personalised learning icem 2013 workshop
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Personalised learning workshop for ICEM 2013: http://icem2013.ntu.edu.sg/ Personalisation has emerged as a central feature of recent educational strategies in the UK and abroad. At the heart of this is a vision to empower learners to take more ownership of their learning. While the introduction of digital technologies is not enough to effect this change, embedding the affordances of new technologies is expected to offer new routes for creating personalised learning environments. Through discussion and group activity this workshop will introduce personalised learning as the organising principle for a sense-making framework for elearning. The concept of ownership will be explored to enrich the language of learning activity and design. In this approach personalised learning can provide a context for assessing the capabilities of elearning. This builds on a series of workshops developed for the Centre for Distance Education, University of London.TRANSCRIPT
Personalised LearningA Framework for e-Learning
James Ballard
jameslballard
JamesBallard2
@jameslballard
OverviewDesigning Learning
Activity 1: Learning activities
Empowering Learning
Activity 2: Ownership matrix
Personalising Learning
Activity 3: Customisation
e-Learning Specialist / System AnalystDfES ICT Test Bed ProjectUoL E-Portfolio EvaluationJISC/BECTA Transforming Curriculum DeliveryCETIS Interoperability: Repository and PortfolioJISC Distributed VLEs HEFCE Online Assessment ManagementJISC Assessment and FeedbackLearning AnalyticsULCC Moodle/Mahara
About Me
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Personalised LearningThe challenge
Objectives
How do we apply theory to practice ?
What does it mean to own a learning activity?
How do technologies influence ownership?
Can we develop personalisation strategies?
Education is the last hold out from the Digital Revolution.
- Rupert Murdoch
May 24 2011
Ford
Any colour as long as it’s
black
McDonalds
Anything you like as long as
it’s on the menu
Amazon
People like you like this
Consumer Personalisation
Applying market
consumerism to education
may compromise
the principles of equity on which it is
based
Values such as self-
motivation, self-regulation,
and educational
progress, are not equally distributed
among cultures
Disadvantaged learners are least likely to
seek help
Poorly structured choice may
actively reduce the
scope for the collective
action
Contradictions
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Activity 1Introductions and Learning Activity
Activity 1: Creating Learning Activities
F2f group activity – create learning activities
Presentation
– introduce
concepts
Individual
blog posts
reflecting on
activity
hashtag
#icem2013
#ownership
Topic: Storytelling in the 21st CenturyIntroduce yourself Create different learning
activities each on separate post-it notes
• Fairy/folk tales• Movie adaptions• Computer games
• Stories for Learning
• TourismContent
• Simulation• Writing• Investigating• Discussing• Re-mixing
Tasks
Feedback
How did you find the activity?
Share your favourite activities
How did you choose activities?
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Activity 2Ownership
LEARNER NARRATIVE (TRANSLATION)
Translation will accord with learner goals, backgrounds, and values, resulting in varied degrees of mastery but greater degrees of appropriation.
TEACHER LED OR SCAFFOLDING (INSCRIPTION)
Heavy inscription may be perceived as such and met with resistance with learners demonstrating mastery but rarely displaying appropriation.
Empowering Learning
ONE HAS TO DEVELOP A CONCEPT OF ONESELF IN THE ACTIVITY AND TO WANT TO REALIZE THAT SELF OR AVOID IT
WARDEKKE (2010)
Activity 2: Ownership Matrix
Learner OwnershipTe
ache
r O
wne
rshi
pLow High
Low
High
Twitte
r hasht
ag
Presentati
on
F2f group activity
Blog
posts
Who owns the activity?Discuss and place your
activities on the matrix
• Ownership is high where individual’s can express their preferred self
• Ownership is low where individual’s must defend their preferred selfGuide
Feedback
How did you find the activity?
Share some examples
Were areas of the matrix were problematic?
Did the group have a consensus of ownership?
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Activity 3Customisation
COST OF PERSONALISATION
In their desire to become customer driven, many companies have resorted to inventing new programs and procedures to meet every customer’s request. But as customers and their needs grow increasingly diverse, such an approach will add unnecessary cost and complexity to operations.
Pine & Gilmore (1997)
FOUR APPROACHES TO CUSTOMISATION
Transparent
Collaborative
Adaptive Cosmetic
Fours Faces of Customisation
No change Change
No c
hange
Change
Representation
Pro
du
ct
Activity 3: Customisation Types
Learner OwnershipTe
ache
r O
wne
rshi
pLow High
Low
High
Twitte
r hasht
ag
Presentati
on
F2f group activity
Blog
posts
How is the activity personalised?Tag each activity:
Colour for customisation types
The technology this will use to achieve this
• Differentiate activities based on learning styles and needs.
Transparent
• Standard tools (e.g. target setting) create a unique learning path
Adaptive
• Presented in different ways but not fundamentally altered.
Cosmetic
• Learners participate in design developing creativity and reflection
Collaborative
WordPres
s
f2fF2f/Video
Twitt
er
Feedback
How did you find the activity?
Share some examples
What is relationship between tool and customisation?
Did the group have a consensus of customisation?
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Personalised LearningA Framework for e-Learning
Personalised Learning Framework
Professional
Social
National
Institutional
Personal
Portal
VLE / LMS
Portfolio
Personal Learning
Plan (PLP)
Accreditation
Complexity & Activity TheoryPrimary artefacts identify tools used.
Secondary artefacts are representations of these, either through learner narrative (translation) or teacher-led programs of action or scaffolding (inscription)
Tertiary artefacts represent the creative use of secondary artefacts and emerge almost exclusively through translation.
Expanding the FrameworkTool Process
(Decision Making)
Ownership(Customisation)
Assessment
VLE Rational Transparent Dynamic
E-PLP Judgemental Adaptive Formative
Accreditation Political Cosmetic Summative
E-Portfolio Complex Collaborative Portfolio
Ballard and Butler (2011)
Open Discussion
Would you use this idea in your own work?
Is ownership a useful way to evaluate e-learning?How might you use customisation strategically?
Any other comments/question?