Learning and teaching in the digital age
challenges as opportunities
Chrissi Nerantzi @chrissinerantzi
today
tools
treasures plus
examples
from own
practice
• Global economy
• Collaborative working practices
• Rapid knowledge advancements
• Digital technologies integrated in our everyday lives
• The world in our pocket
• Consumers > producers, (co-)creators
• Wider access to informal learning
• Digital identity and privacy
today in the world
• Rapid changes
• Rapid knowledge advancement through cutting edge research & open access
• HE Reform > White Paper, Funding changes (part-time, postgraduate students)
• Diverse student body
• More with less and innovative
• Professionalisation of teaching
• Raising the quality of teaching across the sector
• Pedagogies > connected, collaborative
• Closer links to employers, work-based learning
• Opportunities for flexible and online education
• Global trends and fads? > MOOCs new players?
• Marketisation? New Business models?
• Disruptive? open education > open learning > open badges and accreditation
• Intellectual Property and Creative Commons
• Digital literacies gap?
• Giving back to the society
today in HE
today: students
Quality: What does really matter?
class size: 1 tutor 20 students tutor load: 1 class
tutor full-time
tutor has teaching qualification
students: time on task
‘close contact’
student tutor
interactions and
relationship for
educational gains
focus on formative
assessment
quick feedback
for learning intellectual challenge
positive
research
environment
tutors as
reflective
practitioners
activelearning
collaborative
and social learning
clear and high
expectations
peer assessment
learning hours matter
programme
teams to work
togethersocial
relationships
programme team
students as partners
students using feedback
Prof. Graham Gibbs
today: evidence-based practice
https://fdol.wordpress.com/
today: opening up
tools
tools: flexibility
learning, teaching and assessment
•pace
•place
•mode
•pathways
global learning opportunities in our
pockets
enhance > extend > empower
(3E Framework)
•growing as learners >
autonomy
•stimulating, varied, inclusive
learning design
•creative curriculum
connections increase
•motivation
•engagement
•learning
social learning
•peer-to-peer learning and
support
•community
•module> programme> global
beyond walled gardens
•social media, BYOD, PLN, NMC
Horizon Report HE 13
tools: collaboration
ongoing effective
support, academic,
pastoral, administrative
•1 tutor – 20 students
•professional
relationships,
partnership
•students focus on
learning
tools: support
tools: what they enable counts
treasures
treasures: change agents
happy staff, happy students
•educators as learners
•staff love what they do
•feel supported
•initial and continuous
development
•peer review
•qualifications
•community
•networks
treasures: development
•HEA
•JISC
•ALT
…
treasures: together
treasures: connecting
treasures: discoveries
treasures: impact on practice
Learning and teaching in the digital age
challenges as opportunities
Chrissi Nerantzi
@chrissinerantzi

learning and teaching in the digital age

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    Learning and teachingin the digital age challenges as opportunities Chrissi Nerantzi @chrissinerantzi
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    • Global economy •Collaborative working practices • Rapid knowledge advancements • Digital technologies integrated in our everyday lives • The world in our pocket • Consumers > producers, (co-)creators • Wider access to informal learning • Digital identity and privacy today in the world
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    • Rapid changes •Rapid knowledge advancement through cutting edge research & open access • HE Reform > White Paper, Funding changes (part-time, postgraduate students) • Diverse student body • More with less and innovative • Professionalisation of teaching • Raising the quality of teaching across the sector • Pedagogies > connected, collaborative • Closer links to employers, work-based learning • Opportunities for flexible and online education • Global trends and fads? > MOOCs new players? • Marketisation? New Business models? • Disruptive? open education > open learning > open badges and accreditation • Intellectual Property and Creative Commons • Digital literacies gap? • Giving back to the society today in HE
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    Quality: What doesreally matter? class size: 1 tutor 20 students tutor load: 1 class tutor full-time tutor has teaching qualification students: time on task ‘close contact’ student tutor interactions and relationship for educational gains focus on formative assessment quick feedback for learning intellectual challenge positive research environment tutors as reflective practitioners activelearning collaborative and social learning clear and high expectations peer assessment learning hours matter programme teams to work togethersocial relationships programme team students as partners students using feedback Prof. Graham Gibbs today: evidence-based practice
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    tools: flexibility learning, teachingand assessment •pace •place •mode •pathways global learning opportunities in our pockets
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    enhance > extend> empower (3E Framework) •growing as learners > autonomy •stimulating, varied, inclusive learning design •creative curriculum connections increase •motivation •engagement •learning social learning •peer-to-peer learning and support •community •module> programme> global beyond walled gardens •social media, BYOD, PLN, NMC Horizon Report HE 13 tools: collaboration
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    ongoing effective support, academic, pastoral,administrative •1 tutor – 20 students •professional relationships, partnership •students focus on learning tools: support
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    tools: what theyenable counts
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    happy staff, happystudents •educators as learners •staff love what they do •feel supported •initial and continuous development •peer review •qualifications •community •networks treasures: development •HEA •JISC •ALT …
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    Learning and teachingin the digital age challenges as opportunities Chrissi Nerantzi @chrissinerantzi