Learning in dissolving boundaries
We will explore the impact of the dissolution of boundaries on learning and look at possible structures for learning institutions that create less barriers to cross-boundary learning.

Group members

Doug Brown
Peter Karlberg
Franco Furger
Ruedi Grob
Stephan Zürcher
Michèle Drechsler
Hanna Muralt Müller
Alan McCluskey
Ino Simitsek
Bernard Vuilleumier
Raymond Morel

Learning in dissolving boundaries

Owner: Alan McCluskey

Group members: 11

Description:

With the advent of the Internet and related technologies a number of hitherto clear-cut boundaries are being challenged and some are becoming more permeable. The massive uptake of mobile technologies, for example, has challenged the physical boundaries of schools greatly enabling the access to outside knowledge and areas of learning from within schools and potentially facilitating access to school from beyond its walls. In the field of learning, emphasis put on the need to encourage lifelong learning has led to the recognition in some circles of informal learning as contributing valuable knowledge and learning alongside formal, book-based schooling. In a number of fields, massive use of social media for sharing recommendations and the exchange of experience, has reinforced the growing challenge to expert knowledge. The aim of this group is to explore the possible impact of this dissolution of boundaries on learning both within and beyond learning institutions. And to explore visions of a learning institution in which the structure and organisation of the institution are less of a barrier to cross-boundary learning.

The discussion roadmap

The discussion will begin on May 16th 2011 and continue until September 23rd, 2011. More details will follow. Here is a draft list of subjects that could be dealt with:

  1. Existing boundaries to school
  2. Boundaries between school, work and play
  3. Boundaries between academic disciplines
  4. From book learning to experience
  5. Expert and the lay person
  6. Real and virtual
  7. What form for the future? New opener structures?
  8. (...)

Summaries of the discussion

Part 2: The extent to which boundaries to schooling are necessary to learning and the impact they have on it.
Part 3: What premises should learning be built on?

Discussion on L4D finished

Discussion of this subject is far from over. However, within the framework of L4D time is up. 

An article based on these discussions can but found here: Learning in dissolving boundaries.

The conversation continues in the FaceBook group: Future Learning. Here is the link:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_197735283578928

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Earlier discussions

  1. Learning: from stationary to ubiquitous
  2. Getting to know the boundaries to schooling
  3. Are textbooks a threatened bastion of schooling?

Brief description: We will explore the impact of the dissolution of boundaries on learning and look at possible structures for learning institutions that create less barriers to cross-boundary learning.

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