A guest webinar presentation for FDOL131 (Flexible, Distance and Online Learning) on collaborative learning and communities.

1. Collaborative Learning and Communities
Sue Beckingham MA FSEDA FHEA
@suebecks
Flexible Distance and Online Learning #FDOL131

2. Wears multiple hats
• MUM
Chief Cook and Bottle washer
• STUDENT
Second Masters : MSc Technology
Enhanced Learning Innovation and
Change
• EDUCATIONAL
DEVELOPER
Fellow of SEDA Staff and Educational
Development Association
• LECTURER
Professional Communication and Digital
Skills

3. PLNs Collaborative
Communities
of Practice
Learning PLEs
VLEs Co-operative

4. Learning Experiences
Formal
Non-
Informal
formal

5. Eaton 2010 http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED508254.pdf

6. • credit bearing courses
formal
• community based programmes, non-
credit adult education courses, CPD,
non- sports and fitness programmes
informal
• coaching, mentoring, social networks,
informal personal learning networks

7. What would you add?
• credit bearing courses
formal
• community based programmes, non-
credit adult education courses, CPD,
non- sports and fitness programmes
informal
• coaching, mentoring, social networks,
informal personal learning networks

8. Is it so easy to label?

9. It can happen in mid sentence when
Where Learning Happens
http://markmcguire.net/2012/08/18/where-learning-happens/
you interrupt the program for
a message
from one sponsor
It can happen out in public places or another.
alleyways and funny spaces
It can happen at a party
underneath and in between
once I met a guy who told me how
locations where you’ve never been
sub atomic particles romance
before.
with partners rooms away
.
that made my day.
It can happen on an airplane
.
at 30,000 feet above the ground
It can happen in a pub
you’ve found the person sitting
an angel at the bar sharing whisky
next to you has lived the life you
while a stranger tells
might have.
a history of the world
.
in six glasses.
It can happen walking down the street
.
you meet someone you haven’t seen
It can happen when you go to bed
in ages who tells you
and in your head you find
everything
an alleyway at 30,000 feet
before the light changes..
where faster than light neutrinos are
dancing the night away.
Mark McQuire 2012 .
And it all makes sense.

10. Haiku 俳句
collaboration
make learning
communities
creative and fun
5-7-5

11. Fun self-directed and self-organised ‘informal’
experiential learning

12. ‘Formal’ Tutor-Led Experiential Learning

13. Tutor as Facilitator
Vygotsky

14. Thinking about your own learning
experiences what are the pros and
cons of each?
Just in case Just in time
learning learning

15. Connectedness
"online" indicates a state of
connectivity, while "offline" indicates a
disconnected state.

16. Dennis McGrath http://technogogical.wordpress.com/

17. Connectedness

18. mentionmap

20. Technology removes boundaries such as
language, time and geographical distance

21. However my first experience....

22. The principal goal of education is to
create men [and women] who are
capable of doing new things, not
simply repeating what other
generations have done - men and
women who are creative, inventive
and discoverers.
The second goal of education is to
form minds which can be critical, can
verify, and not accept, everything they
are offered.
Piaget
We need to learn to take risks, to
challenge and above all find fun in
learning