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The opportunities presented by learning technologies

Lawrie Phipps and Myles Danson

Organisation and User Technologies Team

JISC

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Joint Information Systems Committee

Funded

NetworkHigher and Further

ServicesOutreach

InnovationLearning & Teaching Research Administration

Libraries IT InfrastructureBusiness and Community

EngagementOUT Team

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http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=dGCJ46vyR9o&vq=medium

Marshall McLuhan (1967)Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects, and schedules.

Michael Wesch with 200 Student Collaborators (2007) A Vision of Students Today

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Joint Information Systems Committee

What do our Students Expect?

81% expect to have to use their own laptop

And use it with university systems

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50% of children aged 9 own or use a mobile phone or mp3 player

This rises to 75% by age 15

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7 out of 10 16 – 19 year olds upload images to the internet

6 out of 10 belong to a social network

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Joint Information Systems Committee

References

Great Expectations of ICThow Higher Education Institutions are measuring upJoint Information Systems Committee (JISC) - Report June 2008

Analysis of emerging trends affecting the use of technology in education BECTa (April 2009)

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Time for some input!

What are you seeing

in your institution?

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Technology enables change!

Motivation

Catalyst

Leverage

Staff like TechnologyTechnology as a reward for practice

New systems means critical reflectionBoth organisationally and individually

Implementing technology requires Working across many teams

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Joint Information Systems Committee

Joint Information Systems Committee

Time for some more

input!

What’s your biggest

issue, right now?

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Some final musingsChanging Roles?

Paddy and Peter

Changing Students?Eric Hamilton

Changing Institutions?Internationalisation, expectations

And some discussion