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Ecologies of Open Resources and Pedagogies of Abundance

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The Future of Ubiquitous Learning

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Abstract

Learning exists in diverse places—education, work and interest-based activities—and in many different forms. The move towards opening access to learning courses provides learners with the possibility to bring together learning opportunities from diverse sites. However, there is a danger in narrowly viewing learning as the acquisition of resources. This view restricts benefits of open resources to experienced, self-regulated learners. This chapter analyses diverse pedagogies that enable learners to capitalise on digital, open resources. It calls for a fundamental rethink of our cultural view of learning and teaching, focusing attention on how we encourage learners to create and navigate their own pathways, placing the self-regulation of learning as the norm.

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    http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/serv_e/gatsintr_e.htm.

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    http://www.thestudentsurvey.com/.

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    http://creativecommons.org/.

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    http://www.tess-india.edu.in/.

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    http://www.tessafrica.net/.

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    https://www.khanacademy.org/.

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    http://www.hewlett.org/.

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    http://www.gatesfoundation.org/.

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    http://www.jisc.ac.uk/.

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    http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/.

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    http://ocw.mit.edu/about/our-history/.

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    https://www.edx.org/.

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    https://www.futurelearn.com/.

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    https://www.coursera.org/.

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    http://littlebylittlejohn.com/professional-learning-in-moocs/.

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    http://www.gcu.ac.uk/academy/pl-mooc/.

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    http://www.gcu.ac.uk/academy/pl-mooc/outputs/.

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    https://soundcloud.com/.

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    http://ccmixter.org/.

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    http://www.squared5.com/.

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    The quantitative survey is available at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6017514/survey.pdf.

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    The interview script is available at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6017514/interviewscript.pdf.

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    http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2013/12/completion-data-for-moocs.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheEdTechie+(The+Ed+Techie).

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    http://www.gcu.ac.uk/academy/pl-mooc/.

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    http://change.mooc.ca/about.htm.

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    http://ds106.us/about/.

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    http://openmediaclasses.covmedia.co.uk/.

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    http://www.ispotnature.org/.

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    The iSpot community existed before the FutureLearn platform and was already a well-established community, supported by the UK Open University.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank our colleagues who collaborated with us on some of the studies cited in this chapter: Dr. Anoush Margaryan, Dr. Colin Milligan, Dr. Isobel Falconer and Ms. Helen Beetham. Thanks also to the funders who have sponsored our work, most notably JISC and Shell BPV.

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  2. Athabasca University, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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  3. Department of Psychology and Education, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Marcelo Maina

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Littlejohn, A., McGill, L. (2016). Ecologies of Open Resources and Pedagogies of Abundance. In: Gros, B., Kinshuk, ., Maina, M. (eds) The Future of Ubiquitous Learning. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47724-3_7

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