Edited by Steve Bamlett, Thursday, 24 Mar 2016, 08:01
Having just started H817, I, like everyone else, is being tasked by definitions of what is meant by 'innovation' and 'openness'. These are words that can, by some writers, be used with an apparent assumption that their meaning is clear and unambiguous. Yet when I use a term like 'open' to describe the governance of a course module, like say H817, the meaning is always tested by its relevance to the context in and of which it is used.
This is brought home in a consultation our own group is currently having about whether discussion threads are opened by the named tutor on the module or by learner colleagues in the group - which one module leader this year describes as a 'team'. The very existence of such a consultation can be used as evidence of 'openness' (and this is surely how it was intended, although we can only intuit that possibility). However, that it needed to be called in the first place could be said to be evidence of a system that is only relatively open and which must be, therefore, relatively closed.
With this in mind, this quotation from a recent conversation in DigitaPedagogylLab is interesting and I wonder if anyone had any comment. Even if not, getting to know this conversation through the URL from which it is sourced, and thence getting contact with the prompts from DigitalPedagogyLab by registering is alone worth a little effort.
So here's the quotation:
Student agency arrives in the form of open inquiry, which relies on
learner autonomy at a foundational level. This is not just the teacher
constructing opportunities or scaffolding for agency, leading the students to
discover that they have certain, limited ownership of their learning. Student
agency is an assumption built into the pedagogy, and comes from an integral
trust of learners’ capabilities.
And here are 2 questions about 'student autonomy':
Is 'student autonomy' the name of a process, or is it an 'object', with no implication of process implied in its name. If the second, ;
Is it achieved only after a process (of scaffolding (Bruner) and/or apprenticeship(Seely-Brown)) that involves inevitable compromise of full student autonomy?
H817: Learner autonomy: what does it mean?
Having just started H817, I, like everyone else, is being tasked by definitions of what is meant by 'innovation' and 'openness'. These are words that can, by some writers, be used with an apparent assumption that their meaning is clear and unambiguous. Yet when I use a term like 'open' to describe the governance of a course module, like say H817, the meaning is always tested by its relevance to the context in and of which it is used.
This is brought home in a consultation our own group is currently having about whether discussion threads are opened by the named tutor on the module or by learner colleagues in the group - which one module leader this year describes as a 'team'. The very existence of such a consultation can be used as evidence of 'openness' (and this is surely how it was intended, although we can only intuit that possibility). However, that it needed to be called in the first place could be said to be evidence of a system that is only relatively open and which must be, therefore, relatively closed.
With this in mind, this quotation from a recent conversation in DigitaPedagogylLab is interesting and I wonder if anyone had any comment. Even if not, getting to know this conversation through the URL from which it is sourced, and thence getting contact with the prompts from DigitalPedagogyLab by registering is alone worth a little effort.
So here's the quotation:
Student agency arrives in the form of open inquiry, which relies on learner autonomy at a foundational level. This is not just the teacher constructing opportunities or scaffolding for agency, leading the students to discover that they have certain, limited ownership of their learning. Student agency is an assumption built into the pedagogy, and comes from an integral trust of learners’ capabilities.
The source:
http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/mmid-conversations-design-trust-discovery/
And here are 2 questions about 'student autonomy':
All the best
Steve