The purpose of the event is to bring together those with an interest in the notion of Social Learning and widen our horizons by discussing various perspectives on Social Learning as an area of interest to researchers and designers from multiple fields including education, governance and technology. We therefore structured the seminar in a way that will give everyone an opportunity to exchange ideas and participate in the discussion: the short presentations will follow the same format in order to help draw ideas together and identify areas of synergy and difference in a lively and open discussion.

 

 

The programme is as follows:

 

1.30 - Welcome and introduction - Chris High (OSRG)

 

1.45 – Presentation by Simon Buckingham Shum (OLnet/ KMI): An emerging suite of social learning technologies

 

2.15 – 3.15 - Short presentations centred around three areas: What I understand under Social Learning, examples of how it has been used in my experience, and the future of social learning in this context (approx 10 - 15 minutes) by

 

Kevin Collins (OSRG) - International perspectives on Social Learning

Kasia Kozinska (OLnet/ IET/ CREET) – Social Learning in the context of OpenLearn

Chris Blackmore (OSRG) - Social Learning systems and communities of practice

Joe Corneli (KMI) - Crowdsourcing education

 

3.15 – 4 pm – Discussion on the Future of Social Learning at the Open University – moderator Martin Reynolds (OSRG)