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Redefining designing for learning: dialogic and explicit learning design
Gráinne Conole, 1st July 2010Edmedia conference, Toronto
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• A place for sharing and discussions learning and teaching ideas
• Application of the best of Web 2.0 practices• Clouds grouped into cloudscapes• Launched July 2009• Nearly 3,000 inhabitants• Over 80,000 visitors
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• Teachers, learners, researchers, policy makers
• Multi-cultural and multi-linguistic
• Open, relaxed, love to share and discuss
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“Social objects”Social networking makes little sense if we leave out the objects that Mediate the ties between peopleEngeström
Ritual performance• Social life as ritual• How participants
frame their contributions based on perceived audience and dynamics of specific situations
Goffman
Design framework for sociality• Enabling practice• Mimicking reality• Building identity• Actualising selfBouman et al.
Collective intelligence•The power of the collective•Distributed cognition•Social dispersal of meaningLevy, Solomon, Surowiecki
Design AnalysisTheoretical perspectives
Alevizou, Conole, Culver & Galley, 2010
Social objects
Site designed to be object-centred not ego-centric
Clouds can be discussed and collectively improved
“Social objects”Social networking makes little sense if we leave out the objects that Mediate the ties between peopleEngeström
Design framework for sociality
Mix of ‘familiar’ Web 2.0 practicesShift from existing practices to new
behaviour through social interventions
Design framework for sociality• Enabling practice• Mimicking reality• Building identity• Actualising selfBouman et al.
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Technical interventions
Evolving: socio-technical co-evolution
Social interventions
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Ritual performance
Goffman – ritual performanceKnowledge building and collective
intelligenceDistributed cognition
Initiation, ownership of spacesQuestions and answersRecognition of expertise
Support and adviceRecommendations
Collective intelligence
Levy, Solomon et al.The nature of communication in popular
activitiesHow do users express themselves?
Open reviewsExpert elicitation
Rapid aggregation of resourcesCrowdsourcing a new topic
ParticipationSustained over time
Commitment from a core group of participants
Emerging roles and hierarchy
CohesionSupport and tolerance
Turn taking and responseHumour and playfulness
IdentityGroup self-awarenessShared language and
vocabularySense of community
Creative capabilityIgniting sense of purposeMultiple points of view
expressed and contradicted or challenged
Creation of knowledge links and patterns
Community indicators
Galley, 2010
Evaluating the collective …
Patterns of Contribution in the Exeter Open Review (Galley, 2010 expanding on Cross, 2010)
Cloudworks the movie!http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/2457
Using Cloudworks Cloudscapehttp://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/1911
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Acknowledgements• Many of the images are taken from the TORLEY account on Flckr, these include:
– http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/458976477/ – http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/458962566/in/photostream/ – http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/456917463/– http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/456790987/ – http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/448323909/ – http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/441064931/– http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/441042156/ – http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/440128306/ – http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/438819025/ – http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/432828550/– http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/432802395/ – http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/431064486/– http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/431064279/– http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/431051354/– http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/431043539/– http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/431039358/ – http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/431039358/
• Also used – questionmark http://www.flickr.com/photos/crystaljingsr/3914729343/• Web2.0 city - http://www.flickr.com/photos/4everyoung/313308360/