SEAL: Second Environment: Advanced LearningProf Gilly Salmon & team

About Beyond Distance

www.le.ac.uk/beyonddistance/mediazoo

Today’s students are no longer the people our education systems were designed to teach

Marc Prensky

They live their lives in a different space and timeProf David Rhind, VC City University

“ tomorrow's pedagogy is typically a theme explored through speculation, clouded by doubt, guided by prejudice and spun by marketing”

Heppell 2004

We should not design for an unknown future

Extend &defend

core business

Buildemergingbusiness

Create viable options

Adapted from Social Innovation: Young Foundation 2006 p. 23

SEALs from Leicester

Professor Gilly Salmon

Principal Investigator:

overall direction& research

Dr Alejandro Armellini

JaideepMukherjee

Project management.

E-facilitation

‘Jaideep Janus’’

‘Ale Choche’

‘GenevieveSimons’

ArchivistDisseminator

Roger Dence ‘Moulins Huet’

Matthew MobbsWeb Development

Learning Technology‘Maticus Merlin’

Collaborators

LeadUniversity of

Leicester

Research

FuturesCenter for FutureStudies, Hawaii;

Future Creation Ltd.

Kings CollegeUniversity of London

Stuart Candy;Dr Susan Clayton

Dr StevenWarburton & team

Beyond DistanceResearch Alliance

CISCOTechnology Jonathan Taylor

SEAL project aims

• Surface learners’ voices about desired learning futures by their immersion in events

• Build communities of learners, teachers, technologists and creative practitioners, ‘freeing up’ existing mindsets

• Construct possible, probable and preferred models of learning

• Ensure that changes made in education are acceptable, engaging and beneficial for student learning

Models, frameworks and guidelines for

educational events in SL

Visioning for the futurefor learning

Models andframeworksfrom research in pedagogyof learningtechnologies

Addressing new questions arising from multi-user graphical environments

Literature

ActionResearch

Research approach

Seeking research outcomes that are: Indicative of SL’s academic potential Illustrative of the nature of events in SL Illuminative of the challenges involved Informative in shaping SL pedagogy and

praxis

SEAL research methodology: Cognitive Mapping

www.banxia.com/demain.html

map and analysethe process and outcomes

Run SL events

data capture

Cognitive mapping

Exploration of meaningCross referencing

Strong theoretical baseProcess orientated towards change:

Capturing views of future

Basis of SL events

Using successful models andframeworks

from other online applicationsor f:f group work

Engaging with creative practitioners

and futurists to developnew ways and approaches

Output

• Series of shareable models of possible and preferred futures for learning

• Frameworks for practice in SL

Change & development

Scholarship of Learning& Teaching

Futures - Quality

University mission

SEAL: Second Environment: Advanced Learning

SEAL from KCL

Dr Steven Warburton is • e-learning manager at King's College London, Fellow of the Centre for Distance

Education & chairs research strategy group at University of LondonRelevant other projects:• studies of social software in DE settings; • virtual library space using social referencing software• JISC-EMERGE UK wide community of practice in user innovation and

development in the area of Web 2.0 and emerging technologies. • building test educational learning spaces for DEResearch Focus• Social presence in online worlds – analysing the augmentation of virtual

presence through avatars and the role of communication and discourse• Social capital – how can we describe movements in social capital within these

complex virtual worlds• Identity – the disruptive nature of virtual worlds in terms of identity play and

their emotional affects; virtual world sub-cultures• Educational affordances of 3D environments, communication and collaboration.

Specific technical issues related to the Second Life client and increasing the porosity between 2D social software tools such as blogs and the 3D environment for increasing student or learner participation

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Technology Partner: CISCO’s Unified Learning Proposition

"what is possible with today's technology and what makes sense for the educational environment & market".

• Developing cross platform & systems links

• Opening up many different types of technologies for students deployment (e.g. 3D rendering within any given LMS).

• Join up all the jigsaw pieces between the many different systems and provide an avenue for the unknown and future ideas for teaching.

• Meeting government and institutional standards as more systems become linked, particularly social networks - Second Life to name one; the "Unified Learning Proposition" identifies this and brings expertise from Giunti Labs (http://www.giuntilabs.com/).

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Futures page 1

http://futuryst.blogspot.com/

http://www.futurecreation.co.uk/

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Futures page 2

• http://www.futurecreation.co.uk/

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