Exhibitors:
Sponsor:
OPEN SOURCING – USING DIGITAL CHANNELS TO MAKE POLICY COLLABORATIVELY
CHAIR:NICK DAVIESPUBLIC SERVICES MANAGER, NCVO
SPEAKERS:PETER BRYANTHEAD OF LEARNING TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
TIM HUGHESOPEN GOVERNMENT PROGRAMME MANAGER,INVOLVE
Hacking the UK Constitution
Peter Bryant @peterbryantHEHead of Learning Technology and InnovationLondon School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Crowdsourcing democracy and learning in a messy, fragmented world
The PROPOSITION
• Deliver a written constitution that was crowd sourced by a representative community
• Ensure that it clearly represented the will of the people
• Do it before the May 2015 election• Make sure it was civil and engaging• Provide an educational experience that did not look
like or work like a course in constitutional law
THECHALLENGE
#1
BUILDING A COHESIVE COMMUNITY
‘…it’s through participation in communities that deep learning occurs. People don’t learn to become physicists by memorizing formulas; rather it’s the implicit practices that matter most. Indeed, knowing only the explicit, mouthing the formulas, is exactly what gives an outsider away. Insiders know more. By coming to inhabit the relevant community, they get to know not just the “standard” answers, but the real questions, sensibilities, and aesthetics, and why they matter.’
BROWN, J. S. Learning in the digital age
THECHALLENGE
#2
Modern pedagogy/
civic engagement
is often…
SEQUENTIALSCAFFOLDED
ALIGNEDSTRUCTUREDSTRATIFIED
LEARNING
EXPERIENCING
LIVING
ACQUIRING
CONNECTING
RARELY ARE
LEARNING
SHARINGCONNECTING
CHANGING
What if
InformalCommunity led
Non-linearDemocratic
Problem solvingCollaborative
ChaoticAspirational
EmancipatoryOpen
engagementcould be…
ALLAT AMASSIVESCALE
USING
SOCIAL MEDIA
Combination of learning approachesIntegrating participatory practicesEngaged individuals and groupsNo readings, no course, No lecturer, no teacher, maybe a guruNo sequence, enter at any timeLearning was an expectationLearning through practice, debate and citizenship
What we built
https://www.flickr.com/photos/leolondon/451273331
Where we finished
over 1500 users;over 725 idea submissions;over 125000 idea views;over 10000 comments;over 25000 votes cast;an 8500 word constitution;from more than 1m words written.Over 75% learnt something and 88&% were influenced by the communityParticipation went up across the project not DOWN https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen_downes/1470015134
RE-DEFINING MASSIVE
IMPACTRIPPLEPOWER OF ANALYSISEXPERIENCE
https://www.flickr.com/photos/balleyne/2668834386
RE-DEFINING OPEN
OPEN ACCESSOPEN PARTICIPATIONOPEN ACADEMYOPEN ENGAGEMENT
RE-THINKING PARTICIPATION
EMANCIPATIONAUTHORITYFLEETING CONNECTIONSIDEATIONHACKING
‘Social media has facilitated a complex, co-created and immediate form of learning response, where content and openness challenge the closed, structured nature of modern higher education. Social media has had significant impacts on the way learners connect with people and with the knowledge they require in order to learn across a variety of contexts. Social media support more than user interactivity, they support the development and application of user-generated content, collaborative learning, network formation, critical inquiry, relationship building, information literacy, dynamic searching and reflection.’
BRYANT, PETER (2015) Disrupting how we ‘do’ on-line learning through social media: a case study of the crowdsourcing the UK constitution project.
What happens when you empower a community to learn and engage in social change?
Does this build an informed digital citizenry?
Can this be more than civic engagement? Problem solving, capacity development or change?
And that’s what is next…
Developing the…
…and…2016-18 Open Government Action Plan
NCVO Campaigning Conference6 September 2016
www.opengovernment.org.uk
forum.opengovernment.org.uk
79 ideas
28 proposals
8 workshops
250+ contributions
www.opengovmanifesto.org.uk
www.opengovernment.org.uk/resource/terms-of-reference-of-the-uk-open-government-network/
Tips
1.Have a clear process2.Leave some flexibility for changing circumstances3.Combine online and offline4.Apply the rule of thumb for internet culture