Improving the Quality of Learning and Teaching in the Digital Era

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Improving the Quality of
Learning and Teaching
in the Digital Era
Prof Dr Zoraini Wati Abas
Sampoerna University
Jakarta, Indonesia

My Personal Journey

1976
•1st class teaching at
MRSM Seremban
1987
•1st lecture at U
Malaya
1993
•Master in Computer
in-Education – new
program
1993
•Internet-based
experience for
postgrad courses at
U Malaya
1996-97
•web portal (TMSOL)
•Launched by
Minister of
Education
1998
•LMS-based learning
for IMU (OLIS)
1970s - 1990s
First 22 years

2004
•E-Learning/ODL at
Open University
Malaysia (OUM)
2009
•100 pct online
learning (social
media) – MIDT,
OUM
2010
•M-learning - “Tutor
in your pocket”
2011
•MOOC course
2012
•Flipbook, Flipped
Learning, Social
Media, Sampoerna
University
2015
•21st Century
Certification for
Faculty
•Information Literacy
for Students
2000 onwards
Last 10 years

Selected Publications (80s-90s)

Selected Publications (2009 – 2015)
Winner of the
AECT Division of
Distance Learning
(DDL) Distance
Education Book
Award

WHAT MATTERS MOST?

Education is what survives
when what has been learned
has been forgotten.
-B. F. Skinner

If we teach today’s
students as way we
taught yesterday, we rob
them of tomorrow
-John Dewey

The man (or woman) who can
make hard things easy is the
educator.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

WHO IS THE MOST IMPORTANT
STAKEHOLDER IN EDUCATION?

How does your classroom
look like now?

How would you like
your classroom to be like?

Boring or Engaging?

Good teachers know
how to bring out
the best in students
Charles Kuralt

What is 21st Century Education?

Internet Milestones

Evolution in Educational
Technology
Film
(1940s)
Television
(1950s)
Programmed
Instruction
(1960s)
Systematic
Instructional
Design
(1970s)
Computers
(1980s)
The
Internet
(1990s)
Social
Networks
and Web
2.0
(2000s)
Smart
Phones
(2003 - )
& Tablets
(2010 - )

Behaviorism
Cognitivism
Social Learning
Constructivism
Connectivism
ICT-based learning
Adapted from Rick Schwier (2008)

Objectivism
Cognitivism
Connectivism
Constructivism
Individual growth
Group growth
ICT-based learning
From Rick Schwier (2008)

Active Learning

FOUR (4) Elements
of Active Learning Methodologies
LESS emphasis on
transmitting INFORMATION
GREATER emphasis
on developing SKILLS
Involves HOTS (Higher
Order Thinking Skills)
GREATER emphasis
on exploration of students’
ATTITUDES and VALUES
Active Learning
Methods

Blended Learning

Sample of a Pedagogical Blend
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Deep Learning

Towards Deep Learning
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Learning Design

Trends
19 December 2015 Zoraini Wati Abas - Sampoerna University
Welcome to higher education circa 2012,
where on many campuses, the stale, passive
lecture model is being replaced by a more
dynamic way of teaching and learning—
one in which students and instructors
collaborate in a give-and-take fashion
to “make meaning together,”
- Tony O’Driscoll, a professor of business
administration at Duke.
Source: http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/how-
collaborative-learning-is-transforming-higher-education/
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Learning Space

Online Learning

Collaborative Learning

Self-Managed Learning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqnyhLfNH3I

Social Learning

Flipped Learning

Source: https://www.edsurge.com/n/2015-05-07-what-why-and-how-
to-flip-your-classroom

Open Education
and
MOOCs

eMUNDUS
Wiki
http://wikieducator.org/Emundus/Home
eMundus ATLAS
http://emundusatlas.org/
Project Web Site
http://www.emundus-project.eu/

Open Education Matters!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTNnxPcY49Q

MOOCs
Source:https://www.clarity-innovations.com/sites/default/files/moocs-learning-rf.png

http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_educati
on.html
Using Video to Reinvent
Education
Salman Khan

http://academicearth.org/

Our Role
as Educators

The Future of Higher Education in a Digital Age - Introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ1a5aYe4Sc

Prepare Graduates
of the 21st Century

What do employers
want in a graduate?
Graduate Employability in Asia – Unesco
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/0021
57/215706E.pdf
or
http://tinyurl.com/k33bd26

What are the characteristics of
“employability?”
According to NGOs and industry
employers, employable graduates are
those who:
 are prepared to work,
 have the appropriate skills and
competencies, and the ability to
learn and re-learn.
 humanitarian values
(honesty, caring, patience) and
 socially-desirable attitudes
(open, curious and confident).

According to employers, employable
graduates are those:
with the following attitudes:
 preparedness, positivity, interest,
dedication, team spirit, and readiness
to face challenges and hardship,
work-related competencies such as the
ability to:
• apply theory in the working
environment,
• speak English as well as have strong
communication skills

Employers also listed qualifications as an
important requirement. . . . but
qualifications were not considered to
be as important as attitude.
For example, as one employer noted, “we
look first at their qualifications
(technical), but their academic
qualification will make up 20 percent and
the rest will depend on their attitude and
adaptability”
. . . . . a high grade point average will not
guarantee employability.

New Straits Times,
Juen 13 2012

What Matters Most

Student-
Centered
Learning for
Student
Engagement
Experiential
Learning
Collaborative
Learning
Flipped
Learning
Blended
Learning
Personalized
Learning
Online
Learning

Tell me and I forget.
Teach me and I remember.
Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin

Teacher-
Centered
Learning
Lecturer on
the stage
Students take
notes/given
notes /same
resources
Every student
given the
same learning
experience
Every student
goes through
the same
learning
activities

Who owns the
learning?

Theories of Learning and Methods
Source: http://edf1151languageandlearning.weebly.com/learning-theories.html

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION

Let’s all
make
learning
more
meaningful,
relevant,
and
enjoyable

Let’s re-design how we provide
the learning experience

Consider how to leverage
on personal devices
and social media

Innovate

Produce
Deep
Learning

http://tinyurl.com/l24qnvv
Which type of teacher will you be?
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