social learning: ispot lessons for futurelearn
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Ideas from experience of social learning on iSpot for FutureLearn - what iSpot is, what worked well for encouraging participation, what worked less well, and models of social participation to inform the design of social learning environments, such as MOOCs. Presentation given to a FutureLearn partners meeting, OU London office, Mon 24 June 2013.TRANSCRIPT
iSpot: Informal Social LearningFutureLearn Partner Meeting 24 June 2013Doug Clow
• What iSpot is• What worked• What didn’t• Models of social participation
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what iSpot is
Take a photo
iSpot ecosystem
• 25,000 registered users & rising daily• 180,000 observations with 300,000 images• 225,000 identifications, 750,000 agreements• > 5,000 different wildlife species spotted• 96% observations receive a name, most in <1h
what worked
• Easy to do• Easy to learn what to do
• Only positive interactions• No downvoting• Progress is ‘safe’• Nothing for griefers to do• Expert opinion rises above
non-certified• Helpful tone set
Roles for power users•Help the newbies•Reasons to stay•Build on existing communities•System scales,stays responsive
Active curation•Team•Mentors•Experts•Power users
Links with events and mass media:•News about moth => traffic spike•SpringWatch => registration spike•Saving Species => sustained participation
Reputation system•Show expertise•Engage experts•Encourage development
what didn’t work (so well)
• Face to face activities(without a lot of work)
• Complex interface• System downtime• Data loss (recovered!)
• Linked formal course• 10 observations dump• Insufficient sign-ups
• Some still highly active
models of social participation
Reader to Leader (Preece & Shneiderman, 2009)
Fairy ring:•Rhizome grows beneath•Mushrooms pop up•Infer existence fromring, even when nomushrooms
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GIVE / RECEIVEEXPERTISE
BROWSEUPLOAD
COMMENTIDENTIFY
JOINT-DECISIONCOLLABORATION
PEER-TO-PEER
SHARE CONTROL CONTENT AND COMMUNIITY
RECIPROCITYRECIPROCITY
PERSONAL INTEREST
PERSONAL INTEREST
REAL WORLD DRIVERS
REAL WORLD DRIVERS
ENTHUSIASMENTHUSIASM
Mode 0: Lurking- legitimate peripheral participation
Mode 1: Contributing– dumping, peripherating, posting
Mode 2: Engaging– relating
Mode 3: Co-constructingMode 4: Moderating
– stewarding, tending, policing, enforcing, maintaining, gardening
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For more high-level participation (Co-constructing):
• Make it easy to learn (LPP)• Make it easy to participate• Make it clear what you want• Reward/reinforce it• Conservation activity!• Build on existing community
• iSpot Team: Jonathan Silvertown, Doug Clow, Richard Greenwood, Richard Lovelock, Mike Dodd, Martin Harvey, Donal O’Donnell, Jenny Worthington, Marion Edwards, Jon Rosewell, Janice Ansine, iSpot Mentors
• Photos not otherwise credited: Mike Dodd, Jonathan Silvertown, Martin Harvey
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