Online Educa 2005 The Future of Research on Technology Enhanced Learning Professor Barbara Wasson...

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The Future of Research on Technology Enhanced Learning

Professor Barbara WassonInterMedia &

Dept of Information Science and Media StudiesUniversity of Bergen, Norway

& Network of Excellence

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Rapid technological advancements

Understandings of learning

Knowledge as a cultural artefact

Pervasiveness of technology

Technologically fluent youth

Learning Economy

Ambient Intellig

ent Society

Globalisation

Digital DivideParticipatory Society

Mobility

Technological literacyThe Changing World

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Knowledge Society

The Changing World

Rapid technological advancements

Understandings of learning

Knowledge as a cultural artefact

Pervasiveness of technology

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Technologically fluent youth

Learning Economy

Ambient Intellig

ent Society

Globalisation

Digital DivideParticipatory Society

Mobility

Technological literacy

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Fundamental Challenge

Rethink learning, teaching and education in the knowledge society

exceptional complexity of the institutional, social, political and economical

nature of learning To produce knowledge about the design, implementation and use of TEL

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Background

20+ years of experienceAIEd, networked learning, CSCL, socio-cultural issues

InterMedia, University of Bergenwww.intermedia.uib.no

Kaleidoscope Network of Excellencewww.noe-kaleidoscope.org

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Technology Trends

• Faster• Smaller• More intelligent• Embedded

• Internet expansion

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Technology Trends

• Faster• Smaller• More intelligent• Embedded

• Internet expansion

6 months is an eternity!!

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Research Strands

Population Diversity

Productive Learning

Design of TEL Environments

Conceptual Framework

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• Understanding the various individual, group and cultural differences related to the use of emerging technologies

• Learning related attitudes and behaviour

• Complex interplay of factors including age, gender, disability, psychology, ethnic origin, socioeconomic status

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Psychological and Behavioural Divergence

Why can some individuals and groups successfully integrate learning with

technology?

Identity

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Biological and Physical Divergence

What is the technology related impact of the perceptual and mental differences associated with gender, maturation & aging populations?

Digital literacy and fluency

Power Users of Technology

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Social and Cultural Divergence

How can technology be used to promote equity of educational opportunity

regardless of gender, age, disability, ethnic origin, religion, and

socioeconomic status?

Digital divide

Stellenbosch Declaration

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Productive Learning

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Productive Learning

• Learning issues and Educational Practice

– ties into a cluster of concepts around activity and transformation

– bridges the gap between learning processes and learning outcomes

– new understandings of the learning processes by exploring links between human learning, cognition, social context and technologies

– deep understanding, knowledge production

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Productive Learning

• Means different things in different contexts

• Individual and Collective Competence– how people develop deeper insights but also to

understand how such insights can be shared and used to develop collective competence

• Productive Learning Environments will show great variation

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Productive Learning

For example

• the ability to use knowledge and skills in new contexts

• the connection between a learning community and its learning resources

• engagement in rich interaction

• creation of new knowledge

• …

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Productive Learning

How can we raise learners’ active engagement and participation in meaningful activities designed to combine f2f and online

collaboration?

How do digital technologies change writing as a knowledge-producing practice?

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• How to design TEL environments

– exploring the functional potentials of emerging technologies (affordances)

– ensuring pedagogical and organisational issues are as important

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• emerging technologies and applications such as learning grid, ubiquitous computing, augmented reality, semantic and social web, collaboration technologies, educational gaming, web logs, agent technology

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• issues related to open source, open content, international standards (e.g., SCORM, IMS-LD), interoperability, reuseability

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• pedagogical approaches such as problem oriented project pedagogy, case-based learning, progressive inquiry learning, collaborative learning, experiential learning, problem-based learning

• methods for the design of learning environments, such as design research methods and rapid prototyping methods

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• organisational issues, e.g., school curriculum, infrastructure, personnel privacy and security of learners and their learning space

• lab experiments, field trials, design experiments, ethnographic studies

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• Over 40 years of experience within disciplines such as Human Factors, Computer Science, Educational Psychology, Educational Technology, TEL

• Numerous theoretical frameworks (biological, cognitive, sociocultural)

• Diverse set of evaluation methods

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• Levels of analysis (micro, mezzo, macro)

• Units of analysis (e.g., trajectories over time)

• Conceptual models for using and assigning meaning to results

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• Systemic Approaches– generate models of how ’technology’

influences collaboration, discourse and learning

• Interpretative Approachs– investigate how the meanings and functions

of discourse, tools and reasoning are constituted in human practices

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Systematically and critically evaluate the existing methodologies and their

theoretical underpinnings in a way that permits the development of a new

understanding of how digital technologies impact human user populations

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Interesting Trends

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Email

“must-have must-use” technology

in organisations (www.det.act.gov.au)

“old fashioned, formal, mamma & pappa send email”

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Participatory Society

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Informal & Formal Learning

14% of time in schools How People Learn, NRC 2000

“emerging technological fluencies give access to informal learning opportunites”

LIFE Centre

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New Creativity

technology saavy youth

constrained in formal learning / work situations

Tsumani / Katrina & Pakistan / Danish company

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Distributed Cognition

MASTOR

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High Expectations

ICT can revolutionize education

unrealistic pessimist

How can we create a more balanced relationship between unrealistic expectations

and the actual developments?

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Summary

TEL Research is complex

Difficult to predict the future

New generation of technological natives who will be teachers, workers, researchers

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