Panel Session at CSUEd with Andy Vann, Grainne Conole, Claire Brook and Barney Dalgarno on Open Learning.

1. What challenges and opportunities
are created by ‘open learning’ in
higher education?
Professor Mike Keppell
Executive Director, Australian Digital Futures Institute

2. Opportunities
n Diversity of spaces to engage learners in
informal and formal learning
n Knowledge is in the network
n Essential for educators to participate in
networks where they can share research and
best practices.
n Abundance of resources – discerning quality
and appropriateness

3. Challenges
n Seamless learning – place of learning is
becoming less important. People expect to be
able to work, learn, and study whenever and
wherever they want.
n ‘Literacies for the future’ – what is needed
in 10, 15, 20 years?
" Personalising - our learning, teaching, place
of learning, technologies and digital
scholarship will become the norm.

4. MOOCs
n ‘Being a learner again’ (Martin, 2012)
n Disruptive technology
n “MOOCs, and all their iterations, are an
opportunity to re-imagine how we can deliver
excellent learning outcomes in new, more
accessible and engaging ways, fit for 21st
century learners and graduates” (De
Hollander, 2012).
n Need for digital literacies
n Accreditation
n Marketing strategy