UCT "ACADEMIC GREYBEARDS AND THE NET GENERATION" Derek Smith 1.
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"ACADEMIC GREYBEARDS AND THE NET GENERATION"
Derek Smith
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TraditionalTeaching
SpaceThe “Wise Guru”transfersInformationandKnowledgeandWisdom
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The Great Unwashed
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The Net Generation (born after 1982) likes……
Digital, Connected, Experiential, Immediate, Social
Teams, peer-to-peer Engagement & experience Visual Things that matter
(Oblinger,2005)
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Is anybody actually listening (apart from the guy in the orange t-shirt?
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Learning SpaceInformation
Knowledgewisdom
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The Net Generation
Academic 1.0
Grey-beards aka Baby Boomers- Boomers retiring soon-Taking their knowledge with them?
WEB 2.0
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Learning Space
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Web 2.0
New competencies:Advisor,Facilitator,Mentor,Knowledge manager,Administrator
Academic 2.0
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Web 2.0
MyLearning Space?
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it is a community I belong to, not an e-mail list
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I am learning about a bleeding edge topic (Radical management)
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Discussing the subtleties of an exciting topic.
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Connectingwithalumni andprofessionalcolleagues
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BroadeningmyKnowledge.
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Sub-communities
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My Current CoP Initiatives15
CoPs
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My Proposal to the SACLA conference
Build a Community of Practice for IT academics in Southern
Africa where: courseware and research is
shared, reusable and online and
where experts can give advice on problems
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Developing IT Project Managers
~1500 “PM graduates” over 20 years for commerce and industry
Ongoing shortage of PM expertise in South Africa
How to fast track to a mastery level?
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My Proposal.......
Build a common portal for an IT project manager
Community of Practice which provides connectivity,
problem-solving, knowledge sharing, resources and
research output
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Communities of Practice.....
......are “groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or passion for a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis”.
(Wenger et al, 2002)
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Connect peopleProvide a shared contextEnable dialogueStimulate learningCapture knowledgeProvide an information exchange
processHelp in problem-solvingGenerate new knowledge and change
(Cambridge et al, 2005)
A CoP can....
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A CoP fails because....
Low facilitator involvement Irrelevant topics for users No organisational support
(Dube et al, 2005)
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What motivates CoP members?
(Zboralski, 2009)
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CoPs Lifecycle
Wenger et al, 2002
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So we can all belong to many CoPs but they all require a .........
Technical architecture that provides a platform for communication and collaboration
Social architecture of the community to enliven it.
Wenger et al, 2002
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PURPOSE of the CoP
Every community is unique Each has distinct goals, member
characteristics/needs and purpose The Purpose can be a mixture of:
Develop relationshipsLearn and develop practiceCarry out projectsCreate new knowledge
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28UCT Academic Retirees over 10 years
Year of retirement Female Male Total2009 1 13 142010 6 10 162011 8 17 252012 4 15 192013 5 20 252014 2 30 322015 10 11 212016 10 12 222017 11 19 302018 11 27 38Total 68 174 242
Academic staff as at October 2009PE and T3 onlyincludes GOB and non-GOB fundedincludes clinical academicsFrom Judith du Toit
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UCT Strategic Plan 2010-2014 How can UCT augment its activities
to better answer the pressing social, economic and developmental problems facing South Africa and the rest of Africa?
Goal 6: Expanding and Enhancing UCT’s Contribution to South Africa’s Development challenges
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An Exciting Opportunity for UCT?
Offer a “community” service to provide a broad CoP technical architecture for communication and collaboration
Use retirees (greybeards) and alumni (net generation) to build the social architectures
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CoPshosted by UCT?
technical architecture
social architectures
Greybeards supporting the net generation
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Possible Way Forward?32
Feasibility Study and Business Case for a CoP pilot
My commitment to SACLA and “project managers in Western
Cape”.
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Readings
Cambridge, D., Kaplan, S. & Suter, V. (2005). Community of Practice Guide: A Step-by-Step Guide for Designing & Cultivating Communities of Practice in Higher Education. Accessed www.educause.edu on 8 November 2009.
Debe, L., Bourhis, A. & Real, J. (2005). The Impact of Structuring Characteristics on the Launching of Virtual Communities of Practice, Journal of Organizational Change Management, 18 (2): 145-168.
Oblinger, D.G. (2005) Educating the Net Gen, Accessed www.educause.edu/section_params/conf/aascu05/AASCU on 7 May 2009.
Smith, D.C., Brokenshire, R., Maine, R. & Maphai, K. (2006). Using Storytelling to Assess the Competencies of a Master Project Manager, in Proceedings of PMSA Conference 2006, 30 May-1 June, Gallagher Estate, Midrand.
Wenger, E. McDermott, R. & Snyder, W. (2002). Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge, Harvard Business School Press: Boston MA.
Zboralski, Katja. (2009). Antecedents of knowledge sharing in communities of practice. Journal of Knowledge Management, 13(3): 90-101.