WikiQuals #Open #Learning Lab

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In an Internet of people

An Internet of People British Council Lecture 2011

@BenHammersley said that “network society cannot be born”

Because people who grew up in hierarchies are still in power

If we want an Open Society

Summerhill School; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerhill_SchoolDigital Disruption; http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/we-are-digital

We need open participatory education like Summerhill school and the Democratic schools movement. But only 53 democratic schools exist in Europe

Disruptive Collaboration is here, the web is a platform, users-generate content, mobile phone cameras document everything, new technology is sold as being creative, but it hasn’t disrupted educational institutions.

In 1921, our most radical year

Kondratieff; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondratiev_wave Next 2021; http://heutagogicarchive.wordpress.com/next-2021/

NIACE were formed in the UK calling for education for all, from which educational broadcasting, with the BBC, emerged

Kondratieff in Moscow, wrote about long-wave economic change (50 years) based around ‘meta-technologies’ Our meta-technology, the micro-processor is due to reach its transformational peak in 2021

1971 welcomed the microprocessor

Intel 4004; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004Convergence; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_convergence/

Intel 4004 was a new meta-technology. Earlier meta-technologies had evolved into new analogue networks; rail, road, air, telephone, radio with their own system ‘mission’

Digital technologies however can also replace earlier analogue technologies, and enable technological convergence. Convergence is far more socially transformational as it can disrupt existing economic patterns built around old analogue technologies

In 1660 sharing ideas changed

Royal Society; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_SocietyCreative Commons; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons

The Royal Society was formed in the UK beginning the movement for open publishing. The standard by which scientific thought has (mostly) developed, egos aside, ever since.

Creative Commons applied the idea of open publishing to the copyright era in 2001, enabling web-based sharing of content, like this presentation

In 1992 the Internet Society

Internet Society; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_SocietyWorld Wide Web; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

The Internet Society wrote its mission “We envision a future in which people in all parts of

the world can use the Internet to improve their quality of life, because standards, technologies, business

practices, and government policies sustain an open and universally accessible platform for innovation,

creativity, and economic opportunity”

As Ted Nelson had predicted with Xanadu (1960) Tim Berners-Lee finally invented the World Wide Web & digital convergence became possible online.

In 2002 the Web went participative

What is Web 2.0?; http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html

Convergence had a platform

Open Ed Resources; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resourcesUNESCO Paris July 2012 Declaration NLN.AC.UK

Education got excited (kind of), David Wiley defined Open Content (1998) MIT launched Open Course Ware (2001) an open version of the 2000 UK FERL ‘learning objects’ project (now open www.nln.ac.uk)

UNESCO defined OER;Open Education Resources in 2002 and updated that with the UNESCO Paris July 2012 Declaration

In 2007 OU launched Open Learn

Open Learn; http://www.open.edu/openlearn/Learner-Generated Contexts http://heutagogicarchive.wordpress.com/

The Open University opened first Open Education Resource based project at a British University, based on its historic distance learning model (1964)

Learner-Generated Contexts Group launched its Open “Pedagogy” Open Context Model of Learning a post-Web 2.0 Pedagogy (PAH!) based on the PAH Continuum “The most exciting thing happening in England” – John Seeley Brown

P A H

Teacher

School

Teacher/Learner

Learner

Research

Cognition Epistemic

Cognition

Meta-Cognitio

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Adult

Pedagogy Andragogy Heutagogy

From Andragogy to Heutagogy PAH Continuum

Pedagogy the institutionalisation of learning around facts, resource scarcity, subject disciplines; education as a delivery system (cognition)

Andragogy negotiated, collaborative, interest-driven learning brokered into ‘open’ spaces – at best the community is the curriculum (meta-cognition)

Heutagogy self-determined learning where learner creativity enables innovation (epistemic cognition)

Pedagogies are not enough

Learning is Emergent; http://heutagogicarchive.wordpress.com/Emergent Learning Model http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/fg-ouemergenttable

Learning is Emergent not institutionalised! We need to design for emergence and create tools to support that in a wiki-based collaborative world

Emergent Learning Model rethinks learning as i. Social Processes not classroomsii. Content Creation or Curation not textbooksiii. Quality Assurance not high-stakes assessment

We needed to build new learning exemplars of ‘non-linear dynamic systems’

Ambient Learning Open City

Ambient Learning City; http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/ambientlearningcity

Aggregate then Curate http://mosialong.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/aggregate-then-curate/

Being Insanely Ambitious we decided to test emergent learning by turning Manchester into an open Ambient Learning City. Cities have many more learning contexts than a single classroom, so we decided to test them with MOSI-ALONGMOSI Ambient Learning Open Network Group

Aggregate then Curate our new #socialmedia participation model creating structured ways for people to inter-act with their city; even during riots (A History of Manchester in 100 objects)

SURPRISE!

#Occupy the Learning Commons

Learning is a full-time Occupation; http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/

Sukey Data; http://www.opensukey.org/about/

Then came Occupy UCL I gave a talk on lessons I had learnt and challenged them to create a Learning Commons at UCL. Sukey Data was hacked together.

Learning is a full time Occupation was written for Learning without Frontiers “social-space time / occupation as learning” I was then asked to help create a Masters course for graduating UCL students

2011 The University Project

The University Project; http://univproject.pbworks.com/WikiQuals workshop; http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/wikiquals

The University Project was convened by Dougald Hine+ at Hub Westminster, over a long weekend in October 2011, to look at various alt.Uni projects.

Community of Scholars was the common theme. The action point was “solve the problem…that annoys you most” (Philippa Young) Accreditation of learning annoyed us most

WikiQuals was born

2012 What is WikiQuals?

WikiQuals is self-directed post-hoc accreditation We Trust the SqolarTransparent learning published openlyUniversities “bring you to book”s to read stuffWikiQuals sends you out into the world to doBeing as learning Co-creating changeAct in the world & document its emergence

Co-creating Open Scholarship http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/

WikiQuals Show&Tell; http://wikiquals.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/show-and-tell/

WikiQuals – We are Rhizomatic

• Affinity partners supporting guild-like SHOW & TELL 2.0 model of open accreditation

• Affinity Groups support based on empathy• QR Codes as wearable real-time accreditation• Rhizomatic behaviours not MOOCs,• Discontinous relationships creating loose ties

with other networks…

We are Rhizomatic http://wikiquals.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/affinity-groups/

Building Democratic Learning http://wikiquals.wordpress.com/

WikiQuals – Some Sqolars

• Bridget McKenzie; Learning Planet• Philippa Young; TEDx Warwick• David Jennings; Agile Learning• Tony Hall; the iPhone as University• Kai Graf von Pahlen; German constitution• Lucy Johnson; Participatory Art project& Pattern Design, network Public Value, Open Money, NGO

Marketing, Landscape of Change, creative education WikiSqolars; http://wikiquals.wordpress.com/sqolars/

WikiQuals “Yes You Can!”Learning not Education

Liminal not Institutionalised Bio-diversity not Monoculture

Learner-centric not Student-centredLearner-generated not Course-defined

Community as Curriculum not Syllabus definedCommunity of Sqolars not Community of PracticePersonal Learning Networks not Content-delivery

Quality Assured not Quality ControlledDynamic Quality not Static Quaity

Affinity not SupervisionEmergent not Linear

Trust the learner to be themselves; Identity

WikiQuals Open Learning Lab

Any University or Institution can open a WikiQuals Open Learning Lab.

It is a platform for learning that;a) leverages content abundance, b) allows learner-generated contexts & purpose c) enables emergent & innovative learning behavioursd) Supports entrepreneurial behaviour

As WikiSqolarsa build their own Personal Learning Networks by reflecting on their learning from engaging in projects in the real world to realise their personal vision

WikiQuals Open Learning Lab

Presented to the Open InstituteJuly 8 2013 by @fredgarnett

WikiQuals is a light-touch low-resource initiative that can sit within institutions as community outreachWikiQuals needs just;1 Space a room one afternoon a week (or more)

2 Access to Learning Resources (& estates)

3 Affinity Partners discuss & guide, create affinity groups

Any institution can open a WikiQuals Open Learning Lab it is about providing a generative platformPlease help WikiQuals grow up and leave home…

WikiQuals Resources

Presented to the Open InstituteJuly 8 2013

WikiQuals blog http://wikiquals.wordpress.com/about/

Emergent Learning Model

Open Context Model of Learning blog

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