‘Digital learning’ is gaining traction in the higher education sector, as more tertiary institutions begin to offer individual units and entire programs in the online space. But what are the characteristics of digital learning that make it good? How does it engage students? And what are the characteristics of digital learning that make it appealing to learners?

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Designing Learning in the
Digital Age
Australian Catholic University – 25 June 2013
Allison Miller

2. Share what you … know or find
Go to collaborative GoogleDoc:
bit.ly/DLDA-CollaborativeDoc
• Add info, links, slides etc
• Review what others have contributed

3. Session Overview
• What does designing learning in the digital
age (DLDA) look like?
• Emerging DLDA business models
• Why is DLDA different?
• How are others doing it?
• What’s needed to DLDA?
• Want to know more?
• What are eportfolios and how are they being
used?

4. What does designing
learning in the digital age
(DLDA) look like?

5. Global Meta-trends impacting Education
1. World of work is increasingly global and collaborative
2. Whenever, wherever learning - Multi-deviced
3. Internet becoming a global mobile network
4. Cloud-based, networked, video & rich media
5. Openness - open content, data, resources -
transparency
6. Ownership and privacy
7. Access to learning in increasing
8. Internet is challenging us to rethink learning and
education, and our notion of literacy
9. Rise in (the recognition of) informal learning
10.Educational business models are changing
Source: NMC Communiqué (January, 2012)
nmc.org/pdf/2012-Horizon-Project-Retreat-Communique.pdf

6. Key Trends influencing (Higher) Education
1. Abundance of info challenging our roles as educators
2. More validation of lifelong learning
3. Formal/informal learning needed to face competitive
workforce
4. Education entrepreneurship is booming
5. Shifting educational paradigms - online, hybrid and
collaborative learning
6. Students using their own technology for learning
7. Massively open online courses (MOOCs) are proliferating
8. Open content, educational resources, and open access
9. Social media = connected /collaborative
10.Data for personalizing learning and measurement
Source: NMC Horizon Project Short List: 2013 Higher Education Edition (December, 2012)
nmc.org/pdf/2013-horizon-higher-ed-shortlist.pdf

7. POLL:
How many of these terms do you know?
• Creative Commons
• Open educational resources
(OER)
• Open (digital) badges
• Learning analytics
• BYOD
• Augmented Reality

8. Creative Commons
Source: creativecommons.org/about
Image: http://lifehacker.com/creative-commons/

9. Open Educational Resources
Source: oercommons.org/about

10. Open (digital) Badges
Source: openbadges.org/en-US/about.html

11. Learning Analytics
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_analytics
Image: http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2010/08/25/what-are-learning-analytics/

12. BYOD – Bring your own device
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_your_own_device
Image: : http://www.bishopoconnell.org/uploaded/Academics/smartphone-netbook-pad.jpg

13. Augmented Reality
Source: hen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality
Image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AGoogle_Glass_detail.jpg; http://mashable.com/2013/03/05/pool-real-time/; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBKy-hSedg8;

14. Emerging DLDA business
models

15. Emerging education & training business
models
• Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
Source: youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc

16. Emerging workplace education & training
business models
• Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU)
Source: p2pu.org/en/

17. Emerging workplace education & training
business models
• OER university (OERu)
Source: wikieducator.org/OER_university/About

18. How are others doing it?

19. Examples
EduOne Project Portal
http://portal.eduone.net.au/
Other EduOne Open Resources:
EduOne Open Resources
http://www.eduone.net.au/learning-centre/open-resources/
EduOne Interactive (E1i)OER
http://lmsresources.newengland.tafensw.edu.au/NEI/EduONE/Publish/Welcome%20to%20EduON
E.html
EduOne OnDemand
http://devimls.eduone.net.au/imls/ondemand
Education Our New England
(eduONE)
eduone.net.au

20. Examples
UNSW Computing 1 MOOC
openlearning.com/courses/unsw/computing1

21. Examples
• ‘Premium Cloud learning experiences’ – media
rich, interactive & active educational experiences
• ‘Digital badges’
• ‘Borderless and personalised’
• ‘Globally connected education’
• Collaboration via the Cloud
• ‘Focussed and informed by data and analysis of global
trends’
Deakin University’
Live the Future: Agenda 2020 –
“driving the digital frontier”
deakin.edu.au/about/strategic-plan/live-the-future/index.php

22. Why is DLDA different?

23. Image: 'NBN in Plain English' - http://www.flickr.com/photos/89165847@N00/6357746413
National Broadband Network
= NBN
• High speed internet
• Faster than we can imagine
• Changing the landscape
The new digital economy will have an impact on all
Australian industries and will require every
business, community organisation and government
department to be NBN-ready (Bowles, 2011)

24. “Over the next decade the NBN
will change the way we teach
online, in our classrooms, in
learners’ worksites and in
homes”
National VET E-learning Strategy, 2012
NBN = Not just the digital fibre
but the digital opportunities

25. National Digital Economy Strategy
Source: National Digital Economy Strategy (2011)
nbn.gov.au/the-vision/digitaleconomystrategy

26. Top five industries to fly in 2013 in
Australia
Source: Ibis World (2013) –
http://www.ibisworld.com.au/about/media/pressrelease/release.aspx?id=304

27. Top five industries to fly in 2013 in
Australia
Source: Ibis World (2013) –
http://www.ibisworld.com.au/about/media/pressrelease/release.aspx?id=304

28. What needed to DLDA?

29. Technology in itself is not
likely to improve ineffective
teaching practice
Yew Tee & Shing Lee (2011)
http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet27/tee.html

30. To effectively incorporate technology
into (or repurpose technology for)
education, educators need to know
the affordances and constraints of
technology
(Abbitt, 2011)

31. TPACK – Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge
Source:
Koehler & Mishra (2008), Handbook of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) for Educators
Content
Knowledge
Technological
Knowledge
Pedagogical
Knowledge
Pedagogical
Content
Knowledge
Technological
Pedagogical
Knowledge
Technological
Content
Knowledge
Technological, P
edagogical and
Content
Knowledge
(TPACK)
CONTEXT

32. For more info see: http://bit.ly/TPCK-GDoc
Example (Context) Content Pedagogy Technology
Designing Learning in the
Digital Age (DLDA) –
(PD for transforming change
in education and training)
• Global Education
Meta-trends
• Facilitating disruptive
and transformative
change
• Flipped teaching
• Peer/Collective
(Tribe/Gang) learning
• Gdocs, Wikis, Virtual
Classroom, Twitter,
Eportfolio Group, Email
SA Dept of Education and
Child Development –
(Model for incorporating
technology when delivering
Australian National
Curriculum)
• Australian Curriculum
• ICT General Capability
in the Australian
Curriculum
• Teaching for Effective
Learning Framework
(TfEL)
• Interactive whiteboards,
personal devices, etc
Flat Classrooms
(Lindsay & Davis, 2012) –
(teaching programs to
incorporate global
citizenship in schools)
• Framework for 21st
Century Learning
• ISTE’s National
Educational
Technology Standards
for Students (NET-S)
• Global Citizenship
• ISTE’s National
Educational
Technology Standards
for Teachers (NET-T)
• Problem/Project-
based learning
• Skype, blogs, wikis,
video
Learning Technology by
Design –
(for In-service Teacher
Education Program
(Koehler, 2011))
• Design of online-
courses, the design of
educational films, or
the re-design of
existing web-sites
• Peer/Collective
(Tribe/Gang) learning
• Problem/Project-
based learning
• Various

33. Continuums of learning and
integration
Novice Beginner Competent Proficient Expert
Dreyfus (1980) model of skill acquisition

34. Delivery models for designing learning in the digital age
Individual Learning Plans
Action/Project based learning
Problem seeking & solving learning (Design thinking)
Work-based/Situated learning
Service learning
Peer/Collective (Tribe/Gang) learning
Professional Learning Communities /PLNs (Circles)
Informal/Just-in-Time/Social /Self-organised learning
Scenario-based learning
Others?
Miller, 2012

35. Personal Learning Networks (PLN)
Image: Design your personal learning network by Joyce Seitzinger
http://digitalhopscotch.com/?p=113

36. When incorporating
technology into
learning, the outcome
shouldn't remain the same
Cain (2013)
http://ideaplay.org/in-tpack-the-song-does-not-remain-the-same/

37. SAMR
Source: http://jennyluca.wikispaces.com/TPACK+and+SAMR
Also see: Ruben Puentedura's (creator of SAMR) blog

38. Integrating technology is more
about challenging our current
beliefs about pedagogy than
using the technology
Bartolowits (ND)
http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/bartolowitsr/portfolio/504-synthesis-final.pdf

39. What to know more?

40. DLDA – curated

41. Designing Learning in the Digital Age
Workshop & Webinar Program
Starts Sydney – 21 August 2013
Guest Presenters:
George Siemens & Leigh Blackall
designinglearning.com.au

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