Chrissi Nerantzi and Sue Beckingham presenting at the 19th Annual SEDA Conference 13-14 November 2014, Nottingham Redecker et al (2011, 9) note that “The overall vision is that personalisation, collaboration and informalisation (informal learning) will be at the core of learning in the future. “ Our world is changing rapidly. Educators need to quickly adapt and change and develop new learning and teaching strategies that are fit for our times. Informal networks and open development opportunities enabled and extended through digital technologies are valuable to connect with other practitioners, share practices, support each other and innovate in collaboration with others within and beyond their own institutions. Seely Brown (2012, 14) talked about the “Big Shift” driven by “digital innovation” and characterised by “exponential change and emergence, socially and culturally”. Can we afford to stay where we are and do what we always did? Or is there a need for academic development to maximise on opportunities to remain current, innovate but also model flexible, forward facing and sustainable practices which connect, engage and have the potential to transform practices and enhance the student experience. The European Commission(2013) calls institutions to join-up and open-up. Could this be a sustainable solution for academic CPD? Bring Your Own Devices for Learning (BYOD4L) is an open development opportunity for educators and students, developed by academic developers in two institutions. It builds on open learning ecologies (Jackson, 2013), the concept of lifewide learning (Jackson, 2014) and the ethos of sharing, collaboration and co-creation of pedagogical interventions and collective innovation within a supportive community enabled through social media. BYOD4L brought individuals together to learn how they can use their smart devices for learning through reflection and active experimentation. BYOD4L has been offered twice so far, initially with a group of distributed facilitators and then with five participating institutions. Expectations and value of BYOD4L from both iterations will be shared with delegates. The open CPD framework developed maximised on the expertise and the resources available by the community and participating individuals and institutions and created a rich and diverse and multimodal learning ecology. This is the approach adopted in BYOD4L. Does the open cross-institutional CPD framework developed present an attractive solution for institutions more widely that has the potential to normalise the use of technology for learning?

1. Open cross-institutional academic CPD, expectations and value:
a recent example – UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL
19th Annual SEDA Conference 13-14 November 2014, Nottingham
Chrissi Nerantzi
Academic Developer
Manchester Metropolitan University
@chrissinerantzi
Sue Beckingham
Academic Developer
Sheffield Hallam University
@suebecks
artwork by Ellie Livermore

2. Learning outcomes
• Explore the concept of open academic
Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for
personal and collective growth
• Gain an insight into an open cross-institutional
academic CPD initiative as normalised practice
based on collaborative pedagogies and
developed using social media.
• Invite opportunities for further development of
open cross-institutional CPD and wider
collaboration among institutions

3. exploring open CPD

4. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60
interested in course themes
interested in open course design used
new ideas
professional development for
application
research interest
sharing experiences, learning with and
from others, networking
frequency
frequency
WHY? Reasons for joining #BYOD4L, January 14

5. Our findings are inline with Bennett (2012)
but...
• we had a wider
range of
practitioners, not
only early adopters,
digital and less-digital
practitioners
• we had participants
from different
institutions Digital Practitioner Framework (Bennett, 2012)
based on Beetham & Sharpe (2010)

6. Voices
• ecological university (Barnett, 2011)
• personalisation, collaboration, informalisation
(Redecker et al, 2011) but also formalisation of informal
learning
• a new culture of learning and the power of the
collective (Douglas & Seely Brown, 2011)
• a need for a national initiative on cost-effective
teaching when resources are reduced (Gibbs, 2012)
• blending of formal & informal learning (Conole, 2013)
• call to open-up, join-up (European Commission, 2013)
• the danger of monocultures (Weller, 2014)
• lifewide curriculum (Jackson, 2014)

7. a scalable model
for open cross-institutional CPD?

8. Starting here?
Or...

12. BYOD4L: an example from practice

13. Bring Your Own Device for Learning

14. What did we want to explore...
Can we create an open
learning ecology that
enables learners to learn
with and from each other
in a supportive
environment using
authentic and inquiry-based
pedagogical
models?
How can we support open
learners effectively to create
the foundations of a vibrant
learning community?
How can we scale
open CPD through
informal cross-institutional
collaboration?

15. BYOD4L is... mobile
flexible
collaborative
authentic
practice-based
inquiry-based
autonomous
self-organised
self-determined
pick ‘n’ mix
bite-size learning
supported
registration-free
for teachers & students
rewarding achievement
volunteer facilitators
blended
BYOD4Learning
course
MELSIG Book
project
MELSIG Smart
Learning event #3
Nerantzi & Uhlin, 2012; Nerantzi, 2014: Nerantzi, submitted)

16. 5C Framework
(Nerantzi & Beckingham, 2014)
5C linear visualisation
5C non-linear visualisation

17. some numbers
Jan 14 July 14
organisers 2 2
facilitators 11 16
student facilitators
facilitators home
institutions
9 8
course reviewer 1
institutions 5
open badges lead 1 1
badges reviewer 1 2
critical friend 1 1
artist 1 1

18. January 2014

22. extending BYOD4L
through F2F
local engagement

23. BYOD4L answer garden
1 February 14 http://answergarden.ch/view/80135

24. Who filled out the survey
voluntarily?
74
66
Outside of UK:
• Australia
• Canada
• Hong Kong
• Jordan
• USA
22 students
51 Professionals
(majority: Academics,
Academic Developers,
Learning Technologists)
Warning! Incomplete picture

25. We got some ‘well
kitted’ learners who
use a variety of
devices but show
preference towards
smart devices (smart
phones and tablets).
6. How frequently do you use the following
devices for learning and/or teaching?
usage of devices for L & T
Smartphone Tablet Digital camera Camcorder Audio recorder
26%
28%
18%
11%
17%
Total never rarely sometimes regulary No Response
smartphone 75 10 8 12 45 2
tablet 72 3 7 18 44 5
digital camera 71 12 19 21 19 6
camcorder 67 22 20 20 5 10
audio recorder 72 11 24 23 14 5

26. We got about 50%
digital learners who
were
confident with
social media and
networked learning
and wanted to
learn more about
mobile learning
8. Tick the degree of experience you have in
the following areas.
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Total
Open
learning
not experienced
at all
experience
Open
course
organiser
Using social
media for
learning
Networked
learning
Series1
not very experienced experienced
very
experienced
Mobile
learning
No Response
open learning 75 9 20 34 12 2
open course organiser 75 32 27 12 4 2
using social media for learning 75 4 24 34 13 2
networked learning 75 6 17 38 14 2
mobile learning 74 7 28 29 10 3

27. Individuals were confident,
comfortable and experienced in such
spaces and joined us for CPD
(according to the initial survey).
Question
How can we attract individuals who are
less confident and experienced?

28. Facilitators as co-learners in a collaborative
open course for teachers and students in
Higher Education
A study of the facilitator experience using qualitative data from survey 100%
January 2014
• The social glue: creating a community of facilitators
using social media
• Facilitators as co-learners
• Tweetchats, more than just chats
• Global offer and time zones challenges
• Making time a challenge for facilitators
(Nerantzi, Middleton & Beckingham, 2014)

29. positive relationships/social interdependence (Deutsch, 1949)
promotive interaction
trusting
caring
sharing
supporting
community
achieve common goals
Veletsianos (2014, online) talks about “social media as places where some academics express
and experience care.”

30. July 2014

31. Design for learning
Nerantzi & Beckingham (2014) based on Nerantzi, Uhlin & Kvarnström (2013)

32. open to all
5 institutions supporting BYOD4L

33. the BYOD4L team (July 2014)
16 facilitators
5 institutions
2 peer reviewers
1 artist
Ellie
Livermore, artist

34. on air hangout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6nEimzL
ZY4

36. The collaborative #byod4l poem
In the digital jungle
Reaching out into the chaotic, swirling abyss
Feeling that e-learning can be so hit and miss
I want to avoid device apathy and neglect
But what does it mean to really connect?
So onwards we go
But where, do we know?
Wouldn’t it be great?
If we all started to communicate
Curating a task, can be quite unfamiliar,
belonging in museums, art galleries and similar.
With mobile devices we curate a different way
Sharing resources with scoop it and mendeley
Five brief days, so short and sweet
In Twitter and Google we gathered to meet
Inspired to explore, discuss and create
Minds now expanded; an enlightened state
Knowledge isn’t just facts
Or historical acts
Its cerebral energy we state
When we start to create
But this isn’t the end!
We now each have a valuable PLN to tend
Our #BYOD4L community will continue to grow
Help us reach out to let others know
contributors
1 Sam Illingworth
2 Neil Withnell
3 Ian Guest
4 Peter Reed
5 Carol Haigh
6 Sue Beckingham
The Digital Jungle
by BYOD4Learning is
licensed under aCreative
Commons Attribution-
ShareAlike 4.0
International License.
•Learning about collaborative
learning through collaborating.
•Learning about open educational
resources through making.
•Learning about creative commons
licences through choosing one.

37. #BYOD4Lchat
code by Martin Hawskey visualisation for BYOD4L by Peter Reed
1 2 3
4 5
1-5

40. open cross-institutional CPD: further opportunities

41. January 2015

42. cross-institutional
#BYOD4L
12 – 16 Jan 15
Is your institution
joining us?

43. NEW!!!
including student facilitators/mentors

44. Are you interested in joining us? Still time!

45. What next?
• Further research linked to the open scalable
cross-institutional CPD model, open badges,
Tweetchats
• Open facilitators’ experiences project (work-in-progress)
• Getting ready for BYOD4L in January 15!!!
• …

46. special thank yous...
... to all our collaborators, institutions, participants as well
as our very own artist Ellie Livermore.
We thank them all for embracing this project, their
commitment and energy.
BYOD4L would not have been possible without them!!!
... the journey continues...

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