Redefining designing for learning: dialogic and explicit learning design

Gráinne Conole, 1st July 2010Edmedia conference, Toronto

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Design framework for sociality• Enabling practice• Mimicking reality• Building identity• Actualising selfBouman et al.

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Alevizou, Conole, Culver & Galley, 2010

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“Social objects”Social networking makes little sense if we leave out the objects that Mediate the ties between peopleEngeström

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Design framework for sociality• Enabling practice• Mimicking reality• Building identity• Actualising selfBouman et al.

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Patterns of Contribution in the Exeter Open Review (Galley, 2010 expanding on Cross, 2010)

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Acknowledgements• Many of the images are taken from the TORLEY account on Flckr, these include:

– http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/458976477/ – http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/458962566/in/photostream/ – http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/456917463/– http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/456790987/ – http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/448323909/ – http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/441064931/– http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/441042156/ – http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/440128306/ – http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/438819025/ – http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/432828550/– http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/432802395/ – http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/431064486/– http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/431064279/– http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/431051354/– http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/431043539/– http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/431039358/ – http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/431039358/

• Also used – questionmark http://www.flickr.com/photos/crystaljingsr/3914729343/• Web2.0 city - http://www.flickr.com/photos/4everyoung/313308360/