educational transformation or an emerging ecology?
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Educational Transformation or an Emerging Ecology?
Dr Emma Bond & Tim GoodchildICERI 2012
Our study
• Background to study.• Key findings.• Recommendations.
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VLE/LMS
Ramsden, A (2011), How are we using Blackboard in Teaching and Learning at UCS? [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12497737/reports/report_how_using_bbd_at_ucs_may_2010.pdf]
Key Findings
Lecturers
“…. I am not sure that they are absorbing it too much as I find that they know the
internet and they know how to use it, and they take the easy way out and take the first website that comes up on Google, which is
usually Wikipedia and they still use that and it frustrates me.”
“There is a drive for it, and I can see the advantages of it, confidence is important, if you are confident in your own practice and
want to do it …or because you hear someone in your office who says I just made a
podcast... and you think isn’t that marvelous, I just talked to 20 students, but there is no
kudos for that. I actually spoke to them rather than put it on a podcast and stayed in
the office.”
"We are stuck in a blackboard rut operating at a basic functional level. [Lecturers] do not
know what is happening. There are some talented people …. and they are off on the horizon, so no point speaking to them as they are busy and speak in some kind of
futuristic language not for the wider population.”
Recommendations - changing cultures of learning
1. Understanding the wider ecological relationships between technology and learning.
2. TEL deeply embedded within practice from initial teacher training to ongoing professional development.
3. Greater collaboration within the organisation regarding teaching and learning spaces.
4. Encourage a critical awareness of digital literacies throughout the H.E. ecology.
An ecological approach
“Diverse and complex relations organised into different habitats.”
