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Open Learning Spaces Tensions concerning individual design and

institutional artefacts

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Caroline Kuhn@carolak

OEGlobal 2017

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https://padlet.com/carolinakf/aruv3je6rk0k#

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To explore students current digital practice

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20 +12 undergraduates

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Focus group V&R [Mapping]

Image credit: Olaus Magnus (1539) Via Wikimedia Commons/public domain

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Allaboard map. CC Attribution non commercial. www.allaboard.org

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Deleuze & Guattari• Ontology of becoming not being• Reality a constant process of flux• Disclosing potential• Engaging in movement of social change• Celebrates diversity & multiplicity• Actors + metaphorical construction of space

and place• Identify opportunities to resist and disrupt• No right or wrong

Image: Mycelium Rhizome. 2009. http://bit.ly/2lStGPs CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

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The maps

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Expansive learning

Topography of the informal learning space

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How to look at students’ agency in digital practice?

Does the VLE perpetuate lack of agency?

Could we think about students creating their open learning spaces and implementing them?

Inequality? Digital divide? Power structures?

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Thank you!

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What next?

• How to look at students’ agency in digital practice?

• How does these findings can be used to support students in their digital practice ?

• Does the VLE perpetuate lack of agency?• Could we think about students creating their

open learning spaces and implementing them?