Conole Lams
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Transcript of Conole Lams
CloudworksStrategies for developing sustainable virtual communities for design
Gráinne Conole, LAMS Conference5th December 2008, Sydney
Empirical evidence
Tool development
Cloudworks CompendiumLD
Resources and events
Cloudfests
Workshops
Design challenges
Summits
Schema
Andrew Brasher, Paul Clark, Simon Cross, Juliette Culver, Martin Weller, Perry Williams
Helping teachers make effective use of technologies to create
better learning activities for students
Many repositories of good practice, but how do you develop the community???
RSS feeds
Follow and be followed
Friends
Embed
Aggregate
Share
Comment
Playlists
APIs
‘Social networking makes little sense if we leave out the objects
that mediate the ties between peopleEngeström
Design framework for socialityEnabling practiceMimicking realityBuilding identityActualising self
Bouman et al.
How can we encourage a culture of sharing ideas and designs?
Why has there been little uptake of educational repositories?
Can we apply web 2.0 principles to an educational context?
My social network
Course Design Challenge
Design summit
Cloudfests
Development
Vision statement
Prototyping
Paper clouds
Vision
• Enable people to find, share and discuss learning and teaching ideas
• Connect people with similar interests
• Showcase work
• Provide a place for different communities
• Encourage sharing
Principles
• Low barrier to entry
• People-orientated
• Open site, open content
• Target particular communities
• The site acting as a conduit
Cloudworks v 0.1Find and share designs
Web 2.0 principles: tagging, profiles, user generated
Clouds
Stormclouds
Resourcebank
Tools
People
It’s so easy to be very abstract ... and not catch people’s interest. Because you can’t quickly get a feel for what was actually done, that worked or didn’t work. ... [“Semi-collaborative learning”] was just terribly abstract, I couldn’t sort of work out what it was, what this range of activities were, it just didn’t get me there quick enough.
If you notice things that are abstract, you can say: Oh, and how did that work? or give me an example, I did one like this! ... It didn’t worry me that it was abstract. What worried me was: how the hell does he make that work in an OU teaching context!
The ones that started to catch my interest were where I could quite quickly get a sense of a device or an approach... [“Citing exercise”] got me straight there. Within two or three sentences, I kind of grasped what it was that they had done and it caught my imagination.
We’ve had notorious difficulties over the years in getting anybody to talk about teaching and share teaching practice. They’ll all talk about research; that’s fine. But there’s also no compulsion to talk about teaching.... I’m on our staff development committee, and we find out all kinds of quite interesting courses and things that would be really relevant to people. And they say, oh well, I’m too busy researching, and I don’t want to do that! (Laughs) ... So if there is a strong lead that this is an important thing to do and it’s just something that people do routinely, yeah, you get them to write. But otherwise I think you’ll just have a few very interested people.
‘Shortcuts to new thinking’
It’s not a repository it’s a conversation
Quality controlConcrete vs. abstract
Transferable designs
Success stories
Barriers to contribution
Ownership
Openness
Changing practice
Comments make it come alive
Visual designs
Design a short course in a day
Web Peer Assessment webparesearch.blogspot.com/
Information literacy webparesearch.blogspot.com/
Import existing Clouds
New clouds added
by delegates
New clouds
Ascilite conference Cloudscape
Overview of the cloudscape:a space to post and discuss
ideas seen at Ascilite
Workshop on Secondlife
Paper on mobilelearning
OULDI site
Peer assessment
criteria
CompendiumLD Academic Talk
Follow and be followed
Cloudworks v0.2Social networking site for finding, sharing & discussing
learning and teaching ideas and designs
All clouds
My cloudstreamdynamically
updates
Who and what I am following, who’s
following me
CloudscapesWorkshop
Conference
Research topicCourse
Design team
Topic
Project
Tool
18th September2008Design challenge:
design a short course in a day are you up to it???
Amazed at how much we achieved
Stalls really useful
Guidelines on selection
OER repository
Learning environment
Monitoringtools
OERDesign cycle
Design Use
Select
Evaluate
Design tools
Design repository
Data representation tools
Data analysis tools
OL-Net network
People/networks
Tools, methods, approaches
Meta-analysis/synthesis
Designs, evaluations, case studies
Hewlitt Foundation
References• OU Learning design initiative - http://ouldi.open.ac.uk
• Cloudworks - http://cloudworks.ac.uk
• Cloudworks: Conole, G., Culver, J., Well, M., Williams, P., Cross, S., Clark, P. and Brasher, A. (2008), Cloudworks: social networking for learning design, Ascilite Conference, 30th Nov – 3rd Dec 2008, Melbourne, www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/melbourne08/procs/conole.pdf
• CompendiumLD: Conole, G., Brasher, A., Cross, S., Weller, M., Clark, P. and White, J. (2008), Visualising learning design to foster and support good practice and creativity, Educational Media International, Volume 54, Issue 3, 177-194.
• Design schema: Conole, G. (2008), New schema for mapping pedagogies and technologies, http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue56/conole/