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Before & After Institutions
Building Architectures of Participation
Before & After Institutions
A timely intervention by nefg
So, can we build organisational architectures of participation?
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Architecture of Participation blog
Learning is changing;Computer-mediated, internet-enabled, web-based platformsPedagogically-flexible; negotiated, discursive, brokered, co-createdFrom Access to Content to Context, learning processes are changing. BUT!! What about educational institutions?
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Teaching and Learning
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What is self-directed learning?
New technologies & new capacities have enabled a shift from; content scarcity to content abundance,
Enabled diverse navigation paths
Creating multiple possibilities for… learner-centred & self-directed learning
P A HTeacher
School
Teacher/Learner
Learner
Research
Cognition Epistemic
Cognition
Meta-Cognitio
n
Adult
Education needs a new Craft of Teaching
To enable “Artfully-crafted
Student-centred Learning Experiences”
So we can co-create a
A learning transformation
Our transformed models of learning
require new organisational structures
BUT! The Academy hasn’t changed;
Academic Institutions remain
•Elitist•Self-regarding•Hierarchical •Sclerotic•Expensive
Still preparing for 19th Century colonial wars…
Instead of for 21st Century Citizens!
Filled with Education Managers
Inspecting delivery of traditional educational policy objectives
AND Learning Change Deniers
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Institutions and Structures
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If we build organisational architectures of participation – will they be;
E-enabling tradition or transforming institutions of education?
Will it be a digital revolution in networked participation or just managing in the knowledge economy?
We need Platforms for Learning
What is Web 2.0?; http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html
Trust in Collaboration
Outcomes Permanently Beta
NOT Permanently Victorian
E-mature institutions confident…
Enough to evolve and change
To collaborate, adapt, evolve and change
Adaptive institutions working across
Collaborative networks
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What are Architectures of Participation?
For us participatory education means
Participatory institutions
Formalised around quality assurance
And Learning support
Where both delivering & managing
learning programmes are the same
AND teachers are trusted
For their pedagogic experience
Co-creating authentic learning experiences
With enthusiastic learners
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Rethinking Strategic Management Operational
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Heutagogy & Technology Stewards
In our participatory organisations;Strategic actions create learning platformsLearning management designs & evaluates new learning behavioursOperational behaviour is created by learners evolving new tech practices
The 3 Levels of the Participatory InstitutionLevel Responsibility Aim
Strategic Planning
Senior Managers
Technical Infrastructure
Enabling Platform
Learning Management
Course Team Learning Resources
Learning Ecology
Learner Behaviours
Students Union New Technologies
Resource Discovery
An Institutional Development FrameworkNeeding 3 Levels of Technology Stewards
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Technology Stewards in Digital Habitats
Participatory Institutions need…
Tech Stewards operating in Digital Habitats
To define new roles & obligations;Participatory processes at all 3 Levels
Strategic Tech Stewards
Evolving the supported Learning Platform
Learning Tech Stewards
Evolving intentional Communities of Practice &
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…as Digital Practitioners creating…
Student-centred learning experiences
Trusted Learner Tech Stewards
Developing personal Learning Networks
Before & After InstitutionsTechnology has changed learning Organisations need transformation withThe 3 E’s of Transformational ChangeFrom Strategic To EnablingFrom Managerial To EvaluatingFrom Operational To ExploringGenerative Change in Adaptive Institutions
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(More in AoP Blog Post)
Organisational architectures of participation will need to be;Adaptive to learning Responsive to coincidence of motivations that affords learning behavioursCo-creating new collaborative networks to enable new learning behaviours
Some Resources• Architecture of Participation• What is Web 2.0? O’Reilly• Digital Habitats; Etienne Wenger• Intentional Communities of Practice; Thomas Cochrane• Social Networks of Learning; Caroline Haythornthwaite• CROS Alternative University• Open Context Model of Learning & the Craft of Teaching• The Heutagogic Archive • Aggregate then Curate with xtlearn.net• Self-managed Learning – Stewart Hase & Chris Kenyon – Bloomsbury• Images Fred Garnett, Naomi Grew, Geoff Rebbeck as well as creative
commons via Google Images, let us know any errors - thanks
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@fredgarnett & Nigel Ecclesfield #nefg3