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Mapping problems to the ROMA cycle: Activity 19 Block 4 Ferguson et. al. (2015).

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ROMA

I’m not, at this stage, ready to do a presentation on this. A presentation done by a group representing key stakeholders would hold more sway. 

ROMA Stage

Problems

Map political context

·         International and national concern about data privacy

·         Ideology and politics of retrenchment regarding human and other resources

·         Switch from government to sustainable self-gathered funding and revenue resources

Identify key stakeholders

·         Personal identity of key stakeholders can feel to be (to themselves and others) locked into the practices seen as appropriate in only one of the sub-communities.

·         Relative power of professional and non-professional human resources, including the role if trades unions, of communities involved

·         Resistance to changes in relative status & control between communities

Identify key desired behaviour changes

·         Standardised procedures for data collection and interpretation

·         Commonality between academic departments on a range of pedagogic matters.

·         More interaction between communities to achieve common goal

·         Move away from a culture that separates knowledge, values and skills in technology from pedagogical knowledge, values & skills

Develop engagement strategy

·         Communities do not mix – elements of material, intellectual & emotional culture are separate (separated venues for community identification, sub-cultural markers are powerful and have attributed status)

·         Policy statements are not known across different communities.

·         Communities do not meet.

Analyse internal Capacity to change

·         Fear of intrusion or overt differences in power between groups (students& teachers. Teachers & admin, Teachers & managers)

·         Public compliance with policy and private resistance within communities and individuals

·         Lack of common mission

Establish Monitoring & learning framework

·         Ethical concerns

·         Fear of losing political advantage

 Some Reflections

  1.           i            The key issue is that the ROMA cycle is precisely that – an iterative process. Hence dependencies between problems at different stages (of which they are many) get incrementally and serially addressed across each cycle. This probably helps to speed up change process if a virtuous cycle can be achieved.
  2.         ii            The issue of building trust between individuals and communities lies at the root of this problem. The link of personal identity to the values of a community can help maintain its desire for separateness.
  3.       iii            Intrusion can be resisted by lying and unconscious neglect as well as straightforward overt resistance.

All I can do for now.

All the best

Steve

Ferguson, R., Macfadyen, L.P., Clow, D., Tynan, B., Alexander, S. and Dawson, S. (2015) ‘Setting learning analytics in context: overcoming the barriers to large-scale adoption’, Journal of Learning Analytics, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 120–44; also available online at http://oro.open.ac.uk/ 42115/[Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] (accessed 15 June  2016).

Scanlon, E., Sharples, M., Fenton-O’Creevy, M., Fleck, J., Cooban, C., Ferguson, R., Cross, S. and Waterhouse, P. (2013) ‘Beyond Prototypes: Enabling Innovation in Technology-Enhanced Learning’ Technology-Enhanced Learning Research Programme; also available at http://beyondprototypes.com/ (accessed 15 June 2016).

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