Presentation on the #iCollab project (international collaborations through social/mobile media technologies). Presented at the Association for Internet Research Annual Conference #ir13.

1. New Global Learning Cultures:!
Interdisciplinarity through networked technologies
Helen Keegan (@heloukee) - University of Salford, UK
Thom Cochrane (@thomcochrane) - AUT University, NZ
Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference #ir13
MediaCityUK, 18-22 October 2012

2. New Learning Cultures and Paradigms
“The digital revolution has disrupted and will continue to
disrupt what we mean by learning and how we organise our
disciplines. Suffice to say, that to think about
transdisciplinarity in a networked world is to think about
disciplines in a different and evolving context of
interconnection and complex forms of communications and
interchange”
(Burnett, 2011)

3. ELVSS and iCollab
International collaborations: multi-disciplinary : multi-level
Co-production, consumption and critique – social/mobile
Lecturer CoP (Wenger), modeling paradigm shift in
educational practice
Technology as a post-disciplinary topic (Balsamo, 2011)

4. ELVSS and iCollab
Ultimate goal - develop new ways of seeing and
learning through collaborative study of internet
technologies and emerging forms of digital creativity,
learning from one anothers’ disciplinary perspectives
and cultures.

5. ELVSS12
Entertainment Lab for
the Very Small Screen

7. !

8. The first !
mass hangout

10. 24 Frames 24 Hours
(warm-up project)
Max Schleser

15. Mobile In
Global Out
(sustainability)

17. Example student
planning !
Google doc/
dialogue

19. Example !
tutor docs

21. Student
hangouts

23. Tutor-student
hangouts

25. Mobile In Global Out
- Reflections

27. iCollab12
International
Collaboration

29. !

30. Just-in-time
curriculum
development

31. Tweeting the tutor
hangouts – others
can follow via Twitter,
Storify, Google Docs

33. Students sharing
work via Twitter and
the #iCollab hashtag

34. Example project
from the UK

36. Example project
from Berlin

38. NZ students
presenting live
online

39. • 9am in New Zealand
• 11pm UK time
• Midnight in Berlin/Barcelona

40. What did we learn through
establishing global communities
of practice enabled by mobile
social media?

41. “Learning through frustration”
“An amazing experience”
“Transformed understanding”
“Tutor-student hangouts were key”

42. 5 key design principles
for !
global interdisciplinarity

43. 1. Focus upon nurturing
collaboration

44. 2. Establish a
framework of mobile
social media tools for
collaboration and
communication

45. 3. Build trust

46. 4. Value creativity

47. 5. Become comfortable
with change

48. New Global Learning Cultures:!
Interdisciplinarity through networked technologies
Helen Keegan (@heloukee) - University of Salford, UK
Thom Cochrane (@thomcochrane) - AUT University, NZ
Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference #ir13
MediaCityUK, 18-22 October 2012