Cal Shell Partnership Event 131108

Collective learning and charting: new approaches to learning

Professor Allison LittlejohnDr Anoush MargaryanDr Colin Milligan

Caledonian AcademyGlasgow Caledonian University, UKwww.academy.gcal.ac.uk

Extending reputation

1. Individual learningLearners as consumers of courses CONSUMPTION

1. Individual learningLearners as consumers of courses

2. Group learningLearners as contributors

CONSUMPTION

CONTRIBUTION

1. Individual learningLearners as consumers of courses

2. Group learningLearners as contributors

3. Networked Learners connect and share knowledge

CONSUMPTION

CONNECTION CONTRIBUTION

collectiveintelligence

1. Individual learningLearners as consumers of courses

2. Group learningLearners as contributors

3. Networked Learners connect and share knowledge

4. CollectiveLearners connect,consume, contribute knowledge

CONSUMPTION

CONNECTION CONTRIBUTION

collectiveintelligence

1. Individual learningLearners as consumers of courses

2. Group learningLearners as contributors

3. Networked Learners connect and share knowledge

4. CollectiveLearners connect,consume, contribute knowledge

CONSUMPTION

CONNECTION CONTRIBUTION

COLLECTIVEINTELLIGENCE

CONSUMPTION

CONNECTION CONTRIBUTION

CHARTING

You Your goal

Dynamic Knowledge, e.g. wikis

Shared resources (e.g. delicious)

Formal Learning

Recommended Resources

The collective

Smart Information

You Your goal

Your Knowledge

YouManager

Colleagues with similar skills

Team

External contacts

Dynamic Knowledge, e.g. wikis

Shared resources (e.g. delicious)

Peers with similar goals

Formal Learning

Recommended Resources

The collective

Smart Information

You Your goal

Your Knowledge

YouManager

Colleagues with similar skills

Team

External contacts

Dynamic Knowledge, e.g. wikis

Shared resources (e.g. delicious)

Peers with similar goals

Formal Learning

Recommended Resources

The collective

Smart Information

CONSUMEYou Your goal

Your Knowledge

YouManager

Colleagues with similar skills

Team

External contacts

Dynamic Knowledge, e.g. wikis

Shared resources (e.g. delicious)

Peers with similar goals

Formal Learning

Recommended Resources

The collective

Smart Information

CONSUME

CONNECT

You Your goal

Your Knowledge

YouManager

Colleagues with similar skills

Team

External contacts

Dynamic Knowledge, e.g. wikis

Shared resources (e.g. delicious)

Peers with similar goals

Formal Learning

Recommended Resources

The collective

Smart Information

CONSUME

CONNECT

You Your goal

Your Knowledge

CONTRIBUTE

YouManager

Colleagues with similar skills

Team

External contacts

Dynamic Knowledge, e.g. wikis

Shared resources (e.g. delicious)

Peers with similar goals

Formal Learning

Recommended Resources

The collective

Smart Information

CONSUME

CONNECT

Your Knowledge

You and Your Peers

Your goals

CONTRIBUTE

How do we support the achievement of goals?

ME

MY GOALS

The Ideal?

Everything you do contributes towards achieving your goals.

Actually, this is too simplistic

ME

MY GOALS

The Ideal (2)

Not every activity contributes towards achieving your goals and you will periodically assess and refine your effort.

ME

MY GOALS

The Reality

Goals may actually evolve over time.

ME

MY GOALS MY GOALS

Charting

Helps you relate where you are to where you started and where you want to be.

ME

MY GOALS

Charting (2)

Helps you relate where you are to where you started and where you want to be

… over and over …

providing the opportunity to dynamically interact with your goals and personal development.

ME

MY GOALS

Charting (3)Charting presents an opportunity to make use of people and resources to fine tune your plans at each point.

ME

MY GOALS

Useful resources, Useful people

Knowledge consumption, creation & contribution

Self-regulated learning

The role of collective in learning and work

Barriers and enablers

Survey and semi-structured interviews

Pilot in Production Chemistry community (PECNet)

Full scale study underway in Knowledge Sharing Global Network & Procurement and Contracting community

Coming up: Learning Professionals community

Learning in the workplace is structured by and deeply integrated within work tasks

Learning in the workplace is not a clearly delineated, step-by-step process

Lack of deliberate and systematic self-reflection

Learning is a deeply collective and relational phenomenon

Fragmentation of organisational knowledge bases is a source of frustration

Panel session:

Implications for the sectors

Professor Mike SmithProfessor Allison LittlejohnDr Anoush MargaryanDr Colin MilliganDr Sebastian Graeb-KonnekerMr Mark Batho