1. Redefining the Learning
Space: Mobile and Distance
Learning for New Generation
Students
New Generation Learning Spaces - March 20
Professor Mike Keppell
Executive Director
Australian Digital Futures Institute
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2. Overview
‣ New generation
students
‣ Changing the space in
which we learn
‣ Learning space
literacies
‣ Redefining the learning
space
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8. rapport
generate
with connected
content
technology
adapt
mobile personalise space to
their needs
Owning the Place of Learning
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10. Trends
‣ People expect to be
able to work, learn,
and study whenever
and wherever they
want.
‣ Shift to diverse
places of learning as
opposed to a singular
place of learning
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11. Spaces for Knowledge
Generation
n Physical, blended or virtual ‘areas’ that:
n enhance learning
n that motivate learners
n promote authentic learning interactions
n Spaces where both teachers and students
optimize the perceived and actual
affordances of the space (Keppell &
Riddle, 2012).
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12. Distributed
Learning Spaces
Physical Blended Virtual
Formal Informal Formal Informal
Mobile Personal Academic
Professional
Outdoor
Practice
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14. Mobility
n Global mobility
n Mobility of people
n Technologies to support
mobility
n Adapting our teaching and
learning?
n Assessment?
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15. Mobile Learning Spaces
n Mobile learning challenges educators to
understand learners’ needs.
n Encourages educators to understand how
learning takes place beyond the
classroom.
n Examines the intersection of
education, life, work and leisure
(Kukulska-Hulme, 2010).
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16. Undergraduate Students
and IT
n Monitors students
relationship with digital
technologies
n Portabledevices are the
‘academic champions’
n 3x as many students used
e-books or e-textbooks
than in 2010
n Survey of 100,000 students
across 195 institutions
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17. Seamless Learning
Seamless learning
occurs when a
person experiences a
continuity of
learning across a
combination of
locations, times,
technologies or
social settings
(Sharples, et al,
2012).
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20. Literacies
n Literacy is no longer “the ability
to read and write” but now “the
ability to understand
information however
presented.”
n Can't assume students have
skills to interact in a digital age
n Literacies will allow us to teach
more effectively in a digital
age (JISC, 2012)
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21. Developing Literacies
n Employable graduates need to be digitally
literate
n Digital literacies are often related to discipline
area
n Learners need to be supported by staff to
develop academic digital literacies
n Professional development is vital in developing
digital literacies
n Professional associations are supporting their
members to improve digital literacies
n Engaging students supports digital literacy
development i.e. students as change agents
(JISC, 2012)
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22. Context
of
Digital
Literacies
(JISC)
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23. Principles of Learning
Space Design
n Comfort: a space which creates a physical and
mental sense of ease and well-being
n Aesthetics: pleasure which includes the
recognition of symmetry, harmony, simplicity and
fitness for purpose
n Flow: the state of mind felt by the learner when
totally involved in the learning experience
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24. Principles of Learning
Space Design
•Equity: consideration of the needs of cultural and
physical differences
•Blending: a mixture of technological and face-to-face
pedagogical resources
•Affordances: the “action possibilities” the learning
environment provides the users
•Repurposing: the potential for multiple usage of a
space (Souter, Riddle, Keppell, 2010) (http://
www.skgproject.com)
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26. Personal Learning Spaces
‣ Integrate formal and informal learning
spaces
‣ Customised by the individual to suit their
needs
‣ Allow individuals to create their own
identities.
‣ Recognises ongoing learning and the need
for tools to support life-long and life-wide
learning.
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27. Connectivism
‣ Knowledge has changed to networks and
ecologies (Siemens, 2006).
‣ Need improved lines of communication in
networks.
‣ “Connectivism is the assertion that learning is
primarily a network-forming process” (p.
15).
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