PERSONALISING LEARNING

Peter DeanDecember 2007

Institutional Perspective

Institutional Perspective

How can institutions promote personalised learning?

If institutions prescribe how learning is personalised then it isn’t personal

What organisational and cultural changes are required?

The University has to do less! This is very difficult!

Institutional Perspective

Institutional Perspective

A University should provide frameworks that:

allow learning to be personal

retain the social aspects of learning(community)

retain accreditation of learning(assessment)

retain curriculum integrity but don’t prevent interdisciplinary bridging

Institutional Perspective

A University should provide frameworks that:

allow learning to be personal

retain the social aspects of learning(community)

retain accreditation of learning(assessment)

retain curriculum integrity but allow for interdisciplinary bridging

Approach: Communication

Approach: Technology

What to Personalise?

Communication

Engagement and Learning

Curriculum

Assessment

University 2.0Social Construction of Technology not Technological Determinism (Bijker, Pinch, Latour)

Communities of Practice (Lave and Wenger)

Open Culture (Stallman, Raymond)

Personal Learning Environments(Downes et al.)

Formal and Informal Learning(Livingstone, Schugurensky)

Rhizome and arborescent models(Deleuze)

Social Construction of Technology

No technological determinism

Not seduced by “Digital Natives”

or “Digital Immigrants”

We get the technology we deserve

If we fail to engage with these institutional and social processes then we’ll get the technology that the enthusiasts think we ought to have.

Personal Learning Environments

Online approach to University 2.0

An distinct alternative to the VLE and MLE approach

The application of Web 2.0 to Uni 2.0

social networking and collaboration

user generated content and aggregation

mashups not monoliths

e-Portfolio

Everybody already has an e-Portfolio...

Your e-Portfolio is what people get when they type your name into

Google - whether you like it or not...

e-Portfolio

e-Portfolio

So, to increase students’ employability we should concentrate on getting their “brand” to the top of the Google page rankings?