Foe lndscape aug_2012

THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF HIGHER EDUCATION LEARNING

AND TEACHING

Professor Mike KeppellDirector, the Flexible Learning Institute

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Thursday, 9 August 12

‘GAME CHANGERS’

Digital literacies

Seamless learning

Personal Learning Environments

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DIGITAL LITERACIES

Literacy is no longer “the ability to read and write” but now “the ability to understand information however presented.”

Can't assume students have skills to interact in a digital age

Literacies will allow us to teach more effectively in a digital age

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IMPORTANCE

Digital literacy: those capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society (JISC).

The main focus for us was that digital literacies is not just about studying, it’s about life skills and about employability skills, the idea being that unless peopleare digitally literate... they are going to struggle to function in a modern society and a modern workplace.. (JISC)

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DEVELOPING LITERACIESEmployable graduates need to be digitally literate

Digital literacies are often related to discipline area

Learners need to be supported by staff to develop academic digital literacies

Professional development is vital in developing digital literacies

Professional associations are supporting their members to improve digital literacies

Engaging students supports digital literacy development i.e. students as change agents (JISC)

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Context of Digital

Literacies (JISC)


JISC - DEVELOPING DIGITAL LITERACIES

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/briefingpaper/2012/Developing_Digital_Literacies.pdf

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SEAMLESS LEARNING

Seamless learning occurs when a person experiences a continuity of learning across a combination of locations, times, technologies or social settings.

Sharples, M., McAndrew, P., Weller, M., Ferguson, R., FitzGerald, E., Hirst, T., Mor, Y., Gaved, M. and Whitelock, D. (2012). Innovating Pedagogy 2012: Open University Innovation Report 1. Milton Keynes: The Open University.

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SEAMLESS LEARNING

Focuses on the continuity of the learning journey

Different places and spaces

Diverse technologies

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INNOVATING PEDAGOGY

http://www.open.ac.uk/personalpages/mike.sharples/Reports/Innovating_Pedagogy_report_July_2012.pdf

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Physical Virtual

Formal Informal InformalFormal

Blended

Mobile Personal

OutdoorProfessional

Practice

Distributed Learning Spaces

Academic

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DISTRIBUTED ‘PLACES’ AND ‘SPACES’ FOR LEARNING

http://www.slideshare.net/mkeppell/distributed-spaces-for-learning

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PERSONAL LEARNING SPACES

Personal learning environments (PLE) integrate formal and informal learning spaces

Customised by the individual to suit their needs and allow them to create their own identities.

A PLE recognises ongoing learning and the need for tools to support life-long and life-wide learning.

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CONNECTIVISM

PLE may also require new ways of learning as knowledge has changed to networks and ecologies (Siemens, 2006).

The implications of this change is that improved lines of communication need to occur.

“Connectivism is the assertion that learning is primarily a network-forming process” (p. 15).

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CONCLUSIONS

Digital literacies are no longer an option

Place of learning is becoming less important

Personalising our learning, teaching, place of learning, technologies and digital scholarship will become the norm


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