Conole workshop jtelss

Harnessing the power of new mediafor learning, teaching and research Gráinne Conole, Leicester University 23rdMay 2012 JTEL Summer School Estoril, Portugal

Outline• Characteristics of new media• Harnessing the net for research• A new approach to design• Reflections and implications

Activity• What are the characteristics of new technologies?• What are their implications for learning, teaching and research?

New mediaCharacteristics Implications Conole and Alevizou, 2010

Learner experience • Technology immersed • Learning approaches: task- orientated, experiential, just in time, cumulative, social • Personalised digital learning environment • Mix of institutional systems and Cloud-based tools and services • Use of course materials with free resources 5 Sharpe, Beetham and De Freitas, 2010

EDUCAUSE study• Students drawn to new technologies but rely on more traditional ones• Consider technologies offer major educational benefits• Mixed views ofLMSs http://www.educause.edu/studentsAndTechnologyInfographic

Game changers• Harness the power of new media• Need to rethink education• How can we reach more learners, more effectively?• Impact of free resources, tools and expertise?• New business models?• New digital literacies? http://www.educause.edu/game-changers

Activity: What’s your digital network? http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/195492568/

My network

Activity: fb love it or hate it?Pros Cons

Activity: using new media for research• How would you use the following for research (i.e. data collection, dissemination, discussion)? – Blogs – Facebook – Google+ – LinkedIn – Academia.edu – Twitter – Flickr and Youtube – Diigo – Mandeley – Dropbox – Others?

Using new media for research

So why use blogs?• Of the moment reflections• Digital archive• The power of peer review• Record of events, reviews and resources• Wider audience reach and hence profile• Link into facebook and Twitter• Complements traditional publication routes

Bloggers worth reading M. Weller G. Siemens T. Anderson

Using facebook

TwitterIdeas for harnessing Web 2.0?

Twitter and facebook #fb

Blending real and virtual• Think about strategies to make the most of each of the following and then think about how you can do this both in a face-to-face and virtual context – Conferences – Networking – Publishing

Conferences A personal example• Purpose:presentation & feedback• Network, network, network!• Potential collaborators & bid partners• Put in a symposium of experts• Expertvalidation workshops• Put papers/presentations online• Follow upcontacts afterwards: email, fb, Twitter, blogs, etc.• Work up into aresearch paper• Work the hashtag• Live blog or follow conference-related blogs

Networking• Build links with international colleagues• Get on national-level committees• Invite key researchers in your field to be involved in a joint research activity• Invite people to give seminars at your institution• Build connections online via Twitter, facebook, etc.• Participate in online events• Leave comments on blogs

Publishing• Write books - edited or single authored (post drafts)• Become an editor for a special issue of an online journal• Keep publication list up to date in your research repository• Set up a writing group or workshop (real/virtual)• Co-write with lots of different people (using a wiki)• Disseminate publications via Tweet, fb etc• Post up drafts for comment on blogs etc• See Twitter, blogs, journals, books as complementary GO OPEN!!!!

Promise and realitySocial andparticipatory mediaoffer new ways tocommunicate andcollaborate Not fully exploitedWealth of free Replicating bad pedagogyresources and tools Lack of time and skills

Learning Design Shift frombelief-based, implicit approaches todesign- based,explicit approaches Learning Design A design-based approach to creation and support of courses Encouragesreflective,scholarly practicesPromotessharing and discussion http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OULDI/

Conceptualise What do we want to design, who for and why? Carpe Diem: 7Cs of learning Design Consolidate Evaluate and embed your designhttp://beyonddistance.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/carpe-diem-the-7cs-of-design-and-delivery/

MSc in Learning Innovation Dissertation Case Studies of Innovation Research Design and Methods Learning Design Technology-Enhanced Learning

Course team work Plenary work (e-tivities)Session 1•Overview of learning design•Mini-pres: background to E-tivity: How to ruin a courseworkshop•Intro to e-tivity 1 E-tivity: Course FeaturesSession 2•Review of Course Features•Intro to e-tivity 2 E-tivity: Course MapSession 3• Review completed course E-tivity: A Learning Designmaps Resource Audit• Intro to e-tivity 3 http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2379

Course team work Plenary work (e-tivities)Session 4• Review of completed resourceaudit• Intro to e-tivity 4Session 5 E-tivity: Activity Profile•Review of Activity Profiles•Intro to e-tivity 5 E-tivity: StoryboardSession 6•Review of Storyboards•Task Swimlane•Intro to e-tivity 6•Stock-taking and target-setting E-tivity: E-tivitiesfor next day

Background to the workshop• Useful sites and resources – OULDI website – Carpe Diem website – 7Cs OER page – Cloudworks cloudscape

How to ruin a course

The Course Features template http://linoit.com

Course Features resources• http://tinyurl.com/coursefeatures• http://tinyurl.com/coursefeatures-Excel• http://linoit.com

Course features Linoit.com

Course Features Key• Orange = Guidance and support• Blue = Content and activities• Green = Communication and collaboration• Purple = Reflection and demonstration

Develop a Course Map www.tinyurl.com/coursemap-flickr

www.tinyurl.com/ouldi-coursemapThe Course Map template

Course map view

Course Map resources• www.tinyurl.com/coursemap-cloudworks• www.tinyurl.com/ouldi-coursemap• www.tinyurl.com/coursemap-ds• www.tinyurl.com/coursemap-flickr

Learning Design Resource Audit www.tinyurl.com/resource-audit

Develop your Activity Profile• http://tinyurl.com/ActivityProfileFlash• http://tinyurl.com/ActivityProfileExcel

Activity Profile Resources• www.cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/3420• www.tinyurl.com/activity-profile-ds• www.tinyurl.com/ActivityProfileFlash• www.tinyurl.com/ActivityProfileExcel

LearningoutcomesSTART END Assessment

Storyboard template http://linoit.com

Story board

Develop your e-tivities

Mapping pedagogies to technologies Social InformationInformal Formal Experience Individual

Activity:Mapping e-pedagogies to technologiesPedagogies Technologies• Problem-Based Learning (PBL) • Virtual Worlds (VW)• Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) • Google• Didactic (Did) • E-Books• Reflection (Ref) • Blogs, e-Portfolios• Dialogic Learning (Dial) • Discussion Forums (DF)• Collaboration (Collab) • Wikis• Assessment (Ass) • MCQs• Communities of Practice (CoP) • Google+• IBL – social • Twitter• User-Generated Content (UGC) • Youtube

SocialInformal Formal Experience Individual Informal Formal Information

IBL/Twitter Social PBL/VWCoP/Google+ Dial/forumDial/Skype Collab/WikiInformal FormalRef/Blog Ref/e-PortfolioIBL/Google Did/e-BookUGC/YouTube Individual Ass/MCQs

Ref/Blog Experience PBL/VWCoP/Google+ Ref/e-PortfolioDial/Skype Dial/ForumInformal FormalIBL/Twitter Coll/WikiIBL/Google Did/e-BookUGC/YouTube Information Ass/MCQs

Conclusion• Structured guidance to think about design• The power of visualisation• Beyond content to activities and experience• Iterative, creative and messy• Making designs explicit• Social media to foster communication and collaboration

Final thoughts• Participatory and social media enable new forms of communication and collaboration• Communities in these spaces are complex and distributed• Learners and teachers need to develop new digital literacy skills to harness their potential• We need to rethinkhow we design, support and assess learning• Open, participatory and social media can provide mechanisms for us to share and discuss teaching and research ideas in new ways• We are seeing a blurring of boundaries: teachers/learners, teaching/research, real/virtual spaces, formal/informal modes of communication and

http://www.ld-grid.org/Conole, G. (forthcoming), Designing for learning in an open world, New York: Springer Chapters available on dropbox grainne.conole@le.ac.uk

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