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John Cook (PhD) is Professor of Learning Innovation, Department of Creative Industries UWE Bristol, and convenor of the Designing for Digital Learners (D4DL) Research Group (http://goo.gl/5zwPuU). He has published/presented around 250 refereed articles and invited talks in the area of social, interactive and personal media. Furthermore, he has been part of research and development grant proposals that have attracted over £5 million in competitive external funding. John has over 12 years project management experience, which includes work for such funders as AHRB, BECTA, HEFCE (RLO CETL Manager 2005-2008), and EC (includes work package leader on 3 Framework projects).
Expertise
Media: Social, interactive and personal media
Education: Informal learning, mobile learning in all sectors focus on work-based practice
Design and Innovation: Design seeking a scaling, augmented reality, design for digital media
Research interests
User Generated Contexts (UGC). UGC is a term that John helped coin (2005) that allows us to think about changes in mass communication in terms of agency, innovation, trust and risk. At Bristol Ideas in Mobile Learning 2014 (http://goo.gl/o6hgwp) John stated that “Users of new mass communications systems and devices are now actively engaged in generating their own contexts of practice and meaning-making; a key emergent feature being the formation agency in terms of identity and subjectivity. These user led innovations are providing access to external representations of knowledge distributed across people, resources, conversations, trusted and wider networks, communities, locations, time and social contexts. Along with agency, key mediating concepts enabling or hindering the emergence of User Generated Contexts are trust and risk.”
Professional Learning Networks (PLN): Curating, managing and promoting a PLN develops critical, creative, 21st century skills and socio-emotional capabilities. Related project Learning Layers http://learning-layers.eu/
Design seeking and scaling makes an explicit link to ideas surrounding design creativity and seeking and the question ‘how do design ideas arise’? Prior conditions directs observers to aspects of the environment and characteristics of users, or combination thereof, thus bringing to the attention of the design team various design seeking options. Knowledge is viewed as essentially problematical: it is not just a question of solving a problem; it is more a question of seeking out the nature of the problem and then devising an approach to solving it. See http://tinyurl.com/pjhwuef
Music
One of John’s minor claims to fame is that of having being the electric bass player in a band that was selected by John Peel, a DJ on UK Radio 1, as being one of his best sessions of 1981 (Angels 1-5 or one five). The guitarist, Jimmy Cauty, easily topped this by going on to form a band with Bill Drummond called the KLF. Following this John did a stint with Strawberry Switchblade, a WEA band. He now plays jazz double bass.
For more information see:
UWE, Bristol staff profile http://tinyurl.com/p9sez8a
Download recent papers from Academia.edu http://westengland.academia.edu/JohnCook/About
Follow on Twitter: http://twitter.com/johnnigelcook
Slideshare for slides from talks: http://www.slideshare.net/johnnigelcook
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-cook/0/488/b54
Expertise
Media: Social, interactive and personal media
Education: Informal learning, mobile learning in all sectors focus on work-based practice
Design and Innovation: Design seeking a scaling, augmented reality, design for digital media
Research interests
User Generated Contexts (UGC). UGC is a term that John helped coin (2005) that allows us to think about changes in mass communication in terms of agency, innovation, trust and risk. At Bristol Ideas in Mobile Learning 2014 (http://goo.gl/o6hgwp) John stated that “Users of new mass communications systems and devices are now actively engaged in generating their own contexts of practice and meaning-making; a key emergent feature being the formation agency in terms of identity and subjectivity. These user led innovations are providing access to external representations of knowledge distributed across people, resources, conversations, trusted and wider networks, communities, locations, time and social contexts. Along with agency, key mediating concepts enabling or hindering the emergence of User Generated Contexts are trust and risk.”
Professional Learning Networks (PLN): Curating, managing and promoting a PLN develops critical, creative, 21st century skills and socio-emotional capabilities. Related project Learning Layers http://learning-layers.eu/
Design seeking and scaling makes an explicit link to ideas surrounding design creativity and seeking and the question ‘how do design ideas arise’? Prior conditions directs observers to aspects of the environment and characteristics of users, or combination thereof, thus bringing to the attention of the design team various design seeking options. Knowledge is viewed as essentially problematical: it is not just a question of solving a problem; it is more a question of seeking out the nature of the problem and then devising an approach to solving it. See http://tinyurl.com/pjhwuef
Music
One of John’s minor claims to fame is that of having being the electric bass player in a band that was selected by John Peel, a DJ on UK Radio 1, as being one of his best sessions of 1981 (Angels 1-5 or one five). The guitarist, Jimmy Cauty, easily topped this by going on to form a band with Bill Drummond called the KLF. Following this John did a stint with Strawberry Switchblade, a WEA band. He now plays jazz double bass.
For more information see:
UWE, Bristol staff profile http://tinyurl.com/p9sez8a
Download recent papers from Academia.edu http://westengland.academia.edu/JohnCook/About
Follow on Twitter: http://twitter.com/johnnigelcook
Slideshare for slides from talks: http://www.slideshare.net/johnnigelcook
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-cook/0/488/b54