The document discusses three major changes in higher education - digital literacies, seamless learning, and personal learning environments. Digital literacies refer to the capabilities needed to live, learn, and work in a digital society. Seamless learning focuses on continuity of learning across locations, times, and technologies. Personal learning environments allow learners to customize their learning to suit their needs and identities through integrating formal and informal learning spaces.

1. THE CHANGING
LANDSCAPE OF HIGHER
EDUCATION LEARNING
AND TEACHING
Professor Mike Keppell
Director, the Flexible Learning Institute
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2. ‘GAME CHANGERS’
Digital literacies
Seamless learning
Personal Learning Environments
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3. DIGITAL LITERACIES
Literacy is no longer “the ability to read and write”
but now “the ability to understand information
however presented.”
Can't assume students have skills to interact in a
digital age
Literacies will allow us to teach more effectively in
a digital age
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4. IMPORTANCE
Digital literacy: those capabilities which fit an
individual for living, learning and working in a
digital society (JISC).
The main focus for us was that digital literacies is not just
about studying, it’s about life skills and about
employability skills, the idea being that unless people
are digitally literate... they are going to struggle to
function in a modern society and a modern workplace..
(JISC)
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5. DEVELOPING LITERACIES
Employable graduates need to be digitally literate
Digital literacies are often related to discipline area
Learners need to be supported by staff to develop
academic digital literacies
Professional development is vital in developing digital
literacies
Professional associations are supporting their members
to improve digital literacies
Engaging students supports digital literacy development i.e.
students as change agents (JISC)
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6. Context of
Digital
Literacies
(JISC)
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7. JISC - DEVELOPING DIGITAL
LITERACIES
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/
media/documents/
publications/
briefingpaper/2012/
Developing_Digital_Lit
eracies.pdf
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8. SEAMLESS LEARNING
Seamless learning occurs
when a person
experiences a continuity
of learning across a
combination of
locations, times,
technologies or social
settings.
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.
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9. SEAMLESS LEARNING
Focuses on the
continuity of the
learning journey
Different places and
spaces
Diverse technologies
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10. INNOVATING PEDAGOGY
http://www.open.ac.uk/personalpages/
mike.sharples/Reports/
Innovating_Pedagogy_report_July_2012.pdf
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11. Distributed
Learning Spaces
Physical Blended Virtual
Formal Informal Formal Informal
Mobile Personal Academic
Professional
Outdoor
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Practice
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12. DISTRIBUTED ‘PLACES’ AND
‘SPACES’ FOR LEARNING
http://
www.slideshare.net/
mkeppell/
distributed-spaces-
for-learning
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13. PERSONAL LEARNING
SPACES
Personal learning environments (PLE) integrate
formal and informal learning spaces
Customised by the individual to suit their needs
and allow them to create their own identities.
A PLE recognises ongoing learning and the need
for tools to support life-long and life-wide
learning.
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14. CONNECTIVISM
PLE may also require new ways of learning as
knowledge has changed to networks and
ecologies (Siemens, 2006).
The implications of this change is that improved lines
of communication need to occur.
“Connectivism is the assertion that learning is
primarily a network-forming process” (p. 15).
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19. CONCLUSIONS
Digital literacies are no longer an option
Place of learning is becoming less important
Personalising our learning, teaching, place of
learning, technologies and digital scholarship will
become the norm
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