social pharmacy d-pharm 1st year by Pragati K. Mahajan
CSUEd 2012_Plenary
1. What challenges and opportunities
are created by ‘open learning’ in
higher education?
Professor Mike Keppell
Executive Director, Australian Digital Futures Institute
2. Opportunities
n Diversity of spaces to engage learners in
informal and formal learning
n Knowledge is in the network
n Essential for educators to participate in
networks where they can share research and
best practices.
n Abundance of resources – discerning quality
and appropriateness
3. Challenges
n Seamless learning – place of learning is
becoming less important. People expect to be
able to work, learn, and study whenever and
wherever they want.
n ‘Literacies for the future’ – what is needed
in 10, 15, 20 years?
" Personalising - our learning, teaching, place
of learning, technologies and digital
scholarship will become the norm.
4. MOOCs
n ‘Being a learner again’ (Martin, 2012)
n Disruptive technology
n “MOOCs, and all their iterations, are an
opportunity to re-imagine how we can deliver
excellent learning outcomes in new, more
accessible and engaging ways, fit for 21st
century learners and graduates” (De
Hollander, 2012).
n Need for digital literacies
n Accreditation
n Marketing strategy