From Web 2.0 to Policy 2.0NIGEL ECCLESFIELD – JISC

FRED GARNETT – LONDON KNOWLEDGE LAB

#BESA2014 GLASGOW UNIVERSITY 26 JUNE 2014

What is Web 2.0?

Why Policy 2.0? Web 2.0 affordances offer the potential for;

Participation

Support for collaboration

Emergent behaviours that are not predetermined

Data use and analysis open to wider groups of users

These potentials offer ways of considering and developing policy rapidly being lost in the UK, Europe and the USA

Policy is best developed in open and wide-ranging contexts

Web 2.0 technologies are good at capturing emergent behaviours so can be adopted to capture emergent learning

Web 2.0 technologies can help overcome the partisanship of expertise ensnared in a lobby mentally

In UK Education there is a growing disconnect between policy and practice that needs to be addressed

Our work with a policy link

“Architecture of Participation” – Adaptive Institutions working across Collaborative Networks

Public Value – emerging from dialogue and collaboration with publics not the views of senior managers in public services – see Lea (2008)

Policy Forest out of Learner-Generated Contexts Emergent Learning Model, the PAH Continuum,

MOSI Along

Government Policy

FELTAG (Further Education Learning Technology Action Group)Matthew Hancock – Skills MinisterBIS

ETAG (Education Technology Action Group)Michael Gove – DfEDavid Willetts – BISMatthew Hancock - BIS

Issues Policy as an “expert” activity – avoiding the

mental model trap identified by Hase (2014) Decreasing participation in policy development Redefining the vocabulary of US

commentators and adding dialogic and emergent learning perspectives

Developing tools to increase participation in policy development

Research leading rather than being funded by policy initiatives

QuestionsHow do we;

Start to talk to learners and colleagues to explore the impact of internal and national policies on your practice and experiences?

Supplement all data gathering exercises such as the NSS in higher education with dialogue and start to feed he questions and answers that emerge from those discussions into reports and your feedback. for every consumer satisfaction question add a Socratic question such as “what questions should I ask to enable you to tell it as it is?”

ask learners and colleagues difficult questions about how they experience existing policies and practice and, more importantly, how they might, individually and collectively seek to change these, without be afraid/intimidated?

Ask for support and funding to research policy and time to contribute to “conversations” and consultations to address issues as you experience them?

Take O’Reilly at his word and use the affordances of the Web 2.0 technologies to network and participate in chat and dialogue and network to find collaborators and stimulating challenges? Look at Mitra’s learners and learn from their openness to challenges and new experiences, unlearn the obsession with individualism and isolation in our professional lives

Work with learners and colleagues as peers and participants  to challenge policy and introduce changes in your work

Ask any proponent of a new policy for the evidence of its value and the basis for their promotion of it

How would you do this?HOW WOULD YOU MAKE POLICY?

We would compare policies dialogically;Learner-centricTechnology-centricDfE (ministry)-centricMORE ON ARCHITECTURE OF PARTICIPATION BLOG

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Nigel Ecclesfield and Fred Garnett#nefg

Full Paper From Web2.0 to Policy 2.0

n.ecclesfield@jisc.ac.uk @fredgarnett