Beyond the Walled Garden: Distance Education

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Michael Stephens, PhDAssistant Professor, San Jose State University SLIS

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Beyond the Walled Garden: Distance Education in an Era

of Participatory Culture

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Some Background

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Foundations

http://www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/101594790

Continuous Computing

http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech/wtr_14664,258,p1.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/takomabibelot/2311719869/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/plenty/3360322975/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wrichard/3743686850/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenpoff/3091258409

Current Issues

“I want risk-takers...innovators.. and creatives.”

http://benjaminlainhart.com/2011/02/17/is-online-education-still-stuck-in-2001-some-still-unformed-thoughts/

“....sign into BB, read the “lecture,” read the articles, make my obligatory posts on the discussion board and occasionally write a paper. How uninspiring!”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/scampion/2792352899/

What is the new normal?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/justintosh/251672565/

http://www.setonhill.edu/techadvantage/

Twenty-first century students live in a world of technology and collaboration where learning happens 24 hours a day and is supported by professors, friends, professional experts, and fellow learners in the classroom, on the web, and around the world.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/62457680@N00/89879407/

Learning evolves.

Transformative learning “requires that new information be incorporated…into an already well developed…frame of reference, an active process involving thought, feelings, and disposition...”

http://www.ecolas.eu/content/images/Mezirow%20Transformative%20Learning.pdf

Learning

Formal

Informalhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/mclibdotnet/2876371210/

Curiosity

http://www.flickr.com/photos/circulating/273246262/

New ways...

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A New Generation of Learners

http://www.flickr.com/photos/expressmonorail/2760562460/

Scannning the “Horizon”

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2011.pdf

Horizon Report 2011

• 1 Year or Less - Electronic Books

• 1 Year or Less - Mobile Devices

• 2-3 Years - Augmented Reality

• 2-3 Years - Game Based Learning

• 4-5 Years - Gesture Based Computing

• 4-5 Years - Learning Analytics

http://horizon.wiki.nmc.org/file/view/2012-Horizon.HE-Preview.pdf

http://www.nmc.org/publications/2013-horizon-report-higher-ed

People expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever and wherever they want to.

LearningEverywhere

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2012/04/opinion/michael-stephens/learning-everywhere-office-hours/

What happens to learning when we move from the stable infrastructure of the twentieth century to the fluid infrastructure of the twenty-first century....?”

“...it is a platform to share and network imaginations.”

“The world is changing faster than ever and our skill sets have a shorter life.”

Thomas & Brown

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaspi/12944421/

“Play is the basis for cultivating imagination and innovation.”

Thomas & Brown

Hyperlinks are people too.

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Approaches

Participatory Culture

Artistic Expression & Civic Engagement

Sharing CreationsInformal MentorshipContributions MatterSocial Connections

http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1067&context=slissrj

My main point is that participatory teaching methods simply will not work if they do not begin with a deep bond between teacher and student.

http://chronicle.com/article/A-Tech-Happy-Professor-Reboots/130741/

How do we approach emerging technologies?

As Much Chaos as We Can Stand

http://www.flickr.com/photos/spykster/6221799231/

Traditionalist Approval

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Negotiated Transaction

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vokakvklim/4522285839/

As Much Chaos as We Can Stand

http://www.flickr.com/photos/spykster/6221799231/

New Digital Literacies

http://twitter.com/meganmulherin/status/4128934554

Technology is just a Tool

http://twitter.com/EDUCAUSEPodcast/statuses/7951123582

http://www.flickr.com/photos/christchurchcitylibraries/3187581564/

Goals of an LIS Educator

Some heretical thoughts....

If the online world is not for you, then neither may be a career in librarianship.

http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/ljinprintcurrentissue/886961-403/office_hours_october_15_2010.html.csp

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwritter/3488870514/

To prepare LIS students for a decidedly digital future in libraries.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Adelaide-City-Council-Libraries/24315192063

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nov03/3888711308

http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1067&context=slissrj

How can we go forward?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/svenwerk/169916936/

The HyperlinkedCampus

Rethink PoliciesBe Transparent

Create Participatory Environments

Promote Immersive EngagementEncourage Creativity

Rethink Policies

To remember 20th Century policies don’t always work in 21st Century learning/sharing spaces.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/warrenski/1988286985/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/144297435/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/circulating/273246262/

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Albert Einstein

http://www.flickr.com/photos/librariesrock/3591455210/

Be Transparent

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/mdumlao98/237755557/

A Road Map to Transparency

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6510682.html

Open, Inclusive Planning

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorena-david/35207599/

Open Conversations.

http://depts.washington.edu/presblog/blog/

http://twitter.com/michaelcrow

http://www.socialcustomer.com/2008/04/reaching-out-fo.html http://mystarbucksidea.force.com

http://lib206.lib.wwu.edu/14days/ideas

LISTEN.

Anonymity

http://www.flickr.com/photos/meredithfarmer/397388708/

Create Participatory Environments

To give students environments for exploration and experience.

Provide a playground.http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaspi/12944421/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alefbetac/874362753/

Play— the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving.

Henry Jenkins

Jenkins: Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: http://www.projectnml.org/node/540

Encourage Creativity

To learn by doing and to create reflective pieces built from their own critical thinking.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/margolove/1810357551/

To enable them to teach the concepts as well.

http://animoto.com/play/OdQuA28l20z64FG08XYI8Q?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2VfvCp7TRM

http://www.flickr.com/photos/malbooth/10149435523

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tarabrown/8200499325/

“Where imaginations play, learning happens...”

Questions

http://www.flickr.com/photos/svenwerk/858381180

Teaching Tools& Platforms

TwitterOpen LMSMOOCs

To acquaint them with the human connections created by social media.

Twitter

http://twitter.com/devinise/statuses/4800800049

http://twitter.com/lafrancememanqu/status/7834453467

Hash Tags

I am convinced that there have been days that I have learned more on Twitter than from an entire class.

http://tametheweb.com/2011/04/11/office-hours-extra-is-online-education-still-stuck-in-2001/

The Hyperlinked Library & Emerging

Technologies

Class Hashtag:#hyperlib

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nov03/3888711308

The Open LMS

Promote Immersive Engagement

To immerse students in the spaces where they may work upon graduation.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/expressmonorail/2760562460/

cMOOChttp://moocnewsandreviews.com/ultimate-guide-to-xmoocs-and-cmoocso/

http://mooc.hyperlib.sjsu.edu

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danorbit/1814156778

We can make sense of things via experimentation.

Tame the Web | Michael Stephens | SJSU SLIS | Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0Reflection

We explore our reactions to ideas by blogging.

Connected Learning

A Shared Purpose

http://henryjenkins.org/2012/03/connected_learning_a_new_parad.html

Learning about the Hyperlinked Library

Production Centered

Assignments are practical artifacts, such as a technology plan,

Openly Networked

Open and live on the Web

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• All students write a reflective blog

• Will choose 3 of six possible assigments

• Assignments will be evaluated by peers

• All students participate in final week symposium, sharing their learning

Features

• MOOC utilizes badges as incentive and to indicate progress.

• Smaller tasks receive “checkpoint badges”

• Milestones receive “Master Badges”

• Homerooms of 30-40 students

• “Participatory Learning Guides” oversee each homeroom and offer support

• PLGs are SJSU SLIS students & volunteers from other LIS schools

• PLGs are first point of contact for questions

Features

• “Tribes” - Student generated groups

• Focus on various subjects

• Completely student created and populated

Features

Sample Tribes

Tools for Success

Teaching Technologies

Guest Lectures

Embedded Video

Open Resources

Open Platform

Instructor & Guide Presence

Observations

• Activity goes beyond MOOC site to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Goodreads

• #hyperlibMOOC hashtag popular for sharing

• Student group creates Goodreads group

• Interactions with guests and authors

Thoughts from Participants

“In the last few weeks, I've been more enthusiastic about my job than I have in a long time, thanks to this MOOC...”

“I’m here to learn and figure out how I might play a role in MOOCs on my campus.”

I am making a commitment to this MOOC, and already, there are some differences that seem like they may keep me engaged. Having a “homeroom” and other “tribes” connects me to a smaller group of people.

Learning Community Facillitator & Guide

Learning PlatformCreator

PersonalLearning

Networks

Tweet Tweet

What are you doing?

What are you LEARNING?

To help them create their own personal learning network.

http://www.mindmeister.com/110599029/personal-learning-networks

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dailyinvention/497294952/

Provide multiple channels to carry on the conversation.

Transmedia Navigation

Jenkins - Participatory Culture

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dailyinvention/497294952/

How we effectively move from one channel to the next, across platforms & media.

What was that goal?

To prepare LIS students for a decidedly digital future in libraries.

To prepare students for a decidedly digital future.

The glue?

“I want a professor to throw me in a situation with his/her "radical trust." I'm a very active, hands-on, real-world type learner, and I think our classrooms are lacking in this area.”

http://salzburg.hyperlib.sjsu.edu

Discussion

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/darwinbell/470473931/

These characteristics are key to create an effective 21st Century learning experience:

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Curiosity

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Exploration

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mdumlao98/237755557/

Transparency & Openness

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Innovative Thinking

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tookie/183503927/

Creativity

Connected Collaboration

Flexibilty

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaspi/12944421/

Play =Learning

What next?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/93896575@N00/698692268

How can we go forward?

Use evidence.

Consider the benefitsof emerging technologies.

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6529403.html

Try out some emerging tools

Involve your students every step of the way.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/justintosh/251672565/

Ask them what they want.

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Develop your own Personal Learning Network

Be Human

Remember Radical Trust

Technology with Heart

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlosporto/775089650

Encourage the Heart

There is more than one way to measure profits and losses. On every level, institutions can and should have a heart.

Randy PauschThe Last Lecture

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/darwinbell/470473931/

Let the heart drive change.

Thanks!

Michael Stephens

mstephens7@mac.com

@mstephens7

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Selected References

Jenkins, H. (2006). Confronting the challenges of participatory culture. Chicago: MacArthur Foundation.

Jenkins, H. (March 1, 2012). Connected learning: A new paradigm [Web log post]. http://henryjenkins.org/2012/03/connected_learning_a_new_parad.html

Stephens, M. (2011). Beyond the walled garden: LIS students in an era of participatory culture. SLIS Student Research Journal, 1(2). Retrieved from http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/slissrj/

Thomas, D., & Brown, J. S. (2011). A new culture of learning: Cultivating the imagination for a world of constant change [Kindle version]. Retrieved from http://www.amazon.com

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