This document summarizes a presentation on student readiness for digital learning. It discusses key trends in digital education like convergence and massification. It also reviews the literature on conceptual frameworks for student readiness, which include factors like self-efficacy, self-direction, and technical skills. Research on student experiences during COVID-19 found limited consideration of prior readiness frameworks, a need for more context-specific approaches, and a lack of student perspectives. The presentation concludes by emphasizing the importance of including student voices in designing digital learning and assessing their evolving readiness needs.

1. Getting a BOLD Edge:
Student Readiness for
Learning in a Digital World
Professor Mark Brown
National Institute for Digital Learning
Dublin City University
13th April 2022

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5. 1. Convergence
2. Massification
3. Openness
4. Interactivity
5. Diversification
6. Big EdTech
7. Green EdTech
8. What’s Missing?

6. Outline…
1. Why a focus on readiness?
2. What do we know from the literature?
3. How can we support student readiness?

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8. 1. Why a focus on readiness?

11. Woodley, A., & Simpson, O. (2014). Student dropout: The
elephant in the room (pp. 459-483). In O. Zawacki-Richter & T.
Anderson (Eds.). Online distance education: Towards a research
agenda. Athabasca: AU Press.
UK Open University

14. Study Life Cycle
Gap

16. 7 Habits of Highly Effective Online Learners

17. Greater flexibility
creates its own
challenges for
learners!
In sum...

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19. 2012
2. What do we know from the literature?
First conceived in 1998 by Warner, Christie, and Choy.

20. Hung et al. (2010)
1) Computer/internet self-efficacy
2) Online communication self-efficacy
3) Self-directed learning
4) Learner control
5) Motivation for learning
Online Learning Readiness Scale…

21. Yu & Richardson (2015)
1) Social competencies with the instructor
2) Communication competencies
3) Social competencies with classmates
4) Technical competencies
Student Online Learning Readiness Scale…

22. Joosten & Cusatis (2020)
1) online work skills,
2) social technology familiarity
3) online learning efficacy
4) Self-directedness
5) Organization skills
6) Socialization
Online Learning Readiness Scale…

23. • Farid (2014) also points out that universities,
when investigating readiness among their
students, tended to develop their own
instruments as opposed to using pre-existing
ones.
• There remains a lack of consensus on its
components (Martin, Stamper & Flowers 2020).
• While the term itself is easily understood,
student readiness has been considered through
different perspectives over the years
In sum…

24. 2012
738
Publications

25. 1. What research has been published
reporting student readiness for online
distance learning during the COVID
crisis?
2. How strong is the “learner voice” in
COVID-related research reporting on
student readiness for online distance
learning?
3. What lessons can be taken from the
COVID-related literature on student
readiness for new models of digital
education?
Research
questions

26. Methodology
1. Systematic Search
of Academic
Databases:
Scopus & Web of
Science
2. Crowdsourced
Recommendations

27. Methodology
1. Systematic Search
of Academic
Databases:
Scopus & Web of
Science
2. Crowdsourced
Recommendations
Sample

31. Hybrid
1. Limited evidence of previous student
readiness literature informing the
COVID response.
3. An important gap remains in telling
the student experience and level of
readiness in their own words
Three
Key
Findings
2. Readiness needs to be viewed
relationally, within the wider frame of
reference, rather than being
abstracted from situational contexts.

32. Students as
Research
Partners

33. https://edtl.blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/IUA-
EDTL-Your-Education-Your-Voice-Your-Vision-Full-
Report.pdf
Notable Initiative

34. Annotated Bibliography
An open access publishable report providing a synthesis on the
state of art research, innovation and good practices in
promoting student readiness for digital education

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36. 2012
3. How can we support student
readiness?

41. How are you feeling
about your online
learning experience?

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46. Conclusion

47. Conclusion
Students are absolutely central to
the learning design process and
their ‘voice’ and ‘readiness needs
to be woven throughout the fabric
of the way you go about
developing, delivering and
evaluating BOLD courses.

49. Go raibh maith
agaibh!
Thank you

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