Drawing upon studies into learning spaces, media-enhanced learning and the use of personal smart technologies we will reflect on the redundancy of longstanding binaries such as physical-virtual, formal-informal, synchronous and asynchronous learning environments and what this means for our practice. We will consider examples of how digital and social media are being used to enhance learning and how such innovations are creating a ‘third space’ in which the learner is more active and present.
Conversations in the Cloud: Strategies for Implementing Open Reflective Writi...Michael Paskevicius
In these sessions we explore a range of ways to support students in sharing their experiences, reflections and discussions outside of class in a more open manner – through digital communication platforms and tools. As part of this series, you will redesign one course activity or assessment strategy for implementation in a course in Fall 2016.
Throughout the three part series we will engage in a simulation using a shared and collaborative WordPress blog thereby modeling approaches to implementing open reflective writing. Various models of using WordPress in education will be explored including individual student reflective writing sites, collaborative community course sites, and aggregated sites.
By the end of these sessions participants will:
-experience taking part in a collaborative reflective writing community
-plan a learning activity which makes use of this technique
-share their experiences implementing within their discipline
Conversations in the Cloud: Strategies for Implementing Open Reflective Writi...Michael Paskevicius
In these sessions we explore a range of ways to support students in sharing their experiences, reflections and discussions outside of class in a more open manner – through digital communication platforms and tools. As part of this series, you will redesign one course activity or assessment strategy for implementation in a course in Fall 2016.
Throughout the three part series we will engage in a simulation using a shared and collaborative WordPress blog thereby modeling approaches to implementing open reflective writing. Various models of using WordPress in education will be explored including individual student reflective writing sites, collaborative community course sites, and aggregated sites.
By the end of these sessions participants will:
-experience taking part in a collaborative reflective writing community
-plan a learning activity which makes use of this technique
-share their experiences implementing within their discipline
Innovative teaching for the 21st century AAfPE SeattleStephanie Delaney
Presentation on innovative teaching strategies at the AAfPE regional conference in Seattle. Find the related Google Doc with notes at http://bit.ly/sdaafpe.
Bring your own devices for learning #BYOD4L l May Minicon #rscon5Sue Beckingham
In this short talk I will share the outcomes of an exciting free open short course myself Sue Beckingham and Chrissi Nerantzi developed called BYOD4Learning. Volunteer facilitators joined us and together with participants who were both educators and students, we learnt and reflected upon how using our own portable devices we could connect, communicate, curate, collaborate and create to enhance the learning experience.
This unique online course has a Creative Commons licence to enable other educators to reuse and extend the learning opportunities it affords.
We'd love to hear from anyone who would like to do this.
The Non-Disposable Assignment: Enhancing Personalised Learning - Session 2Michael Paskevicius
Slides from our second meeting of three from a course redesign series on creating non-disposable assignments.
As advertised:
Do you want to offer students an opportunity to bring their passions, personal interests, and individual strengths into their coursework?
How can we design assessment which students feel connected to, value, and are proud to share with their peers?
Are you interested in learning how to create a non-disposable assignment for your students?
This 3-part assignment redesign workshop will take you through the steps to create a non-disposable assignment from beginning to end.
Disposable Assignments: "are assignments that students complain about doing and faculty complain about grading. They’re assignments that add no value to the world – after a student spends three hours creating it, a teacher spends 30 minutes grading it, and then the student throws it away” (Wiley, 2013).
This series is about creating a non-disposable assignment. The three sessions will blend a combination of some pre-reading, discussion, and in session time to flesh out the details of a rich assignment that allows students to co-create knowledge, be creative and engage in a personalised learning experience.
We’ll focus on crafting projects which meet your existing or redesigned course learning outcomes, explore tools for students to demonstrate their learning, and identify strategies for conducting peer-review. In the end you’ll end up with plan for implementing your redesigned assignment in Spring 2018 or Fall 2018.
Throughout the three-part workshop we will also be collectively exposing our own learnings to others in the group through a live reflection and blogging site to support our work. We hope faculty can attend all three parts as they are planned with the intent you are coming for the whole series.
The Role of Social Media in Teaching and LearningLeslie Poston
Presentation given at FITSI at UNH in June 2010 on the varying role of social media in education. Followed by a panel that included several teachers, the IT department and the Assistant Dean, and later by a social media roundtable on guidelines and policies. It was a great day of learning to an attentive crowd.
Note: In 2010 we changed the name of our company from Uptown Uncorked to Magnitude Media to better reflect the variety of clients we serve.
Online and Blended Learning: Visions, Challenges & OpportunitiesJeremy Williams
Presentation delivered at the Griffith International Summit, Intercontinental Hotel, Sanctuary Cove, Gold Coast, 16 July 2013. (An earlier version was presented at the Griffith Business School Program Leadership Retreat: 'Tricks of the Trade: Managing Online and F2F Course Delivery', 10 July 2013.)
Presentation shared during open education week 2016 to educational developers at Vancouver Island University. We cover openness in education, Creative Commons licenses, ways of engaging with open educational resources (OER) and the emergent open pedagogical practices associated with using open resources.
Connect with China Collaborative and Global PerspectivesFlat Connections
Keynote Presentation by Julie Lindsay and Katie Grubb for the Global Education Conference 2015.
How do learners in and beyond China connect, communicate and collaborate? What tools, strategies and attitudes are needed to support learners across cultures and beyond borders. Through connected and collaborative learning using digital and online technologies, this presentation shares how to grow beyond the walls of the classroom to a world where solutions for positive change become real and include how to: build empathy through virtual connections; identify environmental and other issues; define what problems need to be solved; ideate solutions; share solutions via multimedia and invite feedback. The Connect with China Collaborative caters for diverse learner needs. Links with community organisations and events activates authentic conversations resulting in greater understanding about how we are connected. This type of learning engages with parents and the wider community, builds student success, and creates links to intercultural understanding.
Finding new spaces through media enhanced learningAndrew Middleton
To accompany the presentation at the University of Huddersfield, 7th September 2015
This paper explains what media-enhanced learning is and how it disrupts existing, overly simple, dichotomies and media, space and learning.
Innovative teaching for the 21st century AAfPE SeattleStephanie Delaney
Presentation on innovative teaching strategies at the AAfPE regional conference in Seattle. Find the related Google Doc with notes at http://bit.ly/sdaafpe.
Bring your own devices for learning #BYOD4L l May Minicon #rscon5Sue Beckingham
In this short talk I will share the outcomes of an exciting free open short course myself Sue Beckingham and Chrissi Nerantzi developed called BYOD4Learning. Volunteer facilitators joined us and together with participants who were both educators and students, we learnt and reflected upon how using our own portable devices we could connect, communicate, curate, collaborate and create to enhance the learning experience.
This unique online course has a Creative Commons licence to enable other educators to reuse and extend the learning opportunities it affords.
We'd love to hear from anyone who would like to do this.
The Non-Disposable Assignment: Enhancing Personalised Learning - Session 2Michael Paskevicius
Slides from our second meeting of three from a course redesign series on creating non-disposable assignments.
As advertised:
Do you want to offer students an opportunity to bring their passions, personal interests, and individual strengths into their coursework?
How can we design assessment which students feel connected to, value, and are proud to share with their peers?
Are you interested in learning how to create a non-disposable assignment for your students?
This 3-part assignment redesign workshop will take you through the steps to create a non-disposable assignment from beginning to end.
Disposable Assignments: "are assignments that students complain about doing and faculty complain about grading. They’re assignments that add no value to the world – after a student spends three hours creating it, a teacher spends 30 minutes grading it, and then the student throws it away” (Wiley, 2013).
This series is about creating a non-disposable assignment. The three sessions will blend a combination of some pre-reading, discussion, and in session time to flesh out the details of a rich assignment that allows students to co-create knowledge, be creative and engage in a personalised learning experience.
We’ll focus on crafting projects which meet your existing or redesigned course learning outcomes, explore tools for students to demonstrate their learning, and identify strategies for conducting peer-review. In the end you’ll end up with plan for implementing your redesigned assignment in Spring 2018 or Fall 2018.
Throughout the three-part workshop we will also be collectively exposing our own learnings to others in the group through a live reflection and blogging site to support our work. We hope faculty can attend all three parts as they are planned with the intent you are coming for the whole series.
The Role of Social Media in Teaching and LearningLeslie Poston
Presentation given at FITSI at UNH in June 2010 on the varying role of social media in education. Followed by a panel that included several teachers, the IT department and the Assistant Dean, and later by a social media roundtable on guidelines and policies. It was a great day of learning to an attentive crowd.
Note: In 2010 we changed the name of our company from Uptown Uncorked to Magnitude Media to better reflect the variety of clients we serve.
Online and Blended Learning: Visions, Challenges & OpportunitiesJeremy Williams
Presentation delivered at the Griffith International Summit, Intercontinental Hotel, Sanctuary Cove, Gold Coast, 16 July 2013. (An earlier version was presented at the Griffith Business School Program Leadership Retreat: 'Tricks of the Trade: Managing Online and F2F Course Delivery', 10 July 2013.)
Presentation shared during open education week 2016 to educational developers at Vancouver Island University. We cover openness in education, Creative Commons licenses, ways of engaging with open educational resources (OER) and the emergent open pedagogical practices associated with using open resources.
Connect with China Collaborative and Global PerspectivesFlat Connections
Keynote Presentation by Julie Lindsay and Katie Grubb for the Global Education Conference 2015.
How do learners in and beyond China connect, communicate and collaborate? What tools, strategies and attitudes are needed to support learners across cultures and beyond borders. Through connected and collaborative learning using digital and online technologies, this presentation shares how to grow beyond the walls of the classroom to a world where solutions for positive change become real and include how to: build empathy through virtual connections; identify environmental and other issues; define what problems need to be solved; ideate solutions; share solutions via multimedia and invite feedback. The Connect with China Collaborative caters for diverse learner needs. Links with community organisations and events activates authentic conversations resulting in greater understanding about how we are connected. This type of learning engages with parents and the wider community, builds student success, and creates links to intercultural understanding.
Finding new spaces through media enhanced learningAndrew Middleton
To accompany the presentation at the University of Huddersfield, 7th September 2015
This paper explains what media-enhanced learning is and how it disrupts existing, overly simple, dichotomies and media, space and learning.
Transforming learning by understanding how students use social media as a dif...Andrew Middleton
This workshop explores what principles are most useful to promote academic development and curriculum design resulting in the effective use of social media for learning #socmedhe15
Learning habit: Re-imagining PPDP - a context for conversation, imagination ...Andrew Middleton
How Personal & Professional Development Planning PPDP was re-imagined by Sheffield Hallam University during the HEA Strategic Enhancement programme on Embedding Employability
Digital capability- Connected U: developing professional presence on LinkedInAndrew Middleton
Presentation with Sue Beckingham on how the Connect Y LinkedIn professional presence project relates to enhancing digital capabilities of students and staff. 16 September 2015
Is it possible to be smart? inevitabilities, opportunities and challengesAndrew Middleton
The Challenge & Opportunity method described in this presentation has been used with large mixed groups to moderate perceptions, identify real barriers and benefits, and inform development planning for those taking part in areas of academic innovation. Data from CPD events since 2009 have informed the design of an analytical taxonomy for academic innovation (a Readiness Matrix) which is described in terms of pedagogic, organisational and technical readiness. The paper also introduces the concept of smart learning as a case study for reflecting on the method. Smart learning embraces and multiplies the effect of a set of interrelated concepts including BYOD, mobile learning, social media for learning, open learning, and rich digital media.
Breaking through the surface: Putting assessment in its rightful placeAndrew Middleton
Students will never learn while their engagement is superficial. It is not good enough to work to the assessment. Credible commentators have consistently challenged assessment-focused engagement strategies as being superficial (e.g. Nicol, 2009). As a university renowned for its teaching and which celebrates learning we must be clear about the role of assessment in the education of our students.
In this workshop we will debunk myths, remove the mystery and build upon the principles of effective assessment. We will develop arguments and methods to persuade students and colleagues to use assessment well as a formative opportunity within effective teaching and learning designs.
Nicol, D. (2009). Assessment for learner self-regulation: enhancing achievement in the first year using learning technologies. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 34, pp. 335-352.
The University is committed to developing its understanding of learning spaces fit for the future. But what spaces are we talking about and what do we understand learning to mean? This short presentation will ask us to consider learning, what it means and what it looks like by using Hamilton’s (2000) idea of vernacular literacies as a way to value what Cross (2007) referred to as natural informal learning. We will compare ideas about liminality, translocation and Third Space with notions of the dominant, formal, institutional space. In amongst these ideas of space, learning and literacies, we will examine interstitiality and the lived connections found and made by students as they experience learning through their course.
Social media portfolios - building a professional social media profile for pr...Andrew Middleton
In our earlier Connected U work we have identified LinkedIn as the de facto presentation space for practicing and aspiring professionals. Where are staff and students actively developing the evidence that will allow them to keep their professional profiles fresh? We use the analogy of 'theatre' and 'shop window' to help think through the possibilities.
From conundrum to collaboration, conversation to connection: using networks t...Andrew Middleton
Workshop for SEDA 2016
We know that networks play an important role in academic life (Moron-Garcia, 2013) especially when dealing with the “unhomeliness” (Manathunga, 2007) of life as an academic developer, working across disciplinary and professional borders. This workshop will showcase an ongoing learning space collaboration that started over a casual conversation at a network meeting sharing conundrums and developed into a wider conversation across two institutions at different stages of learning space development. Between us, we will reflect on the power of conversation (Barrett et al., 2004), practices learnt and shared and highlight the importance of building inter-professional networks within and across institutions in order to inform and guide change (Pennington, 2003). As leaders in the academy academic developers are often given the tricky institutional conundrums to solve, however the delights of our role are the opportunities to build those networks, drawing on the generosity of our various communities enabling us to ask the awkward questions (Cousin, 2013) and answer them together working as a “critical friend in the academy” (Handal, 2008).
The activity will allow us to draw on our experiences of engaging in conversations for innovation. We will reflect how our motivations and purposes are different and will change throughout a collaboration, and how we sustain or conclude our work. A number of questions will be addressed with the aim of developing further collaborations among participants, sharing knowledge and establishing that you don’t need to know what you need to know before starting the conversation:
How do you ask for help?
Who do you ask for help?
How do you build networks within and between institutions?
LinkedInn University: Students building their professional identitiesAndrew Middleton
The Connected U project - how LinkedIn provides a presentation layer to promote student and staff employability and helps us to re-imagine PPDP and Professional Recognition
Telling different stories: a storify for learning experimentAndrew Middleton
We set out to learn more about how Storify can be used for learning. Three people volunteered to produce an account of their day at the MELSIG Nottingham Trent University event. Only two were attending!
This version includes the key points generated during the workshop, as well as the workshop activity. Check out melsig.shu.ac.uk for further outputs from the MELSIG workshop from the 8th January event at Nottingham Trent University
Keynote for @MELSIG Social Media for Learning
A Social Media for Learning framework was presented clarifying how social media is being used to enhance and transform learning. Key ideas, examples and questions about the use of social media use in higher education will be mapped to the framework which will provide a reference point to consider ideas, opportunities and challenges.
Open cross institutional academic cpd: unlocking the potential Sue Beckingham
Chrissi Nerantzi and Sue Beckingham presenting at the 19th Annual SEDA Conference 13-14 November 2014, Nottingham
Redecker et al (2011, 9) note that “The overall vision is that personalisation, collaboration and informalisation (informal learning) will be at the core of learning in the future. “ Our world is changing rapidly. Educators need to quickly adapt and change and develop new learning and teaching strategies that are fit for our times. Informal networks and open development opportunities enabled and extended through digital technologies are valuable to connect with other practitioners, share practices, support each other and innovate in collaboration with others within and beyond their own institutions.
Seely Brown (2012, 14) talked about the “Big Shift” driven by “digital innovation” and characterised by “exponential change and emergence, socially and culturally”. Can we afford to stay where we are and do what we always did? Or is there a need for academic development to maximise on opportunities to remain current, innovate but also model flexible, forward facing and sustainable practices which connect, engage and have the potential to transform practices and enhance the student experience. The European Commission(2013) calls institutions to join-up and open-up. Could this be a sustainable solution for academic CPD?
Bring Your Own Devices for Learning (BYOD4L) is an open development opportunity for educators and students, developed by academic developers in two institutions. It builds on open learning ecologies (Jackson, 2013), the concept of lifewide learning (Jackson, 2014) and the ethos of sharing, collaboration and co-creation of pedagogical interventions and collective innovation within a supportive community enabled through social media. BYOD4L brought individuals together to learn how they can use their smart devices for learning through reflection and active experimentation. BYOD4L has been offered twice so far, initially with a group of distributed facilitators and then with five participating institutions. Expectations and value of BYOD4L from both iterations will be shared with delegates. The open CPD framework developed maximised on the expertise and the resources available by the community and participating individuals and institutions and created a rich and diverse and multimodal learning ecology. This is the approach adopted in BYOD4L. Does the open cross-institutional CPD framework developed present an attractive solution for institutions more widely that has the potential to normalise the use of technology for learning?
Best Practice for Social Media in Teaching & Learning Contexts, slides accompanying a presentation by Nicola Osborne, EDINA Digital Education Manager, for Abertay University (Dundee). The hashtag for this event was #AbTLEJan2017.
Flat Students - Flat Learning - Global UnderstandingJulie Lindsay
Many educators are now joining themselves, their students and schools to others across the globe. We all know that global collaboration, the sort that includes full connectivity and collaboration that leads to co-creation of artifacts and actions is not easy and takes time to plan, implement and manage. However, let’s think out of the box even further and start to promote and support independent student learning at the Middle and High School levels. Once the teacher is not the gateway (or the barrier) to global learning, then what?
The ‘flat’ student has a PLN and PLC’s to connect with at anytime. The ‘flat’ student can learn (connect, collaborate, co-create, take action) anywhere at anytime without constraints.
Join Julie as she explores this concept and practice of independent ‘flat’ student learning for global understanding and collaborative actions. Flat Connections projects will be featured as well as the new ‘Learning Collaboratives’ to start in 2015. If you want to take your global learning to a higher level, this is the session to attend!
Digital identity: developing your professional online presence as an academic...Sue Beckingham
Using the 5C Framework (Nerantzi and Beckingham 2014, 2015) as a lens, we will explore how social media can be used to connect, communicate, curate, collaborate and create, and in doing so learn how to:
develop a digital professional persona to share scholarly achievements
cultivate valued personal learning networks and co-learning communities
benefit from 'working (and learning) out loud'
find new approaches and practical examples of using social media
as co-learners share examples of effective practice and consider how these might be applied in your own contexts
In this keynote for Anglia Ruskin University's Digifest 2016 I introduced the idea that a convergence of emerging digital contexts is creating a tipping point in understanding the hybrid learning space. This changes the relationships we have with our students and signals at last that digital lifewide learning shifts the balance from a teaching or content-centred paradigm to learning paradigm.
The implications are staff and students need to learning the literacies of this connectivist learning environment.
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Easy-to-adapt approaches to creating informal learning zonesAndrew Middleton
Learning space development is notorious complex, costly and protracted. This presentation considers what can be done spatially and behaviourally to develop student belonging and becoming. It focuses on ways, often within the discipline, of creating a sense of place through the concept of non-formal learning and the idea of zones. A range of approaches are listed that are easy to implement and comparatively cheap.
The workshop explored the outcomes of a global CPD activity around a common walk augmented by the structured use of social media (a ‘#twalk’) in which all participants acted as co-producers to study the topic of digital placemaking. During the workshop we ran a #minitwalk (search for the evidence using the hashtag elsewhere). The workshop concluded with some parallel discussion activities. You can view and contribute to the google docs from the link in this presentation and you can also see a link to the #Twalk toolkit.
All or nothing: Building teaching team capacity to support the adoption of ac...Andrew Middleton
Andrew Middleton and Helen Kay
Learning Enhancement & Academic Development, Sheffield Hallam University
The workshop explored how we can better support the development of effective academic teams by recognising and acknowledging the various stages and characteristics associated with the implementation of innovative practices. Participants considered the implementation of educational development strategies aimed at developing consistently excellent learner-centred teaching across teams to improve student satisfaction. This is a challenge because innovative teachers are typically set apart from their peers as innovative champions by, for example, receiving special funding for teaching development projects or being recognised for inspirational practice individually. A shift to a learning paradigm (Barr & Tagg, 1995) is not a matter of individual excellence but is cultural. Adopting a common philosophy requires a significant commitment from all team members, although some would argue this is not attainable (Kember & Kwan, 2000).
To background this, the facilitators will report on the CPD models (Rogers, 1995; Pundak & Rozner, 2007; Herckis, 2017).they have used to move a course team towards confident and consistent use of the problem-based pedagogies associated with SCALE-UP active learning classrooms (Beichner, 2008). We will introduce the SCALE-UP method and the challenges its adoption created for the teaching team and their students. Initially driven by a sole innovator, its implementation exposed not only the imagination and strengths within the team, but the time, teaching experience and required capacity needed for the adoption of new active learning methods.
These slides are part of the Audio Feedback Toolkit. You are free to use these resources.
Further ideas, guidance and information is available in the toolkit and elsewhere on the MELSIG site.
CAFE(Consistently active, flexible and experiential) workshopAndrew Middleton
With co-presenters: Jeff Waldock; Tim Jones; David Greenfield; David Smith; Ian Glover; Sinead O'Toole; Ciara O'Hagan; Colin Beard
Participants were invited to engage with the Spaces for Learning Toolkit prior to the workshop, specifically briefing screencasts and papers about four types of student-centred active learning approaches being developed by the University’s Future Learning Spaces Academic Interest Group: SCALE-UP classrooms, Stand Up Pedagogy, Technology Enabled Learning Labs, and the Immersive Think Tank Project Space.
The need for consistent taught experiences in response to student concerns about uneven learning experiences is indisputable. However, excellent teaching is flexible, being responsive to its dynamic context including the needs of students, the curriculum, signature pedagogies (Shulman, 2005), disciplinary culture, and opportunities to situate learning (Brown et al., 1989). Good innovative academic practices engage students through active, co-operative, and challenging methods (Gibbs, 2010). However, if consistency is misread as rigidity, and teaching excellence misread as teacher-centred delivery, learning may be inadvertently re-consigned to the Instruction Paradigm (Barr & Tagg, 1995) of 19th century Industrial Age classrooms and societal demands (Scott-Webber, 2004). We must critically assess what we mean by consistently good student experiences so that our future spaces are designed to challenge and stimulate inspirational learning.
The Future Learning Spaces Academic Interest Group has successfully developed a range of evidence-informed spaces for student-centred active learning and is working closely with the University’s directorates to evaluate them and establish quality standards for benchmarking existing classrooms and other formal and non-formal learning spaces.
Using a pop-up Stand Up Classroom pedagogy, you will discover ‘whiteboard learning’ through collaborative problem-solving, mapping, listing and sorting type activities. You will experience the Stand Up Classroom and discover why it keeps you and your peers motivated. You will work in triads to tackle problems from the SCALE-UP classroom; and you will experience the methods of the Technology Enabled Learning Lab and the Immersive Think Thank Project Space. The future learning space, in its many forms, is a commitment to keep learning vibrant, meaningful, applied and connected. You will take away a good understanding of built pedagogy (Monahan, 2000) and how space, learning and teaching interconnect.
Participants are invited to become Future Learning Spaces group members.
Connecting the Curriculum with Civic OpportunitiesAndrew Middleton
Andrew Middleton, Charmaine Myers and Graham Holden
This presentation introduces the Venture Matrix scheme at Sheffield Hallam University, which has proven the value of developing applied learning methods in co-operation with schools and local businesses for over 10 years. Its central role is to develop real-world experience in the curriculum by introducing course leaders to civic ‘clients’ from schools and businesses in the region who can provide student groups with project briefs. Students address problems that matter by applying and developing their disciplinary knowledge and capabilities. It facilitates boundary crossing in which learning happens through a facilitation of mutually beneficial relationships. The Venture Matrix establishes a Third Space (Gutiérrez et al., 1999) by developing strong ties between civic partners and university students. Business ‘clients’ set learning problems for university students; students develop solutions; school pupils use the outcomes of student work. Each brings contextual factors that contribute to a rich immersive experience. We describe how this enhances learning and the development of student identities, and how it has inspired a large-scale integrated co-operative education model supporting student transition and success. Our question for participants is "Who owns learning the civic Third Space as the pupil becomes student and as the student becomes employer?"
Reference
Gutiérrez, K. D., Baquedano‐López, P., & Tejeda, C. (1999). Rethinking diversity: hybridity and hybrid language practices in the third space, Mind, Culture, and Activity, 6(4), 286-303, DOI: 10.1080/10749039909524733
A Twalk is a walk with a tweetchat. This twalk was devised to support the UK Learning Spaces Special Interest Group's first meeting which took place in Sheffield on 28th July 2017. It to the theme of Crossing Boundaries and walk structured around a series of discussion topics relating to that theme.
An outline of some of the areas of work we are undertaking at Sheffield Hallam around Future Learning Spaces. The work tends to fall into two areas:
1. student engagement and belonging
2. Student-centred active learning
Visions of the revolution: How studio pedagogy reinvents the higher education...Andrew Middleton
The principles of a hybrid learning studio
Remove hierarchy!
Autonomous and Authentic
Inductive knowledge through immersive experience
Learning-centred
Co-operative
Real world challenge and purpose
Neither formal nor informal
Experiential and Experimental
Polycontextual
Hybrid
Fluid and Adaptable
Versatile
Functional
Personal and Social
Identity and belonging
Apprentice
Communal and Networked learning
Enterprising
Private and Public-facing
Peripheral and Stage-centred
Makerspace and Immersive Thinking Space
Laboratory
Boundless
Uncertain, original, and interpreted
Open and Connected
Showcase and demonstration
Home
Constant and constantly changing
Movement and exchange
Negotiation
Navigation
Sketching and drafting
Portfolio and Performance
Accommodating the Unknown
Self-directed and Self-determined
Active and productive
Liminal and troublesome
Digital and Corporeal
Master-Apprentice
Schön’s (1985; 1987) proposition.
These cards were produced for a workshop given at the APT 2017 learning and teaching conference, University of Greenwich. They are intended to stimulate thinking about active learning and co-production in any discipline.
STUDIO FOR ALL
"studio-based learning can serve as a way for all students to learn to participate in the cultural practices of their discipline".- Schön (1985; 1987)
This is a set of cards designed to stimulate discussion about a studio-based learning paradigm. (The approach is inspired by the Vorticists and the painting is by the Voticist artist Jessica Dismore. (Apologies - the font has not travelled well). Ideas are inspired by Ray Oldenburg's idea of Third Place, and Siemen's ideas about connectivism, Schon's work on studio space, and many others
The brief presentation looks at the SCALE-UP classroom to understand structured flexible space and how this helps to understand 'portfolio space'. The context is academic CPD as a connectivist and generative learning space.
Some slides put together to support a twitter conversation - hence, they're not necessarily coherent as a standalone slideset. See other presentations here for more coherence.
In-between dominant learning spaces: a gap in our thinking about interstitial...Andrew Middleton
#UOGAPT workshop, July 2016
#APT16 workshop - containing the outputs of the workshop on the last two slides
A profound understanding of the higher education learning space is emerging through recent works that pay more attention to the learner's experience than to creating landmark architecture. (Harrison & Hutton, 2013). The aim of the workshop is to prove that technology and media can disrupt instrumental thinking about the learning space. The workshop,
introduced the problem of learning binaries
introduced the concepts of in-between space in relation to hybrid learning, and liminality
generated and shared stories in small groups in which personal and portable digital technologies and media play a pivotal role at the intersection of formal and non-formal physical, digital hybrid learning space
concluded by devising a manifesto for liminal learning!
The session will build upon ideas of Third Space and hybridity (Gutiérrez et al., 1999), in-between space (Shortt, 2014) and liminality (Turner, 1969).
References
Daskalaki, M., Butler, C.L., & Petrovic, J. (2012). Somewhere in-between: narratives of place, identity, and translocal work. Journal of Management Inquiry, (21) 4: pp. 430-441.
Gutiérrez , K. D., Baquedano‐López, P., & Tejeda, C. (1999). Rethinking diversity: hybridity and hybrid language practices in the third space. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 6(4), pp. 286-303.
Shortt, H. (2014). Liminality, space and the importance of ‘transitory dwelling places’ at work. Human Relations, 68(4), pp. 1–26.
Turner V.W. (1969). The ritual process: structure and anti-structure. Chicago: Aldine.
Finding the open in the in-between: changing culture and space in higher educ...Andrew Middleton
Andrew Middleton and Kathrine Jensen,
#OER16 presentation
This paper reports on the proposition that "the richest space of all is the in-between space" and connects thinking on liminality (Shortt, 2015), hybridity (Goodwin, Kennedy & Vetere, 2009), Third Space (Bhabha, 2004), and non-formal learning (Eraut, 2000). The challenge of the open is cultural. Ultimately learning happens how and where the learner decides, epitomising the notion of 'remix' (Wiley, 2014) and the other '4Rs' that frame open education. We draw upon a series of self-determined non-formal initiatives that critically examine and seek to develop the relationship between binaries such as formal and informal, teacher and learner, physical and virtual, open and closed to reveal a liminal learner-centred world. Here the learner is already open and is faced with constraints that are remnants of a previous academic tradition. We demonstrate the inadequacy of binaries and polarities in the way we, as academics and as higher education institutions, talk about how students learn and teachers teach, and we make strong connections to the rhetoric and principles of open learning.ReferencesBhabha, H. (2004). The location of culture. New York: Routledge.Eraut, M. (2000). Non-formal learning and tacit knowledge in professional work. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 70, pp. 113 - 136.Goodwin, K., Kennedy, G., & Vetere, F. (2009). Exploring co-location in physical, virtual and ‘hybrid’ spaces or the support of informal learning. ASCILITE 2009 "Sa,ed places, different spaces", Auckland Harriet Shortt (2015) Liminality, space and the importance of ‘transitory dwelling places’ at work. Human Relations, April 2015, 68(4), pp. 633-658Wiley, D. (2014) ‘The Access Compromise and the 5th R’. [online] Available at:http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
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The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
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Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Finding new spaces through media enhanced learning
1. Andrew Middleton
Head ofAcademic Practice & Learning Innovation
LEAD, Sheffield Hallam University@andrewmid
TEEEFest 2015
University of Huddersfield
7th September 2015
Finding New Spaces through
Media-Enhanced Learning
4. Voice
clarity conversation conviction
Smart
capability creativity connectivity
Social media
communication collaboration
Mobile
connection context
Video
capture curation cognition co-operation
Play
control content clips convincing
Image
collection construction
Project
co-production challenge community
5. reflect the diverse
contexts of learners,
graduates and discipline
Global Learning Space
Lifelong and Lifewide
develop digitally capable,
media literate, flexible and
agile thinkers
Engage and Satisfy
appeal to intrinsic motivation
develop learning identity (‘becoming’)
Digital-Social Age
practice outside
of pre-digital
constraints NEED
7. Conversation
• Value of the ‘digital voice’
• Media-intervention: orientation,
motivation, challenge, reflection
• Qualities: clarity, conviction,
discourse
• Promoting identity, interactivity,
high expectations
feed in, feed back, feed forward
Examples
• Employer briefing
• Public comment
• Client stories
• Audio feedback
• Student podcasts
Who is using the recorded voice?
8. Capture and co-operation
Who is using digital video?
• Connecting to the real world
• ‘Gathering’ evidence
• Camera or screen capture
• Time and movement
• Multi-dimension team-based
projects – co-operative learning
• Application of learning - exposition
Examples
• Field trips
• Patient stories
• Scene setting
• Expert voices
finding and flipping
9. Collection and construction
• Gathering and construction(ism)
• Digital narratives
• Evidence
• Symbolism
• Openendedness
• Representation
• Witness
Who is using photographs or graphics?
Examples
• Capturing whiteboards, post its, slides
• Note making in active learning
• Illustrating projects
• Infographics
• Poster assignments
• Storyboarding
• Digital storytelling
recording and presenting
10. Co-production
• Group work
• Enquiry-based learning
• Problem-based learning
• Project-based learning
• Learner-generated content/
context
• Self-direction
• Self-determinism
Who is using co-production?
Examples
• Write a journal article
• Create a multimedia presentation
• Build a class wiki
• Peer review academic work
• Social bookmarking
collaborative construction
11. Content control
• Rich, authentic and immersive
• Reusable ready mades
• Easy to embed
• Global context
• Self-paced
Who is using audio and video content to orientate learning?
Examples
• Flipped classroom concept clips
• Audio summaries
• YouTube content
concepts, clips and access
12. *Beckingham & Middleton – see Smart Learning book
Social Media for Learning framework*
• Socially inclusive
• Lifewide and lifelong
• Media neutral
• Learner-centred
• Co-operative
• Open and accessible
• Authentically situated
Who is using social media to enhance or transform learning?
Examples
• Google Forms survey
• Tweetchat
• LinkedIn profiling
• Slideshare publication
• Evernote sharing
• Hashtag curation
personal learning networks
13. Smart Learning
Convergence and disruption
• Rich digital media
• User-generated media
• BYOD
• Mobile learning
• Open learning
• Social media for learning
Who is using social media to enhance or transform learning?
Examples
• Pre-enrolment Facebook group
• Placement peer meetup
• CPD Evernote portfolio
• Feedback portfolio in Tumblr
• Padlet class generation activity
multiplying emerging possibilities
14. Commons - liminality
It’s students who learn! Learning is unbounded
• Wherever they are
• Whoever they are with
• Whenever they are ready
• However they determine
• Time and space neutral: rich, accessible, just-in-time
crossing open borders
Where do you learn?
15. Media interventions
• Media interventions promote learning
• Teachers orientate, motivate, and challenge learners
• Teachers facilitate critical and reflective thinking
• Media are provided, made, saved, shared, used, replayed, remixed
framing engagement and learning
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Finding New Spaces through Media-Enhanced Learning
Drawing upon studies into learning spaces, media-enhanced learning and the use of personal smart technologies we will reflect on the redundancy of longstanding binaries such as physical-virtual, formal-informal, synchronous and asynchronous learning environments and what this means for our practice. We will consider examples of how digital and social media are being used to enhance learning and how such innovations are creating a ‘third space’ in which the learner is more active and present.
What do I mean by Media-enhanced learning?
Academia exists in spaces that are dominated by text. We should not dismiss text and its academic tradition
But we should consider possibilities beyond text to enhance or transform the learning space
We should look at how the learning space (or learner’s context for learning) can be extended by:
Playing with time and making judgements about synchronous and asynchronous media interventions
Playing with place and making judgements
Playing with social, on and off line, to understand learning as being conversational
Playing with personal, on and off line, to understand learning as being ultimately about self-construction and self-regulation
Playing with the visual world, how we can represent ideas and knowledge as authentic problems
Playing with the aural world to appreciate the power of voice in forming identity and finding meaning
We will look at this space and how it is being used by academics – including you!
The concept of media-enhanced learning relates to space
In fact it challenges simple binary notions of space
For example,
We often talk about
Formal or Informal spaces, for example classrooms and cafes respectively…
Physical or virtual environments…
Facilities the university provides or facilities the student provides for themselves e.g. PCs or BYOD
We talk about activity and passivity e.g. arguments about whether lectures and ‘content’ are good or bad
These binaries are unhelpful because they miss what is really important:
Learning and teaching thrives along its contextualised and complex continua in the Third Space
Keep an eye on the “C” words!
We’ll be looking at the various qualities of different media and how they are used in higher education
This is about possibilities
A ‘concrete’ authentic learning experience
…But first, what is the need?
Why do we need media-enhanced learning?
We need to,
engage and satisfy our students more deeply – appeal to intrinsic motivation and develop learning identity (a sense of becoming);
Recognise the Global Learning Space: the diversity of subjects taught in higher education, their signature pedagogies, enriched by the authenticity of the global context – and therefore reflecting the diverse contexts of learners, graduates and disciplines;
connect ways of learning to make use of the learner’s lifewide experience and develop employability and resilience by understanding flexibility and agility as graduate attributes- develop digitally capable, media literate, flexible and agile thinkers;
remove ourselves from the constraints of a pre-digital learning landscape to optimise teaching and learning – practice outside of pre-digital constraints.
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Now we are going to look at practice and possibilities picking up on some of those ‘C’ words
Conversation
feed in, feed back, feed forward
Value of the ‘digital voice’ – who are we talking about?
– there is great value in the voices of academics, student buddies and mentors, employers, clients, ‘publics’
Media-intervention: orientation (scene setting), motivation (from extrinsic to intrinsic), challenge (setting high expectations and valuing real world complexity), reflection (using media to develop and support critical thinking)
Qualities: clarity, conviction, discourse
Promoting identity, interactivity, high expectations
Examples
Employer briefing
Public comment
Client stories
Audio feedback
Student podcasts
Digital Video
Capture and co-operation – video as an accessible ‘making’ media, finding and flipping (EBL, PBL), heightening meaning through real word connection
‘Gathering’ evidence – using the smart device as a ‘vacuum cleaner’ sucking in the gritty world around us (lifewide as context for learning)
Camera or screen capture – Go out or stay in!
Time and movement – video suggests animation, process, function and time are important
Multi-dimension team-based projects – co-operative learning
Application of learning – don’t write an essay this time, show me what you know
Examples
Field trips
Patient stories
Scene setting
Expert voices
Digital Image
Gathering and construction(ism)
Digital narratives - storytelling
Evidence - sense making
Symbolism – an alternative language
Openendedness – an idea presented visually has space for the learning to make their own connections and sense
Representation – a picture is worth 1,000 words
Witness
Witness – the act of photographing
Examples
Capturing whiteboards, post its, slides
Note making in active learning
Illustrating projects
Infographics
Poster assignments
Storyboarding
Digital storytelling
Co-production
collaborative construction
Group work
Enquiry-based learning– research different dimensions of a group project
Problem-based learning– working together to investigate and prove different solutions to an authentic problem
Project-based learning – meaning application of learning through scaffolded and clearly constrained task-based activity
Learner-generated content/context (Garnett) – the shift is from a content-centric idea of learning to a learning in context view of learning
Self-direction – the individual or group interpret the brief and make it their own
Self-determinism – the learner constructs, executes and reflects on their (e.g. Experiential Learning, Heutagogy)
Examples
Write a journal article
Create a multimedia presentation
Build a class wiki
Peer review academic work
Social bookmarking
Content control
concepts, clips and access
Rich, authentic and immersive – multimedia, believable, concerted commitment and concentration over time
Reusable ready mades – DuChamp i.e. association, juxtaposition, challenging representation
Easy to embed – conceptually driven active learning
Global context – representations are diverse
Self-paced – access and control this at will
Examples
Flipped classroom concept clips
Audio summaries
YouTube content
Socially inclusive
supporting and validating learning through mutually beneficial, jointly enterprising and communally constructive communities of practice;
fostering a sense of belonging, being and becoming;
promoting collegiality.
Lifewide and lifelong
connecting formal, non-formal and informal learning progression;
developing online presence;
developing digital literacies.
Media neutral
learning across and through rich, multiple media.
Learner-centred
promoting self-regulation, self-expression, self-efficacy and confidence;
accommodating niche interests and activities, the ‘long tail’ of education.
Co-operative
promotes working together productively and critically with peers (co-creation) in self-organising, robust networks that are scalable, loosely structured, self-validating, and knowledge-forming.
Open and accessible
supporting spatial openness (without physical division);
supporting temporal openness i.e. synchronously and asynchronously;
supporting social openness i.e. democratic, inclusive;
supporting open engagement i.e. in terms of being: geographically extended, inclusive, controlled by the learner, gratis, open market, unconstrained freedom, access to content (Anderson, 2013);
being open to ideas.
Authentically situated
making connections across learning, social and professional networks;
scholarly;
establishing professional online presence and digital identity.
Rich digital media –disrupts dependency on text
User-generated media - disrupts provided content model
BYOD - –disrupts provided technology model
Mobile learning – disrupts provided classroom model
Open learning –disrupts formal models of delivery
Social media for learning –disrupts one-to-many model
Creativity, commons, openness, disruption, change
Wherever they are – formal, informal, non-formal, moving from one context to another
Whoever they are with – on their own, inspired or challenged by peers, tutors, family, friends, work mates…
Whenever they are ready – ultimately it is up to the student – but we can make the learning space richer
However they determine
Time and space neutral: rich, accessible, just-in-time
Media interventions promote learning
A way to reflect on teaching with media:
How are you orientating the learner to the course, module or task?
How are you motivating the learner by appealing to their curiosity and need for wellbeing? Or how are you moderating extrinsic drivers?
How are you framing and setting high expectations to challenge your students?
How are you facilitating critical and reflective thinking?
You may be providing media content or involving students in generating media content?