WikiQuals - First Annual Report

WikiQuals; All You Need is #heutagogy

@fredgarnettFirst Annual ReportThursday November 22nd 2012

Fred Garnett

Head of Community Programmes Becta - Building Community Grids for Learning, digitally-based socially inclusive models of learning

Enabling socially-inclusive digital learning architectures of participation & co-creation tools

Interested in creating Public Intellectuals 2.0

WikiQuals, Everything Unplugged, Social Cities, P2P Reconomy Project, Transition Research Network, Disability Resilience Network,

Learner-Generated Contexts

Part of Learner-Generated Contexts Group creating post web 2.0 models of learning

Developed Open Context Model of Learning using lessons learnt with technology to create pedagogically original model (PAH!)

Realised for new models of learning to be adopted they have to build on practice AND research AND policy - hence;

Emergent Learning Model

Developed the Emergent Learning Model in response to EU i2020 integrating informal, non-formal and formal learning post-Bologna Process

Traditional view is that these map to sectors, community/informal, college/non-formal, university/formal

We re- defined informal as social, non-formal as resources & formal as accreditation

Testing Emergence

We decided to test the Emergent Learning principle of learning as a flow from social organisation to accreditation with projects

1. Ambient Learning City – extra-institutional learning contexts

2. WikiQuals – extra-institutional self-determined learning

1. Ambient Learning City

Ambient Learning Manchester; Turn the city into a learning environment

Testing the social organisation & resource curation aspect of Emergent Learning;

Conclusion; New learning contexts need new learning metaphors

MOSI-ALONG, Aggregate then Curate Social Cities of Tomorrow

2. WikiQuals

WikiQuals testing self-accreditation & co-creation of #open scholarship

WikiQuals came out of the UCL student occupations & the call for a Learning Commons (& SukeyData project)

Workshopped at the University Project Weekend October 2011 at Hub Westminster looking at alt.Universities

WikiQuals

WikiQuals evolved from an initial M.Sc programme I was asked to create to a doctoral one based on people opting in.

Starting position; lets design our learning

1. Self-organised, self-accredited learning

2. Self-publication as a Ph.D

Co-creating Sqolarly practice

Show & Tell 2.0; Do stuff & record it

Sqolar identifies their own subject & learning aims (Trust the Sqolar)

Discuss within & without WikiQuals

Identifies an ‘affinity’ support process

Being to learn; Act in the world & documents its emergence

WikiQuals – Evolving Features

Affinity partners supporting guild-like SHOW & TELL 2.0 model of accreditation

Affinity Groups internal support based on empathy

QR Codes as wearable accreditation

Rhizomatic behaviours not MOOCs,

Discontinous relationships creating loose ties with other networks…

WikiQuals – Principles

Solve the problem that annoys you most

People want to learn, but not what you want them to learn – Trust the Sqolar

Learning creates value when it allows you to act in the real world

Education has failed both citizens & the planet we need a new era of learning

We are Rhizomatic

Everything Unplugged / Facebook Discussion Group / Uni of Minnesota

UNESCO Open Learning Edgeryders, Declaration of Internet Freedom, & others

Co-accreditation with Middlesex Uni?

Co-production with CROS Bucharest, links with Transition Network, RNIB, etc

WikiQuals – Some Sqolars

Bridget McKenzie; Learning Planet

Philippa Young; TEDx Warwick

David Jennings; Agile Learning

Nigel Ecclesfield; network Public Value

Tony Hall; the iPhone as University

Kai Graf von Pahlen; entertainment law & inflicting humiliation post-1992

WikiQuals – Next

Everything Unplugged East - Norwich; both Mark Narayn & Lucy Johnson

Curated Conversations on WikiQuals

Self-publication on Kindle; 12 Sqolars

The Participation Papers project; Co-creating principles of participatory education for a participatory democracy

WikiQuals – Some Resources

Emergent Learning Model

WikiQuals Blog

WikiSqolars

Philippa Young TEDx Warwick

Everything Unplugged East in Norwich

CROS - Bucharest