Marvellous Mapping: Reflecting on online identities and practices using Vis...
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In this workshop, we will explore the Visitors and Residents (V&R) concept and use the V&R mapping exercise to reflect on our online identities and practices, as well as the online practices of our students.
Donna Lanclos (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) and Dave White (University of the Arts London), of the V&R project team, and Catherine Cronin (National University of Ireland, Galway) will co-facilitate the workshop.
For our students, to be in higher education is to learn in two worlds: the open world of informal learning and the predominantly closed world of the institution. Many students experience a dissonance between their experiences of formal and informal learning. It is not just students who experience this dissonance, of course. As networked individuals, educators also make choices about the extent to which we learn, teach, share, and interact within and across different online spaces. How do we establish our identities and our presence, and build learning communities, in different online spaces?
The Visitors and Residents approach has been described by Dave White (2014) as "a pragmatic way of understanding online learning practices which often go undiscussed in education". The V&R mapping exercise has proved to be an excellent starting point for reflecting on overall approaches to teaching, for informing ways to work with students online, and for considering the relationship between the formal institution and online culture.
The Marvellous Mapping workshop will be divided into 3 parts:
1. Summary of recent research in the area of the “digital student" and networked scholarship
2. Guided exercise using the Visitors & Residents mapping tool
3. Discussion & reflection on the mapping exercise
Overall, the workshop will provide educators with an opportunity to reflect on their own online practices, to share perspectives on learning spaces and openness, and to consider how such insights could inform our teaching practices -- particularly with respect to bridging the divide between formal and informal learning.
White, D. (2014). Visitors and Residents. The TALL blog.
White, D., Connaway, L.S., Lanclos, D., Hood, E.M., & Vass, C. (2014). Evaluating digital services: A digital visitors and residents approach. JISC InfoNet.
The workshop will take place from 11am to 3pm, including a 1-hour lunch break. Lunch will be provided.
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