Digital Learning: It's deja vu all over again

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Digital learning: It’s déjà vu all over again


Universities are exceptional at innovating and changing…if your slide deck includes an image of desks and argues that nothing has changed, you’re being dishonest and disingenuous.

(Siemens, 2015)

Our studies (Dekkers et al., 1993; Kemp, 1993) have demonstrated that a lack of instructional and typographical features does hinder study progress and can have the following deleterious effects…(Dekkers & Kemp, 1995, p. 320)

?- write( ‘Hello world!’ ), nl.

?- write( “Hello world!” ), nl.

(Wiley, n.d)

Reusability paradox

The more context a learning object has, the better it is for learning

The less context,the better for reuse

…too often the design…based on…own beliefs about what constitutes ‘good’…layout, with little consideration given to aspects of legibility, readability and, importantly, how the materials will be used.(Dekkers & Kemp, 1995, p. 313)

Our studies (Dekkers et al., 1993; Kemp, 1993) have demonstrated that a lack of instructional and typographical features does hinder study progress and can have the following deleterious effects…(Dekkers & Kemp, 1995, p. 320)

(Wiley, n.d)

Reusability paradox



(Wiley, n.d)

Reusability paradox



…consistent, high quality, brand enhancing and optimal on-line student experiences

SET Mindset BAD Mindset

Strategic Established Tree-like

The SET (in your ways) mindset

What work gets done?

How do yousee ICTs?

How do you do the work?

Strategic


Limited skin in the game

There is one right answer

We should change people’s behaviour becauseinformation technology systems are difficult to change(Sturgess & Nouwens, 2004)

Established

How do yousee ICTs?

Tree-like


Users want IT to be responsive to their individual needs and to make them more productive.

(Worthen, 2007)


(Worthen, 2007)

CIOs want IT to be reliable, secure, scalable, and compliant with an ever increasing number of government regulations

(Worthen, 2007)


(Worthen, 2007)

CIOs want IT to be reliable, secure, scalable, and compliant with an ever increasing number of government regulations

And that disconnect is fundamental.

(Worthen, 2007)

(Worthen, 2007)

(Wiley, n.d)

Reusability paradox




How do yousee ICTs?


The (breaking) BAD mindset

Bricolage Affordances Distributed

Integrating unique ideas and practical design solutionsat the end-user level(Ciborra, 1992, p. 299)


Bricolage

…protean nature of the computer…

(Kay, 1984, p. 59; Wardrip-Fruin & Montfort, 2003, p. 391)

How do yousee ICTs?

Affordances

…original idea of opening tool creation to every user – even children…

…degrees of freedom for representation and expression

..to be shaped and exploited…

…the first metamedium…

Connectivism

Distributed cognitionActor-Network Theory

Activity theory

Network learningSituated learning

Sociomateriality

Complex adaptive systemsRhizomes

CoP

..horizontal gene flow between tree nodes as “vines”,and demonstrate that multiple but mostly tiny vinesinterconnect the tree(Kunin et. al., 2005, p. 954) – The net of life…

(Wiley, n.d)

Reusability paradox

More context meansgreater pedagogicalvalue


It has been bought to my attention that… - David Jones - has altered the common look and feel of StudyDesk …

Regardless of David's motives, clearly this is a breach of policy…

…to hack the action of…The hack…he has also publicised this hack publicly on his blog.

The reason this has come to our attention is that he has not been able to make this hack fully functional and has asked for…help to fix it.

Established

Strategy

Established

Tree-like

#1

(Johnson et. al., 2014)

A common request that emerged across the focus groups was the ability to correlate data across systems

(Corrin et. al., 2013, p. 204)

current LMS present poor data aggregation and similarlypoor visualisation tools in terms of assisting staff in understanding..student learning behaviour(Dawson & McWilliam, 2008, p. 3)

Strategic Established Tree-like

The SET (in your ways) mindset


How do yousee ICTs?


UConnect

UWork

Student Enquiry

Student Centre

Unofficial transcript

UTeach

Faculty Centre

Class Roster

Study Desk

Profile Reports

Activity Completio

n

BIM

View Student

SpecialisationMode

ModeCourses

Activity completion Blog postsGPA, Specialisation, Course history

AddressPhone #

• 10+ minutes

• 3 websites

A common request that emerged across the focus groups was the ability to correlate data across systems

(Corrin et. al., 2013, p. 204)

current LMS present poor data aggregation and similarlypoor visualisation tools in terms of assisting staff in understanding..student learning behaviour(Dawson & McWilliam, 2008, p. 3)


How do yousee ICTs?


The (breaking) BAD mindset

Bricolage Affordances Distributed

Know thy student

• Right where I am• 3 mouse clicks• Specific to my learning

designs

SET Mindset

“institutional sediment”(Weller, 2015)

Norman’s law of eLearning tool convergence

(Norman, 2013)



Questions?

Ciborra, C. (1992). From thinking to tinkering: The grassroots of strategic information systems. The Information Society, 8(4), 297–309.

Corrin, L., Kennedy, G., & Mulder, R. (2013). Enhancing learning analytics by understanding the needs of teachers. In Electric Dreams. Proceedings ascilite 2013 (pp. 201–205).

Dawson, S., & McWilliam, E. (2008). Investigating the application of IT generated data as an indicators of learning and teaching performance. Melbourne: Australian Learning and Teaching Council.

Dekkers, J., & Kemp, N. A. (1995). Contemporary developments in the typographical design of instructional texts for open and distance learning. In F. Lockwood (Ed.), Open and Distance Learning Today (pp. 311–322). London: Routledge.

Kay, A. (1984). Computer Software. Scientific American, 251(3), 53–59.

Kunin, V., Goldovsky, L., Darzentas, N., & Ouzounis, C. a. (2005). The net of life: Reconstructing the microbial phylogenetic network. Genome Research, 15(7), 954–959. doi:10.1101/gr.3666505

Norman, D. (2013). Norman’s law of eLearning tool convergence. Retrieved October 15, 2015, from https://darcynorman.net/2013/02/15/normans-law-of-elearning-tool-convergence/

Siemens, G. (2015). White House: Innovation in Higher Education. Retrieved September 27, 2015, from http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2015/08/03/white-house-innovation-in-higher-education/

Sturgess, P., & Nouwens, F. (2004). Evaluation of online learning management systems. Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 5(3). Retrieved from http://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/tojde15/articles/sturgess.htm

Wardrip-Fruin, N., & Montfort, N. (2003). New Media Reader. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Weller, M. (2015). The VLE isn’t the problem, the sediment is. Retrieved October 15, 2015, from http://blog.edtechie.net/vle/the-vle-isnt-the-problem-the-sediment-is/

"138/365 - 25 years ago" by Antoine Robiez available at http://flickr.com/photos/Enthuan/8892036032 under Attribution-NonCommercial License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

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"Some additional encouragement to study" by David Jones available at http://flickr.com/photos/DavidTJones/3088525939 under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Slide 7, 15, 17: "061 E_01b Page Three Detail from H. P. Lovecraft 20-Oct-1932 Letter to E. Hoffmann Price 3.5 X 5.7 From the 10-May-1981 Envelope to William Hart" by Will Hart available at http://flickr.com/photos/CthulhuWho1(WillHart)/6943900847 under Attribution License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Slide 9, 10: "C-3PO vs. Data (137/365)" by JD Hancock available at http://flickr.com/photos/JDHancock/4617759902 under Attribution License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Slide 26, 58, 59, 62: "incommensurable" by Robert Couse-Baker available at http://flickr.com/photos/**RCB**/12596035923 under Attribution License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

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, 51: "Hygienic shortcomings" by Jeff Tripodi available at http://flickr.com/photos/jefftripodi/18423683318 under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

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