1. Designs for Learning: Technology
Affordances and Limitations
Charalambos Vrasidas, Executive Director, CARDET
Professor & Associate Dean for e-learning, UNic
www.vrasidas.com
www.cardet.org
pambos@cardet.org

2. Overview
• Trends - challenges
• Affordances
• Designs for learning
• Case Studies
• Possibilities
• Challenges

3. • Society more
connected but
conflict rife
• World changing,
education must too
• New literacies
needed for society of
tomorrow
• Learning throughout
life in a complex and
changing world
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0023/002325/232555e.pdf

4. Challenges
Engagement Interaction Authenticticy
Needs
Knowledge
Information
21st Century
Skills

5. Important Developments in Educational
Technology in European Schools (2014)

6. Characteristics of ICT
• Personalized
• Access
• Collaboration
• Immediacy
• Connections
• Communication
• Presence
• Support

7. Life Skills
Collaboration Communication Empathy
Reflection Resilience
Problem
Solving
Global
Citizenship
Critical
Thinking
Creativity

8. New Media Literacies (Jenkins)
Performance Play Simulation
Appropriation Multitasking
Distributed
Cognition
Collective
Intelligence
Judgment Networking
Transmedia
Navigation
Negotiation
http://www.newmedialiteracies.org/

9. Play: The ability to capacity to experiment and
explore various solutions to problems.
http://tinyurl.com/po9ry3v http://tinyurl.com/oh7p6ct

10. Performance: The capacity to embrace new
identities and to explore and discover new worlds.
http://tinyurl.com/nay45jq

11. Multitasking: The ability to engage in multiple
scans simultaneously.
http://tinyurl.com/owwgg3t
http://tinyurl.com/owyz8ar

12. Judgment: The ability to access, evaluate and
decide on the use of various sources of information.
http://tinyurl.com/otgggjx

13. LEARNING DESIGN

15. “Design thinking can be described as
a discipline that uses the designer’s
sensibility and methods to match
people’s needs with what is
technologically feasible”
(Kelley)

16. Characteristics of Design Thinking
• Creative process
• Human centered
• Situated and contextualized
• Culture and people roles (not
with ICT)
• A participatory system

17. Design thinking as a framework
encourages us to act as
LEARNING ARCHITECTS

18. The Design Process
http://www.ideo.com

19. Iterative design research
McKenny 2001

20. GAMES

21. Game Affordances
•Motivation
•Multimodal
•Engagement
•Competition
•Collaboration
•Interaction
•Feedback
•Levels
•Adaptation
•Assessment
http://www.questatlantis.org/

22. Games are FUN!

23. FLOW
(Csikszentmihalyi, 1990, 1997; Csikszentmihalyi & Csikszentmihalyi, 1988; Yerasimou, 2011).

24. Improved Skills
• Multitasking
• Problem Solving
• Collaboration
• Leadership
• Strategy

25. Gamification

26. One of the earliest examples of
gamification…

27. http://tinyurl.com/cprprsb

28. http://tinyurl.com/d3t7nrl

29. iStockPhoto.com http://tinyurl.com/4c6qvfu

30. The context of use matters…
GAME
Rules
Structure
Interaction
levels
feedback
Aims

32. Καταμέτρηση μέσω εναέριας
παρακολούθησης
Δημιουργία κατάλληλου
συνδυασμού προϊόντων
Παροχή βοήθειας
Ανασύσταση κοινωνίαςΠομπή φορτηγώνΑγορά τροφίμων
World Food Program – Food Force

33. http://www.play2prevent.org

34. Opportunities
Engaging and motivating
environment
Knowledge construction
Authentic Contexts
Better understanding of the
role of the teacher
Knowledge transfer – in
real classroom
Challenges
Language, content
Time, Curriculum,
Assessment
Teacher PD and need for
more feedback
Technology issues