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Anoush Margaryan Learning Communities and Repositories ALT-C 2006 Conference Symposium 981 “Would you Care to Share?” September 6, 2006 Dr. Anoush Margaryan Caledonian Academy Glasgow Caledonian University, UK [email protected] Learning Communities and Repositories: Underpinning the Vision
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Anoush MargaryanLearning Communities and Repositories
ALT-C 2006 ConferenceSymposium 981 “Would you Care to Share?”
September 6, 2006
Dr. Anoush MargaryanCaledonian Academy
Glasgow Caledonian University, [email protected]
Learning Communities and Repositories: Underpinning the Vision
Anoush MargaryanLearning Communities and Repositories
ALT-C 2006 ConferenceSymposium 981 “Would you Care to Share?”
September 6, 2006
Vision
Learning Object Economy
Creating and sharing resources locally and globally
Collaborating with peers across boundaries
Communities coalescing around LORs
Transformation of learning practices
Enhancement of learning experience
Anoush MargaryanLearning Communities and Repositories
ALT-C 2006 ConferenceSymposium 981 “Would you Care to Share?”
September 6, 2006
And the reality?
Learning Object economy not achieved
Technology push rather than pedagogy pull
“People in their contexts make it complicated” (Collis and Moonen, 2005)
Misalignment with users’ needs and contexts
Anoush MargaryanLearning Communities and Repositories
ALT-C 2006 ConferenceSymposium 981 “Would you Care to Share?”
September 6, 2006
BarriersSocio-cultural
Pedagogic
Organisational and info management
TechnologicalMargaryan, Currier, Littlejohn, & Nicol (2006)http://www.academy.gcal.ac.uk/cd-lor/learningcommunitiesreport.pdf
Cultural preferences and expectations related to sharing, collaboration, hierarchies and roles within communities, HCI, culture of disciplines and sectors
Decontextualisation, user skills and information literacy, loss of educational narrative, diversity of pedagogic approaches in communities
Lack of alignment with organisational strategy, need for new management processes, incentives, information management (IPR, DRM, metadata)
Reference models, database technology, technology for services, interoperability with others LORs and tools used by communities
Anoush MargaryanLearning Communities and Repositories
ALT-C 2006 ConferenceSymposium 981 “Would you Care to Share?”
September 6, 2006
LOR Communities
Types of communities
1. Learning-orientedcommunities
2. Research-oriented communities3. Work-oriented, communities of practice 4. Hobby-oriented communities of interest/ fantasy
Seufert, Moisseeva & Steinbeck (2001)
Community dimensions
1. Purpose2. Dialogue3. Roles and responsibilities4. Coherence –close-knit or loosely confederated/ transient5. Context6. Rules7. Pedagogy
Margaryan et. al (2006)
Anoush MargaryanLearning Communities and Repositories
ALT-C 2006 ConferenceSymposium 981 “Would you Care to Share?”
September 6, 2006
Dimensions of LORs
Purpose – types of resources exchanged; preservation of materials; sharing of resources
Subject area or discipline
Scope - departmental, institutional, regional, national, or international
Educational sector - school, higher education, further education, lifelong learning
Contributors - teachers, students, publishers, support staff, projects
Business model - business, trading and management framework underpinning repository
Anoush MargaryanLearning Communities and Repositories
ALT-C 2006 ConferenceSymposium 981 “Would you Care to Share?”
September 6, 2006
Linking LORs, communities, issues, and solutionsLORs
JORUM
SIESWE
IVIMEDS
Spoken Word
Aberdeen UniversityUniversity of Ireland GalwayUHI Millennium InstituteLORE
LOR dimensions
Purpose
Discipline
Scope
Sector
Contributor
Business model
Community dimensions
Purpose
Dialogue
Roles
Coherence
Context
Rules
Pedagogy
Issues
Cultural
Pedagogic
Organisatio-nal
Technologi-cal
Solutions
Cultural
Pedagogic
Organisatio-nal
Technologi-cal
Anoush MargaryanLearning Communities and Repositories
ALT-C 2006 ConferenceSymposium 981 “Would you Care to Share?”
September 6, 2006
Prerequisites for success LORs should only be introduced if they are
a solution to a problem meaningful to users
Design of LORs should be based on needs of the communities
Product innovation should involve process innovation
LORs linked to institutional and national strategies for teaching and learning
Demonstrated impact and added value for users
