This is second of the two sets of slides that i have used at my session at the Regional Workshop on ICT Leadership in Higher Education organised by Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia and The Open University of Sri Lanka, 6 - 7 June, 2014, at Hotel Tourmaline, Kandy, Sri Lanka.

1. Dr Palitha Edirisingha
[pe27@le.ac.uk]
Institute of Learning Innovation
University of Leicester, UK
Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia
Regional Workshop on ICT Leadership in Higher Education
June 6 – 7, 2014, Kandy, Sri Lanka
Jointly hosted by the Open University of Sri Lanka
Slide Set 2 of 2

2. Established programmes,
students
Stable and familiar
technologies
New programmes,
students
Existing Technology
Mission /
Market
Present
New
Present New
Pedagogy/
Technology
Existing programmes,
students
New Technology
New Students
New Technology
Peripheral
technologies
Core
technologies
Development Research
Source: Salmon (2005).

3. http://www.le.ac.uk/beyonddistance/mediazoo/

4. In the Media Zoo …
Technologies as
animals that can be
- tamed
- domesticated
“When the domestication of
technologies have been
‘successful’, the technologies
are not regarded as cold,
lifeless, problematic and
challenging consumer goods”
(Haddon, 2007, p. 3).

5. Technology Pedagogy
Wink, J. 3 Perspectives on Pedagogy
Retrieved 22.2 2009 ,
www.joanwink.com/3perspectives.html
Source: Gilly Salmon (2009). Podcasting for Pedagogical Purposes meeting, 24 Feb 2009, University of Leicester. 5

6. Technologies:
text, audio, 3D
multi user
virtual worlds
Contributors:
tutors,
students and
many others
Activities:
presentation,
assessment,
collaboration,
reflection,
imagination, …
Locations: on
campus, at
home, on the
move,
workplace,
virtual world

7. Zoo
stories
Impala
Wolf
Pelicans
Moose
Adelie,
Adder,
Cheetah
Duckling
Podcasting
Web2.0
and PLE
PDAs and
work-based
learning
Designing
for learning
Most of the
technologies
Second Life

8. Podcasting for learning in higher education

10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
40 online lectures (each 10 minutes long) + 40 MCQs
Assessment1
Assessment2
Assessment3
Tutorial
Tutorial
Tutorial
End-of-semester
assessment
1stmeeting
Podcasting to support students’ online and distance learning

11. 1 2 3 4 5 …
40 online lectures (each 10 minutes long) + 40 MCQs
Assessment1
Tutorial
1stmeeting
MCQ MCQMCQ MCQ MCQMCQMCQ
Gets learners
geared up for
RemindsE-tivity 1 E-tivity 2
Pod-1 Pod-2 Pod-3 Pod-4
Representation of the course design:
Incorporating podcasts to support students’ online and distance learning

13. PDAs for work-based learning
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-
alliance/projects/wolf/wolf/?searchterm=wolf
http://tinyurl.com/projectwolf

14. Web 2.0 tools for developing Personal Learning
Environments (PLEs)

15. Web 2.0-PLEs: four approaches
Wiki-based
Social-networking based
Start-page based
Browser-based

16. Wiki-based PLE: Google sites

17. Social network-based PLE: Facebook

18. Aggregator-based PLE: Netvibes

19. Browser-based PLE: Flock

20. 3-D multi user virtual environments for
learning in HE

21. MOOSE
Scaffolding learning in SL
based on Salmon’s 5 stage model
Online socialisation
Access & Motivation
Information exchange
Knowledge
construction
Development

22. Saami tent

23. Kalash village

24. Second Life…
Provided environment for meeting and in-world
socialisation
Remote network building- crossing boundaries
“I felt like I was part of a university…participating in a class”
“I don’t know where to start…it was good to ‘meet’ others.
I felt that they were not distant any more”
“It made me feel connected to the class & the teacher”

25. Designing for learning
Moving a technology from Quadrants 3
and 4 to 1

26. Carpe Diem: Key features
 Small, subject-specific course teams
(‘epistemological safety’)
 Subject librarian
 Learning technologist
 Two-day workshop on designing for learning and
assessment for learning via e-tivities
 Outcomes-driven: a set of running e-tivities
 Not a ‘how-to’ workshop

28. E-tivity 3a: Is Performance Appraisal Working?
This e-tivity is not the assignment itself. It helps you plan the content of the
report you are required to submit for assessment.
You have been given privileged access to one document and two audio recordings.
All parties have given their consent for you to see and use this information, which will
help you understand some of the issues that you could include in your report.
(1) Document: Job, performance and statistics information.doc
(2) Interviewer Training Audio File (55 seconds).
(3) Audio File of a "typical" performance appraisal for In-Branch Customer Services
Staff (2 minutes and 34 seconds).
Purpose To identify and elaborate on three key issues on performance appraisal.
Task
Identify 3 major issues that arise when you have listened to and read these
resources. In no more than 150 words explain why you have chosen these 3 issues.
Post your message to the discussion group by Friday 2nd March 2007.
Respond
By the Friday 9th March 2007 return to the forum and elaborate on one or more of
your fellow participants’ posts, responding to their arguments.

29. DELIVERING UNIVERSITY CURRICULA:
KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING AND INNOVATION
GAINS

30. Duckling modules
 Online MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
 MSc Occupational Psychology
 MSc Psychology of Work

31. Challenges for both teams
 Interaction between students and tutors
 Materials too ‘dry’
 Personalisation
 Mobility and flexibility

32. Specific pedagogical challenges
 Psychology: assessment and support
 Dissertation
 Essays
 Supervision process
 Threshold concepts
 Research methods
 Supervision
 Feedback provision
 Education: learning and teaching
 Using each medium for what it does best, e.g.
audio for varieties of English and discourse
analysis

33. 3 technologies to enhance curriculum delivery
 Podcasting
 E-book readers
 Second Life

34. Psychology podcast series
 Dissertation podcast series
 20-25 podcasts to enhance the supervision process
 Module 1 podcast series
 15-20 podcasts to address research methods
challenges
 Threshold concepts
 Currently being planned, within various modules
 Feedback to assignments & dissertation
 4 podcasts so far

35. Education podcast series
 World Englishes series
 Interview with BDRA colleagues
 Integrated into Module 3: Language, Discourse and
Society, SOCIOLINGUISTICS, Unit 3 World Englishes
 Middle English series
 Phonology series
 Student-produced podcasts for learner-learner
interaction, study skills, time management, etc.

36. World Englishes examples
 Example 1 – Birmingham (6’ 30’’)
 Example 2 – Bulgaria (7’ 24’’)

37. Introducing learning innovations into
campus and distance learning
large-scale centralisation
incremental

38. Costs and benefits of distance and e-
learning
More up front investment
But a low cost and sustainable models
over several years

39. MA International Education
Post Graduate Certificate in Learning Technology