1st Edition

Place-Based Spaces for Networked Learning

Edited By Lucila Carvalho, Peter Goodyear, Maarten de Laat Copyright 2017
    280 Pages
    by Routledge

    280 Pages
    by Routledge

    With the boundaries of place softened and extended by digital communications technologies, learning in a networked society necessitates new distributions of activity across time, space, media, and people; and this development is no longer exclusive to formally designated spaces such as school classrooms, lecture halls, or research laboratories. Place-based Spaces for Networked Learning explores how qualities of physical places make both formal and informal education in a networked society possible. Through a series of investigations and case studies, it illuminates the structural composition and functioning of complex learning environments.

    This book offers a wealth of key design elements and attributes for productive learning that educational designers can reuse in multiple contexts. The chapters examine how places are modified, expanded, or supplemented by networking technologies and practices in order to create spaces in which learners can collaboratively develop new understandings, connections, and capabilities. Utilizing a range of diverse but complementary perspectives from anthropology, archaeology, architecture, geography, psychology, sociology, and urban studies, Place-based Spaces for Networked Learning addresses how material places and digital spaces are understood; how sense can be made of new assemblages and configurations of tasks, tools, and people; how the real-time analysis of new flows of data can inform and entertain users of a space; and how access to the digital realm changes our experiences with both places and other people.

    Preface

    Acknowledgements

    Chapter 1. Place, space and networked learning

    Lucila Carvalho, Peter Goodyear and Maarten de Laat

    Chapter 2. Placing focus in the place-based spaces for networked learning

    David Ashe and Nina Bonderup Dohn

    Chapter 3. Educational design and birds on trees

    Ana Pinto

    Chapter 4. A study of correspondence, dissonance and improvisation in the design and use of a school-based networked learning environment

    Pippa Yeoman

    Chapter 5. Finding the spaces in-between: learning as a social material practice

    Jos Boys

    Chapter 6. Students physical and digital sites of study: making, marking and breaking boundaries

    Lesley Gourlay and Martin Oliver

    Chapter 7. The sonic spaces of online, distance learners

    Michael Sean Gallagher, James Lamb and Sian Bayne

    Chapter 8. Is there anybody out there? Place-based networks for learning: Netmap a tool for accessing hidden informal learning networks

    Maarten de Laat and Shane Dawson

    Chapter 9. Networked places as communicative resources: a social-semiotic analysis of a re-designed university library

    Louise J. Ravelli and Robert J. McMurtrie

    Chapter 10. Building bridges: design, emotion and museum learning

    Maree Stenglin

    Chapter 11. The O in MONA: reshaping museum spaces

    Lucila Carvalho

    Chapter 12. Practicalities of developing and deploying a handheld multimedia guide for museum visitors

    Nigel Linge, Kate Booth and David Parsons

    Chapter 13. Citizen Cartographer

    Juliet Sprake and Peter Rogers

    Chapter 14. Designing hubs for connected learning: social, spatial and technological insights from Coworking, Hackerspaces and Meetup groups

    Mark Bilandzic and Marcus Foth

    Chapter 15. Spaces enabling change: x-lab and science education 2020

    Tina Hinton, Pippa Yeoman, Leslie Ashor and Philip Poronnik

    Chapter 16. Translating translational research on space design from the health sector to higher education – lessons learnt and challenges revealed

    Robert A. Ellis and Kenn Fisher

    Chapter 17. Conclusion – Place-Based Spaces for Networked Learning: Emerging Themes and Issues

    Peter Goodyear, Lucila Carvalho, Vivien Hodgson and Maarten de Laat

    Author Biographies

    Index

    Biography

    Lucila Carvalho is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Research on Learning and Innovation at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her Ph.D. combined research in design, learning technology and the sociology of knowledge. She has studied and carried out research in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Brazil. She has published and presented her work at various international conferences in the fields of education, sociology, systemic functional linguistics, design and software engineering.

    Peter Goodyear is Professor of Education and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Learning and Innovation at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has been carrying out research in the field of learning and technology since the early 1980s, working in the UK, Europe and Australia. He has published eight books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters.

    Maarten de Laat is Professor of Professional Development in Social Networks at the Welten Institute of the Open University of the Netherlands. His research concentrates on exploring social learning strategies and networked relationships that facilitate learning and professional development. He has published and presented his research extensively in international research journals, books and conferences. He is co-chair of the biannual International Networked Learning Conference.

    "Networked learning research is clearly shifting its emphasis from ‘online’ towards the mixed-mode aspects of the digital and the physical, offline and online, and the meshed reality making the two inseparable. However, this has only now—with the publication of Place-based Spaces for Networked Learning—been captured and treated rigorously from a theoretical, analytical, and empirical perspective. This book will stand as a landmark and a turning point for research into networked learning, and I highly recommend it to researchers and practitioners."

    --Thomas Ryberg, Professor in the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark, and Co-chair of the Networked Learning Conference

    "The initial rush to understand and implement virtual environments for teaching and learning left consideration of place by the wayside. This book marks a turning point in re-establishing the importance of place as a central constituent of learning activity, focusing much needed attention on the traditions and effects of natural spaces, material objects, and built environments in relation to learning and the design of learning experiences."

    --Caroline Haythornthwaite, Professor, SLAIS, The iSchool at the University of British Columbia, Canada

    "This is a timely and important book, given the impact of digital technologies and the ways in which they result in the boundaries of place being softened and extended. Learning in a networked society necessitates new distributions of activity across time, space, media, and people, and the well-known editors and authors of this volume are in an excellent position to critique this important issue."

    --Gráinne Conole, Professor of Education in the Institute for Education at Bath Spa University, UK