new places to learn: flexible learning and online residency
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Slides from my talk at the Higher Education Academy event held in Oxford. For more info see: http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2012/04/24/education-should-move-us/TRANSCRIPT
New places to learn: Flexible learning and online residency
DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY-ASSISTED LIFELONG LEARNING
19th April 2012
New places to learn: Flexible learning and online residency
#heanpl
David White
@daveowhite
Technology Assisted Lifelong Learning
University of Oxford
Technology Assisted Lifelong Learning
Convenience, ease of use, accessibility
Searching
Connection, sharing with others
Collaborate
Authority, legitimacy
Speed
Relevance
Create
Fun, enjoyment
Distraction
Reliability
Quantity
Emerging, Establishing, Embedding, Experienced
Visitors and Residents
Convenience, ease of use, accessibility
Searching
Connection, sharing with others
Collaborate Authority, legitimacy
Speed Relevance
Create
Fun, enjoyment
Distraction
Reliability
Quantity
Emerging, Establishing, Embedding, Experienced
Visitors and Residents
If I’m not in this place I’m in that one. UKF5 – Visitors and Residents
Web as place
Social
Openness - Sharing
Convenience
Communal
Authority - Relevance
DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY-ASSISTED LIFELONG LEARNING
Digital Visitor Digital Resident
‘Genres of participation’ not frameworks
Digital Youth Research: Kids’ Informal Learning with Digital Media –
“Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out”
http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/
Evolution ‘the need for practice – acquired through continued development and refinement in different contexts, rather than once-and-for-all mastery’ Llida report
Visitor Resident
Video: goo.gl/dny1h
Paper: goo.gl/RFSLz
Visitor
Resident
This is where I live
I’ll see how he is on Facebook and I’ll send him a message on Facebook, even though he’s sitting five feet away from me. So, I’ll type him something and he’s like, “Jon, just ask me, I’m right here.” I’ll type back, “No. What’s the score?” USU4 – Visitors and Residents
I actually have teachers that limit us on how many internet sources we can use but require hard copy sources from the library. USU3 – Visitors and Residents
I tend to believe that people will just learn it, even if they have never used, because it’s so easy. And if they don’t know, I will just say, “Google it,” so easy to learn now. UKF5 – Visitors and Residents
UKU3
Learner
Owned Literacies
Graduate Attributes: ‘Apply different forms of communication in various social, professional and cultural settings’ Queen Mary University of London
‘…to become a confident, agile adopter of a range of technologies for personal, academic and professional use. …and engage productively in relevant online communities.’ Brookes University
‘Ability to use technology to work, research, learn and influence others in an increasingly digital world.’ Southampton University
‘Digital literacy defines those capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society.’ JISC Developing Digital Literacies
Influence? Community?
DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY-ASSISTED LIFELONG LEARNING
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“…one of the clear things that we see among a lot of students is the desire to connect with other students and that’s something that technologies can clearly facilitate ” HEFCE Study of UK Online Learning
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Eventedness Fellowship
‘Visitor skills are the low hanging fruit, it's residency skills, and the ability to balance them with other pressures, where the advances in technology lie. ...So where is the low hanging fruit of residency?’ Alan Cann http://goo.gl/kkfJE
The JISC funded Visitors and Residents project team
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D. - Co-Principal Investigator Senior Research Scientist OCLC Research
Donna Lanclos, Ph.D.- Co-Investigator University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Alison Le Cornu, Ph.D.- Research Assistant University of Oxford
Erin Hood – Research Assistant OCLC Research
Empty lecture theatre http://www.flickr.com/photos/shaylor/13945881 City http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/3506557840/ Toolbox http://www.flickr.com/photos/terry/6156784804 Porto Riberia http://www.flickr.com/photos/lanier67/5253473681 Students with laptops http://www.flickr.com/photos/flickerbulb/1477994596 Old School Phone http://www.flickr.com/photos/amcdaniel83/3126390340/
Picture credits