2. About Ravensbourne
Specialist higher-education College
Validated by the University of Sussex and
City University
Around 1,500 students in design and
communication, mainly undergraduate
In leafy Chislehurst, Kent
13. Where else do we add
value?
Use some of the money spent on computer
barns to subsidise personal technology
Higher-end resources integrate with user-
owned workflows
Software as a service, open source
alternatives, software loans
14. The good old days
Today you get a laptop free with a mobile
phone contract
Yesterday, IT was expensive:
! Senior managers presided over decisions
! All IT was enterprise IT
! Users’ choices didn’t matter
15. The enterprise LAN
Of course the LAN has enterprise uses
Many of our users simply want to:
Use wireless to
Connect to the internet
And we block their ports
16. Identity crisis
What is tomorrow’s IT department?
Defender of scarce resource, and arbiter of
fair use?
Agent of enterprise transformation?
Service provider?
22. What works for us
A coherent pedagogy that recognises:
Learners become practitioners
And negotiate a public identity
Integrating extra-institutional practice into
their institution-bound learning
23. A personal learning
environment
Learners bring a part of their environment
with them
Augment through institutional services
Reintegrate social software through a social
stack
24. Some technology
The VLE is no longer the whole answer
RSS, OpenID preserve the VLE panopticon
Bounded systems give way to more open
collaboration
Like our generous sponsor’s Huddle
Or collaborative notification – Twitter
25. Some parting shots
OpenID is far from perfect
Have you tried using it on a smartphone?
It’s a better bet than Shibboleth
I don’t trust these extra-institutional
software as a service
We’ve managed patch Tuesdays, though
26. Credits
The JISC elearning capital programme
Google: North Greenwich image and map pin
Foreign Office Architects: Ravensbourne building image
“Matrix” and “Falling Down” images found on the web, and used
without permission
Apple: iPhone image
Headshift Ltd: Social Stack
Roger Rees and Ruth Catlow – Learning Enhancement at Ravesbourne