Prof. Gilly Salmon and Sandra Romenska Beyond Distance Research Alliance

University of Leicester, UK

ALT Learning Technologist of the Year: Team Award

2009

European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning:

UNIQUe Award Winner

Higher education……

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Listening to learners

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The Creating Academic Learning Futures Project (CALF)

AIM

To involve students in creating and exploring a variety of plausible ‘alternative futures’ for learning and teaching in higher education.

To inform teachers, managers and policy-makers of the “student voice” for the future of learning.

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Learning Futures Thinking

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Employability Skills

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Finding relevant information quickly.

Evaluation of information

Multi-tasking, time-management and prioritising

Networking and team working

Action-planning, target-setting

Self-presentation and communication

Technology skills that contribute to effective execution of tasks

Employability Skills

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CALF for Employability

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Collaboration

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Hindsight, Insight, Foresight

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Scenario Building

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Involvement:Actors, stakeholders and agency

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Cognitive Mapping

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Present

The Learning Technology of the Future

OUTCOMES

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Collaboration reduced the time necessary for development of personal employability plans

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The plans are stored and accessible after the end of the research project.

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