A brief overview of the origins and principles developed in the first year of the WikiQuals project

1. WikiQuals;
All You Need is #heutagogy
@fredgarnett
First Annual Report
Thursday November 22nd 2012

2. Fred Garnett
 Head of Community Programmes Becta - Building
Community Grids for Learning, digitally-based
socially inclusive models of learning
 Enabling socially-inclusive digital learning
architectures of participation&co-creation tools
 Interested in creating Public Intellectuals 2.0
 WikiQuals, Everything Unplugged, Social Cities,
P2P Reconomy Project, Transition Research
Network, Disability Resilience Network,

3. Learner-Generated Contexts
 Part of Learner-Generated Contexts Group
creating post web 2.0 models of learning
 Developed Open Context Model of Learning
using lessons learnt with technology to
create pedagogically original model (PAH!)
 Realised for new models of learning to be
adopted they have to build on practice AND
research AND policy - hence;

4. Emergent Learning Model
 Developed the Emergent Learning Model in
response to EU i2020 integrating informal, non-
formal and formal learning post-Bologna Process
 Traditional view is that these map to
sectors, community/informal, college/non-
formal, university/formal
 We re- defined informal as social, non-formal
as resources &formal as accreditation

5. Testing Emergence
 We decided to test the Emergent
Learning principle of learning as a flow
from social organisation to accreditation
with projects
 1. Ambient Learning City – extra-
institutional learning contexts
 2. WikiQuals – extra-institutional self-
determined learning

6. 1. Ambient Learning City
 Ambient Learning Manchester; Turn the
city into a learning environment
 Testing the social organisation & resource
curation aspect of Emergent Learning;
 Conclusion; New learning contexts need
new learning metaphors
 MOSI-ALONG, Aggregate then Curate
Social Cities of Tomorrow

7. 2. WikiQuals
 WikiQuals testing self-accreditation &co-
creation of #open scholarship
 WikiQuals came out of the UCL student
occupations & the call for a Learning
Commons (&SukeyData project)
 Workshopped at the University Project
Weekend October 2011 at Hub
Westminster looking at alt.Universities

8. WikiQuals
 WikiQuals evolved from an initial M.Sc
programme I was asked to create to a
doctoral one based on people opting in.
 Starting position; lets design our learning
 1. Self-organised, self-accredited learning
 2. Self-publication as a Ph.D

9. Co-creating Sqolarlypractice
 Show & Tell 2.0; Do stuff & record it
 Sqolar identifies their own subject &
learning aims (Trust the Sqolar)
 Discuss within & without WikiQuals
 Identifies an ‘affinity’ support process
 Being to learn; Act in the world
&documents its emergence

10. WikiQuals – Evolving Features
 Affinity partners supporting guild-like
SHOW & TELL 2.0 model of accreditation
 Affinity Groups internal support based
on empathy
 QR Codes as wearable accreditation
 Rhizomatic behaviours not MOOCs,
 Discontinous relationships creating loose
ties with other networks…

11. WikiQuals – Principles
 Solve the problem that annoys you most
 People want to learn, but not what you
want them to learn – Trust the Sqolar
 Learning creates value when it allows you
to act in the real world
 Education has failed both citizens &the
planet we need a new era of learning

12. We are Rhizomatic
 Everything Unplugged / Facebook
Discussion Group / Uni of Minnesota
 UNESCO Open Learning Edgeryders,
Declaration of Internet Freedom, & others
 Co-accreditation with Middlesex Uni?
 Co-production with CROS Bucharest,
links with Transition Network, RNIB, etc

13. WikiQuals – Some Sqolars
 Bridget McKenzie; Learning Planet
 Philippa Young; TEDx Warwick
 David Jennings; Agile Learning
 Nigel Ecclesfield; network Public Value
 Tony Hall; the iPhone as University
 Kai Graf von Pahlen; entertainment law
& inflicting humiliation post-1992

14. WikiQuals – Next
 Everything Unplugged East - Norwich;
both Mark Narayn &Lucy Johnson
 Curated Conversations on WikiQuals
 Self-publication on Kindle; 12 Sqolars
 The Participation Papers project; Co-
creating principles of participatory
education for a participatory democracy

15. WikiQuals – Some Resources
 Emergent Learning Model
 WikiQuals Blog
 WikiSqolars
 Philippa Young TEDx Warwick
 Everything Unplugged East in Norwich
 CROS - Bucharest