How can we build on what we do today - lloyddavis/ckop GitHub Wiki

Unconference format as a return to a classical approach to learning as a conversation How can we retain this ethos yet also justify use of resources? What are the outcomes/outputs arising from an unconference such as this one? Ask each participant: what have you learned, how have you benefited, how would you like to take this forward? How/whether to keep the communications that have been started today going in months to come? How might the unconference:

  1. benefit practitioners/professionals;
  2. inform learning (at the OU);
  3. lead to research into professional knowledge?

We could explore the idea of a sandpit as a more structured way of progressing discussions, either with outcomes in the moment (like a hackday) or to be developed afterwards. Have the interactions been useful? Interactions between practitioners and academics have sometimes involved disagreements. These are okay as long as there is a mutual respect for these positions. An unconference is not about achieving consensus. Could we develop mini-networks or clusters, small groups with shared interests that could communicate outside the unconference, e.g. on Brexit? Need to develop ways of organising to enable this, to facilitate working together, including via Skype