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Connected LearningReflections on implementing Personalised Learning Environments
James Ballard
jameslballard
JamesBallard2
@jameslballard
Overview
Personalised Learning EnvironmentsCritique of personalised learning
Implications for future development
Education is a human endeavour
Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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Transforming Curriculum DeliveryJISC 2008-2010
The challengeCourse
Delivery (narrow curriculu
m)
Learner Experien
ce (broad
curriculum)
Personalised
Learning Framewor
k
The ApproachTool Focus Ownership Software
VLE Course Teacher Moodle
PLP Support Shared Vision ULCC ILP
E-Assessment Accreditation Awarding bodies
Gradebook, Assessment Manager
E-Portfolio Professional and Social Skills
Learner Mahara
Integrated Support• Learning centres• Student support• Student union• Careers• Counselling
Cloud Communication• Gmail• Google Apps
Learner Portal Interface
Development Planning• Attendance Monitor• Planning for success
(goals)• Target Setting• Progress Reviews• Subject Reports• Key Skills• Student Support• Financial Status
Individual Learning Plan
Personal Showcase• CV builder• Embedded mixed
media• Presentation options• Informal learningSocial Networking• Course groups• Social groups• Project groups
E-Portfolio
Blended hosting• Institutional• Shared services• Cloud
Simple integration• LDAP• SAML• Web services• Adodb
Infrastructure
Personalised Learning Framework
TRANSFORMATION LEARNING OUTCOMES
The instantaneous data access proved ‘the most popular and motivating tool’
Retention: up from 62% to 92%
Achievement: up from 69% to 73%
Anecdotal evidence that students felt more supported
Outcomes
VLE (narrow curriculu
m)
Learner Experience (broad curriculu
m)
Personalised
Learning Environm
ent
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Distributed Learning EnvironmentsJISC 2010-2011
The Challenge
New CurriculumNew Pedagogies
Social Media
Integrated Administrati
on
Recognise
d
Recommende
d
Arranged
Core
Integrated VLE
Live@EDU
Turnitin
YouTube
SlideShare
Diigo
Ning
GoogleDocs
Blogger
Recognised: user’s choice - watch and learn
Recommended: user’s choice – train and integrate
Arranged: institutional provision with training
Core: institutional provision with compulsory use and consistent access
LRT @ MMU
The Approach
Study Areas• Department• Programme• Resources• Modules
Design• Simple UI• Quick links• Related areas
Integrated VLE
Structure• UNIT4 Student Records• Scientia Syllabus+
Notifications • Sharepoint• Moodle• Live@EDU
Assessment• Coursework Receipt System
(formal)• Moodle (informal)Library• Equella• Talis Aspire
Integrated Course
Distributed Resources• Essential Reading• Further Reading• Past Exam Papers• Podcasts• Lecture
Recordings• Copyrighted
Material
Integrated Library
Service Oriented• Web service brokers• Independent
applications• Context sensitive callsIdentifiers• User ID• Unit spec• Academic year• Unit occurrence
Infrastructure
PROJECT OUTCOMES
Student satisfaction for course organisation up 1.8%
Student satisfaction for appropriate resource selection up 3.5%
Web service data suggests timetables and mobile app were regularly used
Connected learner experience rather than exemplified institutional silos
Guardian University Award for Student Experience 2013
EUNIS Elite Award for Excellence 2014
Outcomes
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Personalised Learning EnvironmentsReflection and critique
Evaluating e-Learning: Ownership
Education is based on contributing to the optimal performativity of the social
system.
SCIENTIFIC-TECHNICAL EDUCATION
Everything must be accounted for and ranked on a hierarchy of efficiency
Accountability and standards have permanently demoted some learners to the lower echelons of performance
Performativity - Lyotard
Constant supervision and correction constrains learners through the need to achieve
conformity
PERSONALISED STANDARDISATION
Self-regulation
Limited Scope for
action
Individualisati
on
Power - Foucault
Critical education is restlessly self-clarifying in
search of freedom, enlightenment, and more
agency
RECOGNISING INDIVIDUAL NEEDS
Humanism – Said / Nussbaum
Life
Education
Health
Political
Liberty
Participation
An identity that cannot be discussed is an
identity that does not exist
EXISTING WITH THE WORLD
Democratic Education - Freire
Lived Experien
ce
Problem Solving
Human Expressi
on
Assessment
Commoditised cognitive skills (e.g. 21st Century Skills)Standardised/national tests
Content
Over-exaggerated teacher authority (e.g. VLE)Voiding teacher’s authority (e.g. Facebook)
ReflectionConditioning self-regulation over self-actualisationHolding the voice of the learner for judgement
ReflectionPITFALLS OF PERSONALISED LEARNING
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Implications3rd Generation e-Learning
E-Learning Generations1st VLE
• Institutionally owned and teacher controlled
• Course centric experience (narrow curriculum)
2n
d PLE
• Institutional/cloud blend and mixed ownership
• Distributed experiences (broad curriculum)3r
d CLE
• Physical/digital mix of co-created environments
• Worldly experience (beyond curricula)
Developed
Developing
Intellectual Capital
Education
Infrastructure
Global Intellectual
Pool
Consumers
Economic Growth
21st CENTURY It is a world in which knowing what and how to learn the next thing is as important as what has already been learnt.
Jackson and Ward, 2004
The Asian Century
3rd Generation e-Learning
Formative assessment
Epistemological Reflection
Connections: local to global
Evaluating e-Learning: Ownership
Connected Learning Reflections on the implementation of personalised learning environments
Thank You
James Ballard
JamesBallard2
@jameslballard
jameslballard