Conference LiveStream: designing learner-centered social learning spaces

KNOWLEDGEEVALUATING

CURATINGCREATING

What sort of learner-centered educational intervention can be used to teach AU students how to create and curate information?

What leadership model is needed to promote and support this pro-posed educational intervention?

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KEY PRESENTATION QUESTIONS

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LANDINGDEPLOYSACTIVE USERS

DISCUSSION TOPICSAVERAGE # OF VISITS PER MONTH

ESTABLISHED GROUPS

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It's social Velcro, not tied to the course contracts, defined func-tions, or fixed communities. It's a place where both serendipitous & intentional learning happens. It's a toolset for making social learning spaces.

– J. DRON

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HUGE REACH

LITTLE STRUCTURE

Situated learning

Peer to peer and peer to professional connections

“Sandbox” for knowledge creation and curation

Modeling open and situated learning activities

OPPORTUNITIES CREATED

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New form of knowledge access created via LiveStream

New “leaders” emerge as different people facilitate conference connects and oversee organization

Students are more likely to share traceable artifacts about their learning

Students are more likely to connect to one another from exposure to shared artifacts

Student to student connections build social capital

Student to professional connections augment professional networks

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B EMERGENTB DYNAMIC

B SELF-ORGANIZINGB COLLABORATIVE/COOPERATIVE

B COMPLEX

PHYSICAL/NATURAL SCIENCEP

SOCIAL SCIENCES/LEADERSHIP

FORMAL ROLE

By thinking of leadership as a behavior, not a formal role, it [complexity leadership] extends the capability for leadership behaviors to all organized members and calls for change in how we approach leadership development, which then should focus beyond managers or future managers to include all organizational members.

(Uhl -Bien, 2003)

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SYSTEM (CAS)

unit or network of independent agents “bonded in a cooperative dynamic”

"...emergent, interactive dynamic—a complex interplay from which a collective impetus for action and change emerges when heterogeneous agents interact in networks in ways that produce new patterns of behavior or new modes of operating.

(Uhl -Bien, Marion, & McKelvey, 2007)

LIVESTREAM

EVENTGATHER / LEARN /

CONNECT

N E W L E A D E R S

EMERGENETWORKS

FORM

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B Collective Agency

B Increase Personal Network

B Social Capital amongst Students

B Social Capital within larger Community

B Access to Information/Information Trace

POTENTIAL WITHIN INITIATIVE

+ “Seed and enliven” the Landing

+ Provide impetus for congregating

+ Provide catalyst for curation/creation

+ Guided by common ethos

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