conole elearning summit
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Examining the impact of e-learning on the traditional role of a university
Gráinne Conole, University of LeicesterE-Learning Summit, Sydney
27-28th February 2012
Outline
• Affordances of new technologies• From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg• Learner experience & teacher
practice• New pedagogies & Implications• Strategies for change
– Linking research to policy and practice
– The VLE as a Trojan horse– New approaches to design
Ed tech trends• Mobiles and e-books• Personalised learning• Cloud computing• Ubiquitous learning• BYOD (Bring your
own device)• Gesture and
augmented learning• Digital content• The flipped classroom
http://learn231.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/trend-report-1/
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Media sharing
Collaborative editing
Social networking
Virtual worlds and games
Syndication
Messaging
Social bookmarking
Recommender systems
Mash ups
Blogging
Conole and Alevizou, 2010
Social & participatory media
http://magicineducation.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/web-2-0-world-map/
User generated content
Peer critiquing
Networked
Collective aggregation
Personalised
Open
Social media revolutionThe machine is us/ing us
Gutenberg to Zuckerberg
• Take the long view• The Web is not the Net• Disruption is a feature• Ecologies not economics• Complexity is the new reality• The Network is now the computer• The web is evolving
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/2617472088/
http://memex.naughtons.org/
Disruptive technologies
• The Web has transformed practice
• No central ownership• Ecology of abundance• Examples
– Napster– Malware
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• Technology immersed• Learning approaches: task-
orientated, experiential, just in time, cumulative, social
• Personalised digital learning environment
• Mix of institutional systems and Cloud-based tools and services
• Use of course materials with free resources
Sharpe, Beetham and De Freitas, 2010
Learner experience
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EDUCAUSE study• Students drawn to
new technologies but rely on more traditional ones
• Consider technologies offer major educational benefits
• Mixed views of VLEs
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Mobile learning
E-booksStudy calendarsLearning resourcesOnline modulesAnnotation toolsCommunication mechanisms Podcasting
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The Personal Inquiry projectInquiry-based learning across formal and informal settingsSharples, Scanlon et al.http://www.pi-project.ac.uk/
My community
Inquiry-based learning
Virtual genetics lab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMMfHZUNpZY&feature=youtu.be
The SWIFT project
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• Technologies not extensively used (Molenda)
• Lack of uptake of OER (McAndrew et al.)
• Little use beyond early adopted (Rogers)
• Despite rhetoric and funding little evidence of transformation (Cuban, Ehlers)
Pandora’s box
What would it mean to adopt more open practices? Open design, open delivery, open research and open evaluation?
Teacher practices: paradoxes
Open resources
Open courses: MOOC
http://mooc.ca/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc
MassiveOpen Online Course
Open accreditation
http://www.p2pu.org/en/
Peer to Peer University
http://wikieducator.org/OER_university/
OER University
Open research
Citation indicators
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Policy
Blackboard rollout
OER/iTunes
Learning spaces
Cloud computingLearner practice
Use of technologies Diversity/culture
Teacher practice
Design practice
Use of technologies
Research
OERLearning design
Web 2.0
Virtual worlds
Learner experience
Horizon scanning
Linking research to policy and practice
The VLE as a Trojan horse
• VlE as a safe nursery slope
• Shift from content to activities
• Promote reflection and collaboration
• Mobile VLE• Integration with cloud
computing
VLE audit
• Data– Online survey (260 returns)– Departmental visits
• Key findings– Used as content repository and
administration– Pockets of innovation– More support needed on
effective design strategies– Tension between teaching and
research– Useability issue
Blackboard+ at Leicester
BB plus Google+Maths video-lets
Prof-casts
History conundrum Voicethread
ConsolidateEvaluate and embed your design
ConceptualiseWhat do we want to design, who for
and why?
http://beyonddistance.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/carpe-diem-the-7cs-of-design-and-delivery/
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Course views
Course map
Learning outcomes
Pedagogy profile
Task swimlane
Course dimensions
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Collaboration
New metaphors
EcologiesSpaces
Memes Rhizomeshttp://e4innovation.com/?p=489
Final thoughts• Participatory and social media enable new forms of
communication and collaboration• Communities in these spaces are complex and
distributed• Learners and teachers need to develop new digital
literacy skills to harness their potential• We need to rethink how we design, support and assess
learning• Open, participatory and social media can provide
mechanisms for us to share and discuss teaching and research ideas in new ways
• We are seeing a blurring of boundaries: teachers/learners, teaching/research, real/virtual spaces, formal/informal modes of communication and publication
