Ravensbourne TomorrowMiles Metcalfe, Ravensbourne College

About Ravensbourne

Specialist higher-education College

Validated by the University of Sussex and City University

Around 1,500 students in design and communication, mainly undergraduate

In leafy Chislehurst, Kent

I can’t tell you what the future holds

100% buzzword compliant

Oh my!

learner-centred community-engaged deep-learning vocational peer-supported research-informed personalised enterprising inclusive

What does an IT department do about it?

User-owned technology

The usual suspects

Flexible learning spaces

Serendipitous commons

Ubiquitous wireless

Where else do we add value?

Use some of the money spent on computer barns to subsidise personal technology

Higher-end resources integrate with user-owned workflows

Software as a service, open source alternatives, software loans

The good old days

Today you get a laptop free with a mobile phone contract

Yesterday, IT was expensive:

! Senior managers presided over decisions

! All IT was enterprise IT

! Users’ choices didn’t matter

The enterprise LAN

Of course the LAN has enterprise uses

Many of our users simply want to:

Use wireless to

Connect to the internet

And we block their ports

Identity crisis

What is tomorrow’s IT department?

Defender of scarce resource, and arbiter of fair use?

Agent of enterprise transformation?

Service provider?

Seriously, can we build Faraday cages?

Learning 2.0

It’s about the pedagogy

What works for us

A coherent pedagogy that recognises:

Learners become practitioners

And negotiate a public identity

Integrating extra-institutional practice into their institution-bound learning

A personal learning environment

Learners bring a part of their environment with them

Augment through institutional services

Reintegrate social software through a social stack

Some technology

The VLE is no longer the whole answer

RSS, OpenID preserve the VLE panopticon

Bounded systems give way to more open collaboration

Like our generous sponsor’s Huddle

Or collaborative notification – Twitter

Some parting shots

OpenID is far from perfect

Have you tried using it on a smartphone?

It’s a better bet than Shibboleth

I don’t trust these extra-institutional software as a service

We’ve managed patch Tuesdays, though

Credits

The JISC elearning capital programme

Google: North Greenwich image and map pin

Foreign Office Architects: Ravensbourne building image

“Matrix” and “Falling Down” images found on the web, and used without permission

Apple: iPhone image

Headshift Ltd: Social Stack

Roger Rees and Ruth Catlow – Learning Enhancement at Ravesbourne

Thanks!

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