Prof. Dr. Hartmut Ditton Building a European Platform for … · 2020. 8. 13. · Prof. Dr. Hartmut Ditton DISCUSS Building a European Platform for Communities of Practice in Lifelong

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Ditton DISCUSS

Building a European Platform for

Communities of Practice

in Lifelong Learning “Creating a Virtual Space for

Lifelong Learning” Thomas Fischer

LLL HUB – Lifelong Learning AGORA, - 07 & 08 March 2016 – Mechelen, Belgium

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# 2 LLL HUB – Lifelong Learning AGORA, - 07 & 08 March 2016 – Mechelen, Belgium

Overview of the Presentation

Structure of the Presentation

1. What is DISCUSS about?

2. What have we done so far?

3. What are our next steps?

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Why Lifelong Learning (LLL)?

– Demographic change, longevity, ageing society and workforce;

– Globalisation, migration & ethnic diversity;

– Changing economic, insurance and welfare patterns; later retirement ages;

– Increasing economic disparities, ‘2/3 societies’, structural imbalances;

– Shift from full- to part-time employment; economic need for mobility and flexibility, ‘modern nomads’, permanent mobility;

– Shift from a industrial to an Information and Knowledge Society;

– Individualised/atomised societies, flexible lifestyles and changing biographies, from individuals to ‘multi-viduals’; super-diversity; identity and threat of difference;

– Dissolving traditional family structures, single households, social isolation of the elderly etc;

– Urbanisation;

– Digitalisation, Digital Natives vs Immigrants, Digital Residents vs Visitors, Digital Gaps, New Millenium Learners, Big Data and Big Brother(s);

– Changing Learning: from transmissive to facilitated, co-created, co-owned.

Some Background ...


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Some Illustrations ...


Reality on our Doorstep – Changes & Crises

Some more Background ...

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Life-long & Life-wide Learning Societies

• The Knowledge (or Learning) Society is characterised by an organic link between the different contexts of learning: • Individual learning; • Community learning; • Organisational learning; • Territorial learning

(i.e. learning cities and regions). • The Industrial Society was

focused on training (assimilation): • the era of mass media was

focused on delivery of pre-packaged contents;

• central-design, push & control;

• The Knowledge Society is focused on learning (accommodation): • the era of knowledge media is

focused on knowledge co-construction;

• co-design, pull & share.

• Up to 1970s Learning to work

• 70 – 80 Learning at work

• 80 – 90 Learning through work

Learning through life

• 21st century Learning is work

Learning is life

Learning

Communities

Learning

Organisations

Learning

Territories

Learning

Individuals

Lifelong

Learning

Landscape


Even more Background ...

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Source: A Social Theory of Learning (Wenger, E.).

http://pagi.wikidot.com/wenger-social-theory-learning

Social Theory of Learning

– For Individuals, it means that

learning is an issue of engaging in

and contributing to the practices of

their communities.

– For Communities, it means that

learning is an issue of refining their

practice and ensuring new

generations of members.

– For Organisations, it means that

learning is an issue of sustaining the

interconnected communities of

practice through which an

organisation knows what it knows and

thus becomes effective and valuable

as an organisation.










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DISCUSS is a European Platform for Communities of Practice

(CoPs) in Lifelong Learning which is aiming for … – developing a state-of-the-art platform for CoPs active in Lifelong Learning,

helping to foster dialogue and exchange between beneficiaries and users of the

Lifelong Learning Program (LLP) of the European Union;

– bringing together project actors, experts, stakeholders, decision makers and

end users in a Collaborative Environment.

Therefore DISCUSS will … – build the organisational capacities, software tools and technical infrastructure to

host and accommodate CoPs;

– create excitement, relevance and added value necessary to attract and engage

members;

– scaffold collaboration and mutual learning across CoPs.


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Theoretical Basis

– DISCUSS builds on a Participatory Approach, which shall ensure active

involvement of the major target groups, and a Complementary Learning

approach, based on the concept of expansive learning;

– For the design, the Seven Principles for „cultivating“ Communities of

Practice has been adopted (Wenger et al, 2002):

1. Design for evolution;

2. Open dialogue between inside and outside perspectives;

3. Inviting different levels of participation;

4. Development of both public and private community spaces;

5. Focus on value (building and adding);

6. Combination of familiarity and excitement;

7. Creating a rhythm for the community.

– Communities of Practice (CoPs) are everywhere!




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Work Packages

– Building Common Ground & Setting the Scene: Describing the current

situation of COPs, tools and good practices by looking at the literature

and interviewing experts;

– Elaborating the Conceptual Framework and developing the DISCUSS

architecture;

– Developing and testing the Technical Infrastructure, debugging and

reviewing the platform – including critique of the users.

– Populating and Working with the Platform, exploitation, dissemination,

quality assurance etc.



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Person

Communication

Group Topic/Theme

Expert Interviews

1.What should we start doing?

2.What should we keep on doing?

3.What should we stop doing?


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Communities of Practice (CoPs) are ....

– Creating shared meaning in uncertain times;

– Providing support and inclusion;

– Valuing difference as a critical advantage;

– Maintaining creative evidence;

– Demonstrating research capacity;

– Breaking out of boundaries;

– Supporting emancipating and empowering learning;

– Shaping futures not reacting to them.



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Consequences

– The platform should allow for effective knowledge sharing;

– So the information section of DISCUSS will hold information and news compiled from relevant projects and present them in a common format;

– The platform should offer different ways of collaboration;

– Especially thematic working groups should be offered to allow every member to interact at a personal level, real-time translation to handle language problems and cloud-based wikis allowing for incremental elaboration of a topic.

– In addition it should be possible to personalise the workspace of a community.


# 13 Prof. Dr. Hartmut Ditton LLL HUB – Lifelong Learning AGORA, - 07 & 08 March 2016 – Mechelen, Belgium


Key Elements & Processes

– Online Community Platform: resting on three pillars of i) information

section; ii) collaborative workspace(s) and iii) social network;

– Workflow: describes the key processes through which the objectives,

tasks and means needed in order to cultivate Communities of Practice are

being developed;

– Thematic Areas: initially based on strategic priorities Lifelong Learning

Programme (LLP) of the European Commisssion; each priority/topic is

linked to a cluster of past and ongoing projects.


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Platform Architecture

Information Section holds information

and news compiled from relevant project

websites, and tools allowing for extensive

knowledge sharing.

Collaborative Workspaces offer a

variety of rich tools for asynchronous and

synchronous communication, which can

be used to identify, explore, discuss or

develop concrete activities with regard to

an issue or problem of common interest.

Social Network supports the building of

personal relationships (and trust) between

the members, with a view to the animation

of social life and further evolution of the

community.

Collaborative Workspaces

Information

DISCUSS

Social Network


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Initial Thematic Areas for CoPs



Thematic CoPs I

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Thematic CoPs I

– Validation of Informal Learning;

– Promoting social and economic cohesion through advanced adult education;

– Basis skills and key competences;

– Quality assurance in education and training;

– Learning Cities and Regions, Community Learning;

– E-Learning;

– Intergenerational Learning;

– Educational transitions, school to work transitions, life transitions;

– Sharing experiences from working on European projects;

– Senior Citizen Learning;

– Serious Games;



Thematic CoPs II

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Thematic CoPs II

– Supporting the development of creativity and innovation;

– Open Educational Resources (OER);

– Migration and ethnic diversity;

– ECVET European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System;

– Linking training and employment;;

– Lifelong Learning Policies;

– Building the DISCUSS communities;

– Building virtual communities for Lifelong Learning

– Deutschsprachige Community

– Organisational learning



Thematic CoPs III

# 18 Prof. Dr. Hartmut Ditton LLL HUB – Lifelong Learning AGORA, - 07 & 08 March 2016 – Mechelen, Belgium


https://youtu.be/AzZ3ek5hUPk


How to get to DISCUSS

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My Profile / Dashboard


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How to get Information



How to share Information



How to participate in Collaborations I



How to participate in Collaborations II


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DISCUSS Roadmap 2020 I

– Technical infrastructure will be maintained and continuously updated by the German project partners. DISCUSS Community Platform runs on managed servers, which allows to share server capacities with already existing platforms, such as the German Network for Creative Industries;

– Features of the DISCUSS Community Platform will be expanded step by step e.g. e.g. until the end of 2016 Access Control List (ACL) functionality will be fully implemented i.e. community managers have full control who can access different features on the backend and frontend, and associate different features with different profile types;

– DISCUSS as ‘One-Stop-Shop’ for collaboration, dissemination, exploitation and sustainability building.


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DISCUSS Roadmap 2020 II

– DISCUSS Community Platform will be managed and further developed by a range of project partners and actors, * who on one hand are interested in continuing the previous discussions and collaborations on lifelong learning; * while on the other would be interested in linking their future projects with the community and use the platform features in the course of those projects, such as for project management of e.g. Erasmus+ or H2020 projects and large scale collaborations within multidisciplinary, European and national research networks.

Join the DISCUSS Community and start collaborating!

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Partners & Contacts

Join the DISCUSS Community @ http://www.discuss-community.eu

Learn more about DISCUSS @ http://www.discuss-project.eu/

Contact us:

Thomas Fischer

Mail: [email protected]

Skype: thomasfischer1967


Thank you very much for your attention!

DISCUSS is funded with the support from the European Commission. This presentation reflects the views only of the authors,

and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP), KA4 Dissemination and Exploitation of Results, EACEA, Europen Commission




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