The document is a presentation from the Networked Learning Conference 2014 that discusses networked learning and identity development in open online spaces. It explores how networked technologies and open online spaces influence how learners develop their identities. It references several scholars and their work around networked learning, online identities, and the intersection between formal and informal learning environments and spaces. The presentation examines how networked technologies impact educators and students, and the potential of open online spaces to support learners' negotiation of identities and experimentation across different social contexts.

1. Public Domain image: Bergen Public Library
Networked Learning and Identity Development
in Open Online Spaces
Networked Learning Conference
Catherine Cronin • @catherinecronin • #nlc2014 • 07/04/14

2. Paper presented at Networked Learning 2014
as part of symposium titled:
“Perspectives on Identity within Networked Learning”
with Jane Davis and Joyce Seitzinger
All full conference papers at
http://nlc2014.sched.org/

3. “I don’t think
education is about
centralized instruction
anymore; rather, it is
the process [of]
establishing oneself
as a node in a broad
network of distributed
creativity.”
– Joi Ito @joi
Quote: Joi Ito Image: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 yo

4. Flickr CC images: cdessums, infidelic, sholeh!
Space prepares you
to receive or to respond.
“Sensing Spaces”
Royal Academy of Arts
(via Jenny Mackness)

5. Social
Networks
Internet
Mobile
Networked Individualism

6. Image: CC BY-NC 2.0 Roo Reynolds
Networked Publics
danah boyd (2010)
@zephoria
danah.org
space constructed
through
networked technologies
the imagined collective
which emerges
(people + tech + practice)

7. PRIVATE by default, PUBLIC by effort
PUBLIC by default, PRIVATE by effort
boyd (2010)

8. Image CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Alec Couros
Networked Teacher

9. about.me/catherinecronin

10. Networked Students too…
Student
Based on image CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Alec Couros

11. Networked
Educators
Networked
Students

12. Networked
Educators
Networked
Students
Physical
Classroom
Bounded
Online
Spaces
Open
Online
Spaces

13. As studies become more contextualised it
seems that the real lesson of online identity is
not that it transforms identity but that it makes
us more aware that offline identity was already
more multiple, culturally contingent and
contextual than we had appreciated.
Danny Miller (2013)
Photo by George Miller
(used with permission)
“

14. Networked
Educators
Networked
Students
Physical
Classroom
Bounded
Online
Spaces
Open
Online
Spaces

15. #icollab TAGSExplorer
thanks to @mhawksey

16. We proposed the idea of a Third Space where
teacher and student scripts – the formal and
informal, the official and unofficial spaces of the
learning environment – intersect, creating the
potential for authentic interaction and a shift in
the social organization of learning and what
counts as knowledge.
University of Colorado, Boulder
Kris Gutiérrez (2008)
“

17. People live their lives and learn across multiple
settings, and this holds true not only across the
span of our lives but also across and within the
institutions and communities they inhabit...
I take an approach that urges me to consider the
significant overlap across these boundaries as
people, tools, and practices travel through
different and even contradictory contexts and
activities .
Gutiérrez (2008)
“

18. If institutions of learning are going to help
learners with the real challenges they face...
[they] will have to shift their focus from
imparting curriculum to supporting the
negotiation of productive identities
through landscapes of practices.
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
choconancy1
Etienne Wenger (2010)
“

19. Learners need to practice and experiment with
different ways of enacting their identities, and adopt
subject positions through different social
technologies and media.
These opportunities can only be supported by
academic staff who are themselves engaged in
digital practices and questioning their own
relationship with knowledge.
- Keri Facer & Neil Selwyn (2010)

20. Thank you!
Catherine Cronin
@catherinecronin
slideshare.net/cicronin
about.me/catherinecronin

21. References
boyd, dana (2010). Social network sites as networked publics:
Affordances, dynamics, and implications. In Z. Papacharissi (Ed.), Self: Identity, Community, and
Culture on Social Network Sites. (pp. 39-58).
boyd, dana (2010). Making sense of privacy and publicity. SXSW 2010 keynote.
Facer, Keri & Selwyn, Neil (2010). Social networking: Key messages from the research. In R. Sharpe,
H. Beetham & S. de Freitas (Eds.) Rethinking Learning For A Digital Age.
Gutiérrez, Kris D. (2008). Developing a sociocritical literacy in the Third Space. Reading Research
Quarterly, 43(2), 148-164.
Ito, J. (2011, December 5). In an open-source society, innovating by the seat of our pants. The New
York Times.
Miller, Danny (2013). Future Identities report. Foresight Project, DR2.
Rainie, Lee & Wellman, Barry (2012). Networked: The new social operating system. MIT Press.
Wenger, Etienne (2010). Knowledgeability in Landscapes of Practice SRHE Conference 2010. In
deFreitas & Jameson, Eds. (2012) The e-Learning Reader
Williams, Bronwyn T. (2013). Control and the classroom in the digital university: The effect of the CMS
on pedagogy. In Goodfellow & Lea (Eds.) Literacy in the Digital University.

22. Paper presented at Networked Learning 2014
as part of symposium titled:
“Perspectives on Identity within Networked Learning”
with Jane Davis and Joyce Seitzinger
All full conference papers at
http://nlc2014.sched.org/