Keynote: Personalised Learning for New Generation Students

Personalised Learning for
New Generation Students
TeL 2013
Technology Enhanced Learning
Towards an Engaging & Meaningful Digital Future
NUS, Singapore
October 7-8, 2013
Professor Mike Keppell
Executive Director
Australian Digital Futures Institute
Director, Digital Futures - CRN
Monday, 7 October 13

Overview
n Role of technology
n Dynamic landscape
n New generation students
n Personalised learning
n Digital citizenship
n Seamless learning
n Assessment
n Desire paths
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Role of Technology
n enable new types of
learning experiences
n enrich existing learning
scenarios
n intellectual expression and
creativity
n (Laurillard, Oliver, Wasson &
Hoppe, 2009, p.289)
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Good Practice Report
n Academics require sophisticated
online teaching strategies to effectively
teach in technology-enhanced higher
education environments
n Academics need a knowledge of multi-
literacies to teach effectively in
contemporary technology-enhanced higher
education
n http://www.olt.gov.au/resource-good-practice-report-
technology-enhanced-learning-and-teaching-2011
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Dynamic Landscape

Horizon Report
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5AZzOw7FwA
Will 3D Printing Change the World?

Beyond Current Horizons
n Networking and connections
- distributed cognition
n Increasing personalisation
and customisation of
experience
n New forms of literacy
n Openness of ownership of
knowledge (Jewitt, 2009).
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New Generation Students

Interactions

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Interactive learning (learner-to-content)
Networked learning (learner-to-learner;
learner-to-teacher)
Student-generated content (learner-as-
designers).
Connected students (knowledge is in the
network)
Learning-oriented assessment
(assessment-as-learning)
Interactions

Personalised Learning

Characteristics
n Lifelong and life-wide
learning
n Digital citizenship
n Seamless learning
n Learning-oriented
assessment
n Desire paths
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Lifelong & Life-wide
Learning
n Encompasses both formal
and informal learning,
self-motivated learning..
(Watson, 2003).
n Life-wide learning
“recognises that an
individual’s life contains
many parallel and
interconnected journeys
and experiences...”
n (Jackson, 2010, p. 492).
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E-portfolios
n Space for personal learning
n Populated by the learner
n Supports learning not assessment
n For life-long and life–wide
learning
n Able to present multiple stories of
learning
n Access is controlled by the learner
n http://www.pebblepad.co.uk/
about.asp
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Digital Citizenship

What is digital identity?
n Safe and engaged digital
citizenship
n Appropriate and responsible
technology use
n Digital wellness
n http://digitalcitizenship.net/
Home_Page.html
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What is Digital Identity?
n How you portray,
represent yourself
online
n Rich ways of
communication
n Digital etiquette
n Digital ethics
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Digital Identity Spaces

Digital Footprints

I can see a day in the not too
distant future (if it’s not
already here) where your
“digital footprint” will carry
far more weight than
anything you might include in
a resume or CV (Betcher,
2009)
http://chrisbetcher.com/tag/
digitalfootprint/

Digital Literacies

Digital 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 (JISC, 2012)
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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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Mindfulness (Rheingold, 2010)

Seamless Learning

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).

Physical Virtual
Formal Informal InformalFormal
Blended
Mobile Personal
Outdoor
Professional
Practice
Distributed
Learning Spaces
Academic
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Virtual Learning
Spaces
Blending - Affordances - Equity?

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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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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Learning-oriented
Assessment

Learning-oriented Assessment
Assessment
tasks as learning
tasks
Student
involvement in
assessment
processes
Forward-looking
feedback

nAssessment tasks determine
student effort
nStudents also fulfil the
measurement requirement of
the subject/curriculum.
nTasks should require distribution
of student time and effort
(Gibbs & Simpson, 2004)
Assessment Tasks as
Learning Tasks
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Student Involvement in
Assessment
nStudents begin to learn about assessment
nStudents begin to determine the quality of
their own work
nStudents learn about reflection, peer
feedback and self-evaluation
nSome degree of student choice in
assessment tasks.
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Forward-looking Feedback
nStudents need to receive appropriate feedback
which they can use to ‘feed forward’ into
future work.
nFeedback should be less final and judgemental
(Boud, 1995)
nFeedback should be more interactive and
forward-looking (Carless, 2002; Keppell
2005)
nFeedback should be timely and with a potential
to be acted upon (Gibbs & Simpson, 2004)
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Desire Paths

http://daniel.fone.net.nz/blog/2013/05/19/desire-paths-in-web-ui/

Being and Becoming a
Personalised Learner
n Be a lifelong learner in
physical and virtual
networks
n Build a robust digital
identity as your future
CV
n Play with new
technology like you’re
back in kindergarten
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n Constantly enhance and
elaborate your digital
literacies
n Fine-tune your
knowledge of diverse
spaces to determine
their suitability for
different activities.
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n Reflect on successes and
failures in learning and
utilise ‘feedback as
feedforward’
n Follow desire paths to
foster creativity in your
learning
n Learning begins on the
edge of your comfort
zone.
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