Trustthe

Learner

@fredgarnett #AlternativeEducationFutures

Everyonereally wants

to

Learn…

BUT! Perhaps NOT

what you want to

tell them…

WikiQuals & Personalised Learning

@fredgarnett http://bit.ly/WQAbout

WikiQuals & Personalised Learning

Brief history of politics & computingEducational brokeringKondratieff in Lewisham #CitizenConnectsCommunity Grids for LearningLearner-generated contexts & “open”Emergent Learning ModelWikiQuals #occupy & alt.Uni… #PLEs

Who is @FredGarnett?

Mum a librarian Dad a Maths teacherWorked in education in UK & USAUnis, Colleges, School, Community, etcFormed TaLENT 1998 > CGfL (1999)Govt; Head of Community ProgrammesFRSA, Visiting Research Fellow UoLOpen Scholar CityZens Heutagogy CROS.ro

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 changeNOT! Industrial Revolution Mk 2BUT! Will tomorrow work… (for us)

1984 Politics Computing Learning

I’m interested in social change through technology use;Technological Innovation Process TIP1771-2021 (in 50yr cycles)Kondratieff long-wave cycles of meta-technologies; microprocessorNetworks, Services, Users model

BUT!

you know how to

teach…

So… Educational Brokering

In USA you teach what you designIn the UK you teach what you are givenI developed a negotiating techniqueBy writing the units that I teachNegotiate delivery with studentsBrokering students interests against educational system requirements...Student-centred learning/education

“Front-loading”

teaching

Learning & the Internet

1996 Information Systems in SocietyBlended learning module (Greenwich)Developed an online learning portfolioNetiquette, Search, Evaluation, Supporting others, Collaborating1997 NGfL – Citizen Connects LewishamTaLENT Community of Practice model of Internet teacher training (CGfL)

Creekside Centre Deptford #CitizenConnects

LBL Local Agenda 21 (Used in Olympics 2012 bid)

Community Grids for Learning

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

Learnermodelling

JISC RSC Northwest

Learner Modelling (see handout)“Goal-seeking” motivated learnersAnimateurs as “Trusted Intermediaries” provide “timely interventions”Animateur build learning communities & mentorsLearners respond to social needsAnimateurs suggests resources (from links page)

Modelling Learners behaviour; only time it has been done…

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.netResearch rejected by DfES…

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 LearningUsing a “development framework” the PAH Continuum

P A HTeacher

School

Teacher/Learner

Learner

Research

Cognition Epistemic

Cognition

Meta-Cognitio

n

Adult

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)

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?

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 classroomsii. Content Creation or Curation not textbooksiii. Quality Assurance not high-stakes assessment

We needed to build new learning exemplars of ‘non-linear dynamic systems’

Emergent Learning Model

Education Learning

Social Processes Resources Structures

Ambient Learning Open City

Ambient Learning City; http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/ambientlearningcityAggregate 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-ALONGMOSI 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)

SURPRISE!#OCCUPY 2011METAPHORS

Oct 2011 the University Project

Oct 2011 University Project; Hub Westminster

discussed alt.Unis & WikiQuals

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

Solving the problem that annoyed us most

#WikiQuals; self-accredited learning

Phillipa Young - TEDx

2012 What is WikiQuals?

WikiQuals is self-directed post-hoc accreditationWe Trust the SqolarTransparent learning published openlyUniversities “bring you to book” to read stuffWikiQuals sends you out into the world to doBeing as learning Co-creating changeAct 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/

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/

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/

WikiQuals and CROSquals

CROS.ro Bucharest

WikiQuals; & CROSquals

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

WikiQuals; What we’ve learnt…

Learners want to learnOnce accreditation is understood…They are not interested in qualsThey are interested in doingStructured conversations with SqolarsNot structured interrogation by examBuilding their own personalised learning environments…

Learners“own”

learning

Folksonomy not

Taxonomy

WikiQuals “Yes You Can!”Learning not Education

Liminal not Institutionalised Bio-diversity not Monoculture

Learner-centric not Student-centredLearner-generated not Course-defined

Community as Curriculum not Syllabus definedCommunity of Sqolars not Community of PracticePersonal Learning Networks not Content-delivery

Quality Assured not Quality ControlledDynamic Quality not Static Quaity

Affinity not SupervisionEmergent not Linear

Trust the learner to be themselves; Identity

WikiQuals Resources

Presented at Alternative Education FuturesJune 17 2016

WikiQuals blog http://wikiquals.wordpress.com/about/

Emergent Learning Model

Open Context Model of Learning blog

Contact @fredgarnett https://twitter.com/fredgarnett