Exploring aspects of collaborative, cooperative and community learning in relation to networked online spaces with consideration of the benefits of formal, informal and non-formal learning.

1. Collaborative Learning and Communities
Sue Beckingham MA FSEDA FHEA
@suebecks
Flexible Distance and Online Learning #FDOL131

2. Wears multiple hats
• MUM
Chief Cook and Bottle washer
• STUDENT
Second Masters : MSc Technology
Enhanced Learning Innovation and
Change
• EDUCATIONAL
DEVELOPER
Fellow of SEDA Staff and Educational
Development Association
• LECTURER
Professional Communication and Digital
Skills; Social Media Use in
Organisations. Fellow of HEA.

3. PLNs
Communities
of Practice
VLEs
Collaborative
Learning
PLEs
Co-operative

4. Collaborative
Co-operative
Collaboration is a philosophy of
interaction and personal lifestyle
whereas
Co-operation is a structure of
interaction designed to facilitate
the accomplishment of an end
product or goal.
Panitz 1996

5. Jarche 2012

6. “Collaborative means working
together on projects; cooperative
means taking responsibility for
each others learning”
Howard Rheingold 2013

7. Communities of Practice are groups of
people who share a concern or a passion
for something they do and learn how to do it
better as they interact regularly.
Wenger

8. (via Jarche 2012)

9. Communities develop their practice
through a variety of activities (Wenger and Trayner).
Problem solving
“Can we work on this design and brainstorm some
ideas; I’m stuck.”
Requests for information
“Where can I find the code to connect to the server?”
Seeking experience
“Has anyone dealt with a customer in this situation?”
Reusing assets
“I have a proposal for a local area network I wrote for
a client last year. I can send it to you and you can
easily tweak it for this new client.”
Coordination and synergy
“Can we combine our purchases of solvent to achieve
bulk discounts?”
Discussing developments
“What do you think of the new CAD system? Does it
really help?”
Documentation projects
“We have faced this problem five times now. Let us
write it down once and for all.”
Visits
“Can we come and see your after-school program?
We need to establish one in our city.”
Mapping knowledge and
identifying gaps
“Who knows what, and what are we missing? What
other groups should we connect with?”

10. Learning Experiences
Formal
Informal
Nonformal

11. Eaton 2010 http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED508254.pdf

12. organised,
learning
outcomes
• credit bearing courses
formal
non-formal
informal
• community based programmes, non-credit
adult education courses, CPD, sports and
fitness programmes, cMOOCs
• coaching, mentoring, social networks,
personal learning networks
unorganised,
spontaneous
or simply
just harder
to quantify?

13. What would you add?
• credit bearing courses
formal
non-formal
informal
• community based programmes, non-credit adult
education courses, CPD, sports and fitness
programmes, cMOOCs
• coaching, mentoring, social networks, personal
learning networks

14. Is it so easy to label?

15. Fun self-directed and self-organised ‘informal’
experiential learning

16. ‘Formal’ Tutor-Led Experiential Learning

17. "I expect you all to be
independent innovative
critical thinkers who will do
exactly as I say"
Warren. (1989). Cartoon. Phi Delta Kappan, 71(1), 38. Cited in Lasley The Phi Delta Kappan

18. Haiku 俳句
cooperation
make learning
communities
creative and fun
5-7-5

19. Thinking about your own learning
experiences what are the pros and
cons of each?
Just in case
learning
Just in time
learning

20. Tutor as Facilitator
Vygotsky

21. It can happen out in public places
alleyways and funny spaces
underneath and in between
locations where you’ve never been
before.
.
It can happen on an airplane
at 30,000 feet above the ground
you’ve found the person sitting
next to you has lived the life you
might have.
.
It can happen walking down the street
you meet someone you haven’t seen
in ages who tells you
everything
before the light changes..
Mark McQuire 2012
It can happen at a party
once I met a guy who told me how
sub atomic particles romance
with partners rooms away
that made my day.
.
It can happen in a pub
an angel at the bar sharing whisky
while a stranger tells
a history of the world
in six glasses.
.
It can happen when you go to bed
and in your head you find
an alleyway at 30,000 feet
where faster than light neutrinos are
dancing the night away.
.
And it all makes sense.
http://markmcguire.net/2012/08/18/where-learning-happens/
Where Learning Happens
It can happen in mid sentence when
you interrupt the program for
a message
from one sponsor
or another.

22. Connectedness
In relation to telecommunications
"online" indicates a state of
connectivity, while "offline" indicates a
disconnected state.

23. But new technology has changed this...
Dennis McGrath http://technogogical.wordpress.com/

24. Connectedness

25. mentionmap

27. Technology removes boundaries such as
language, time and geographical distance

28. However my first experience....

29. The principal goal of education is to
create men [and women] who are
capable of doing new things, not
simply repeating what other
generations have done - men and
women who are creative, inventive
and discoverers.
The second goal of education is to
form minds which can be critical, can
verify, and not accept, everything they
are offered.
Piaget 1970
We need to learn to take risks, to
challenge and above all find fun in
learning

30. Collaborative Learning and Communities
Exploring aspects of collaborative, cooperative and community learning in
relation to networked online spaces with consideration of the benefits of
formal, informal and non-formal learning.
Sue Beckingham | @suebecks