A stab at the College of the future for FOTE 2008

1. Ravensbourne Tomorrow
Miles Metcalfe, Ravensbourne College

2. 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

5. I can’t tell you what the
future holds

7. Oh
my
!
100% buzzword
compliant

8. learner-centred community-engaged deep-
learning vocational peer-supported research-
informed personalised enterprising inclusive

9. What does an IT
department do about it?

11. User-owned technology

12. The usual suspects
Flexible learning spaces
Serendipitous commons
Ubiquitous wireless

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. Identity crisis
What is tomorrow’s IT department?
Defender of scarce resource, and arbiter of
fair use?
Agent of enterprise transformation?
Service provider?

18. Seriously, can we build
Faraday cages?

20. Learning 2.0

21. It’s about the pedagogy

22. 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

23. A personal learning
environment
Learners bring a part of their environment
with them
Augment through institutional services
Reintegrate social software through a social
stack

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. Thanks!

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