educational futures evidence hub

An Educational Futures Evidence Hub: Dynamic Web Presence for Engaging Academics, Practitioners, Enterprise & Policymakers?

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Simon Buckingham Shum Knowledge Media Institute

Thematic Research Network

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IET (OER Impact Research) Patrick McAndrew (PI) Pangiota Alevizou Canan Blake Doug Clow Gráinne Conole Karen Cropper Rob Farrow Ann Jones Kasia Kozinska Elpida Makriyannis Andreia Inamorato dos Santos Eileen Scanlon Tina Wilson

KMi (OER Collective Intelligence Research) Simon Buckingham Shum Michelle Bachler Anna De Liddo

olnet.org

Your team, organization, school, professional network, community...

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Your team, organization, school, professional network, community...

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Your team, organization, school, professional network, community...

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How do we augment this system’s capacity to sense, respond to, and shape its environment?

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•  Through the lens of complex adaptive systems, resilience and network science...

•  Through the lens of sensemaking and HCI...

•  Hypermedia Discourse: social-semantic web + models of discourse

How do we augment this system’s capacity to sense, respond to, and shape its environment?

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•  Through the lens of complex adaptive systems, resilience and network science... •  many interacting agents (human

and software) •  many weak signals that can

build up unexpectedly •  diversity and redundancy •  feedback loops •  visual analytics to reveal

emergent patterns and network properties

•  ability to withstand change and shock to the system

Resilience

•  Walker, et al. (2004) define resilience as

“the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change, so as to still

retain essentially the same function, structure, identity, and feedbacks”

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Resilience Platforms

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http://www.futureofed.org/driver/Platforms-for-Resilience.aspx

Resilience Platforms

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http://www.futureofed.org/driver/Platforms-for-Resilience.aspx

Creating flexibility and innovation amid system failures “Platforms for resilience - enabling responsive flexibility, distributed collaboration, and transparency - will allow institutions to meet such challenges through innovation, adaptation, and openness.”

How do we augment this system’s capacity to sense, respond to, and shape its environment?

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•  Through the lens of sensemaking and HCI... •  many plausible narratives: what

was, is, or might be going on?... •  many representational artifacts

being shared and annotated •  attention to the quality of

conversation: how well are agents listening to each other and what kinds of contributions do they make?

•  informal interaction mixed with stronger public claims

•  many connections being made, both formal and fuzzy

• critical thinking • argumentation • assumptions • analogical thinking

• causality • juxtapositions • “kinda related...”

Sensemaking: the search for plausible, narrative connections

•  In their review of sensemaking, Klein, et al. conclude:

•  “By sensemaking, modern researchers seem to mean something different from creativity, comprehension, curiosity, mental modeling, explanation, or situational awareness, although all these factors or phenomena can be involved in or related to sensemaking. Sensemaking is a motivated, continuous effort to understand connections (which can be among people, places, and events) in order to anticipate their trajectories and act effectively. […] A frame functions as a hypothesis about the connections among data.”

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Contested Collective Intelligence

conversations are critical to sensemaking

there is no master worldview

we need CI infrastructures to pool awareness of how people are reading small signals, and

amplify important connections

13 De Liddo, A., Sándor, Á. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2012, In Press). Contested Collective Intelligence: Rationale, Technologies, and a Human-Machine Annotation Study. Computer Supported Cooperative Work.

Where our tools fit… Given a wealth of documents…

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Where our tools fit… Given a wealth of documents, and tools to detect and render potentially significant patterns…

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Where our tools fit… Given a wealth of documents, and tools to detect and render potentially significant patterns…

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Where our tools fit: making meaningful connections between information elements…

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Where our tools fit: making meaningful connections between interpretations

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interpretation

interpretation

interpretation

interpretation

Where our tools fit: making meaningful connections between interpretations

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interpretation

interpretation interpretation

interpretation

interpretation

(a hunch – no grounding

evidence yet)

interpretation

Where our tools fit: making meaningful connections between information elements

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predicts causes

interpretation

interpretation interpretation

interpretation

interpretation

(a hunch – no grounding

evidence yet)

interpretation

Is pre-requisite for

Where our tools fit: making meaningful connections between information elements

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prevents

predicts causes

interpretation

interpretation interpretation

interpretation

interpretation

(a hunch – no grounding

evidence yet) Is inconsistent with

interpretation

challenges

Is pre-requisite for

Where our tools fit: building the story that makes sense of the evidence… i.e. plausible arguments

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Question

Answer

Supporting Argument… Challenging

Argument…

challenges supports

responds to

Assumption

motivates

Where our tools fit: building the story that makes sense of the evidence… i.e. plausible arguments

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Question

Answer

Supporting Argument… Challenging

Argument…

challenges supports

responds to

Hunch

motivates

Where our tools fit: building the story that makes sense of the evidence… i.e. plausible arguments

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Question

Answer

Supporting Argument… Challenging

Argument…

challenges supports

responds to

Data

motivates

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OLnet  is    searching  out  the  

evidence  for    effec4ve  OER,  and  building  an    Evidence  Hub    —  a  living    map    by,  of  and  for  

the  OER  movement  —  and  those  we  need  

to  impact  

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We need to pool our Collective Intelligence

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Evidence Hub

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Evidence Hub

Speeches Blogs War Stories Research Pubs.

Press Coverage Learner Feedback

Data Policies . . .?

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Example: OER fragments

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http://www.oer-europe.net

Example: OER fragments

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http://bit.ly/qx5nWZ

Example: OER fragments

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http://openbadges.org

Example: OER fragments

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http://oro.open.ac.uk/28955

Example: OER fragments

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http://solaresearch.org

Example: OER fragments

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmTHEbUMPGg

Example: OER fragments

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http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2042

Example: OER fragments

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http://oro.open.ac.uk/25829

How do they all join up?

And how could they be joined to provide an advanced

CI platform, e.g. Which approach has the strongest evidence?

Who is making use of this report in policy lobbying? Who is working on this problem?

Is there a connection between this technology and this challenge?

Are these two organizations related? Which challenge is most contentious?

Has this research ever been applied in practice? Has anyone evaluated this product?

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Integrating the fragments -> narrative

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ci.olnet.org

Collective Intelligence: Evidence Hubs •  A way for a reflective learning community to share who and where

they are, what they are working on, and what they’re learning

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Collective Intelligence: Evidence Hubs •  A way for a reflective learning community to share who and where

they are, what they are working on, and what they’re learning

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An Educational Futures Evidence Hub?

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Educational Futures fragments…

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An Educational Futures Evidence Hub? e.g. CI for Interactive Whiteboards

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An Educational Futures Evidence Hub? e.g. CI for Interactive Whiteboards

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<the literature>

An Educational Futures Evidence Hub? e.g. CI for Interactive Whiteboards

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<the literature>

An Educational Futures Evidence Hub? Cities have drastically reduced capacity to connect educators to each other: new role for ICT

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EduFutures EvHub as catalyst for building a virtual and f-f professional network across sectors

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EvHub    Research   Prac4ce  

Policy  

Enterprise  

EduFutures EvHub as catalyst for building a virtual and f-f professional network across sectors

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EvHub    Research   Prac4ce  

Policy  

Enterprise  

Teachers as action researchers with OU. Part

of something bigger. Learning how to make evidence-based claims

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EvHub    Research   Prac4ce  

Policy  

Enterprise  

Vendors have a neutral space for research discourse. Project

sponsors. Learn how to improve products

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EvHub    Research   Prac4ce  

Policy  

Enterprise  

Researchers impacting practice, policy and products, and tracking

that impact. Multi-way conversations. Research shaped by more than academic drivers.

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EvHub    Research   Prac4ce  

Policy  

Enterprise  Policy analysts and decision-

makers have a space to consult, new ways to track the evidence-

base, ways to find and access lead researchers and practitioners

Hands-on exercises…

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Write your own story…

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EvHub    Research   Prac4ce  

Policy  

Enterprise  

Can you sketch your own version of this?

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