Presentation at EduTECH - National Congress & Exhibition Tertiary Education Technology Leaders Congress 3-5 June Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre

1. Trends and Challenges in a
Digital Age
EduTECH - National Congress & Exhibition
Tertiary Education Technology Leaders Congress
3-5 June Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
Professor Mike Keppell
Executive Director
Australian Digital Futures Institute
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2. Overview
n New generation students
n Trends and challenges
n Game changers
n Personalised learning as
the ‘new norm’
n Implications for tertiary
education
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3. New Generation Students
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4. Rapport with technology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXV-yaFmQNk
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5. Student-
generated
content (learner-
as-designers)
Connected
students (knowledge
is in the network)
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6. Owning the Place of Learning
rapport
with
technology
mobile
generate
content
personalise
connected
adapt
space to
their needs
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7. What Trends do we Need
to Consider?
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8. Beyond Current Horizons
n Networking and
connections - distributed
cognition
n Increasing
personalisation and
customisation of
experience
n New forms of literacy
n Openness of ownership of
knowledge (Jewitt, 2009).
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9. Horizon Report
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10. Trends
‣ People expect to be able to work, learn, and
study whenever and wherever they want.
‣ The abundance of resources and
relationships will challenge our educational
identity.
‣ Students want to use their own technology
for learning.
‣ Shift across all sectors to online learning,
hybrid learning and collaborative models.
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11. Challenges
n Seamless learning – diverse places and
spaces for learning.
n Digital literacies – capabilities which fit an
individual for a digital society (JISC)
n Personalisation - learning, teaching, place
of learning and technologies
n Mobility is here!
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12. Game Changers
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13. Game Changers
n Mobility
n Digital literacies
n Seamless learning
n Personalised learning
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14. Mobility
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15. Mobility
n Global mobility
n Mobility of people
n Technologies to support
mobility
n Adapting our teaching and
learning?
n Assessment?
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16. Undergraduate Students
and IT
n Monitors students
relationship with digital
technologies
n Portable devices are the
‘academic champions’
n 3x as many students used
e-books or e-textbooks
than in 2010
n Survey of 100,000 students
across 195 institutions
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17. Digital Literacies
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18. Digital Literacies
n Literacy is no longer “the ability
to read and write” but now “the
ability to understand
information however
presented.”
n Can't assume students have
skills to interact in a digital age
n Literacies will allow us to teach
more effectively in a digital
age (JISC, 2012)
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19. ADFI - Vision
‣ Digital literacies that transform
the knowledge & skills of society
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20. ADFI - Mission
‣ To innovate, research &
collaborate to explore and
influence digital literacies that
impact societal change.
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22. Seamless Learning
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23. Seamless Learning
Seamless learning
occurs when a
person experiences a
continuity of
learning across a
combination of
locations, times,
technologies or
social settings
(Sharples, et al,
2012).
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24. Physical Virtual
Formal Informal InformalFormal
Blended
Mobile Personal
Outdoor
Professional
Practice
Distributed
Learning Spaces
Academic
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25. Virtual Learning
Spaces
Blending - Affordances - Equity?
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26. Personalised Learning
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27. Personal Learning Spaces
‣ Integrate formal and informal learning
spaces
‣ Customised by the individual to suit their
needs
‣ Allow individuals to create their own
identities.
‣ Recognises ongoing learning and the need
for tools to support life-long and life-wide
learning.
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28. Connectivism
‣ Knowledge has changed to networks and
ecologies (Siemens, 2006).
‣ Need improved lines of communication in
networks.
‣ “Connectivism is the assertion that learning is
primarily a network-forming process” (p.
15).
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30. Personalised Learning
Seamless
Learning
Learning Space
Literacies
Comfort
Aesthetics
Flow
Equity
Blending
Affordances
Repurposing
Student-generated
content
Desire Paths/Learning
Pathways
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31. Implications for Tertiary
Education
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32. New Mindsets
n Privileging mobile learning and
teaching access
n Embedding digital literacies into
all aspects of learning, teaching
and curriculum
n Privileging diverse places of
learning as opposed to a
singular place of learning
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33. New Mindsets
n Assisting teachers and students
to develop their own
personalised learning strategy
n Privileging user-generated
content
n Privileging learning-oriented
assessment
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Questions?
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35. References
n Allen, E & Seaman, J. (2013). Changing course: Ten years of tracking online education in
the united states. Babson Survey Research Group, Quahog Research Group, LLC, Pearson,
SLOAN-C.
n Johnson, L., Adams, S., Cummins, M., and Estrada, V. (2012). Technology Outlook for STEM
+ Education 2012-2017: An NMC Horizon Report Sector Analysis. Austin, Texas: The New
Media Consortium.
n Keppell, M., Suddaby, G. & Hard, N. (2011). Technology-enhanced Learning and Teaching
Good Practice Report. Australian Learning and Teaching Council. http://www.olt.gov.au/
resource-good-practice-report-technology-enhanced-learning-and-teaching-2011 & http://
www.olt.gov.au/system/files/resources/GPR_Technology_Enhanced_Keppel.pdf
n Keppell, M. & Riddle, M. (2012). Distributed learning places: Physical, blended and virtual
learning spaces in higher education. (pp. 1-20). In Mike Keppell, Kay Souter & Matthew
Riddle (Eds.). (2011). Physical and virtual learning spaces in higher education: Concepts for
the modern learning environment. Information Science Publishing, Hershey.
n Payton, S. (2012). Developing digital literacies. JISC. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/
documents/publications/briefingpaper/2012/Developing_Digital_Literacies.pdf
n Sharples, M., McAndrew, P., Weller, M., Ferguson, R., FitzGerald, E., Hirst, T., Mor, Y., Gaved,
M. and Whitelock, D. (2012). Innovating Pedagogy 2012: Open University Innovation
Report 1. Milton Keynes: The Open University. http://www.open.ac.uk/personalpages/
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n Souter , K. Riddle, M., Sellers, W. & Keppell, M. (2011) Spaces for knowledge generation
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