Presentation to the Networked Learning Conference at Maastricht School of Management April 2012. See http://networkedlearningconference.org.uk for full paper

1. promoting connections through
Community Equity
Mike Johnson
Cardiff School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies
Ysgol Astudiaethau Nyrsio a Bydwreigiaeth Caerdydd
http://about.me/michaelrhysjohnson
Cardiff School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies
Ysgol Astudiaethau Nyrsio a Bydwreigiaeth Caerdydd

2. Promoting Connections
Learning in which information and
communications technology (ICT) is used to
promote connections: between one learner and
other learners, between learners and tutors;
between a learning community and its learning
resources.
Goodyear & NLinHE Team, 2001 p.9

3. 140
120
100
M02
Confidence score
S03
80
M04
S04
60
M05
S05
40
20
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
11
21
31
41
51
61
71
81
91
1
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
Num ber of students
Computer confidence scores of 6 cohorts of nursing freshers, March 2002-September 2005

4. IT skills dialectic

5. Shortcomings and tensions in wikis for collaborative learning:
Attribution, aggregation and peer assessment
Klava’s
work When a wiki is used for group-based collaborative
writing, authorship information is either very basic Jan’s
or hard to find and collate.
I had observed that students were de-motivated to work
participate because their individual contribution is
merged and lost within the work of their peers,
unless they adopt a deliberate strategy to identify
their work.
I wanted a system that would make individual
contributions apparent with ease within the context
of a group presentation.
“Contributions” We all worked
was Jill’s idea on this

6. Peter Reiser
Peter Reiser:
Principal
Architect at
Oracle
Corporation,
Zürich,
Switzerland
shelisrael on Flickr

7. More than a ‘technology’
Value system
What’s in it for me?
Methodology Adoption
Scalable Enterprise Architecture
Architecture
http://www.slideshare.net/peterreiser

8. Community Equity
• Information Equity (IQ)
• Contribution Equity (CQ)
• Participation Equity (PQ)
• Personal Equity (PEQ)
Reiser, P., & Diamond, P. (2011, August 30). US Patent #
8,010,902. Method and system for tracking social capital -
Patents.com. Redwood City, CA. Retrieved from
http://patents.com/us-8010902.html

10. One other big success about the ETC is teaching people
Randy Pausch 2007
about feedback [puts up bar chart where students are
wil p on Flickr
(anonymous) listed on a scale labelled “how easy to work
with” ] -- oh I hear the nervous laughter from the students.
I had forgotten the delayed shock therapy effect of these
bar charts. When you’re taking Building Virtual Worlds,
every two weeks we get peer feedback. We put that all into
a big spreadsheet and at the end of the semester, you had
three teammates per project, five projects, that’s 15 data
points, that’s statistically valid. And you get a bar chart
telling you on a ranking of how easy you are to work with,
where you stacked up against your peers. Boy that’s hard
feedback to ignore. Some still managed. [laughter] But for
the most part, people looked at that and went, wow, I’ve
got to take it up a notch. I better start thinking about what
I’m saying to people in these meetings. And that is the best
gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become
self reflective. (Pausch, 2007, p. 16)

11. What is networked learning activity?
If we can define it…
can we measure it?
incentivise it?
embed it?

12. http://about.me/michaelrhysjohnson