This document discusses arenas for learning and how digital tools can enhance education. It begins by outlining skills needed for the 21st century like communication, collaboration, and problem solving. It then addresses topics like digital natives, moving from consuming to producing information, and developing collaborative and attention literacy. The rest of the document explores ideas such as personal learning networks, virtual mobility, open education, MOOCs, the flipped classroom, and making spaces inclusive. The overall message is that a thoughtful mix of traditional and digital arenas can foster effective learning when supported by a clear design that facilitates interaction, community, and flexibility.

1. Arenas for learning
Alastair Creelman
Linnaeus University, Sweden
alastair.creelman@lnu.se
Twitter: @alacre
Blogs on IT and learning
Corridor of Uncertainty (English)
Flexspan (Swedish)

2. Campus or distance?
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3. orEither

4. Evaluating One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) in Peru, EduTech, World Bank, 2012
Overview and Analysis of 1:1 Learning Initiatives in Europe, European Commission, 2013
Att förändra skolan med teknik: bortom “en dator per elev”, Åke Grönlund, Örebro Universitet,
2013
En elev - en dator: kunskapsbildningens kvalitet och villkor i den datoriserade skolan, Håkan
Fleischer, Högskolan i Jönköping, 2013
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"By just adding 21st
century technologies to
20th century teaching
practices we’ll only be
diluting the effectiveness
of teaching."
Antonio Teixera, President EDEN
(European Distance and E-learning
Network)

5. Skills
• Communication
• Networking
• Teamwork
• Information skills
• Problem-solving
• Planning
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Both on-site and online!

6. Digital natives?
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7. From consumers to
producers
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8. Collaborative literacy
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Filter bubbles
Eli Pariser (2011)

10. Attention literacy
Howard Rheingold, Attention, and Other 21st-Century Social Media Literacies
(Educause Review 2010)
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Private
or
public?

12. Attitudes and cultures
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Personal learning networks

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Virtual mobility
• International online
collaboration
• eTwinning etc
• Enhances physical
mobility
• Staff virtual mobility

15. Staff virtual mobility
Professional development
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Example: Open Networked Learning

16. Reinventing the wheel
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Openness
Creative Commons
Open educational resources
From content to context

18. Open education - examples
• MIT OpenCourseWare
• BC OpenEd
• iTunes U
• Khan Academy
• Sofia.org
• Lektion.se
• NDLA.NO CC BY-NC-ND Some rights reserved by Matt Lincoln via JISC

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MOOC
(Massive Open Online Courses)

20. • Coursera – USA, 119 universities
• edX – USA, 72 universities
• FutureLearn – UK, 57 universities
• FUN – France, 67 universities
• iVersity – Germany, 30 universities
• OpenupEd – EU, 12 universities
• Open2Study – Australia, 17 universities
• Miríada – Spain/Latin America, 40 universities
• Edraak – Arabic
• … and many more, see www.mooc.ca
MOOC – a global movement
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Arenas for learning

22. What mix of traditional and digital arenas and
tools foster effective learning?
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23. • Structure and clarity
• Use of learning spaces
- interaction and collaboration
- flexibility and variation
• Inclusive, supportive community
• Being seen
• Support
(Creelman & Reneland-Forman, 2012)
Design for learning
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Extend the
discussion

25. Flipped classroom
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• Input at home, discussion
and practice in class
• More than just recorded
lectures
• See Daniel Barker’s video,
Flipped classroom – det
omvända arbetssättet

26. Asynchronous discussions
- beyond text
• Multimodal
communication
• Audio/video
feedback
• Multimedia
discussion
- VoiceThread
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27. Linking classroom and online (Padlet)
Classroom group
work notes
Online group
work notes
Recorded
lecture input Slideshows
Photos
screenshots
Useful links
Video
Audio
Follow-up

28. Smarter collaboration

29. Supporting
open learning
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30. Inclusive digital spaces
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31. My digital footprints ...
Blogs
• Corridor of Uncertainty (Eng)
• Flexspan (Swe)
Twitter
http://twitter.com/alacre
Scoopit
http://www.scoop.it/t/corridor-of-
learning
Bookmarks
http://www.diigo.com/user/alacre
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