New Global Learning Cultures:!Interdisciplinarity through networked technologies

Helen Keegan (@heloukee) - University of Salford, UK Thom Cochrane (@thomcochrane) - AUT University, NZ Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference #ir13 MediaCityUK, 18-22 October 2012

“The digital revolution has disrupted and will continue to disrupt what we mean by learning and how we organise our disciplines. Suffice to say, that to think about transdisciplinarity in a networked world is to think about disciplines in a different and evolving context of interconnection and complex forms of communications and interchange”

(Burnett, 2011)

New Learning Cultures and Paradigms

ELVSS and iCollab

International collaborations: multi-disciplinary : multi-level Co-production, consumption and critique – social/mobile Lecturer CoP (Wenger), modeling paradigm shift in educational practice Technology as a post-disciplinary topic (Balsamo, 2011)

ELVSS and iCollab

Ultimate goal - develop new ways of seeing and learning through collaborative study of internet technologies and emerging forms of digital creativity, learning from one anothers’ disciplinary perspectives and cultures.

ELVSS12 Entertainment Lab for the Very Small Screen

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The first !mass hangout

24 Frames 24 Hours (warm-up project)

Max Schleser

Mobile In Global Out

(sustainability)

Example student planning !

Google doc/dialogue

Example !tutor docs

Student hangouts

Tutor-student hangouts

Mobile In Global Out - Reflections

iCollab12 International Collaboration

!

Just-in-time curriculum

development

Tweeting the tutor hangouts – others can follow via Twitter, Storify, Google Docs

Students sharing work via Twitter and the #iCollab hashtag

Example project from the UK

Example project from Berlin

NZ students presenting live

online

•  9am in New Zealand •  11pm UK time •  Midnight in Berlin/Barcelona

What did we learn through

establishing global communities of practice enabled by mobile

social media?

“Learning through frustration” “An amazing experience”

“Transformed understanding” “Tutor-student hangouts were key”

5 key design principles for !

global interdisciplinarity

1. Focus upon nurturing collaboration

2. Establish a

framework of mobile social media tools for

collaboration and communication

3. Build trust

4. Value creativity

5. Become comfortable with change

New Global Learning Cultures:!Interdisciplinarity through networked technologies

Helen Keegan (@heloukee) - University of Salford, UK Thom Cochrane (@thomcochrane) - AUT University, NZ Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference #ir13 MediaCityUK, 18-22 October 2012