Presentation to the graduating class of 2018 from York House School in Vancouver, BC Canada

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Preparing for the 21st Century
Learning experience in Higher
Education
A Sauder Perspective
Rob Peregoodoff
Director of Learning Services

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Disclaimer
The views and opinions
expressed herein are those of
the author, and do not
necessarily represent or align
with others from the Sauder
School of Business or the
University of British Columbia

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Introductions
First and foremost an educator with a B.Ed. (Math and
English) and M.Ed. (Ed. Tech.)

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Ask the Audience

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Education is undergoing a fundamental and
transformational paradigm shift
Anonymous Educator Quote: The internet is a fad

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What is the trigger?
Source

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What is the trigger?
Source
EdX, the nonprofit online-education group founded by MIT
and Harvard, is quietly developing a “MicroBachelors”
degree that is designed to break the undergraduate
credential into Lego-like components.
EdX Quietly Developing ‘MicroBachelors’ Program

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The Ivory Tower

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The Ivory Tower

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Access to Knowledge
The Professors/Instructors no longer ‘own’ the game
The Students Will…

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Ask the Audience
A. Never
B. 1-5 times
C. 5-10 times
D. 10-15 times
E. More than 20 times
In a regular week, I reference materials OTHER than
those assigned by my teachers:

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What are the Educational Technologies that are
driving the revolution?
Learning Management Systems
These systems are NOT websites, they are very large databases
with friendly (sometimes…) ‘skins’ that replicate F2F ‘activities’
within the bricks and mortar classrooms. They are a necessary
evil as hubs to an institutions eco-system

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What are the Technologies that are driving the
revolution?
Originality checking
At Sauder, our ‘unofficial’ policy is that students should ALWAYS be
given the opportunity to submit their work to Turnitin PRIOR to formal
submission to their instructor for marking.

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Ask the Audience
A. Strongly Disagree
B. Disagree
C. Agree
D. Strongly Agree
E. Don’t understand how…
For the statement: “Educational Institutions should be using
Social Networking Tools to help my learning”, I:

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What are the Technologies that are driving the
revolution?
Social Networking
At Sauder, we neither
support nor promote the
use of any social
networking tools in our
formal classrooms
(excluding subject-
specific courses)
The Company Intranetdanah boyd on CBC’s Spark
“It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens”

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What are the Technologies that are driving the
revolution?
Audience Response Systems
At Sauder, faculty use
these systems across the
spectrum from simple
attendance to formal
assessments; the one
constant is the
contribution to the
‘negotiation factor’.

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What are the Technologies that are driving the
revolution?
Webinar/Collaboration Tools
At Sauder, we believe
ensuring our students
are fully versed in global
collaboration tools gives
them a competitive
market advantage

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What are the Initiatives that are driving the
revolution?
Analytics
You need to understand
that data is being collected
on you everyday at
school.
An Ed Tech Talk from New Zealand
http://edtalks.org/#/video/ten-trends-2014-
learning-analytics

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What are the Initiatives that are driving the
revolution?
E-portfolios/E-resumes/Blogging
Q1: Who is the E-
portfolio for?
Q2: What is the E-
portfolio for?

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What are the Initiatives that are driving the
revolution?
Blockchain
Q1: What is it?
Q2: How can it be used for
education?
Digital Badging

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Some Key Terminology
Blended is a ‘medium’ construct i.e. F2F vs.
Online
Flipped is an ‘engagement’ construct i.e. active
vs. passive
Flexible is an ‘Time-Space’ construct i.e. all
students in same space at the same time

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Ask the Audience
A. ‘teachableness’
B. teamwork
C. knowledge of subject
D. critical thinking
E. other
What would you consider to be the most important
skill/trait/characteristic for a recent Undergraduate to
have?

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A thought exercise
0:00 AI-Robot 3:00 Fin Gesture 8:12 Touchboard 11:00 Dot Earbud

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Thank you