Abel York

Designing New Learning Landscapes: The role of the learner, the teacher and the system George Siemens ABEL 2008 Toronto, Ontario August 18, 2008

Cycles and Patterns of Change
How We Approach Teaching
Communication Technologies, Content Creation, Collaboration
Systemic Change: Significant Pressure?
Scenarios and Future Directions

What kinds of questions were we asking 10 years ago?
Is technology effective in classrooms?
What’s the difference between F2F and online learning?
How do we teach/facilitate online learning?

Questions we are asking today
How do learners make sense in abundant, multi-perspective information climates?
Do we need to change our conception of “a course”?
How should we design learning in a networked world?

What are those kids up to??

ECAR, 2007 Undergraduate Students and IT
Preference for IT Use in Courses

Most Valuable Benefit from IT in Courses

Technology access …

Oxford Internet Institute: Internet in Britain 2007

Changing climate of learning and working

By 2015: 70+% of all new jobs will require PSE
Canadian Council for Learning, 2007

FT Enrolment: Universities
2000-2006: 30% increase
2006-2016: 9-18% projected increase
AUCC, 2007

Signal Hill 2007 Post Secondary Fact Book

“ Prototypical US industry in 10 years, if all goes well” National Center on Education and the Economy: Tough Choices or Tough Times

Trends in Online Education
Over 2/3 of all HE institutions offer online learning
3.5 million students taking online course (in fall 2006)
20%+ percent annual growth rate since 2003
Online Nation (Allen & Seaman, 2007)

social,
flexible,
situated,
contextual,
active,
doing
Increased focus on learner
Shift away from lecture-based

Limitless dimensions of learning
CCL, 2008

An approach mismatched to need…

Complicated

To know the right answer

Complex

Content Creation

Communication

Collaboration

Has the design of our institutions matched the changes in our interactions with information and with each other?

K-12 public schools are falling short in preparing students for the twin challenges of globalization and technological change
NY Times, Aug 2008

Tension points of education
Open/Closed
Amateur/Expert
Foster/Command
Network/Hierarchy

What are the change pressures ?

Learners
Parents
Higher education
Society
Corporations
Globalization
Technology

Systems in change
Paul A. David

Technology as lever of transformation
DCSF, UK

The backlash

What are the options ?

Bureaucracy
Re-schooling
De-schooling
Melt-down
OECD, Schooling for tomorrow

“Beyond Current Horizons aims to ensure that the UK education system has identified and prepared for a wide range of potential social, technological and cultural futures.”

Thinwalls: http://thinwalls.edublogs.org/

What technology negates
Classrooms
Single-instructor model
Single-perspective content/idea filtering
Centralized curriculum

Network administrator
Curator
Atelier

Require a model that is
Adaptive
Scales (for content and interaction)
Reflective of all stakeholder needs

Redesign begins (partly) with the physical space
Oblinger, 2006

What do we understand about how technology is being used…for learning?

Gaps in understanding
COHERE research
Changing face of education

What about assessing learning?

Peer
Distributed
Multi-perspective
Yes, but what type of model??

Development of educators

MOOC: Massive Open Online Course
Connectivism Online Course
with Stephen Downes
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism/

Websites and Newsletters
www.elearnspace.org
www.knowingknowledge.com
www.connectivism.ca
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wordpress/
gsiemens AT elearnspace DOT org

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