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ELESIG An international community of researchers and practitioners

ELESIG An international community of researchers and practitioners. Jenny Mackness & Malcolm Ryan. Birth of ELESIG. Growing national interest in learner experiences Co-founders from Oxford Brookes, Bradford and Greenwich HEA Pathfinder funding F2F launch meeting – March 2008

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ELESIG An international community of researchers and practitioners

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  1. ELESIGAn international community of researchers and practitioners Jenny Mackness & Malcolm Ryan

  2. Birth of ELESIG • Growing national interest in learner experiences • Co-founders from Oxford Brookes, Bradford and Greenwich • HEA Pathfinder funding • F2F launch meeting – March 2008 • Ning site http://elesig.ning.com • Programme of activities/resource generation proposed

  3. Growth of ELESIG March 2008 (54) May 2010 (860) UK Europe International HE Life Long Schools Experienced Early career F2F symposia, webinars, residentials Sponsorship Small grants scheme Newsletter Resources collection – Cloudworks

  4. CoP: a definition ‘Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.’ Three crucial characteristics are: the domain, the community and the practice Three critical dimensions: mutual engagement, joint enterprise and shared repertoire Etienne Wenger, http://www.ewenger.com/theory/

  5. Is ELESIG a CoP? • The Domain – research into learner experiences of e-learning • The Community – researchers investigating e-learner experiences • The Practice – sharing research

  6. Is ELESIG a CoP? • Mutual engagement – membership, relationships, social engagement, through which information flows • Joint enterprise – negotiated and shared goal, mutual accountability for knowledge creation • Shared repertoire – shared discourse, common understandings, resources

  7. ELESIG as a CoP Wenger, E. (1998) Communities of practice learning as a social system. Vol. 9, No. 5. The Systems Thinker

  8. Task • In 3 groups examine the supplied data from the ELESIG 2009 evaluation survey and recommend immediate, medium and long term actions that could be taken to further the development of ELESIG as a Community of Practice. • Present your recommended actions as a poster.

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