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The Ecology of Distributed Education
Professor Frank Rennie
Lews Castle College UHI
www.slideshare.net/frankrennie
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Complex Adaptive System
• Dispersed interaction• Absence of a global controller• Cross-cutting hierarchical
organisation• Continual adaptation• Perpetual novelty• Far-from-equilibrium dynamics
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Complex Adaptive System
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Complex Adaptive System
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Stability Domains
We often fall back into familiar areas of “stability”
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Stability Domains
The Managed Online Learning Environment is emerging as one form of a Stability Domain
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Self Organisation
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Self Organisation
Similarities with the personalisation of learning
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Complex System Cycles
Growth
Equilibrium
Dissolution
Reorganisation
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Complex System Cycles
Images from: commons.wikimedia.org and flickr.com/photos/mpolla/282496506/
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So, what’s new?How do we learn?
We see
We listen
We discuss
We do
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Learning Communities
Third Places
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Learning Communities
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Learning Communities
TrustReliabilityCompatibilityContext
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Learning Communities
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Feedback LoopsConstant fine-tuning and learning by taking decisions
SupportiveDiagnostic
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Opportunities for further study
Build on stability domainsLayer the nodes of resources
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Personalised Learning
Fit the course to the student, not the student to the course
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How far is too far?
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Levels of Course Networking0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Delivered at one site Fully networked
Seven levels of networking:
1) Common Core Frameworks and Local Options agreed
2) Common Assessments and Assessment Strategy Agreed
3) Common Core Teaching Materials shared and developed
4) Learning and Teaching within an Academic Partner blended using ICT and face to face
5) Common delivery schedule agreed
6) Cross teaching of selected/ all modules
7) Learning and Teaching materials wholly online/ distance, with local facilitator support
UHI Network Learning Audit and Planning Guide, 2005
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Rural Sustainability
• Reduced travel costs and travel time• Less environmental impact• Local economic multiplier• New social networks & diversity• New intellectual & economic skills• Higher quality of life perceptions• Retention/attraction of skilled citizens
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Graduation with a university degree
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Trends and
Troubles
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Trends
http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2010/11/the-lamb-formula-good-enough.html
DigitalNetworkedOpen
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Troubles• “Pick-and-mix” superficiality of “courses”• Tensions between Open and Closed resources• Tensions between Teaching and Learning• People problems – Old Habits Die Hard • New Technology versus Old Etiquette• Copyright, Amazon, and Lateral Thinking• Questions on the “half-life” of knowledge
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Lessons Learned
• Increasing user (learner) control• Clear learning guidelines are required• Need to encourage inter-activity• The need to apply contextual relevance• Education for what…? Whose standards?• The importance of an educational
facilitator actually increases.
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Key Concepts for online learning (amazon.co.uk)
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