Updated WikiQuals Pecha Kucha that I gave in the Educate, Agitate, Organise strand of Critical Pedagogies Symposium at Edinburgh University on September 6th 2013

1. Critical Pedagogies Edinburgh Uni

2. Critical Pedagogies; WikiQuals
Learner-Generated Contexts
Open Context Model of Learning
Emergent Learning Model
Ambient Learning City
Occupy > University Project
What is WikiQuals? PLN QR CROS
WikiQuals – Open Learning Labs

3. Critical Pedagogies; WikiQuals
Learner-Generated Contexts Origins;
A Team who built a Facebook for
learning in 2002 (before ‘social network’)
Socially Inclusive; Community
Development Model of Learning (Freire)
Post Web 2.0 models of learning
Participant Design; Luckin Ecology
of Resources Model of Learner
(Vygotsky)

4. Post-scarcity Ecology of Resources model
Making Curricula, Location & Administration Adaptive

5. Critical Pedagogies; WikiQuals
Open Context Model of Learning;
A Pedagogy for an Open World or
“A Coincidence of Motivations leading
to Agile Configurations” 2006
Outlined by PAH Continuum; 2007
Pedagogy; Subject Hierarchies
Andragogy; Collaborative negotiations
Heutagogy; Playing with Form

6. Critical Pedagogies; WikiQuals
Pedagogy, Andragogy, Heutagogy Continuum
Knowledge
Creation
Process
negotiation
Subject
Understanding
Knowledge
Production
Context
Epistemic
Cognition
MetacognitiveCognitiveCognition
Level
Research /
Art School
adult
education
schoolsEducation
sector
learnerteacher/learnerteacherLocus of
Control
HeutagogyAndragogyPedagogy
Question; What? Why? Why Not?

7. Pedagogies are not enough
http://heutagogicarchive.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/emergent-learning-model/
http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/fg-ouemergenttable
Learning is Emergent not institutionalised! We need
to design for emergence and create tools to support
that in a wiki-based collaborative world
We needed to build new learning exemplars of ‘non-
linear dynamic systems’
Emergent Learning Model rethinks learning as
i. Social Processes not classrooms
ii. Content Creation or Curation not textbooks
iii. Quality Assurance not high-stakes assessment

8. Critical Pedagogies; WikiQuals
or
Smart Mobs
plus
Everything is Miscellaneous
means
Here Comes Everybody
http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/social-cities-of-tomorrow-2012

9. Ambient Learning Open City
http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/ambientlearningcity
http://mosialong.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/aggregate-then-curate/
Being Insanely Ambitious we decided to test
emergent learning by turning Manchester into an
open Ambient Learning City. Cities have many more
learning contexts than a single classroom, so we
decided to test them with MOSI-ALONG
MOSI Ambient Learning Open Network Group
Digital Cabinets of Curiosities as new metaphor
Aggregate then Curate our new #socialmedia
participation model creating structured ways for
people to inter-act with their city; even during riots (A
History of Manchester in 100 objects)

10. #Occupy the Learning Commons
http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/learning-is-a-full-time-occupation
http://www.opensukey.org/about/
Then came Occupy UCL I gave a talk on lessons I
had learnt and challenged them to create a Learning
Commons at UCL. Sukey Data was hacked together.
Learning is a full time Occupation was written for
Learning without Frontiers 2011
“social-space time / occupation as learning”
I was then asked to help create a self-organised
Masters course for graduating UCL students

11. 2011 The University Project
http://univproject.pbworks.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/wikiquals
The University Project was convened by Dougald
Hine+ at Hub Westminster, over a long weekend in
October 2011, to look at various alt.Uni projects as
Uni’s are ‘temporarily useful eccentricities’.
A Community of Scholars was the common theme.
The action point was “solve the problem…
that annoys you most” (Philippa Young)
Accreditation of learning annoyed us most
WikiQuals was born

12. What is WikiQuals?
WikiQuals is self-directed post-hoc accreditation
We Trust the Sqolar
Transparent learning published openly
Universities “bring you to book”s to read stuff
WikiQuals sends you out into the world to do
Being as learning Co-creating change
Act in the world & document its emergence
http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/
http://wikiquals.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/show-and-tell/

13. WikiQuals – We are Rhizomatic
• Affinity partners supporting guild-like SHOW
& TELL 2.0 model of open accreditation
• Affinity Groups support based on empathy
• QR Codes as wearable real-time accreditation
• Rhizomatic behaviours not MOOCs,
• Discontinous relationships creating loose ties
with other networks…
http://wikiquals.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/affinity-groups/
http://wikiquals.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/building-democratic-learning/

14. WikiQuals – Some SqolarsSqolars
• Bridget McKenzie; Learning Planet
• Philippa Young; TEDx Warwick (not Oxford University)
• David Jennings; Agile Learning
• Nigel Ecclesfield; networked Public Value - Pattern Design
• Tony Hall; the iPhone as post-modern University
• Kai Graf von Pahlen; German constitution
• Lucy Johnson; Participatory Art project
• Mark Naryn; relocated #EvUn East w/Cathedrals
• Elena Dobre; social media design for NGO marketing
http://wikiquals.wordpress.com/sqolars/

15. WikiQuals “Yes You Can!”
Learning not Education
Liminal not Institutionalised
Bio-diversity not Monoculture
Learner-centric not Student-centred
Learner-generated not Course-defined
Community as Curriculum not Syllabus defined
Community of Sqolars not Community of Practice
Personal Learning Networks not Content-delivery
Quality Assured not Quality Controlled
Affinity not Supervision
Emergent not Linear
Trust the learner to find their own Identity
http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/social-media-learning-models-cros-wikiquals

16. Critical Pedagogies; WikiQuals
or
Participative Education
for a
Participative Democracy

17. Critical Pedagogies; WikiQuals
CROSQuals in Romania
CROS an NGO ‘alternative university’
Mission to grow a new Romanian society
Community of Practice model of learning
HRemotion, myLearningTribe, New Media School,
Learning House Bucharest CROSCamp Transylvania
Future projects; Democratic school, #occupyfilm,
CROSQuals for all CROS participants
CROS http://www. CROS .ro

18. WikiQuals Open Learning Lab
Any University can open a WikiQuals Open Learning
Lab. It is a platform for learning that leverages content
abundance, learner-generated contexts and purposes to
enable emergent & innovative learning behaviours.
Needs
Space a room one afternoon a week (or more)
Access to Learning Resources (& estates)
Affinity Partners discuss & guide, create affinity groups
Any institution can open a WikiQuals Open Learning
Lab it is about providing a generative platform
WikiQuals can grow up and leave home
http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/wikiquals-and-open-learning

19. Critical Pedagogies; WikiQuals
Why does andragogy & heutagogy matter?
1) Helping rethink roles and processes in education
2) As Socio-Economic Context changes 21st
Century
Evolving new learning ecologies in the socio-technical context
Web As Resource (New Literacies of Access)
Web as Platform (Permanent Beta Content creation/curation)
Web as Location (Identity & new Contexts)
OR
“…it is where the students are…”
“universities are so over”

20. Critical Pedagogies; WikiQuals
“The Future is already here. It is
just unevenly distributed” (William
Gibson)
“The Answers are already here!
We are just asking the wrong
Questions...”

21. Critical Pedagogies; WikiQuals
http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/