how to use technology with learners
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Joe Wilson, Chief Executive
Open, Collaborative, Sharing Practice in the FE Sector
About me• Qualifications• Arrive in FE in 1986 as Communications
Lecturer• SFEU 1999-2003• SQA 2003-2014• January 2015 Chief Executive, College
Development Network (CDN)
How I use digital space Pre-internet: Banda Machines, photocopiers, OHP
projectors, Epidiascopes, electronic typewriters …
Post-internet Timeline:1996 – Webpage using free hosting 2006 – LinkedIn2000 – Blogger 2006 – Slideshare 2001 – JISCMail 2007 – Twitter2001 – RSS feed Reader – currently Digg 2007 – Hootsuite2003 – PB Wiki and Wikis 2008 – Paper.li 2003 – Website on own domain 2009 – Foursquare/Swarm2003 – Delicious 2010 – Pinterest2005 – Dropbox/One Drive 2011 – Google Apps/Docs2005 – Skype 2012 – Google+ hangouts 2006 – You Tube Channel 2013 – Glow2006 – Flickr
Social media:a history
Three year vision
Google Moonshot 2015Reaching out into community Gamification Global communitiesTask orientatedIndustry engagementLearner generated contentCrowd sourcing and collaborative learning
Where do you want to go – todayEducation that is:• On demand • Self Paced• Personalised to learning style and pace • From any location • Relevant to career and life now and for the future • Reflects global learning and local needs – more collaborative • Meeting and listening to experts – high value but good value • Did I say - Collaborative • In all subjects and in smaller packages
Education is changing
13 Further Education Regions in Scotland.
Are we ready to do things differently?
OER & ukoer Vision “...digitised materials offered freely and openly for
educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research.”
Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD, 2007)
“The UK must have a core of open access learning resources organised in a coherent way to
support on-line and blended learning by all higher education institutions and to make it more
widely available in non-HE environments.”
Sir Ron Cooke (as Chairman of Jisc, 2008)
Some Milestones in OER• 1998 – Open Content Initiative• 2000 – UNESCO conference• 2001 – Wikipedia• 2002 – MIT OpenCourseWare (UK)• 2002 – Creative Commons • 2006 – OU OpenLearn (UK)• 2007 – Cape Town Open Educational Declaration • 2009 – HEFCE/JISC/Academy OER (Pilot) Programme• 2012 – UNESCO OER Paris Declaration
(Adapted from Yuan et al (2008), http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/oerbriefing)
UK FE Skills WindowProject vision: To provide teaching practitioners within the Further Education (FE) Skills sector with simple, flexible and easy to navigate routes to Jisc digital content that is directly relevant to their curriculum, qualifications and working practices.
Open ScotlandOpen Scotland is a cross sector initiative that aims to raise awareness of open education, encourage the sharing of open educational resources, and explore the potential of open policy and practice to benefit all sectors of Scottish education. Open Education, Open Scotland, ALT Scotland, 3 June 2014
Open Scotland
Open Education, Open Scotland, ALT Scotland SIG, 3 June 2014
Scottish Open Education Declarationhttp://declaration.openscot.net/
Open Education, Open Scotland, ALT Scotland SIG, 3 June 2014
Bits Beyond• What can you do this year to provide additional support to
your learners ? • Regionalisation of Colleges – shared services – gaps in
provision – how can you help University of West of Scotland and others ?
• What can you do for schools or community based learning ?• What course would you open to the world ? • How do you promote open practice across institution and
figure out business model ?• As an individual practitioner – how do you start the learning
journey and building your personal learning network ?
Are you ready?•WiFi ?•Social Software policy ?•BYOD ?•Open Moodle ?•Digital literacy and Digital participation for all•Who are your digital leaders – in the staff room and in the classroom?•Do you have any open practitioners ? •Where can I start ? •Which apps do you use ?•What collections ?•Where , how do you share, reuse , remix ?
So where do we want to be …?
Sharing, confident and supporting learners , open
practitioners
Provide: Professional
dialogueand sharing
Events, workshops and online discussion
Addressing currentpolicy
Our 31 Development Networks
