Collaborative Learning and Communities

Sue Beckingham MA FSEDA FHEA

@suebecks

Flexible Distance and Online Learning #FDOL131

• MUMChief Cook and Bottle washer

• STUDENTSecond Masters : MSc Technology Enhanced Learning Innovation and Change

• EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPERFellow of SEDA Staff and Educational Development Association

• LECTURERProfessional Communication and Digital Skills

Wears multiple hats

CollaborativePLNs

Learning PLEs

Co-operativeVLEs

Communities

of Practice

Learning Experiences

Formal

Non-formalInformal

Eaton 2010 http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED508254.pdf

formal

•credit bearing courses

non-informal

•community based programmes, non-credit adult education courses, CPD, sports and fitness programmes

informal

•coaching, mentoring, social networks, personal learning networks

formal

•credit bearing courses

non-informal

•community based programmes, non-credit adult education courses, CPD, sports and fitness programmes

informal

•coaching, mentoring, social networks, personal learning networks

What would you add?

Is it so easy to label?

It can happen out in public placesalleyways and funny spacesunderneath and in betweenlocations where you’ve never beenbefore..It can happen on an airplaneat 30,000 feet above the groundyou’ve found the person sittingnext to you has lived the life youmight have..It can happen walking down the streetyou meet someone you haven’t seenin ages who tells youeverythingbefore the light changes..

It can happen in mid sentence whenyou interrupt the program fora messagefrom one sponsoror another.

It can happen at a partyonce I met a guy who told me howsub atomic particles romancewith partners rooms awaythat made my day..It can happen in a puban angel at the bar sharing whiskywhile a stranger tellsa history of the worldin six glasses..It can happen when you go to bedand in your head you findan alleyway at 30,000 feetwhere faster than light neutrinos aredancing the night away..And it all makes sense.

Where Learning Happenshttp://m

arkmcguire.net/2012/08/18/w

here-learning-happens/Mark McQuire 2012

collaborationmake learning communities creative and fun

Haiku 俳句

5-7-5

http://www.flickr.com/photos/apenguincalledelvis/5378437490/

Fun self-directed and self-organised ‘informal’ experiential learning

‘Formal’ Tutor-Led Experiential Learning

Tutor as Facilitator

Vygotsky

Just in

case learni

ng

Just in

time learni

ng

Thinking about your own learning experiences what are the pros and

cons of each?

 "online" indicates a state of

connectivity, while "offline" indicates a disconnected state.

Connectedness

Dennis McGrath http://technogogical.wordpress.com/

Connectedness

mentionmap

Technology removes boundaries such as language, time and geographical distance

However my first experience....

The principal goal of education is to create men [and women] who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done - men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept, everything they

are offered.Piaget

We need to learn to take risks, to challenge and above all find fun in

learning