Keynote presentation at SEDA Spring Teaching, Learning and Assessment Conference, 2015 Internationalising the Curriculum: What does it mean? How can we achieve it? 15th May, 2015, Manchester.

1. Internationalising the Curriculum:
Teaching and Learning for the New Digital World
SEDA Spring Conference
Manchester, UK
15th May 2015

2. Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning
mark.brown@dcu.ie
@mbrownz

3. Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning
mark.brown@dcu.ie
@mbrownz
Dia daoibh
a chairde
God be with you friends

4. Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning
mark.brown@dcu.ie
@mbrownz

5. • Population
• Land
• Climate
• Food
• Technology
Why this conference theme matters…

6. John Pilger reminds us that despite huge
advancements in technology over the last
50 years, the wealth gap between
developed and developing countries has
more than doubled.

7. Why this conference theme matters…

8. One
Brief
Activity
Two
Key
Points
Three
Basic
Premises

9. Stand up…

10. Sit down if you…

11. Language is core to internationalising

14. Globalisation is not Internationalising…

16. It’s not about money…

17. It’s not about recruiting students…
Education is 3rd largest export sector in New Zealand

20. “An educational change is neither natural nor
normal, constant nor common as it involves a
deeper struggle over who will win control of
the curriculum” (Evans, 1996, p.25).

21. Not just a tool...

23. “ Tools do not only help us accomplish (given)
purposes; they may create new purposes, new ends,
that were never considered before the tools made
them possible. In these and other ways tools change
the user: sometimes quite concretely, as when the
shape of stone tools became a factor in the evolution
of the human hand...
Tools may have certain intended uses and purposes,
but they frequently acquire new, unexpected uses and
have new, unexpected effects. What this suggests
is that we never simply use tools, without the tools also
‘using’ us”
(Burbles & Callister, 2000, p.6).

24. 1. What does it mean?
2. How can we achieve it?
3. What is the potential of online
learning—for better and worse?
Internationalising the Curriculum:

25. Fernglen 1876
Three Metaphors…
1. What does it mean?

26. Three Metaphors…
1. What does it mean?

27. Three Metaphors…
1. What does it mean?

28. • Cabbage Tree
• Ti kōuka (Måori)
• Cordyline australis
Three Metaphors…
1. What does it mean?

29. Three Metaphors…
1. What does it mean?

30. “Internationalisation of curricula involves the
critical integration of global and inter-cultural
perspectives into the design, teaching and
assessment of programmes and their individual
courses. Importantly, an internationalised
curriculum is designed for both domestic and
international students.”
1. What does it mean?
Put simply…

31. LEARNING
TO BE
LEARNING
TO KNOW
LEARNING
TO DO
LEARNING
TO LIVE
TOGETHER
Digital
Capability
Digital
Inclusion
Digital
Citizenship
Making a
Better Future
1. What does it mean?
INTERNATIONALISING
THE CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK

32. “We shape our dwellings
and afterwards our dwellings shape us”
2. How can we achieve it?

33. 2. How can we achieve it?

34. 2. How can we achieve it?

35. Programme level redesign…
2. How can we achieve it?
• Reviews
• Accreditation
• Graduate Attributes
• Evidence-based
• Demand-led
• Middle out

36. ‘A key principle of designing learning
for the future is to help make the
design process more explicit and
shareable’
(Conole, 2010, p.482).
2. How can we achieve it?

37. Learner-Content
Interaction
Learner-learner
Interaction
Teacher-Learner
Interaction
Place of Learning
(Where Learning Ocurrs)
Mode of Learning
(How Learning Occurs)
Pace of Learning
(When Learning Occurs)
Learning
Design
Framework
2. How can we achieve it?

38. Off Campus
in Class
Off Campus
out of Class
On Campus
in Class
Acquisition
Participation
On Campus
out of Class
Synchronous Asynchronous
2. How can we achieve it?
From dwelling to ecology…

39. 2. How can we achieve it?

40. 2. How can we achieve it?

41. Off Campus
in Class
Off Campus
out of Class
On Campus
in Class
Acquisition
Participation
On Campus
out of Class
Synchronous Asynchronous
2. How can we achieve it?
From dwelling to ecology…

42. 2. How can we achieve it?

43. 2. How can we achieve it?

44. Off Campus
in Class
Off Campus
out of Class
On Campus
in Class
Acquisition
Participation
On Campus
out of Class
Synchronous Asynchronous
2. How can we achieve it?
From dwelling to ecology…

45. 2. How can we achieve it?

46. Off Campus
in Class
Off Campus
out of Class
On Campus
in Class
Acquisition
Participation
On Campus
out of Class
Synchronous Asynchronous
The digital learning ecology…
2. How can we achieve it?

47. 2. How can we achieve it?
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48. 3. What is the potential of online learning?
http://www.masseyworldwide.ac.nz

49. 3. What is the potential of online learning?
http://www.masseyworldwide.ac.nz

50. 3. What is the potential of online learning?
https://www.open2study.com

51. 3. What is the potential of online learning?

52. ?
3. What is the potential of online learning?

54. 3. What is the potential of online learning?

55. 3. What is the potential of online learning?

56. 3. What is the potential of online learning?

57. 3. What is the potential of online learning?

58. Another Colonialist tool?
3. What is the potential of online learning?

59. 1st February 2011 – First story but no mention of the term MOOC
3. What is the potential of online learning?

60. “MOOCs should
be in the service of
big ideas, not as
a big idea in itself”
(Brown & Costello, 2015;
adapted from Barnett, 2011).
3. What is the potential of online learning?

61. • Moral imperative
• Building new dwellings and learning
ecologies
In sum…
Conclusion
• Critical insight and respect for all
cultures

62. “Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous
than ignorance.”
George Bernard Shaw
Conclusion

63. Questions…
“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom”
Francis Bacon
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64. Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning
www.dcu.ie/nidl
mark.brown@dcu.ie
@mbrownz
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