{"id":274,"date":"2020-07-25T12:43:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T11:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/greenforum\/?p=274"},"modified":"2023-12-04T12:44:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T12:44:21","slug":"colearn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/greenforum\/index.php\/2020\/07\/25\/colearn\/","title":{"rendered":"CoLearn"},"content":{"rendered":"

is a Collaborative Open Learning research community for cocreating knowledge, skills and practices with new technologies and methodologies. <\/span><\/p>\n

This community was founded in 2000 by Dr. Okada in Brazil and became an international network in 2006 during the OpenLearn project developed by The Open University, UK.<\/span><\/p>\n

The acronym \u201cC\u201d \u201cO\u201d \u201cL\u201dearn means Collaborative Open Learning.\u00a0More than 3.500 members joined the community and have been participating in various collaborative open learning projects such as OpenLearn (2006-2009) OpenScout (2010-2012), weSPOT (2013-2015) and ENGAGE (2014-2016).<\/span><\/p>\n

The term colearning was initially defined in 1996 by Frank Smith in the book \u201cJoining the Literacy Club\u201d. This concept was used to emphasize the importance of changing the role of, respectively, teachers and students from dispensers and receptacles of knowledge to both colearners \u2013 collaborative partners on the process of sensemaking, understanding and creating knowledge together.\u00a0A decade later, Brantmeier (2005) described that colearning acts toward student- centered learning for building a more genuine \u201ccommunity of practice\u201d through dynamic and participatory engagement for collective construction of knowledge. <\/span><\/p>\n

Okada\u2019s research (2002, 2006, 2008) defines colearning as \u201clearning together for co-creating open knowledge through digital technologies\u201d. Her work about colearning is grounded on Paulo Freire\u2019s approach for emancipatory education. Her research situates colearning in the context of emerging technologies, which allow the development of knowledge, practices and skills for responsible research and innovation. <\/span><\/p>\n

Based on\u00a0the philosophy of openness, the process of colearning is enriched through wide participation for creating, adapting and sharing reusable OER for co-authoring knowledge with and for society (Okada 2012). Due to the rapid increase of co-authoring technologies and innovative pedagogies, several features which differentiate \u201ccolearning in social networks\u201d versus the \u201ctraditional e-learning in Virtual Learning Environments\u201d (VLE) emerged. Some of these features are: educators as \u201ccompetence and knowledge mediators\u201d, students as \u201ccolearners coauthors\u201d, flexible curriculum integrating formal and informal learning, open multimedia content, communities of practice, co-evaluation, peer- review assessment and collaborative open learning paths.<\/span><\/p>\n

The COLEARN network aims to investigate how these diverse features have been contributing to the process of emancipatory education, which means empowering colearners to become critical thinkers, creative collaborators, innovative researchers and responsible citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n

Keywords: CoLearning, co-Inquiry,Responsible Research and Innovation Knowledge Mapping, Knowledge Media, Open Educational Resources,\u00a0Massive\u00a0Open Networks, ubiquitous Learning, 21st Century Competences<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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