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Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning

The Open Learning Champions project has been running in Scotland since 2016, with the aim of incr... more The Open Learning Champions project has been running in Scotland since 2016, with the aim of increasing access to higher education by using Open Educational Resources (OER). The project involves partnering with voluntary and community organisations to engage disadvantaged learners who may be very distant from higher education, with often long and complex journeys into formal study. Evaluating the impact of this pre-access intervention has been a challenge as the university has no direct relationship with the learners, and learner journeys from OpenLearn into OU study are tracked in different ways on each platform. In a recent evaluation of the project, the authors used a mixed-methods approach, drawing on a range of qualitative and quantitative data gathered over five years to tell the story of the project's impact.

This chapter explores how mobile technologies are being harnessed by organisations to support ref... more This chapter explores how mobile technologies are being harnessed by organisations to support refugees and other displaced people in their learning. It considers displaced people's motivations for online and mobile learning and the associated challenges, and presents three examples of organisations that offer alternatives to the dualities of non-formal and formal education for displaced people. The cases are discussed using "Third Space" theory, particularly the notion of "hybridity" and its relationship to learner agency. Openness, partnership and co-creation are identified as key elements which, it is argued, can enable the conditions for learners to enact agency over their learning.

Book Chapters by Gill Ryan

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Critical Mobile Pedagogy: Cases of Inclusion, Development, and Empowerment, 2021

This chapter explores how mobile technologies are being harnessed by organisations to support ref... more This chapter explores how mobile technologies are being harnessed by organisations to support refugees and other displaced people in their learning. It considers displaced people's motivations for online and mobile learning and the associated challenges, and presents three examples of organisations that offer alternatives to the dualities of non-formal and formal education for displaced people. The cases are discussed using "Third Space" theory, particularly the notion of "hybridity" and its relationship to learner agency. Openness, partnership and co-creation are identified as key elements which, it is argued, can enable the conditions for learners to enact agency over their learning.

Critical Mobile Pedagogy: Cases of Inclusion, Development, and Empowerment, 2021

This chapter explores how mobile technologies are being harnessed by organisations to support ref... more This chapter explores how mobile technologies are being harnessed by organisations to support refugees and other displaced people in their learning. It considers displaced people's motivations for online and mobile learning and the associated challenges, and presents three examples of organisations that offer alternatives to the dualities of non-formal and formal education for displaced people. The cases are discussed using "Third Space" theory, particularly the notion of "hybridity" and its relationship to learner agency. Openness, partnership and co-creation are identified as key elements which, it is argued, can enable the conditions for learners to enact agency over their learning.

Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning

The Open Learning Champions project has been running in Scotland since 2016, with the aim of incr... more The Open Learning Champions project has been running in Scotland since 2016, with the aim of increasing access to higher education by using Open Educational Resources (OER). The project involves partnering with voluntary and community organisations to engage disadvantaged learners who may be very distant from higher education, with often long and complex journeys into formal study. Evaluating the impact of this pre-access intervention has been a challenge as the university has no direct relationship with the learners, and learner journeys from OpenLearn into OU study are tracked in different ways on each platform. In a recent evaluation of the project, the authors used a mixed-methods approach, drawing on a range of qualitative and quantitative data gathered over five years to tell the story of the project's impact.

This chapter explores how mobile technologies are being harnessed by organisations to support ref... more This chapter explores how mobile technologies are being harnessed by organisations to support refugees and other displaced people in their learning. It considers displaced people's motivations for online and mobile learning and the associated challenges, and presents three examples of organisations that offer alternatives to the dualities of non-formal and formal education for displaced people. The cases are discussed using "Third Space" theory, particularly the notion of "hybridity" and its relationship to learner agency. Openness, partnership and co-creation are identified as key elements which, it is argued, can enable the conditions for learners to enact agency over their learning.

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Critical Mobile Pedagogy: Cases of Inclusion, Development, and Empowerment, 2021

This chapter explores how mobile technologies are being harnessed by organisations to support ref... more This chapter explores how mobile technologies are being harnessed by organisations to support refugees and other displaced people in their learning. It considers displaced people's motivations for online and mobile learning and the associated challenges, and presents three examples of organisations that offer alternatives to the dualities of non-formal and formal education for displaced people. The cases are discussed using "Third Space" theory, particularly the notion of "hybridity" and its relationship to learner agency. Openness, partnership and co-creation are identified as key elements which, it is argued, can enable the conditions for learners to enact agency over their learning.

Critical Mobile Pedagogy: Cases of Inclusion, Development, and Empowerment, 2021

This chapter explores how mobile technologies are being harnessed by organisations to support ref... more This chapter explores how mobile technologies are being harnessed by organisations to support refugees and other displaced people in their learning. It considers displaced people's motivations for online and mobile learning and the associated challenges, and presents three examples of organisations that offer alternatives to the dualities of non-formal and formal education for displaced people. The cases are discussed using "Third Space" theory, particularly the notion of "hybridity" and its relationship to learner agency. Openness, partnership and co-creation are identified as key elements which, it is argued, can enable the conditions for learners to enact agency over their learning.

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