Openly Networked Connected Spaces
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A brief ignite-style introduction to openly networked connected spaces - specifically, how the three concepts intersect in terms of learning design and educational contexts; part of a conference presentation for the AACU General Education and Assessment Meeting in New Orleans, February 17-20, 2016
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- 1. Autumm Caines - Capital University Laura Gogia & Valerie Holton - Virginia Commonwealth University Jim Luke - Lansing Community College Learning in Openly Networked Connected Spaces Photo Credit: Flickr User Feggy Art
- 3. Inclusive.
- 5. Integrative. Photo Credit: Flickr User Laura Gogia
- 6. Digitally Networked Culture Photo Credit: Flickr User Mickey G Ottowa http://er.educause.edu/articles/2016/1/net worked-learning-as-experiential-learning
- 7. Connect. Photo credit: Flickr User Kris Krug
- 8. Curate. Photo Credit: Flickr User Emily Orpin
- 9. Photo Credit: Flickr user Jon Nicholls Create.
- 10. Harness the Digital Flow. Photo Credit: Flickr User Brad Hagan
- 12. Openly networked connected learning spaces Photo Credit: Flickr User Poppet with a Camera
- 13. Photo Credit: Flickr User InCase
- 14. Open. Photo Credit: Flickr User Tanakawho Opening the borders between classrooms & the world.
- 15. Open. Photo Credit: www.opensource.com Education that is transparent, inclusive, & collaborative.
- 16. Networked. Photo Credit: Flickr User Catherine Cronin Learning to navigate distributed spaces together.
- 17. Networked. Photo Credit: Flickr User Ion-Bogdon Dumitrescu Education that cultivates digital learning communities - in intentional ways.
- 18. Connected. Photo Credit: Flickr User Sorokti Education that bridges the formal/informal learning divide to promote interest- driven learning.
- 19. Connected. Photo Credit: Flickr User Thomas Stegelmann Learning that invites students to develop strong, holistic learning identities.
- 20. Photo Credit: Flickr User Nadya Peek Open, Networked, & Connected These concepts can be combined
- 21. Mixed & matched to suit different educational contexts & goals. Photo Credit: Flickr User Sara Marlowe
- 22. We come from different institutional contexts. Community College - Small Private Liberal Arts University - Large Public Research University - Undergraduate - Graduate - General Education - Discipline Based - Faculty Development
- 23. We offer different experiences. Photo Credits: www. blogs.teradata.com; Camaal Moten; William Murphey Connected. Networked. Open.
- 24. Econproph [open] open content, courses, voices
- 25. Openly Networked Faculty Reading Group Photo Credit: #tomereaders Esra Malkoc CC-BY derivative of Tomb Raider 2013 | Simplified by Flickr User Joshua Ezzell CC-BY
- 27. Photo Credit: Flickr User Interested Bystandr
- 31. learning experiences for students, faculty, & community members.
- 32. STUDIO 1 & 2 Digital Approaches to Access, Engagement, & Scholarship: Learning in Openly Networked Connected Spaces
Editor's Notes
- When George Kuh published his monograph on high impact practices in 2008, he sought to reframe the focus of higher education; rather than emphasizing educational competencies and student earning potential, he challenged educators to provide opportunities for adventures in learning; adventures that would allow students to engage in self-actualization, synthesis, and integration. The list of high impact practices that Kuh developed included things such as service learning, study abroad, learning communities, undergraduate research. These activities have several common themes.
- First, they are inclusive, meaning that they provide multiple entry points for students to engage and re-engage with the activity, and provide students with diverse pathways towards success.
- Second, they are experiential, inviting students to engage actively with complex problems and opportunities.
- And finally they are integrative, requiring students to synthesize classroom learning in meaningful, real world contexts.
- In a recent article, Dr. Gardner Campbell argued for the addition of digitally mediated networked learning to Kuh’s list of high-impact practices, because the cultures that are developing in these spaces are increasingly capable of providing student with inclusive, experiential, and integrative learning experiences. The virtual world is a place of discovery where people… http://er.educause.edu/articles/2016/1/networked-learning-as-experiential-learning
- connect with people from all over the world around shared interests, events, or life experiences.
- Together, they are faced with an endless flow of information from all perspectives and places. These people are learning to curate this information so that it is meaningful and manageable.
- And in the acts of curation, information is re-mixed and re-purposed. Any number of digital tools and platforms – many of them open sourced and freely available – can be used to facilitate the construction and co-construction of knowledge.
- It is becoming increasingly clear that we, as educators, need to explore ways to harness the creative fire hose of digital culture for learning, while helping students acquire the dispositions and skills they need to do the same
- So that they have access to whatever they need to succeed by following whatever it is they love.
- Openly networked connected learning spaces allow for new, emerging pedagogical approaches that attempt to harness the distinctive digital power of the open web for the purpose of providing students with high impact learning experiences that are inclusive, experiential, and integrative.
- They build on three overlapping facets of digital culture: open, networked, and connected. Propelled forward from and by a digital networked participatory culture, the three qualities are intertwined with a core set assumptions around the value of educational equality and access, self-determined and participatory learning, and authentic and relevant learning experiences.
- Openness refers to education which is accessible and shared with others on a global scale. Open educators are interested in all aspects of equitable and accessible education including but not limited to the optimization of course formats and costs of educational materials and programming.
- Open educators promote openness and open values with their teaching. They talk with students about open licensing, open digital scholarship, and the value of collaborative gift cultures.
- Networked emphasizes the impact and experience of decentralized or distributed information sources in the digital world.
- The concept of “networked” emphasizes the importance of interpersonal connection between learners and their peers, instructors, and other resources. The goal of networked educators is to create digital learning communities that promote collaborative and cooperative learning
- Connected learning emphasizes the overlap between the diverse spaces in which youths learn, including their personal passion projects, peer organizations and cultures, and academic environments
- Connected educators help students explore, develop, and drive their own “learning lives,” the compilation of informal and formal learning experiences that makes up the student’s learner identity.
- We will argue that the concepts of open-networked and connected can be added to each other to form synergistic relationships;
- Mixed and matched to suite different educational contexts and goals
- The three of us, along with our colleagues, have done just that. We come from very different institutional contexts
- And we have different needs and goals, so we chose very different ways to blend open, networked, and connected.
- At Virginia Commonwealth University, we are exploring the intersection of open education and connected learning for the purpose of facilitating greater digital fluency and integrative thinking among our students. We have been using RamPages, our large scale, public campus web publishing platform, to support formal academic courses, as well as organizational and individual student, faculty, and staff websites. I will describe Collaborative Curiosity, one of the openly networked connected pilot courses supported by RamPages. This eight-week, for-academic credit, online graduate level course engaged students in public information curation, multimodal expression, blogging, and tweeting with interesting and validating student responses.
- Together, we will discuss how we were able to leverage the synergies between open, networked, and connected
- In our session we will provide more details on our individual experiences before challenging you to drive the content covered in the session through your questions, challenges, and responses to what we share. So please join us in Studio 1 & 2