A Reference Framework to Establish and Sustain Onlife Communities and Its Use

Abstract

This paper employs the overarching concept of communities to express the social contexts within which human creativity is exercised and learning happens. With the advent of digital technologies, these social contexts, the communities we engage in, change radically. The new landscape brought about by digital technologies is characterized by new qualities, new opportunities for action, new community affordances. The term onlife is adopted from the Onlife Manifesto and used to distinguish the new kind of communities brought about by the modern digital technologies, the Onlife Communities . Design principles are presented to foster such communities and support their members. To showcase the use of these design principles, the paper presents a concrete system addressing creativity and learning in the field of cultural heritage (history teaching and learning): ViSTPro. ViSTPro enables the visualization of spatiotemporal processes, thus facilitating active learning of historical events. To demonstrate the flexibility of the ViSTPro and its capability to provide insightful visualizations, a pilot application has been elaborated on the Battle of Marathon, 490 BC.

Operational Conceptual Modeling in Building and Sustaining Technology Enhanced Learning Communities

“…Careful design is required to effectively support spatio-temporal learning; ViSTPro uses the concept of scenarios to simulate complex spatio-temporal processes [33][34][35][36]. This concept offers a visual representation of the evolution of spatio-temporal processes.…”

Cooking STEAM: A Case Study on Establishing a STEAM Learning Community using a Performative Framework and Cooking

“…that knowledge is based on human performance and actions done within certain social contexts, rather than development of conceptual representations. This framework has already been used to guide the developments on several projects addressing digital heritage preservation and creative learning [5] [6]. In the work reported in this paper, the PerFECt framework is re-interpreted and re-used to focus on the idea of de-design.…”

Employing Theatrical Games to Establish and Support Onlife Learning Communities on Mathematical Principles of Informatics

“…that knowledge is based on human performance and actions done within certain social contexts, rather than development of conceptual representations. This framework has already been used to guide the developments on several projects addressing digital heritage preservation and creative learning (Moumoutzis et al, 2018;Moumoutzis et al, 2019). In the work reported in this paper, the PerFECt framework is re-interpreted and re-used to focus on the idea of de-design.…”