technological environment comes closest to what I envision as the transcending path education and information needs to take.
How so? First, the immediate real time communication that occurs between people in groups (guilds) to achieve goals is one of the vital dynamics required to make any knowledge receivable. For the very same reason that overhead notes for a high school economics class will almost never lead to real learning.
Today however, after 10 years of investigating, reading, learning and creative thinking, I have realized that this is the number one important thing in my life. Mixing or creating electronic music, creating pen and ink art are also up on the list but nothing else will make the largest positive impact on the world and individual's lives.
I have been investigating going the non-profit route, and it would appear that i will not be able to go that route else risk the loss of future development once a few steps are taken and the collective board decides its accomplished enough.
My vision sees the development of new data-basing and information infrastructures once the basic basic basic item achieves an appropriate number of user's seats (or park benches, reclining sofas, under warm duvets).
Number one issue comes down to lack of money, that's the downside to taking the time in life to just enjoy and appreciate the world around you and taking the time to really critically look at ones self and the universe as it happens. Its a good thing that good ideas are discovered through the self-created currency of curiosity.
I am not a programmer, so building this tool on my own doesn't seem realistic time wise. My job right now is to help others drink the electric kool-aid (as it were) and see my vision. I need to build a team of like minded people who believe anything can be created.
I do not believe that course management software really does anything to advance education, all it does is shift papers from on desk to another inside the same dismal institution, ultimately changing nothing for the better.
Needed to start is a creative programmer, and 1 assistant to help me organize my focus. From there, a larger team will be built including a financial adviser, education adviser, grant writer-fundraiser, a software development team (including a database specialist, p2p specialist, people experienced in client-server based systems, among others) and market facilitators.
It's a struggle to get things started, but ultimately this is my main life goal. I am looking for anyone who is willing to help or knows someone that could contribute ideas or information to this project.
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