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The Use of Educational Technologies in Distance and Higher Education
The Use of Educational Technologies in Distance and Higher Education
1.
Bangladesh Open University
Prof Dr Philip Uys 30th
April 2015
www. globe-online.com
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COL RIM visit as Commenwealth of Learning
consultant
Personal:
◦ Director, Globe Consulting (www.globe-online.com) and
◦ Director, Learning Technologies at Charles Sturt
University, Australia
Lived in SA, NZ, Botswana and Australia and
worked at tertiary institutions in these countries
2004 EU feasibility study through the British
Council for the government of Botswana to
develop a national eLearning plan
3.
Long history: chalk board – TV – audiovisual –
online – mobile etc! Elearning is just another
technology
Why educational technology: to extend and
compliment the capacity of people e.g. Cars/emails
Technology is not neutral – it impacts positively of
negatively on learning and teaching
Is F2F or elearning better? Wrong question: blended
learning based on affordances
4.
suite: LMS, subject and course design; ePortfolio;
EASTS; Turnitin; online meetings; discipline-based
technologies; paperless marking; external ed techs;
learning analytics software; asynchronous and
synchronous comms
Infrastructure
LMS vs PLE
FOSS (Free Open Source Software) e.g.
Linux/Moodle/Google software/Yahoo software/blogs;
wikis etc.
5.
MOOCS
OERS – OERUni; Merlot
Mobile, and BYOD
external technologies/social media
6.
Start with learning outcomes and student
needs/characteristics
Constructive alignment (Biggs)
Understand the rationale and affordances of learning
technologies e.g mobile learning
◦ mLearning supports the mobility of the learner (anywhere, anytime)
◦ It also integrates other uses of mobile devices (e.g. polls in the classroom)
◦ Supports the following pedagogies: personalised learning (par
excellence); authentic, situated, contingent and contextualised learning;
emergent learning; social constructivist learning via direct communication
and social media.
7.
course and subject design
emerging pedagogies focuses on
◦ connected/social
◦ Blended
◦ Engagement
◦ Interaction
◦ Active
◦ students as contributors
◦ flipped classroom (f2f and online)
8.
1. start with the learning outcomes
2. student needs/characteristics
3. evaluation
4. assessment
5. learning experiences: activities + content +
technologies
6. additional resources
Not: “what content do I need to cover?”
9.
Professional learning/development options
bottom-up and top-down
LASO model
12.
Strategies: workshops; 1-1; CoP; online resources
Students – critical gap
Academics; tutors; educational support staff;
school administrative staff; sessional staff
Educational designers play a critical role
13.
Role of educational designers and educational
technologists
Role of teaching staff: facilitation
Position descriptions
Induction
New appointments: digital literacy
14.
Learning analytics is the measurement,
collection, analysis and reporting of data about
learners and their contexts, for purposes of
understanding and optimizing learning and the
environments in which it occurs
Note that the learner context referred to above includes relevant computer
systems, learning experience design, the role of teaching staff as well as
learning and teaching support staff.
15.
Focus of analytics Who Benefits?
“learning analytics”
Subject-level: alignment with learning experience
design, social networks, conceptual development,
language analysis
Learners, teaching staff, support staff
Aggregate (big data) predictive modeling, patterns of
success/failure
Learners, teaching staff, support staff
“academic analytics”
Institutional: learner profiles, performance of
teaching staff, quality of course and subject design,
resource allocation
Administrators, IR, funders, marketing, learners
Regional & National (state/provincial): comparisons
between systems
Governments, administrators
International: ‘world class universities’ National governments (OECD)
16.
Quality: see some of the 49 COL-RIM indicators –
many related to educational technology (next
slides)
Student access is a critical issue
Accessibility issues
Intellectual property and copyright
Ethics
BYOD
Storage in the cloud
Scholarship of learning and teaching - changing
nature of publication
17.
BOU is making good progress
Link to national initiatives such as “Digital
Bangladesh” and “Access to Education”
Understand the rationale, benefits and
affordances of technologies
Make friends with technology
Be practical and do what is possible – take the
next step!
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..I wish you well on your travels as
you climb the hills of success!
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