Organisational change and sustainable networked learning: Design is not enough.
Seminar with John Hannon, visting scholar in eLearning Lab this spring. This was a very stimulating lunch session - John talked about his work at La Trobe University in Melbourne, where he and colleagues work with finding sustainable ways to change educational practices.
John Hannon talked about a change from thinking about design towards thinking about assembly - connecting policy and practice is a fast way of expressing it. Rather than making grand schemes and plans, focusing on how to enact what you want to happen here and now seems to be a way of doing bottom up-changes.
Read more about John’s work here: http://www.ell.aau.dk/2012/05/03/dr-john-hannon/
Find more info about the seminar here, and find slides from John Hannon’s talk here.
Taking a break - enjoying the west coast just south of Blokhus
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Research group on ICT for Development - Call for papers out now
To serve as a forum for our ongoing research on the topic, we have formed a research group on ICT for Development. Formally, the group is a subgroup within eLearning Lab; however, we also have a number of ‘alumni members’, namely former colleagues in eLL whom we still collaborate with. We have a presentation website here.
Currently, our main activity in the group is writing a book on the topic of ICT for Development within education and learning. A call for chapters has been put together, as we would like to invite others to contribute - please get in touch, if you have relevant research to present.