Learning Never Was What it Used to Be

Chris Batt

Global and cultural memories

The raw material of the future

Supporting education, learning, social well being,

creativity, discovery

Inspiring Learning for All

Connections

Collections/content

Customers/audiences

Prior Knowledge Value Chain

Free choice, informal

Learning for life

The fuzzy end of the market learning market

Personal, personalisable experience

Invisible learning

Modelling public knowledge value chains in a networked worldModelling public knowledge value chains in a networked world

Public policy

Parent institutions

Buildings

Staff

Services

Investment decisions

Policy/invest. decisions

Delivery infrastructure

Boundary exchanges

• Digital repositories

• Flickr

• Wikipedia

• You and me

• Libraries of all types

• Museums and some galleries

• Archives

• Broadcasters

• Research agencies

• Education

• Learned societies

• Heritage organisations

• Community groups

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Lifetime

Good

Fair

Poor

Pre-school support

Pre-school support

School yearsSchool years

Level threeLevel three

Skills training and supportSkills training and support

Knowledge and information mediation and guidanceKnowledge and information mediation and guidance

Convivial activityConvivial activity

ConfidenceConfidence

CreativityCreativity

CuriosityCuriosity

Community well being, social capitalCommunity well being, social capital

Discovery/understandingDiscovery/understanding

HighHigh High, but at riskHigh, but at risk

High, in placesHigh, in places UncertainUncertain

Batt Value Indicator

Is a model developed to support the industrial revolution relevant to a post-industrial society?

•Assessment

•Attainment

•Achievement

•Progression

On WarCarl von

Clausewitz

Learning

education

The role and form of learning in a post-industrial society

So what?

Learning Never Was What it Used To BeLearning Never Was What it Used To Be

What does that tell us about the future?

We are all excluded

Connections

Collections/content

Customers/audiences

Prior Knowledge Value Chain

Collections/content

Connections

Customers/audiences

Learning Journeys into the Unknown

Reading Group

Collaborative learning

Return of the Narrative

“19th century English women novelists writing about the North East”

?

Roman Remains = 930,000 Hits

What was required?- Simple introduction to archaeology

- Engaging material - sound and images- How to find out more

- Where to see something1/10

Two clicks and the learning journey starts

Antique watches = +380,000 hits

The Search Engine Paradox

• Convenience store for information

• The doorway is easy to open

• The drivers are not those of learning and knowledge

• To get beyond browsing shop windows you have to learn new competencies

• The deep Web is invisible

So what needs to happen?

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Learning journeys in the digital age

New paradigms for old

Access and accessibility

A universal right to knowledge?

How do learning and the Web fit?

What should the future look like?

The Electronic Town Square

1. metaphor

Browsecasting

2. media convergence

Browsecasting

• TV production as narrative browser

• A story that is richly connected to the deep web

• The quality of factual productions dynamically linked to the resources of knowledge institutions

Browsecasting

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www.muybridge.deepweb.bbc/scene2/

www.muybridge.deepweb.bbc/scene3/

www.muybridge.deepweb.bbc/scene4/

Myberspace

3. personalization

Roman Remains: Learning Journey

introduction to archaeology

930,000 hits

engaging material - sound and vision

How to find out more

where to see interesting stuff

Digitize/describe

Aggregate

Discover

Searchterms

Personalmetadata

MYBERSPACE

NAME: AdieSEARCH: Roman remainsRESULT HITS: 7 hits

Hi Adie: I’ve ‘dug up’ some basic stuff on Roman remains and registered you for seven days on the new archaeologists discussion list so you can get see what everyone is talking about. If you want the local archaeology group and the Roman Society to know about your interest, just click the links below:

o Institute of Archaeology introductory lecture on Roman remains in Britain (streamed audio [free])

o Digging up Roman remains in England - Time Team programme from C4 (streamed video [single viewing £1.00])

o Books on Roman history in Britain in your local libraryo Collections of Roman remains within 45 minutes travel time of home

(travel details included)o Links to organisations that other people like you found usefulo People in the area you might like to chat too Click here to let other organisations hear about your interest

Score: 10/10

Existing interestsHome addressLearning styles

1.2m hits

Food for Thought?

An e-Bay for learning – matching learners with the people with the skills

Learning opportunities modelled on large-scale, multi-player games in which players

discover challenges and the tools to overcome them

YouLearn video site where learners could post their own solutions

A We-Think approach will offer learning all over, all the time, in a wide variety of

settings, for a wide variety of people, more tailored to small groups and individual

needs

If any of what I said makes sense, please

see me afterwards

cbatt@mac.com