The Relationship Between Content and Innovation

DOES FLASHY SPARKLING
SOPHISTICATED LOOKING
CONTENT EQUAL
INNOVATION?
(All that glitters is not gold)
Michael Coghlan
19/11/10

THIAGI
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WHAT
ABOUT
TONIGHT?
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CAN YOU TEACH A COURSE WITHOUT ANY CONTENT?

CONTENT or PROCESS?
V

DESTINATION or JOURNEY?
V

CAN YOU TEACH A COURSE WHERE YOU CO-CREATE THE CONTENT AS YOU GO?

The Best Way to Learn How
To Do Something
is to Teach It!

Gathering Content Involves
Browsing possible resources
Deciding which resources to use
Creating resources
Deciding where and how to use them
Assembling resources into a coherent body of content
THEN
You work on how they look

Creating resources
THEN
You work on how they look
Where does most of the
thinking take place?

Creating resources
THEN
You work on how
it looks
Most of the
thinking takes place here

INNOVATION involves:
Challenge
Change of behaviour
New insight/knowledge/skills
TO INCREASE CHANCES OF SUCCESS IN A CHANGING WORLD (21ST century skills)

Employability Skills
Communication
Teamwork
Problem Solving
Initiative and Enterprise
Planning and Organising
Self-management
Learning
Technology

INNOVATIVE?

OLD METHODOLOGY IN NEW CLOTHING
INNOVATIVE?
IS STILL OLD METHODOLOGY

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KENYAN VILLAGE DISPLAY

THE UBIQUITOUS QUIZ

Skills of the VET Teacher/Trainer
Callan and Clayton: E-assessment and the AQTF: Bridging the divide between practitioners and auditors
Many VET staff don't have a proper understanding of ASSESSMENT, let alone e-assessment!
90% of e-assessment is done via quizzes!!

QUIZZES
Cathy Moore:
Quizzes often test whether or not you remember or understand what you read in the last 10 minutes

QUIZZES

Alternative Type Quiz Questions Might....
..... ask you to get up from the computer to:
Check an OH and S issue in a workshop and report back on it
Take a photo that satisfies set criteria, tag it, and upload it to a database (identifying plants in Horticulture)
Speak to a fellow student about the best way to solve a problem (Dealing with Difficult Customers; Hospitality)
Research (Net, library, people) the various ways people have addressed a similar problem in the past (parents with dementia; Aged Care)

Alternative Type Quiz Questions might...
... ask you to get up from the computer to:
Telephone 2 suppliers and evaluate their products/services and explain why you chose one supplier over the other (Building, Plumbing)
Leave the quiz and
look for suitable YouTube videos that could be used for instruction; describe, tag, and bookmark. (any subject)

Communication
Teamwork
Problem Solving
Self-management
Learning
Technology

And other user-generated content?
WHAT
ABOUT
YOUTUBE?
Lecturer: “I’m amazed at the extent of videos relating directly to the topics I teach in Painting...
it would be easy to use them in the classroom as a lot of our old teaching videos are on
cassette and are now poor quality & outdated. “

Creative Commons Licensing
from Jeffrey Beall at http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/301014978/

WHAT ARE THE QUESTIONS THAT NEED ASKING/ANSWERING?

SCENARIO
400 gigalitres of water per year have to be put back into the Murray River if it is to be a healthy, sustainable system. This will have social and economic impacts on all towns along the river. How do we do this? What questions does each town need to address in order to achieve this goal?

“The whole world has
become curricularised.” (Pachler)
Image courtesy of Nancy White

YES IT ALL TAKES MORE TIME

Courtesy of Greg Whitby

Communication
Teamwork
Problem Solving
Self-management
Learning
Technology

Where are the competent eLearning Practitioners?
Mitchell and Ward:
A report on the National Survey of Vocational Education and Training (VET) Practitioner (January, 2010)
Elearning seen as part of an advanced skill set; less than 10% of VET lecturers see themselves in this category

THANK YOU
Michael Coghlan
michaelc@chariot.net.au
An Innovator’s Point of View
These slides on the web at
http://www.slideshare.net/michaelc/the-relationship-between-content-and-innovation

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