Slides from my talk at the Higher Education Academy event held in Oxford. For more info see: http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2012/04/24/education-should-move-us/

1. New places to learn:
Flexible learning and
online residency

2. DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION
TECHNOLOGY-ASSISTED LIFELONG LEARNING
New places to learn: Flexible
learning and online residency
#heanpl
David White
@daveowhite
Technology Assisted Lifelong Learning
University of Oxford
19th April 2012

3. Technology Assisted
Lifelong Learning

4. Emerging, Establishing,
Embedding, Experienced
Convenience, Connection, Authority, Relevance Distraction
ease of use, sharing with legitimacy
accessibility others
Create Reliability
Searching Collaborate Speed
Fun, Quantity
enjoyment
Visitors and Residents

5. Emerging, Establishing,
Embedding, Experienced
Convenience, Connection, Collaborate Authority, Distraction
ease of use, sharing with legitimacy
accessibility others
Reliability Relevance
Speed Create
Searching
Fun, Quantity
enjoyment
Visitors and Residents

6. If I’m not in this place
I’m in that one.
UKF5 – Visitors and Residents

7. Web as place
Social
Openness - Sharing
Convenience
Communal
Authority - Relevance

8. DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION
TECHNOLOGY-ASSISTED LIFELONG LEARNING
Digital
Visitor
Digital
Resident

9. ‘Genres of
participation’
not frameworks
Digital Youth Research: Kids’ Informal Learning with Digital Media –
“Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out”
http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/

10. Evolution
‘the need for practice –
acquired through continued
development and refinement in
different contexts, rather than
once-and-for-all mastery’
Llida report

11. Visitor Resident
Video: goo.gl/dny1h
Paper: goo.gl/RFSLz

12. Visitor

13. Resident

14. This is
where
I live

15. I’ll see how he is on Facebook
and I’ll send him a message on
Facebook, even though he’s
sitting five feet away from me.
So, I’ll type him something and
he’s like, “Jon, just ask me, I’m
right here.” I’ll type back, “No.
What’s the score?”
USU4 – Visitors and Residents

16. I actually have teachers
that limit us on how many
internet sources we can use
but require hard copy
sources from the library.
USU3 – Visitors and Residents

17. I tend to believe that people
will just learn it, even if they
have never used, because it’s
so easy. And if they don’t
know, I will just say, “Google
it,” so easy to learn now.
UKF5 – Visitors and Residents

18. UKU3

19. Learner
Owned
Literacies

20. Graduate Attributes:
‘Apply different forms of
communication in various
social, professional and
cultural settings’
Queen Mary University of London

21. ‘…to become a confident,
agile adopter of a
range of technologies for
personal, academic and
professional use. …and
engage productively in
relevant online communities.’
Brookes University

22. ‘Ability to use technology to
work, research, learn and
influence others in an
increasingly digital world.’
Southampton University

23. ‘Digital literacy defines
those capabilities which fit
an individual for living,
learning and working in a
digital society.’
JISC Developing Digital Literacies

24. Influence?
Community?

25. DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION
TECHNOLOGY-ASSISTED LIFELONG LEARNING
Content
or
Contact

26. “…one of the clear things
that we see among a lot of
students is the desire to
connect with other students
and that’s something that
technologies can clearly
facilitate ”
HEFCE Study of UK Online Learning

27. Eventedness
Fellowship
Page 27

31. ‘Visitor skills are the low
hanging fruit, it's residency
skills, and the ability to
balance them with other
pressures, where the
advances in technology lie.
...So where is the low
hanging fruit of residency?’
Alan Cann
http://goo.gl/kkfJE

32. Thanks
david.white@conted.ox.ac.uk
@daveowhite
Search: JISC Visitors and Residents
tall.conted.ox.ac.uk

33. The JISC funded Visitors
and Residents project team
Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D. - Co-Principal Investigator
Senior Research Scientist
OCLC Research
Donna Lanclos, Ph.D.- Co-Investigator
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Alison Le Cornu, Ph.D.- Research Assistant
University of Oxford
Erin Hood – Research Assistant
OCLC Research

34. Picture credits
Empty lecture theatre
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shaylor/13945881
City
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/3506557840/
Toolbox
http://www.flickr.com/photos/terry/6156784804
Porto Riberia
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lanier67/5253473681
Students with laptops
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flickerbulb/1477994596
Old School Phone
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amcdaniel83/3126390340/