2. In an Internet of people
@BenHammersley said that
“network society cannot be born”
Because people who grew up in
hierarchies are still in power
An Internet of People British Council Lecture 2011
3. If we want an Open Society
We need open participatory education like
Summerhill school and the Democratic schools
movement. But only 53 democratic schools exist
in Europe
Disruptive Collaboration is here, the web is a
platform, users-generate content, mobile phone
cameras document everything, new technology is
sold as being creative, but it hasn‟t disrupted
educational institutions.
Summerhill School; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerhill_School
Digital Disruption; http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/we-are-digital
4. In 1921, our most radical year
NIACE were formed in the UK calling for
education for all, from which educational
broadcasting, with the BBC, emerged
Kondratieff in Moscow, wrote about long-wave
economic change (50 years) based around
„meta-technologies‟ Our meta-technology, the
micro-processor is due to reach its
transformational peak in 2021
Kondratieff; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondratiev_wave
Next 2021; http://heutagogicarchive.wordpress.com/next-2021/
5. 1971 welcomed the microprocessor
Intel 4004 was a new meta-technology.
Earlier meta-technologies had evolved into new
analogue networks; rail, road, air, telephone, radio
with their own system „mission‟
Digital technologies however can also replace
earlier analogue technologies, and enable
technological convergence. Convergence is far
more socially transformational as it can disrupt
existing economic patterns built around old
analogue technologies
Intel 4004; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004
Convergence;
6. In 1660 sharing ideas changed
The Royal Society was formed in the UK
beginning the movement for open publishing.
The standard by which scientific thought has
(mostly) developed, egos aside, ever since.
Creative Commons applied the idea of open
publishing to the copyright era in 2001, enabling
web-based sharing of content, like this
presentation
Royal Society; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society
Creative Commons; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons
7. In 1992 the Internet Society
The Internet Society wrote its mission
“We envision a future in which people in all parts of
the world can use the Internet to improve their quality
of life, because standards, technologies, business
practices, and government policies sustain an open
and universally accessible platform for innovation,
creativity, and economic opportunity”
As Ted Nelson had predicted with Xanadu (1960) Tim
Berners-Lee finally invented the World Wide Web &
digital convergence became possible online.
Internet Society; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Society
World Wide Web; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
8. In 2002 the Web went participative
What is Web 2.0?;
http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html
9. Convergence had a platform
Education got excited (kind of), David Wiley defined
Open Content (1998) MIT launched Open Course
Ware (2001) an open version of the 2000 UK FERL
„learning objects‟ project (now open www.nln.ac.uk)
UNESCO defined OER;
Open Education
Resources in 2002 and
updated that with the
UNESCO Paris July
2012 Declaration
Open Ed Resources; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources
UNESCO Paris July 2012 Declaration NLN.AC.UK
10. In 2007 OU launched Open Learn
The Open University opened first Open Education
Resource based project at a British University, based
on its historic distance learning model (1964)
Learner-Generated Contexts Group launched its
Open “Pedagogy” Open Context Model of Learning
a post-Web 2.0 Pedagogy (PAH!) based on the PAH
Continuum
“The most exciting thing happening in England” –
John Seeley Brown
Open Learn; http://www.open.edu/openlearn/
Learner-Generated Contexts http://heutagogicarchive.wordpress.com/
12. Pedagogy Andragogy Heutagogy
Pedagogy the institutionalisation of learning around
facts, resource scarcity, subject disciplines;
education as a delivery system (cognition)
Andragogy negotiated, collaborative, interest-driven
learning brokered into „open‟ spaces – at best the
community is the curriculum (meta-cognition)
Heutagogy self-determined learning where learner
creativity enables innovation (epistemic cognition)
From Andragogy to Heutagogy
PAH Continuum
13. Pedagogies are not enough
Learning is Emergent not institutionalised! We need
to design for emergence and create tools to support
that in a wiki-based collaborative world
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
We needed to build new learning exemplars of „nonlinear dynamic systems‟
Learning is Emergent; http://heutagogicarchive.wordpress.com/
Emergent Learning Model http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/fg-ouemergenttable
14. Ambient Learning Open City
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
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)
Ambient Learning City; http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/ambientlearningcity
Aggregate then Curate http://mosialong.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/aggregate-then-curate/
16. #Occupy the Learning Commons
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
“social-space time / occupation as learning”
I was then asked to help create a Masters course for
graduating UCL students
Learning is a full-time Occupation; http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/
Sukey Data; http://www.opensukey.org/about/
17. 2011 The University Project
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.
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
The University Project; http://univproject.pbworks.com/
WikiQuals workshop; http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/wikiquals
18. 2012 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
Co-creating Open Scholarship http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/
WikiQuals Show&Tell; http://wikiquals.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/show-and-tell/
19. 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…
We are Rhizomatic http://wikiquals.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/affinity-groups/
Building Democratic Learning http://wikiquals.wordpress.com/
20. WikiQuals – Some Sqolars
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Bridget McKenzie; Learning Planet
Philippa Young; TEDx Warwick
David Jennings; Agile Learning
Tony Hall; the iPhone as University
Kai Graf von Pahlen; German constitution
Lucy Johnson; Participatory Art project
& Pattern Design, network Public Value, Open Money, NGO
Marketing, Landscape of Change, creative education
WikiSqolars; http://wikiquals.wordpress.com/sqolars/
21. 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
Dynamic Quality not Static Quaity
Affinity not Supervision
Emergent not Linear
Trust the learner to be themselves;
Identity
22. WikiQuals Open Learning Lab
Any University or Institution can open a WikiQuals Open
Learning Lab.
It is a platform for learning that;
a) leverages content abundance,
b) allows learner-generated contexts & purpose
c) enables emergent & innovative learning behaviours
d) Supports entrepreneurial behaviour
As WikiSqolarsa build their own Personal Learning
Networks by reflecting on their learning from engaging in
projects in the real world to realise their personal vision
23. WikiQuals Open Learning Lab
WikiQuals is a light-touch low-resource initiative that can sit
within institutions as community outreach
WikiQuals needs just;
1 Space a room one afternoon a week (or more)
2 Access to Learning Resources (& estates)
3 Affinity Partners discuss & guide, create affinity groups
Any institution can open a WikiQuals Open Learning Lab it is
about providing a generative platform
Please help WikiQuals grow up and leave home…
Presented to the Open Institute
July 8 2013 by @fredgarnett
24. WikiQuals Resources
WikiQuals blog http://wikiquals.wordpress.com/about/
Emergent Learning Model
Open Context Model of Learning blog
Contact @fredgarnett https://twitter.com/fredgarnett
Presented to the Open Institute
July 8 2013
