ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 @fredgarnett

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Emergent Learning Model

Emergent Learning Model

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 @fredgarnett

• Background

• Open Context Model of Learning

• Development Frameworks

• Emergent Learning as development framework

• Emergent Learning & Bologna Process

• Elements of Emergent Learning

• Conclusions 1 - 4

Emergent Learning Model

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 @fredgarnett

• Background…

• Emergent Learning Model an attempt to apply Web2.0 participatory tools to learning

• Open Context Model of Learning is a conceptual framework of pedagogies

• Learning as self-developed and self-managed

• Open up education systems to serendipities of self-directed learning in various contexts both within and beyond the classroom

Emergent Learning Model

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 @fredgarnett

• Background…

• Bernie Dodge WebQuests 1994

• Q. “Is surfing learning?”

• A. New process; start point, end-point, rubric of assessment, allowing learning serendipities

• Open context model interested in the learning serendipities of Open Education, OERs, Open Learn (OU)

Emergent Learning Model

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• Development Frameworks…

• However we realised that for innovation in education to take advantage of the potentials of emergence, interactivity and resource abundance that are on offer in a Web 2.0 world of learning, then we needed to create a “development framework” to help the design of education innovations

• Suggesting potential new practice…

Emergent Learning Model

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 @fredgarnett

• Example of a Development Framework

• We designed EMFFE E-Maturity Framework for FE (colleges)

• Supporting moves from known to unknown

• 5-stage model combining existing practice, new practice, network affordances using e-maturity levels

• Enabling “future design of educational institutions based on strategic values”

Emergent Learning Model

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• ELM as a Development Framework…

• A key distinction of learning post web2.0 is that we are now in an age of learning resource abundance

• How do we design new educational practices for a world of resource abundance?

• ELM helps with designing new educational practice in new & traditional learning contexts

• Designing both for education & for learning

Emergent Learning Model

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• ELM and the Bologna Process

• Post-Bologna EU wanted to integrate formal non-formal and formal learning

• However the EU made it sector-based

• We decided to make it learning-based

• Because our observation was post-Web2.0 informal learning drives formal learning!

Emergent Learning Model

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• Elements of Emergent Learning …

• Rethinking Informal Learning

• Focus on the social process that support learning; i.e. role of People

• Not institutions or sector or policy

• “Informal Learning is the social processes that support learning in any context”

Emergent Learning Model

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 @fredgarnett

• Elements of Emergent Learning …

• Rethinking Non-formal Learning (Resources)

• Focus on the content that supports learning (design for appropriation) OR

• Content-creation (or curation) that reflects learning (Learner or User-generated)

• “Non-formal Learning is structured learning resources without formal learning outcomes”

Emergent Learning Model

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 @fredgarnett

• Elements of Emergent Learning …

• 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 administration & quality assurance of accreditation”

Conclusions 1 - 4

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Emergent Learning Model

Emergent Learning Model

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 @fredgarnett

• Conclusions 1

• Although learning is emergent - that is it reveals non-linear dynamic processes - ELM does allow for the integration of informal and formal approaches to learning

• ELM is really useful in designing informal yet dynamic learning eco-systems

Emergent Learning Model

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• Conclusions 2

• In large-scale and dynamic projects, like Ambient Learning City, it was found that ELM was extremely useful in the planning stage oflearning design

• BUT! Implementation problems emerge which require further development of original techniques & processes, e.g. new metaphors &new models (Aggregate then Curate)

Emergent Learning Model

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 @fredgarnett

• Conclusions 3

• In small-scale and learner-centric projects, like WikiQuals, ELM was also useful in the planning stage but implementation problems developed

• As WikiQuals was small-scale & focussed around people then it was important to establish an (agreed) “set of social practices” (Serbu 2013) around which it could be organised.

Emergent Learning Model

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 @fredgarnett

• Conclusions 4

• Emergent Learning Model is a tool for the design of learning which allows for emergent properties to reveal themselves

• However there must always be a secondary design phase to solve the new problems which emerge in developing non-institutionalised learning systems...

Emergent Learning Model

ELSE11, Bucharest, April 2015 Emergent Learning Model full paper

• Resources Used;

• What is Web 2.0?

• Bernie Dodge WebQuests

• Open Context Model of Learning

• Architecture of Participation (Development Frameworks)

• Emergent Learning Model (table)

• Emergent Learning Model (blog post)

• Ambient Learning City

• Aggregate then Curate paper

• WikiQuals / CROS Social Media Learning Models

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Emergent Learning Model