1. What Next? - 2014
Emergent Learning Model
Pecha Kucha Presentation
Mapping Information Landscapes
March 27 2014
Fred Garnett FRSA
The Learner Generated Context Research Group
3. Emergent Learning Model
Topics;
What is the Emergent Learning Model?
Open Context Model of Learning
Architectures of Participation
Bologna Process
Informal, Non-formal, Formal Learning
Reference Document
4. Emergent Learning Model (ELM)
What is ELM?
Rethinking the relationship between
informal and formal learning in a
changing, networked, learning world
ELM is framed in terms of i2020, a post
Bologna Process reframing of the
relationship between Informal, Non-
formal, Formal Learning BUT…
With Informal driving Formal…
5. Emergent Learning Model
ELM was a development of the Open
Context Model of Learning (2007) which
built on several earlier models of learning,
such as
Community Development Model of
Learning, Digital Divide Content
Strategy & the Ecology of Resources
By the Learner-Generated Contexts
Group
6. Emergent Learning Model
Learner-Generated Contexts;
A group attempting to address the question of
how Web 2.0 will change learning given;
Social Networks
User-Generated Content
From Access to Content to Context or “a
coincidence of motivations leading to agile
configurations”
8. Emergent Learning Model
Open Context Model of Learning;
A Pedagogy for Open Learning or
“Coincidence of Motivations leading to
Agile Configurations”
Outlined by the PAH Continuum;
Pedagogy; Subject Disciplines
Andragogy; Collaboration
Heutagogy; Playing with Form
9. Emergent Learning Model
Pedagogy, Andragogy, Heutagogy Continuum
Knowledge
Creation
Process
negotiation
Subject
Understanding
Knowledge
Production
Context
EpistemicMetacognitiveCognitiveCognition
Level
doctoral
research
adult
education
schoolsEducation
sector
learnerteacher/learnerteacherLocus of
Control
HeutagogyAndragogyPedagogy
Question; What? Why? Why Not?
10. Emergent Learning Model
Needs Architecture of Participation
“Adaptive Institutions working across Collaborative
Networks”
Beyond the Institution as a Physical Location
Beyond buildings as the demarcation of learning
Communities of Interest & of Practice or Smart Mobs
becoming
Landscapes of Interest & Networks of Practice
enabling
Educational Institutions responsive to learning processes
11. Emergent Learning Model
Emergent Learning Model
Builds on LGC research & theory &
applies to it educational policy targets
Designed to meet EU i2015 & i2020
Post-Bologna Process targets of
Integrating;
Informal, Non-formal & Formal Learning
Developing City-Regions of Knowledge
12. Emergent Learning Model
Rethinking
Informal Learning (Libraries, Museums)
Non-formal (Training, post-compulsory)
Formal Learning (Institutions & Quals)
As
Social Processes (People)
Content (Created & Consumed)
Context (Quality Assurance)
13. Emergent Learning Model
Rethinking Informal Learning
Focus on the social process that
support learning; i.e. People
Not places or type or policy ownership
or targets (DfES)
“Informal Learning is the social
processes that support learning in any
context”
14. Emergent Learning Model
Rethinking Non-formal Learning
Focus on the content that supports
learning (design for appropriation) OR
The content-creation that reflects
learning (Learner or User-generated)
“Non-formal Learning is Structured
Learning resources without formal
learning outcomes”
15. Emergent Learning Model
Rethinking Formal Learning
Traditional focus on the institution with
little concern on what happened within;
concerned with Estates Management
OR “it’s where the money is”
“Formal Education (!) is the process of
administering & quality assuring
accreditation & qualification”
16. Emergent Learning Model
Flow & Emergence
Can we use this re-conceptualising to
design for a flow of learning?
Do we have to start with the institution &
then impose processes on learning or
Can we start with the social processes
of learning & design for emergent
behaviours structured by resources?
Choice between Hierarchies & Networks
17. Emergent Learning Model
Informal Learning Phase; enabling models of learner-self-
organisation that can be recognised post-hoc
Needs; new learning literacies
Non-formal Learning Phase; Resources designed for
learner-appropriation. Content-creation toolkits easily
accessible and quality assured (templates? guides?)
Needs new models of content for learning appropriation
Formal Learning Phase; support resource provision,
mapping to accredited learning outcomes, quality assuring
processes, linking to system needs
Needs institutions concerned with security & authentication
Flexible processes of accreditation and assurance
18. Emergent Learning Model
Informal Learning Phase; means
People are how we scaffold organisations
Because; learning is social
Non-formal Learning Phase; means
Resources are how we scaffold learning
Because; learning is different to knowledge
construction
Formal Learning Phase; means
Institutions are how we scaffold accreditation
Because; Networks work differently to hierarchies
19. Emergent Learning Model
Emergent Learning in Practice;
Ambient Learning & self-accreditation
Ambient Learning City Manchester;
Lessons; new metaphors, Aggregate
then Curate, local and personal
WikiQuals;
Lessons; Affinity not supervision, “we are
rhizomatic” (enabling networks), “solve
the problem that annoys you most”
20. Emergent Learning Model
Why does this matter?
1) Rethinking Roles and Processes
2) Change Socio-Economic Context 21st
Century
Evolving changes in the socio-technical context
Web As Resource (New Literacies of Access)
Web as Platform (Permanent Beta & new Content)
Web as Location (Identities & New Contexts)
OR
It is where the students are
22. Emergent Learning Model
Emergent Learning Model Table;
http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/fg-ouemergenttable
Mike Wesch; The Machine is Us/ing Us
The Machine is Us/ing Us 4’ 31”
Learner-Generated Contexts; Where shall we learn?
The Future of Education 4’ 15”
Putting Context into Knowledge
http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/putting-context-into-knowledge
23. Emergent Learning Model
ELM Origins;
Team of researchers, policy wonks,
new media techies & social
entrepreneurs who built a prototype
Facebook for learning by 2002 (before
social network)
Socially Inclusive; Community
Development Model of Learning (Freire)
Participant Design; Ecology of
24. What Next? - 2014
Emergent Learning Model
Pecha Kucha Presentation
Mapping Information Landscapes
March 27 2014
Fred Garnett FRSA
@fredgarnett
The Learner Generated Context Research Group
http://heutagogicarchive.wordpress.com/