Beyond A Boundary, Some consequences of the Open Context Model of Learning

Beyond Boundaries: some consequences of the Open Context Model of learning Fred Garnett – London Knowledge Lab Nigel Ecclesfield - Becta

The background to our session
Learner Generated Contexts Group
A Coincidence of Motivations leading to Agile Configurations
In a User Generated Content world how do you structure learning?
The LGC group is concerned to explore the pedagogic consequences of learner-centricity whose key themes are;
The Ecology of Resources context model of education
Changing; roles, expertise, knowledge, pedagogy, accreditation, power, technology, participation and democracy
Open Context Model of Learning – Luckin et al 2009
This is a co-creation model of learning drawing on Vygotsky and the concept “obuchenie”
A Pedagogic Model designed to create self-management in learning and is “fit for context” .

The background to our session
The PAH Continuum
Pedagogy Andragogy Heutagogy Locus of Control teacher learner learner Educational sector schools adult education doctoral research Cognition Level cognitive metacognitive epistemic Knowledge Production Context Subject understanding Process negotiation Context shaping

The background to our session REVEEL
Research exploring the impact of e-learning on post-16 institutions; “learning in technology-rich environments/societies”
Leaders empowering cultures of learning and enabling new learning contexts into education
Staff developing wider range of roles than being subject specialists integrating formal/informal
Learners valuing learning, developing learning literacy & evaluating learning resources

System Issues – UK
Learning seen as the acquisition of desirable employment skills with the needs of employers prioritised at policy and delivery levels
Change seen as being in response to the demands of globalisation with other issues such as climate change not influencing educational policy and practice e.g. Leitch without Stern
Educational policy not seen as having relevance in the context of teaching and learning – dealing with system and organisational issues - Jephcote

Learner and practitioner experiences
A national curriculum where neither content, delivery or assessment are open to negotiation
Learners and staff drawn into a target culture using KPI’s (key performance indicators) to provide justification for policy initiatives, which undermines the capacity of staff and organisations to respond to changes at global and local levels
Historical and contemporary boundaries to learning created by policy and organisational rigidities and embedded practices with the result that, policy has little effect as a factor in changing educational practice and organisational adaptiveness and is constantly being revised and updated

Co-Creation & Boundary issues
Leaders are rewarded for delivering against negotiated targets leading to self-developing, adaptive institutions (self-regulation model?)
Teachers aware of and experts in the PROCESS of learning as well as their subjects and so able to model lifelong learning
Learners supported to engage in managing their own learning. Collaborative learning fully rewarded.

Some consequences of the Open Context Model of Learning
A Co-Creation Model requiring;
Leaders who facilitate and sustain the use of multiple contexts for learning
Teachers who develop learners’ abilities to create and manage their own learning
Learners who develop new collaborative and personal literacies for learning

Addressing boundary issues
Whitworth – Information Obesity; cognitive schemas of disciplines
Sharples – Theory of Mobile Learning; semiotic layer between informal & formal learning
Luckin – Ecology of Resources with filters; participatory design with stakeholders
NEFG – Networked Public Value; stakeholder-responsive negotiated outcomes. Enables boundary issues to become learning drivers

Responding to a world in flux
Adaptive institutions working across collaborative networks
Dialogic systems
Public Value model as a test of relevance to needs, requiring filters to help establish the utility and relevance of policy and knowledge
Dynamic targets that can be negotiated and adapted to circumstance
New conceptions of professionalism
Genuine participation and effective feedback loops in policy development and implementation

Some conclusions
A learner-centric approach to education surfaces the boundary issues around learners, classroom and institution and these can only be addressed by dealing with issues of value and power at these boundaries.
This needs both a new pedagogy, Open Context Model of Learning, and a new way of valuing institutions
Adaptive institutions working across collaborative networks

Learner experiences inside and outside boundaries
YooDoo and South Downs School
JISC Programmes
Issues
learners excluded from schools for their behaviours interviewing learners excluded as a consequence of the behaviours of their peers
Younger learners showing their capacity to organise their own learning and negotiate their needs
Older learners reviewing their use of technology in higher education

Knowledge Curriculum Resources Administration Organisation Environment Underpinning concept: The Ecology of Resources model of context

Knowledge Curriculum Resources Administration Organisation Environment The Ecology of Resources model of context: for LGC we need bi-directional arrows in all parts of the model

Knowledge Curriculum Resources Administration Organisation Environment The Ecology of Resources model of context: we also need to identify appropriate boundaries or filters

Boundaries
Organisational
Competition
Funding
Roles
Professional
Discipline/subject
Organisational
Curriculum
Learner
Economic
Digital exclusion
Community access to learning resources
Geographical
Passivity – learning about vs learning from or with

Beyond A Boundary, Some consequences of the Open Context Model of Learning

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