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Workshop for EDEN conference - Porto
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DISTRIBUTED LEARNING SPACES IN OPEN LEARNING
ENVIRONMENTS
Professor Mike KeppellDirector, The Flexible Learning Institute &
Professor of Higher EducationCharles Sturt University
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OVERVIEW
Provide an overview of distributed learning spaces
Examine seven principles of learning space design
Explore affordances of learning spaces
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INTRODUCTIONS
Personal introductions (University?; Role? One goal? Number of EDEN conferences attended?)
My background (University?; Role? One goal? Number of EDEN conferences attended?)
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DISTRIBUTED SPACES
Growing acceptance that learning occurs in different ‘places’
Proliferation of approaches emerging including ‘flexible’, ‘open’, ‘distance’ and ‘off-campus’ that assist the ubiquity of learning in a wide range of contexts (Lea & Nicholl, 2002).
Growing acceptance of life-long and life-wide learning also have a major influence on distributed learning spaces.
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ASSUMPTIONS
Universities value and seek to enhance the skills essential for lifelong and life wide learning, developing graduates who will continue to develop intellectually, professionally and socially beyond the bounds of formal education.
Universities believe that programs, services and teaching methods should be responsive to the diverse cultural, social and academic needs of students, enabling them to adapt to the demands of university education and providing them with the cultural capital for life success.
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Barnett, R. (2011). Being a university. New York: Routledge.
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ECOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Global connectedness and dependence on world around them
Instead of ‘having an impact’ on the world which can be both positive and negative ecological universities seek sustainability
They are self-sustainable in their multiple levels of interactions.
They adopt a ‘care for the world’ as opposed to an ‘impact on the world’ approach (Barnett, 2011).
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HIGHER EDUCATION PRINCIPLES
Access and Equity & Equivalence of Learning
Outcomesethical obligations
Student Learning Experience traverses physical, blended and virtual learning spaces.‘place’ of learning is diverse
Constructive Alignmentlearning outcomes, subject, degree program, generic
attributes
Discipline Pedagogies specific needs of disciplines
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Key principle throughout the presentation is
‘design’
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LEARNING SPACES11
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LEARNING SPACES
Physical, blended or virtual ‘areas’ that:
enhance learning
that motivate learners
promote authentic learning interactions
Spaces where both teachers and students optimize the perceived and actual affordances of the space (Keppell & Riddle, 2012).
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QUESTION: IDENTIFY THREE WIDELY USED LEARNING
SPACES THAT YOUR LEARNERS OR TEACHERS
UTILISE
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Physical Virtual
Formal Informal InformalFormal
Blended
Mobile Personal
Outdoor Professional Practice
Distributed Learning Spaces
Academic
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PHYSICAL LEARNING SPACES
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SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF LEARNING SPACE DESIGN
The SKG project has established seven principles of learning space design which support a collaborative and student-centred approach to learning:
Comfort: a space which creates a physical and mental sense of ease and well-being
Aesthetics: pleasure which includes the recognition of symmetry, harmony, simplicity and fitness for purpose
Flow: the state of mind felt by the learner when totally involved in the learning experience
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SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF LEARNING SPACE DESIGN
•Equity: consideration of the needs of cultural and physical differences
•Blending: a mixture of technological and face-to-face pedagogical resources
•Affordances: the “action possibilities” the learning environment provides the users, including such things as kitchens, natural light, wifi, private spaces, writing surfaces, sofas, and so on.
•Repurposing: the potential for multiple usage of a space (Souter, Riddle, Keppell, 2010) (http://www.skgproject.com)
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ALBURY-WODONGA LEARNING COMMONS
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ComfortAesthetics
FlowEquity
BlendingAffordancesRepurposing
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APPLE - CUPERTINO TRAINING ROOM21
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WALLENBERG HALL - STANFORD UNIVERSITY
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Affordances? - Blending23Thursday, 7 June 12
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ComfortAesthetics
FlowEquity
BlendingAffordances
Repurposing
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MIT - STATA CENTER - EDDY SPACES26
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Technology-enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) Centre Affordances - Blending
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HARVARD UNIVERSITY28
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Discipline Pedagogies
‘Plasma to Chalkboard’ for Physics Professors
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Affordances
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SEVEN PRINCIPLES - QUESTIONS
http://mike-keppell.blogspot.co.nz/2012/04/questions-to-consider-in-learning-space.html
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ACTIVITY: ANALYSE YOUR INSTITUTIONAL LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OR VLE IN RELATION TO THE
SEVEN PRINCIPLES
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VIRTUAL LEARNING SPACES
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VIRTUAL LEARNING SPACES
Virtual learning spaces provide unique opportunities that are unavailable in physical learning spaces
These affordances or ‘action possibilities’ allow a richer range of learning interactions
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Informal Virtual Learning Spaces
Formal Virtual Learning Spaces
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VIRTUAL SPACES
FLI Website: http://www.csu.edu.au/division/landt/flexible-learning/
FLI Blog: http://blendedandflexiblelearning.blogspot.com/
FLI Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/FLINews
FLI Delicious: http://www.delicious.com/flexiblelearninginstitute
Design: http://blendedandflexiblelearning.wikispaces.com/home
FLI YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/FLIMedia
Slidehare: http://www.slideshare.net/mkeppell
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Online and offline worlds are clearly coexisting
Face-to-face friendships from home have been developed and sustained through continued online interactions
Newer online relationships have flourished at university and developed into face-to-face indepth relationships” (Madge, Meek, Wellens and Hooley 2010, p. 145).
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BLENDED LEARNING SPACES
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FLEXIBLE LEARNING
“Flexible learning” provides opportunities to improve the student learning experience through flexibility in time, pace, place (physical, virtual, on-campus, off-campus), mode of study (print-based, face-to-face, blended, online), teaching approach (collaborative, independent), forms of assessment and staffing. It may utilise a wide range of media, environments, learning spaces and technologies for learning and teaching.
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BLENDED & FLEXIBLE LEARNING
“Blended and flexible learning” is a design approach that examines the relationships between flexible learning opportunities, in order to optimise student engagement and equivalence in learning outcomes regardless of mode of study (Keppell, 2010, p. 3).
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MOBILE LEARNING SPACES
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MOBILE LEARNING SPACES
“Learning when mobile means that context becomes all-important since even a simple change of location is an invitation to revisit learning” (ALT-J Vol 17, No.3 p.159)
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MOBILE LEARNING SPACES
With its strong emphasis on learning rather than teaching, mobile learning challenges educators to try to understand learners’ needs.
Understanding how learning takes place beyond the classroom, and
Intersection of education, life, work and leisure” (Kukulska-Hulme, 2010, p.181).
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QUESTION: WHAT ARE THE AFFORDANCES OR ACTION
POSSIBILITIES OF MOBILE LEARNING SPACES?
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ACADEMIC LEARNING SPACES
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ACADEMIC LEARNING SPACES
Physical, blended or virtual ‘areas’ that:
enhance academic ‘work’
that motivate academic ‘work’
enable networking
Spaces where academics optimize the perceived and actual affordances of the space.
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ACADEMIC SPACES
Barnett (2011) suggests that “today’s university lives amid multiple time-spans, and time-speeds” (p. 74).
Constant email...
Committee meetings......
Historians who focus on the past
Researchers who may focus on the future
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ACADEMIC SPACES
Universities may need to be conscious of the 24/7 existence of their students across the globe, each in their own unique time-span.
Virtual spaces
Residential students
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ACADEMIC SPACES
Barnett (2011) suggests that academics may be active in university spaces that may include:
Intellectual and discursive space which focus on the contribution to the wider public sphere.
Epistemological space which focuses on the “space available for academics to pursue their own research interests” (p. 76).
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ACADEMIC SPACES
Pedagogical and curricular space focuses on the spaces available to trial new pedagogical approaches and new curricular initiatives.
Ontological space which focuses on ‘academic being’ which is becoming increasingly multi-faceted beyond the research, teaching and community commitments. In fact “the widening of universities’ ontological spaces may bring both peril and liberation” (p. 77).
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PERSONAL LEARNING SPACES
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PERSONAL LEARNING SPACES
Personal learning environments (PLE) integrate formal and informal learning spaces
Customised by the individual to suit their needs and allow them to create their own identities.
A PLE recognises ongoing learning and the need for tools to support life-long and life-wide learning.
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CONNECTIVISM
PLE may also require new ways of learning as knowledge has changed to networks and ecologies (Siemens, 2006).
The implications of this change is that improved lines of communication need to occur.
“Connectivism is the assertion that learning is primarily a network-forming process” (p. 15).
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OUTDOOR LEARNING SPACES
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OUTDOOR LEARNING SPACES
These pathways, thoroughfares and occasional rest areas are generally given a functional value in traffic management and are more often than not developed as an after thought in campus design. As such the thoroughfares and rest areas are under valued (or not recognized) as important spaces for teaching and learning (Rafferty, 2012).
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Putting it all
together
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CONCLUSIONA global revolution is taking place in tertiary education. The traditional concept of the lecture room is being redefined as digital and distance education becomes the "new normal" (Mark Brown, Dominion Post).
It is time that we begin changing our thinking about the ‘place’ of learning for both learners and staff.
We need to let go of the tradition of universities as being a ‘singular place’ where learning and teaching occurs.
Distributed learning spaces are the future.
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FURTHER INFORMATION
SKG Report: http://documents.skgproject.com/skg-final-report.pdf
Book Chapter: http://www.slideshare.net/mkeppell/distributed-spaces-for-learning
Mike’s Blog: http://mike-keppell.blogspot.com.au/
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