Presentation on WikiQuals & Personalised Learning for Alternative Education Futures Conference June 17th 2016 Birmingham City University

1. Trust
the
Learner
@fredgarnett #AlternativeEducationFutures

2. Everyone
really wants to
Learn…

3. BUT! Perhaps
NOT
what you want to
tell them…

4. WikiQuals & Personalised Learning
@fredgarnett http://bit.ly/WQAbout

5. WikiQuals & Personalised Learning
Brief history of politics & computing
Educational brokering
Kondratieff in Lewisham #CitizenConnects
Community Grids for Learning
Learner-generated contexts & “open”
Emergent Learning Model
WikiQuals #occupy & alt.Uni… #PLEs

6. Who is @FredGarnett?
Mum a librarian Dad a Maths teacher
Worked in education in UK & USA
Unis, Colleges, School, Community, etc
Formed TaLENT 1998 > CGfL (1999)
Govt; Head of Community Programmes
FRSA, Visiting Research Fellow UoL
Open Scholar CityZens Heutagogy CROS.ro

7. Who is @FredGarnett?
By 1984 I had…
Taught 2 years of politics in USA (Uni)
2 years of computing in UK (FE)
What should I do next?
Social Impact of technology change
NOT! Industrial Revolution Mk 2
BUT! Will tomorrow work… (for us)

8. 1984 Politics Computing Learning
I’m interested in social change
through technology use;
Technological Innovation Process TIP
1771-2021 (in 50yr cycles)
Kondratieff long-wave cycles of
meta-technologies; microprocessor
Networks, Services, Users model

9. BUT!
you know how to
teach…

10. So… Educational Brokering
In USA you teach what you design
In the UK you teach what you are given
I developed a negotiating technique
By writing the units that I teach
Negotiate delivery with students
Brokering students interests against
educational system requirements...
Student-centred learning/education

11. “Front-loading”
teaching

12. Learning & the Internet
1996 Information Systems in Society
Blended learning module (Greenwich)
Developed an online learning portfolio
Netiquette, Search, Evaluation,
Supporting others, Collaborating
1997 NGfL – Citizen Connects Lewisham
TaLENT Community of Practice model
of Internet teacher training (CGfL)

13. Creekside Centre Deptford #CitizenConnects
LBL Local Agenda 21 (Used in Olympics 2012 bid)

14. Community Grids for Learning
2000 CALL Community Internet (UK)
UK online Digital Community Centres
NOF-DIGI; museum content
Community Grids for Learning
2002 Digital Divide Content Strategy >
Metadata for Community Content >
Community Development Model of
Learning (“Community Curriculum”)

15. Learner
modelling

16. JISC RSC Northwest
Learner Modelling (see handout)
“Goal-seeking” motivated learners
Animateurs as “Trusted Intermediaries” provide
“timely interventions”
Animateur build learning communities & mentors
Learners respond to social needs
Animateurs suggests resources (from links page)
Modelling Learners behaviour;
only time it has been done…

17. Model of Informal e-Learning
Metadata for Community Content;
Modelled informal e-learning (or
interest-driven learning)
Identified centres “lifecycles”
Learners follow interests (any interest)
Trusted Intermediaries advise, guide…
Infomediaries produce content aclearn.net
Research rejected by DfES…

18. Web 2.0 & Learning
2006 We formed Learner-
Generated Contexts group i.e.
“A coincidence of motivations
leading to agile configurations”
Open Context Model of Learning
Using a “development
framework” the PAH Continuum

19. P A H
Teacher
School
Teacher/
Learner
Learner
Research
Cognition Epistemic
Cognition
Meta-
Cognition
Adult

20. Pedagogy Andragogy #Heutagogy
From Andragogy to Heutagogy
PAH Continuum
Pedagogy the institutionalisation of learning around
facts, resource scarcity, subject disciplines; education
as a delivery system (cognition)
Andragogy negotiated, collaborative, interest-driven
learning brokered into ‘open’ spaces – at best the
community is the curriculum (meta-cognition)
Heutagogy self-determined learning where learner
creativity enables innovation (epistemic cognition)

21. Web 2.0 & Context shaping
If web 2.0 with user-generated
content & participative qualities
Allows for “context-shaping”
Can we design a development
framework
That allows us to shape learning
contexts & reconfigure learning?

22. Pedagogies are not enough
Learning is Emergent; http://heutagogicarchive.wordpress.com/
Emergent Learning Model http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/fg-ouemergenttable
Learning is Emergent not institutionalised! We
need to design for emergence and create tools to
support that in a wiki-based collaborative world
Emergent Learning Model rethinks learning as
i. Social Processes not classrooms
ii. Content Creation or Curation not textbooks
iii. Quality Assurance not high-stakes assessment
We needed to build new learning exemplars of
‘non-linear dynamic systems’

23. Emergent Learning Model
Education
Learning
Social
Processes Resources Structures

24. Ambient Learning Open City
Ambient Learning City; http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/ambientlearningcity
Aggregate then Curate http://mosialong.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/aggregate-then-curate/
Being Insanely Ambitious we decided to test
emergent learning by turning Manchester into an
open Ambient Learning City. Cities have many
more learning contexts than a single classroom, so
we decided to test them with MOSI-ALONG
MOSI Ambient Learning Open Network Group
Aggregate then Curate #socialmedia participation
model creating structured ways for people to
inter-act with their city; even during riots (A
History of Manchester in 100 objects)

25. SURPRISE!
#OCCUPY 2011METAPHORS

26. Oct
Oct 2011 University Project; Hub
Westminster
discussed alt.Unis & WikiQuals

27. 2011 The University Project
The University Project; http://univproject.pbworks.com/
WikiQuals workshop; http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/wikiquals
The University Project was convened by Dougald
Hine+ at Hub Westminster, over a long weekend in
October 2011, to look at various alt.Uni projects.
Community of Scholars was the common theme. The
action point was “solve the problem…
that annoys you most” (Philippa Young)
Accreditation of learning annoyed us most
WikiQuals was born

28. Solving the problem that annoyed us most
#WikiQuals; self-accredited learning
Phillipa Young -
TEDx

29. 2012 What is WikiQuals?
WikiQuals is self-directed post-hoc accreditation
We Trust the Sqolar
Transparent learning published openly
Universities “bring you to book” to read stuff
WikiQuals sends you out into the world to do
Being as learning Co-creating change
Act in the world & document its emergence
Co-creating Open Scholarship http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/
WikiQuals Show&Tell; http://wikiquals.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/show-and-tell/

30. WikiQuals – We are Rhizomatic
• Affinity partners supporting guild-like SHOW
& TELL 2.0 model of open accreditation
• Affinity Groups support based on empathy
• QR Codes as wearable real-time accreditation
• Rhizomatic behaviours not MOOCs,
• Discontinous relationships creating loose ties
with other networks…
We are Rhizomatic http://wikiquals.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/affinity-groups/
Building Democratic Learning http://wikiquals.wordpress.com/

31. WikiQuals – Some Sqolars
• Bridget McKenzie; Learning Planet
• Philippa Young; TEDx Warwick (guerrilla films)
• David Jennings; Agile Learning
• Tony Hall; the iPhone as University
• Kai Graf von Pahlen; German constitution
• Flori Coceanu; Gamification of HR practice
& Pattern Design, network Public Value, Open Money, NGO
Marketing, Landscape of Change, creative education
WikiSqolars; http://wikiquals.wordpress.com/sqolars/

32. WikiQuals and CROSquals
CROS.ro Bucharest

33. WikiQuals; & CROSquals
Working with cros.ro (Bucharest)
A comparison using;
a) A “set of social practices”
b) A learning environment
c) Digital tools
CROS design their solutions for learners
WikiQuals helps learners design their own
personalised learning environment & practice...

34. WikiQuals; What we’ve learnt…
Learners want to learn
Once accreditation is understood…
They are not interested in quals
They are interested in doing
Structured conversations with Sqolars
Not structured interrogation by exam
Building their own personalised
learning environments…

35. Learners
“own”
learning

36. Folksonomy
not
Taxonomy

37. WikiQuals “Yes You Can!”
Learning not Education
Liminal not Institutionalised
Bio-diversity not Monoculture
Learner-centric not Student-centred
Learner-generated not Course-defined
Community as Curriculum not Syllabus defined
Community of Sqolars not Community of Practice
Personal Learning Networks not Content-delivery
Quality Assured not Quality Controlled
Dynamic Quality not Static Quaity
Affinity not Supervision
Emergent not Linear
Trust the learner to be themselves;
Identity

38. WikiQuals Resources
Presented at Alternative Education Futures
June 17 2016
WikiQuals blog http://wikiquals.wordpress.com/about/
Emergent Learning Model
Open Context Model of Learning blog
Contact @fredgarnett https://twitter.com/fredgarnett