Linking pedagogy, technology and values

The spirit of e-learning

Andrew Williams, Kingston College

Education

Verb educe = to draw forth from within

Spirituality

delighting in all thingsbeing absorbed in the present moment

not too attached to 'self' andeager to explore boundaries of 'beyond' and 'other'

searching for meaningdiscovering purpose

open to more

Children’s Spirituality, Rebecca Nye, 2009

1. Opening ourselves...

2. Becoming what we are not...

3. Recognising the ‘other’

Spirit of learning

• Openness• Transformation• Relationship

And so each venture

Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate

With shabby equipment always deteriorating

In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,

Undisciplined squads of emotion. And what there is to conquer

By strength and submission, has already been discovered

TS Eliot, East Coker

And so each venture

Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate

With shabby equipment always deteriorating

In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,

Undisciplined squads of emotion. And what there is to conquer

By strength and submission, has already been discovered

Pedagogy

Personalisation

Technology

Values

STAGE 0:"Primal or Undifferentiated" faith

STAGE 1:"Intuitive-Projective" faith

STAGE 2:"Mythic-Literal" faith

STAGE 4:"Individuative-Reflective" faith, angst and struggle

STAGE 6:“Universalising" faith or enlightenment

STAGE 3:"Synthetic-Conventional" faith / conformity

STAGE 5:"Conjunctive" faith (mid-life crisis)

Fowler’s ‘Stages of Faith’1981

Spirituality and personal learning environments

1. Personal– Relationships with the

Self

2. Communal– Relationships with others

3. Environmental– Relationship to the wider

world

4. Global– Relation with

‘Transcendent Other’

1. User tools– Production and

storage

2. Shared tools– Communication and

collaboration

3. Institutional tools– Content / activities

4. Aggregation tools– APIs & protocols,

identity managementDomains of Spirituality, School of Nursing, University of Ballarat, Australia

Elements of a Personal Learning Environment, ‘towardsmaturity.org’

The spirit of e-learning

S pace

P rocess

I imagination

R elationship

I ntegration

T rust

Space

In what way can technology create space for our learners to thrive?

Process

How can technology enrich the process as well as the products of learning?

Imagination

“Imagination is more important than knowledge”

Albert Einstein

Elohim Creating Adam, William Blake

How can we mobilise e-learning to enlarge the creativity and imaginative ability of our learners?

Relationships

Communion of the ApostlesJustus of Ghent about 1473-1474

How can technology strengthen and deepen relationships within the learning environment?

Integration

https://jiscdesignstudio.pbworks.com/

What does integration mean for systems, learners and institutions?

Trust

How can technology foster and build trust in our learning communities?

We must be still and still moving

Into another intensity

For a further union, a deeper communion

Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,

The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters

Of the petrel and the porpoise.

In my end is my beginning.

TS Eliot, East Coker