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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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