ride 2011 keynote: learning the unlearnable
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Research in Distance Education 2011 conference keynote. Presentation by Professor Richard Noss (London KNowledge Lab). Much of our time as educationalists is spent considering how to enhance the teaching and learning of knowledge that has been subject only to slight change over the last century. The development of these curricula was formed by the needs of a pre-computational era, with inert technologies, and forms of representations that are - for some subjects at least - now largely obsolete. In this lecture, I will re-evaluate what becomes possible to teach and learn that was, quite simply, more or less unlearnable and unteachable before.TRANSCRIPT
Learning the unlearnable
Richard Noss London Knowledge Lab | Institute of Education | University of London
Technology Enhanced Learning Research Programme, UK
www.lkl.ac.uk
• the computer as an object of change
• the computer as an agent of change
• the computer as an object of change
new computing cultures
but in education...
300,000,000
what people learn in formal education has to be at least as powerful and engaging as what they learn at home
• the computer as an agent of change
“We were seeing things that were 25-standard deviation moves,
several days in a row” said GS’s chief financial
officer, 2007.
The expected waiting time for this event, 25 s.d., is 6*10124 lives of the universe
Seymour Papert
some ideas look harder than they are, because of the way they are represented
2 funding councils: Economic and Social Research
Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council
5 years, 2007-2012
5 major themes: flexibility, inclusion,
personalisation productivity, research capacity
building
8
large projects: Echoes, Ensemble, hapTEL,
Inter-Life, Learning Designer, MiGen, nQuire,
SynergyNet
9 thematic initiatives: early career researchers,
ethics, interdisciplinary, technology enhanced
research, digital literacies, digital inclusion, user
modelling, artificial intelligence, productivity
12 £million total funding
30+ institutions across the UK
150+ researchers
300+ outputs: including video, commentaries, journals,
conference papers, book chapters
Response to BIS
MUITEL taster and briefing
Digital Inclusion BETA
Digital Literacies
Technology Enhanced Research
report
AIED papers
Education 2.0
Productivity beta
What’s Next
Interdisciplinarity
TEL programme
outputs
AIED papers
Technology Enhanced Research
report
Education 2.0
Taming complexity in authentic situations
The PI Project
Expanding what’s possible collaboratively
SynergyNet
Making teaching more productive
Haptel
Making teaching more productive
Learning Designer
Affect and inclusion
Echoes
Affect and inclusion
InterLife
tel.ac.uk