Technology Outlook for African Higher Education
Greig Krull 13th March 2014
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Context – Drivers and Constraints
Key Trends and Challenges
Higher Education Technology Integration
Modes of Educational Provision
Technology Outlook
Discussion
Agenda
Context
1. What is your biggest motivator to integrate technology into your teaching and learning?
2. What is your biggest constraint to integrate technology into your teaching and learning?
Motivators
Constraints
Trends and Challenges
Growing Usage of Social Media
Integration of Online, Blended and Collaborative Learning
Rise of Data-Driven Learning and Assessment
Shift from Students as Consumers to Students as Creators
Agile Approaches to Change
Evolution of Online Learning
Global Trends in Higher Education
The NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Higher Education Edition
Low Digital Fluency of Faculty
Relative Lack of Rewards for Teaching
Competition from New Models of Education
Scaling Teaching Innovations
Expanding Access
Keeping Education Relevant
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Global Challenges
Integration of Technology in Higher Education
Technology in Higher Education
ResearchData Processing, Searching
Teaching/LearningVLEs, eContent, eAssessment,
Support
AdministrationRecords, Finance, Management
How do we use technology?
Efficient way to transmit contentAccess a wider range of resources Facilitate 2-way communication
Shift from content provision/testing To exploration, co-creation & interaction
Institution Strategy
Programme
and Course Design
Staff Professional Development
Student Digital Literacies
Student and Academic Support
Applications
Hardware / Devices
Network
Physical Spaces
Educational Technology Stack
Adapted from Marquard, 2013
Implications for Educational Modes of Provision
Continuum of Educational Provision
Face to face (F2F) Mixed Mode Distance Education
On Campus Off campus
Spatial / Geographic distribution of teachers and learners
Delivery using Technology
No digital support Digitally Supported Internet-supported Internet-dependent Fully online
Offline Online
Extent of ICT support
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B
Fully Offline
Internet Supported
Internet Dependent
Fully Online
Campus-based Hybrid / Blended Remote
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Digitally Supported
Mode of Delivery O
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Course FlowSynchronous Asynchronous Semi-synchronous
Students do all work at the same time as everybody else
Students do everything at their own pace and have no deadlines
Students do some parts of the course at their own pace and do other parts of the course on a fixed schedule
• Good likelihood of peer support as all at same stage
• Expect deadlines are fixed
• Work at the pace set by lecturer, not at own pace
• Work at their own pace• Limited peer support as
others may be at different stages
• Can finish “later” but procrastination leads to not finishing
• Instructors release course materials on a fixed schedule, student can work on it anytime after
• Live events e.g. Q&A sessions happen at a fixed date and time, archive versions
• Assessments due by a fixed deadline
Google (2013)
Anderson (2008)
Collaborative and Community OnlineLearning
Technology Outlook
Outlook
Developments in Educational Technology
Short-term
Flipped ClassroomsLearning Analytics
Mid-term
3D Printing Gamification
Long-term
Quantified SelfVirtual Assistants
The NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Higher Education Edition
Consumer Technologies
The NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Higher Education Edition
Digital Publishing
Mobile Phones
Tablets
Wearable Technology
3D Printing
Social Media
Technology is Disruptive
No-name brand, Android OS, 7” screen with 3G,
GSM etc.
$134.00
Falling costs are making devices affordable
– Tablets with 3G ($134)– Smart phones– Laptops (starting around $250)– Bandwidth costs reducing
Internet Technologies
The NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Higher Education Edition
Cloud Computing
Internet of Things
Quantifiable Self
Digital Strategies
The NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Higher Education Edition
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
Flipped Classrooms
Gamification
Digital Identity
Top 20 Tools for Learning in 2013
© 2013 Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies
Learning Technologies
The NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Higher Education Edition
Badges
Learning Analytics
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Open Education Movement
Open Source movement -> cost effective tools– Learner Management Systems (Moodle, Sakai,
Canvas)– Student Information Systems (Fedena, Kuali, Open
SIS)
Open Education movement -> free quality content– Open Education Resources – Open Courseware– Massive Open Online Courses
Open Research movement -> expand research– Open Access Journals– Open Access Publishing
Supporting Principles
Adaptive to Change
Build Capacity
Open Educatio
n
Collaboration
Look to Add Value
A Final Thought
Good teaching may overcome a poor choice of technology but technology will
never save bad teaching
Tony Bates, 2012
Thank you
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Greig Krull
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Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013• Google (2013) CourseBuilder
https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/wiki/CourseFlow • Isaacs, S and Hollow, D, (eds) (2013) The eLearning Africa 2013 Report,
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