Faculty of Health and Social Care SciencesEnhancing the Educational Experience through Technology

Current Developments and Future Directions

Dr Tim LinseyDeputy Director of Academic Development & Head

of eLearningAcademic Development Centre

Kingston University

25th April 2012

email: t.linsey @ kingston.ac.ukTwitter: timku

eLearning / Distance Learning

Blended Learning – Confusing?

Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)

Transmission

Constructivist

ProcessContent

Led by Learning

Passive

Active

Staff Centric

Student Centric

Sage on the Stage

Guide on the Side

Situated/

Authentic

Virtual Physical

Technologies with the potential for supporting sound pedagogic models and practices have become widespread and accessible

Web

1.0

Web

2.0

Soc

ial M

edia

Disruptive

Passive

Dynamic

Danger Image: CC BY-NC 2.0 by Natalia & Gabriel

http://www.flickr.com/photos/natalialove/

SmartphoneC. 2012

1.4Ghz x 4 cores

High end Desktop PCC. 20011.4Ghz

InstitutionalControlled / Owned

PersonalControlled / Owned

BlogsSocial

NetworkingBookmarkingMappingInstant Messaging

Micro-Blogging

PresentationDocumentPhotoVideo

Sharing

Mash-upsMMORPG

Augmented Reality

Location Aware

Pod

cast

ing

Live Video Stream

Crow

d Sourcing

Tablet image: CC BY-NC 2.0 by Wired Photostreamhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/wiredphotostream/

Like D

islike

Rate

MP3 Player

Smartphone

eBook Reader

Profile Page QR Codes

Live BloggingWikis

“The world they encounter in higher education has been constructed on a wholly different set of norms. Characterised broadly, it is hierarchical, substantially introvert, guarded, careful, precise and measured. The two worlds are currently co-existing, with present-day students effectively occupying a position on the cusp of change. They aren’t demanding different approaches; rather they are making such adaptations as are necessary for the time it takes to gain their qualifications. Effectively, they are managing a disjuncture, and the situation is feeding the natural inertia of any established system. It is, however, unlikely to be sustainable in the long term.” JISC 2009 Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World

Graben image: CC BY-NC 2.0 by Gunnar Ries Zwo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/44949218@N02/

Social

Informal Learning

Formal Learning

Extended access and choiceExploration and inquiry

Communication and social interaction

Replicating the real world

Digital literacies

Creativity and responsiveness

situatedauthentic

mobile

flexible (time & space)

Self paced

Student contribution

critical readingsimulationSelf testing

Connectivism

knowledge construction

Co-creation

Audio feedback

Public & private

Learning objectsOER

Virtual in physical

scaffolding

Effective Technology Enhanced Learning

Themes in bold from JISC 2009 ‘Effective Practice in a Digital AgeA guide to technology-enhanced learning and teaching’

community

ownership

“Learners can be cynical about the use of tech as a ‘crutch’ to support indifferent teaching or for ‘trendy purposes”

JISC Responding to Learners Guide 3

collaborating

publishing

organisation

Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategy

Key objectives include:• To support and develop educational technologies that enhance the

student contribution, collaboration and engagement in learning and their ownership of the learning process;

• To support and develop technologies that promote flexible design and delivery;

• To develop pedagogic models that effectively integrate learning and teaching in the physical and virtual environments to enhance student learning;

• To support and develop learning resources and activities that can be interfaced with students' personal learning environments and technologies.

Challenges that students need help with include:

•The rise of interdisciplinarity and multi-disciplinary teams focussed on specific tasks•A networked society and communities•Blurring boundaries of real and virtual, public and private, work & leisure•Increasingly ubiquitous and embedded digital technologies•Rapid socio and techno-social change

Beetham et al 2009 ‘Thriving in the 21st century: The report of the LLiDA Project’

http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2009/10/14/visitors-residents-the-video/

‘Visitors and Residents’ David White, University of Oxford

Understanding the visitor

“Highly confident users of digital technologies may struggle to transfer those skills to their study” JISC Responding to Learners Guide 2

Digital Literacies

Technology Confidence

Student Resistance

Staff Role

Concerns

“Rather than replacing the teacher, technology has in many ways increased the focus on pedagogic skills. The art of the practitioner as instigator, designer and animateur remains key to the process of learning”. JISC 2009

Digital Literacies

Millennial Student

Hazard image:CC BY-NC 2.0 by Chris Dyehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/krisdye/

Led by Learning

• Don’t worry about the terminology• There is no one ‘right’ way with TEL• Start with the learning, the objective

Don’t worry image: CC BY-NC 2.0 by Benburry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/benburry/

Led by Learning

Learning Design Support Environment

Phoebe

https://sites.google.com/a/lkl.ac.uk/ldse/Home

http://www.phoebe.ox.ac.uk/

Support for Design & Planning

Institutional Technologies

• VLE• Blog• Social Networking• Podcasting• Desktop video conferencing• Peer Assessment• Video Instant Messaging

Data Protection

IPR

Safety

Private / Public

Service level

Blogs.kingston

570 project and individual blogs

Case Study: MoRSE Project

To develop a situated understanding of the impact of mobile and personal technologies on student and staff practices, beyond the institution, and on institutional processes-Fieldtrips-Placements

Some Issues of Interest

- Digital literacies- Novel approaches- Personal Technologies- Public & private

The KU MoRSE Team

School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, KU•Dr Stuart Downward•Dr Ken Field, Kingston Centre for GIS•Dr James O’Brien, Kingston Centre for GIS

Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, KU•Dr Ann Ooms

Personal & Mobile#malta10 [latitude][longitude] [rating] text [twitpic URL]

TwitterAudioBoo Catch

Instamapper

MapDroyd

Flickr

Skype

Google maps

QikWordpress

MashupYoutubeWikitude

My Tracks

MoRSE: GIS Laboratory in the Field – Dr Ken Field & Dr James O’Brien

“Understanding and learning the different ways of importing and collating different sources of media and tagging spatial location to them (i.e. long/lat values for example) has given more interest in the subject and found some of the features pretty cool to analyse and present!”

“I think the technologies I used and the way I used them helped my learning; in conjunction with other research they will give a broader and fuller picture of an environment”

Mobile“People expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever and where ever they want to” Top Trend driving Ed Tech adoption 2012-17, Horizon Report 2012

Initial access of KU Studyspace by Mobile:

By 2015 80% of users will be accessing the Internet from Mobile Phones Ericsson 2010

“…they invest considerable time, effort and resource choosing them, buying them, customising them & exploiting them…

…These handheld devices express part or much of their owners’ values, affiliations, identity and individuality through their choice and through their use…

…Mobile learning is not just e-learning on mobile devices; it also hints that we might leverage learners’ own devices and in doing so take education into new modes, spaces and places”

Traxler, J. 2011 Introduction in Making mobile learning work: case studies of practice, ESCalate, HEA.

The Guardian use of Blippar (16th April 2012)

QR Codes, Augmented Reality … Becoming mainstream….

Openness, Standards & OER

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/ http://www.folksemantic.com/

References quoted• JISC Responding to Learners Guides

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programmerelated/2009/respondingtolearners.aspx• JISC Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/generalpublications/2009/heweb2.aspx• NMC Horizon Report 2012 http://www.educause.edu/Resources/2012HorizonReport/246056• Beetham, H. McGill, L. & Littlejohn A. 2009 Thriving in the 21st century: the report of the

LLiDA project http://www.caledonianacademy.net/spaces/LLiDA/• JISC 2009 Effective Practice in a Digital Age

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/programmerelated/2009/effectivepracticedigitalage.aspx