Dr John Couperthwaite
Education Specialist
Echo360
Designing great learning now requires that we think smartly about linking the physical and online environments which can be difficult. When successful staff and students have a shared affinity, purpose and value in what they are doing and how they are using it.
Examining how coalescent spaces can transform in-class and out-of-class learning
1.
2. Confused
Has a question
Not interested
Cant understand
the lecturer
Too easy
Distracted by social
media
Has difficulty making
notes
3. Are they listening?
Have they completed the
pre-lecture activity?
Are some students missing
today?
Did they understand that
last slide?
Why am I not getting
much response to my
questions?
Did that last student
question reflect the general
consensus?
14. “…the new physical environments we
are designing in universities are a
reflection of what the digital provides
us and the way in which this has
disbanded the geography of
knowledge”
David White, 2016, http://daveowhite.com/coalescent/
Coalescent spaces
15. David White, 2016, http://daveowhite.com/coalesce
Use of digital tools in classroom spaces
16. David White, 2016, http://daveowhite.com/coalesce
Use of digital tools as shared digital spaces within classrooms
17. David White, 2016, http://daveowhite.com/coalesce
A ‘coalesced’ pedagogy
“…design pedagogy which coalesces physical and digital
spaces. Accept that students can, and will, be present in
multiple spaces if they have a screen with them and find ways
to create presence overlaps.”
20. during class
post class
before class
Live class experience
available for all on-
campus and distance
learners
Interaction between
instructor and peers
Place and pace to
suit each learner
Recap/Reflection/Revision
on recording, discussions
and activities
Instructor review
of class analytics
Instructor review
of class analytics
Instructor review
of class analytics
Class follow-up
discussion
Recording,
discussion and
activities released
In-class engagement
tools: discussion,
quiz, flagging
Active learning
captured
Active learning,
Connected teaching
23. 1. IDENTITY: MAKE INNOVATION VISIBLE AND PUBLIC
EMBED BLENDED
LEARNING IN ALL
TEACHING SPACES
24. 2. DIVERSITY: MIX INNOVATION WITH A RANGE OF OTHER USES
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INTEGRATE PERSONAL
AND INSTITUTIONAL
TECHNOLOGIES
25. 3. CONTINUITY: START WITH EXISTING PEOPLE AND PLACES
REMODEL THE OLD;
EVOLUTION, NOT
REVOLUTION
26. 4. SOCIABILITY: BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER THROUGH
PLACES AND PROGRAMMING
ENGAGEMENT TOOLS
FOR ACTIVE LEARNING
27. 5. PROXIMITY: BUILD LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES CLOSER TOGETHER
—NOT JUST ON CAMPUS
MOBILE-ENABLED FOR
ACCESS, ANYTIME, ANY
PLACE, ANY WHERE
28. 6. MOBILITY: CONNECT TO BROADER OPPORTUNITIES AND TRAINING
THROUGH MULTIPLE LEARNING MODES
ENCOURAGE
CONNECTED LEARNING
BEFORE, DURING AND
AFTER CLASS
30. 8. UNITY: GOVERN WITH VISION AND HOLISTIC, INCLUSIVE STRATEGIES
CONSISTENT, INCLUSIVE
EXPERIENCES FOR
TEACHERS AND LEARNERS
Hinweis der Redaktion
So, how does this relate to ‘place-making’? Well, for me, designing great learning now requires that we think smartly about linking the physical and online environments. And as we all know, this can be hard. When we see it working well, we see that staff and students have a shared affinity, purpose and value in what they are doing and how they are using it.
I recently came across the concept of ‘coalescent spaces’ by David White. This resonated with the messages we had been using at Echo360, and the several years of development time which had preceeded it.
We believe we need to rethink teaching in the classroom, introducing the many benefits of digital, without replacing the lecture and other classes for online learning.
Why is this important, well we are all familiar with a typical classroom setting like this – a myriad of faces, some attentive, others not, some empty seats, and the occasional blank face. We assume they are learning. We trust that the capture of the lecture will provide a backup to their notes, and we sometimes add in interactive activities to change the pace, test understanding and evaluate opinions.
What is missing? Can digital help improve communication, engagement and learning?
Similarly for the lecturer, time is short with students, the lecture has to have impact and relevance, feedback is minimal, students feel short-changed if simply lectured at. It is expensive and needs to add real value to students and be worth the time by staff who could otherwise be involved in research.
We have arrived at this model of teaching in HE which efficiently serves a large group of students, but which fails in: continuity, feedback, engagement, active learning.
Learning happens in disconnected places, which offer learners ineffective modes for learning, and teachers a suite of unconnected and unstructured pedagogical environments to support and learners.
Emphasis on the performer:
Place is designed to inform, to entertain, with maximum visitbility
Let’s not forget where this model of teaching began, shaped around the performer, which the purpose of uni-directional communication and
Remodelled for the teacher, shaped around the pulpit and congregation.
Place creates a divide, an order, an encouragement to make notes, and to listen.
Modern resonnances in digital world.
Reflections of physical artefacts and places, to shape our minds to use digitial tools for learning.
Blackboard: focal point for class learning; adaptive and changeable; personalised
https://www.iied.org/ten-urban-planning-principles-every-humanitarian-should-know
Community
Data
Opps from overlap
Place matters
…therefore design matters
Politics exist
Civil society has power
Be inclusive
Be visionary
Have a long-term plan