Definition Issues

We have discussed definitions:

"A Learner Generated Context can be defined as a context created by people interacting together with a common, self-defined learning goal. The key aspect of Learner Generated Contexts is that they are generated through the enterprise of those who would previously have been consumers in a context created for them."

From which emerged key issues concerning:

learners as creators not consumers
changing roles of educational participants (“agile intermediaries”)
from learning as regulation and practice to learning as participation
needs or questions which enable new relevant learning contexts
learning design allowing learners to create their own context or space
understanding purpose in learning design
environment as physical, social and cognitive
the role of narrative in learning
Pedagogy, Andragogy, Heutagogy
who develops knowledge and where?
co-configuration, co-creation, co-design of learning

As you can see from these issues we don’t think that this is about technology use per se! Rather it is about contextualising learning first before you support it with technology. Nonetheless these issues have been prompted by thinking about the affordances and potentials of a range of disruptive technologies and practice; web 2.0, m-learning, participative media, learning design and learning space design