Talk given at ALT-C 2010 around the HEFCE Study of Online Learning:

1. Sailing against the trade winds? ALT-C 2010 David White Technology-Assisted Lifelong Learning (TALL) Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford http://www.tall.ox.ac.uk

3. Money HM Treasury

5. Subject areas: directly provided HEFCE Study of UK Online Learning

6. Discoverability http://xkcd.com/773/ “… discovering what is on offer is ‘ridiculously difficult’, with information often buried on websites” Dame Lynne Brindley, Times Higher, July 2010

7. Subject areas: in partnership HEFCE Study of UK Online Learning

8. Digital diploma mills? llamnudds Noble, D. F. (1998) Digital Diploma Mills: the Automation of Higher Education, Science as Culture , 7(3):355-68. PPPs “require some culture change”

9. Expectation of engagement “ I think one of the clear things that we see among a lot of students is the desire to connect with other students, and that’s something that technologies can clearly facilitate.” “… the model that we’ve got to support the pedagogy that we use with the online programmes means that we never have more than 20 to a class.” HEFCE Study of UK Online Learning “ We have a bank of student support advisors who, on the whole, are young graduates. …whether it be by phone, by text, by Skype, by email, they’re in touch with these students all of the time. As soon as their engagement is dipping a little bit they’re in touch with them. It’s like having a mother.”

10. Contact Eventedness - Fellowship Cormier and Siemens: Through the Open Door: Open Courses as Research, Learning, and Engagement. EDUCAUSE Review, July/August 2010. http://bit.ly/cmHqqb

13. Technological determinism? “… today's students live and breathe Web 2.0” “ students' technological expectations were broadly being met, but …there were concerns about ‘a gap between the ability of students to use these technologies and the ability and willingness of (academics) to use them’” Visitors and Residents: http://bit.ly/pi2qv

14. Who would like one of these? HandyFlash.de iPhone 5

15. Against techno-utopianism “ the ‘imaginary’ upon which future-oriented projects are premised often takes for granted the contemporary existence of and continued progress towards a universal, technologically-rich, global ‘knowledge economy’, the so-called ‘flat world’ of neo-liberal rhetoric”. Facer and Sandford, The next 25 years?: future scenarios and future directions for education and technology, JCAL Feb 2010 The future isn’t always as we expect à voir etc...

17. World Economic Forum

18. Theory and philosophy of law (Jurisprudence), Oxford World Economic Forum

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20. History, Edinburgh pasokphotos

21. Paul Clarke Liberal Democrats

22. PPE, Oxford Social Anthropology, Cambridge Paul Clarke Liberal Democrats "All in all, it's how the class system works.“ Geoffrey Evans, fellow in politics, Nuffield College, Times Higher, Sept 2010

23. Chemistry, Oxford BBC Radio 4

24. Widening the STEM / MBA – humanities divide numberstumper FireFawkes

25. Social mobility? “… unless we think about the issues now as we imagine the new system, we might end up with a clear social dividing line between the two forms of receiving higher education." Prof Geoffrey Crossick

26. Widening access Fully online courses in English from level 1 (pre GCSE) through to an eCommunications BA. Social Return on Investment

28. What is the ‘Digital Identity’ of UK Higher Education? Matt Gorecki ‘ Field for the British Isles’ Anthony Gormley