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The Beautiful, Messy, Inspiring, and Harrowing World of Online Learning
George Veletsianos, PhD Canada Research Chair, Associate Professor
School of Education and Technology Royal Roads University
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Islands
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School of Education and Technology http://tinyurl.com/RRUMALAT
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You probably know of it because of its unparalleled beauty…
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• Serve & support working professionals (i.e. what most
Schools/Colleges of Education do in Canada/US)
• Focus on outcomes and the learning experience
• Guided by social learning theory
• Refined by learning sciences & education research
• Learning designers working with faculty members
• Flexible
• (1-3 weeks Face-to-face + online = Hybrid) OR (Online)
• Prior-learning assessment, flexible admissions policy
But, here’s what you really need to know…
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We live in fascinating times
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Universities are facing numerous powerful forces that may shape
their future.
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a worldwide economic downturn
globalization and competition
changing demographics
reduction of public funding
accountability pressures
impact of emerging technologies
(Morrison, 2003; Schwier, 2012; Siemens & Matheos, 2010; Spanier, 2010).
Questions around the purpose of education
Rebirth of edtech
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“I feel like I’ve been here before”
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1922: “motion picture is destined to revolutionize our education system …in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks”
1999: “education over the Internet is going to be so big it is going to make e-mail usage look like a rounding error”
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Techno-enthusiasm & techno-determinism
e.g., Technology will ____________
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Educational Technology suffers from
exuberant positivity and optimism
(Selwyn, 2011a)
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“curious amnesia, forgetfulness”
(Selwyn, 2011b)
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Our memento moments
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With respect to beliefs…
what we have is two opposing perspectives
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Online learning as wondrous
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Online learning as monstrous
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They coexist.
Both are accurate.
Both capture the realities of online learning.
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Realities. Plural.
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Beautiful
Messy
Inspiring
Harrowing
Online learning can be…
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Synonymous with:
appealing. caring. empowering.
flexible
Beautiful Online Learning
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Beautiful Online Learning
“Examples of
outstanding [online] instruction
are hard to find.”
Wilson, Parrish, & Veletsianos, 2008
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Beautiful Online Learning
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• Engaging students in knowledge production
Beautiful Online Learning
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• Engaging students in knowledge production
• Creation of worthwhile digital artifacts – E.g., E-books and online textbooks
Beautiful Online Learning
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Veletsianos, G. (2013). Learner Experiences with MOOCs and Open Online Learning. Hybrid Pedagogy: Madison, WI. Retrieved from http://learnerexperiences.hybridpedagogy.com
Beautiful Online Learning
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Beautiful Online Learning
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Beautiful Online Learning
“My oldest [child] will be 4 this June, and I'm thinking about her education and…what resources I want to be able to offer her…so I'm looking at spending my time in [open courses] acquiring some of this knowledge, so that I can enable her education”
Female, 38, homemaker Engages w/ online learning through iPhone
during “downtime” described as “feeding and nursing and stuff”
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Beautiful Online Learning
“My oldest [child] will be 4 this June, and I'm thinking about her education and…what resources I want to be able to offer her…so I'm looking at spending my time in [open courses] acquiring some of this knowledge, so that I can enable her education”
Female, 38, homemaker Engages w/ online learning through iPhone
during “downtime” described as “feeding and nursing and stuff”
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Beautiful Online Learning
“A routine visit, friendly chit chat … and then suddenly a quiet chill in the room, professionals looking at each other but not at me, an emergency biopsy, a result. I’ve had a thyroid scan, a chest X-ray, a CT scan, and tomorrow I’m having a bone scan.”
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Harrowing Online Learning
disempowering. student as
consumer. detached. replicates f2f.
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Harrowing Online Learning
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Delivering education
Designing Learning Experiences
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Harrowing Online Learning
“My most vivid memory was this huge argument that broke out at the [open course] discussion board about an assignment that I submitted… [I received] this absolute torrent of rudeness, just vicious personal attacks that I never experienced on the internet before… I mean, I know that they happen on YouTube, but I did not expect that in a class at all! The professor was totally checked out, he never visited the discussion board… and it was just depressing and discouraging”
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Harrowing Online Learning
“I posted a comment stating that the grading was incorrect. [One] of the teaching staff [scolded me] stating that it was obvious I hadn’t viewed the lecture. While I didn’t expect staff to instantly take my word that there was a mistake, I certainly didn't expect negative and condescending remarks...[I was] left with a partial sense of accomplishment and feelings of hollowness and incompleteness.”
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Inspirational Online Learning
creative. original. innovative.
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Inspirational Online Learning
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Inspirational Online Learning
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Inspirational Online Learning
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Inspirational Online Learning
Students collect water data in the field and upload it to a database.
Students post blog entries describing what they are learning
and experiencing on their expedi8on.
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Inspirational Online Learning
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See http://www.slideshare.net/veletsianos
COHERE 2013 and ELI 2014 & Collier/Ross for more on this.
Messy Online Learning
varied. complex. real.
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Messy Online Learning
To understand the messiness of
learning, the reality of what it means
to learn in digital contexts, we need
empirical inquiry that uses a variety
of methodologies.
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Digital learning environments, that replicate traditional
classroom approaches often result in “showcase
environments that are often not much more than computer
assisted page turning” (Kirschner et al., 2004, pp. 47-48).
The reality
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• Educators, researchers, and designers working together
• Collaboration, not competition (e.g., institutions to
collaborate on offerings)
• Use the affordances of the technology & the affordances
of openness, to change practice
• Understand the history of educational technology
• Learn from the existing research on learning technologies
• Offer solutions, design the future that you want.
Potential approaches to rectify this…
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