Layers loops and processes: learning analytics for complex learning systemsRuth Deakin Crick
1) Learning and teaching are complex multi-layered processes that occur at the individual, group, organizational, and systemic levels.
2) Learning analytics can help represent and feed back complex data from these different layers to enable "learning forwards together".
3) The document presents data and models that analyze learning at the individual agency level, dispositions level, teaching practices level, organizational culture level, and leadership/system level.
The document describes the EnquiryBlogger project, which uses blog-based learning analytics to support the development of learning power and authentic enquiry. It discusses challenges in current education and the need to develop lifelong learning dispositions. The Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory (ELLI) is presented as a framework for assessing seven dimensions of learning power. The concept of authentic enquiry is introduced as a way to connect learning to personal curiosity, values and passion. The EnquiryBlogger platform and WordPress plugins are described as a way to support blogging, reflection, and the addition of learning analytics visualizations related to ELLI dimensions and the authentic enquiry process. The tools were piloted with primary, secondary and tertiary students
The document discusses the need to develop learning experiences that cultivate resilient agency in students. It argues that in today's world, students need to be able to independently direct their own learning, think creatively, collaborate with others, and persist in the face of challenges. The document presents a model of "learning power" that identifies key dimensions like sense-making, creativity, collaboration, and hope/optimism that enable resilient agency. It also provides a self-assessment tool called the Crick Learning for Resilient Agency Profile that students can use to reflect on their strengths and growth areas across these dimensions.
Dispositional Learning Analytics: Learning Power in Complex SystemsRuth Deakin Crick
This document discusses dispositional learning analytics, which uses data about students' learning dispositions and identities to provide feedback and stimulate self-directed change.
It describes how learning dispositions and identities are important for sustainable learning in uncertain times. Analytics can provide rapid feedback at different system levels by integrating soft data on dispositions with hard performance data. This helps visualize complex data to stimulate responsible agency and change.
Sustainable learning ecosystems cannot rely on external control alone and require self-directed learning. Dispositional analytics aims to make the invisible visible to enhance learners' responsible agency over their own learning.
This document discusses learning dispositions and transferable competencies. It argues that learning dispositions matter and can be modeled as "Learning Power" across seven dimensions. An analytics platform called the Learning Warehouse hosts apps, pools learner data, generates real-time analytics reports, and manages permissions to provide insights for learners, educators, researchers and organizations. The document outlines criteria for validating learning analytics approaches, including ensuring proper context, and discusses ongoing work using the analytics platform and modeling learning dispositions.
This document discusses developing resilient agency in learning. It presents a model for learning design that focuses on learning journeys, learning power, and coaching. Coaching involves triads where learners reflect on their learning profiles, discuss strengths and areas for growth, and create plans for improvement. The goal is to help learners structure knowledge, form identity, generate new learning, and become competent through an active, reflective learning process supported by coaching relationships.
CLARAfying project: http://utscic.edu.au/projects/uts-projects/science-learning-power
Developing Resilient Agency in Learning: use of CLARA for first year science students with coaching support
A work in progress briefing for the UTS First Year Experience Forum, Sept 2015
The SOLA platform collects data from validated surveys to provide feedback for individual learning, team leadership, organizational decision-making, and system-wide analysis. It hosts apps that support self-directed change through assessments, research-backed tools, and responsible data use. Powered by a leading learning experience company, the platform integrates with other systems and ensures data security. Learning Emergence LLP established the SOLA project through crowdfunding to enable collaboration using surveys for improvement initiatives.
Layers loops and processes: learning analytics for complex learning systemsRuth Deakin Crick
1) Learning and teaching are complex multi-layered processes that occur at the individual, group, organizational, and systemic levels.
2) Learning analytics can help represent and feed back complex data from these different layers to enable "learning forwards together".
3) The document presents data and models that analyze learning at the individual agency level, dispositions level, teaching practices level, organizational culture level, and leadership/system level.
The document describes the EnquiryBlogger project, which uses blog-based learning analytics to support the development of learning power and authentic enquiry. It discusses challenges in current education and the need to develop lifelong learning dispositions. The Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory (ELLI) is presented as a framework for assessing seven dimensions of learning power. The concept of authentic enquiry is introduced as a way to connect learning to personal curiosity, values and passion. The EnquiryBlogger platform and WordPress plugins are described as a way to support blogging, reflection, and the addition of learning analytics visualizations related to ELLI dimensions and the authentic enquiry process. The tools were piloted with primary, secondary and tertiary students
The document discusses the need to develop learning experiences that cultivate resilient agency in students. It argues that in today's world, students need to be able to independently direct their own learning, think creatively, collaborate with others, and persist in the face of challenges. The document presents a model of "learning power" that identifies key dimensions like sense-making, creativity, collaboration, and hope/optimism that enable resilient agency. It also provides a self-assessment tool called the Crick Learning for Resilient Agency Profile that students can use to reflect on their strengths and growth areas across these dimensions.
Dispositional Learning Analytics: Learning Power in Complex SystemsRuth Deakin Crick
This document discusses dispositional learning analytics, which uses data about students' learning dispositions and identities to provide feedback and stimulate self-directed change.
It describes how learning dispositions and identities are important for sustainable learning in uncertain times. Analytics can provide rapid feedback at different system levels by integrating soft data on dispositions with hard performance data. This helps visualize complex data to stimulate responsible agency and change.
Sustainable learning ecosystems cannot rely on external control alone and require self-directed learning. Dispositional analytics aims to make the invisible visible to enhance learners' responsible agency over their own learning.
This document discusses learning dispositions and transferable competencies. It argues that learning dispositions matter and can be modeled as "Learning Power" across seven dimensions. An analytics platform called the Learning Warehouse hosts apps, pools learner data, generates real-time analytics reports, and manages permissions to provide insights for learners, educators, researchers and organizations. The document outlines criteria for validating learning analytics approaches, including ensuring proper context, and discusses ongoing work using the analytics platform and modeling learning dispositions.
This document discusses developing resilient agency in learning. It presents a model for learning design that focuses on learning journeys, learning power, and coaching. Coaching involves triads where learners reflect on their learning profiles, discuss strengths and areas for growth, and create plans for improvement. The goal is to help learners structure knowledge, form identity, generate new learning, and become competent through an active, reflective learning process supported by coaching relationships.
CLARAfying project: http://utscic.edu.au/projects/uts-projects/science-learning-power
Developing Resilient Agency in Learning: use of CLARA for first year science students with coaching support
A work in progress briefing for the UTS First Year Experience Forum, Sept 2015
The SOLA platform collects data from validated surveys to provide feedback for individual learning, team leadership, organizational decision-making, and system-wide analysis. It hosts apps that support self-directed change through assessments, research-backed tools, and responsible data use. Powered by a leading learning experience company, the platform integrates with other systems and ensures data security. Learning Emergence LLP established the SOLA project through crowdfunding to enable collaboration using surveys for improvement initiatives.
The document discusses the importance of teaching complex thinking skills to students. It defines complex thinking as seeing multiple sides of issues, reasoning objectively using evidence, solving problems, and more. Complex thinking is best taught using depth of knowledge (DOK) levels 3 and 4, which involve strategic thinking, justification, applying concepts to new contexts, and creating new things. Teaching complex thinking helps students navigate an information-rich world and make informed decisions.
The three documents discuss education, instructional design, and learning theories. The first document states that education is life itself, not just preparation for life. The second document says that while technology is a useful tool, teachers are the most important factor in motivating and engaging students. The third document argues that people have become reliant on their tools.
Overall, the discussion touched on several key aspects of instructional design. It was noted that instructional design is important for improving quality, aligning with goals, and putting students at the center. Relevant learning theories discussed included Universal Design for Learning and Understanding by Design. The discussion also explored how instructional design could be applied at edX to support a variety of learning pathways
This document outlines a teacher inquiry plan process that includes three parts: 1) A focusing inquiry where the teacher establishes a baseline and direction by determining what students have and have not learned; 2) A teaching inquiry where the teacher plans learning opportunities using research and experience to achieve prioritized outcomes; 3) A learning inquiry where the teacher assesses success through various methods and analyzes the information to determine next steps. The plan template then prompts the teacher to identify specific achievement targets, measurement methods, teaching strategies, resources, and support people.
The document discusses the importance of teaching students how to learn. It argues that the purpose of education is not just to teach content like various subjects, but to build students' ability to learn on their own. It states learning is a lifelong process that students must be able to do independently after formal education. The document advocates for collaborative and project-based learning to develop skills like critical thinking and digital literacy. It also stresses the importance of giving students opportunities to use technology meaningfully in their learning to prepare them for success after school.
Deputy Director of the Rockefeller Center Sadhana Hall submitted an article on resilience to the publication 'Concepts & Connections', which released an issue on leadership competencies.
CSCL 2017 | Using Rotating Leadership to Visualize Students’ Epistemic Agency...Leanne Ma
As in knowledge-creating organizations and Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs), students in Knowledge Building classrooms work creatively with ideas in a self-organized fashion, with all members engaged in advancing emergent community goals. In this study, we examined the online knowledge work of 9-year-olds studying light and shadows. Data triangulation at multiple levels of analysis (e.g., community, students, teacher) was used to validate the COIN concept of rotating leadership to assess students’ collective responsibility for knowledge advancement. Overall, we found many students leading the group at different points in time, facilitating the spread of diverse ideas that enhanced the breadth of community knowledge and the depth of individual learning. Teacher perceptions of classroom dynamics uncovered additional details of student leaders, such as their level of engagement and their learning outcomes. The practical implications of rotating leadership for assessing Knowledge Building community dynamics – such as epistemic agency and collective responsibility – are discussed.
This document discusses connected learning and digital literacy. It defines connected learning as learning that occurs through connections with other learners based on conversation and interaction. Connected learning shifts the focus of literacy from individual expression to community involvement. The document also discusses new literacies that have emerged in the digital age, including skills like play, performance, negotiation, and collective intelligence. It emphasizes the importance of personal learning networks and connected learning communities for facilitating connected learning. Overall, the document advocates for embracing connected, collaborative approaches to learning that leverage digital tools and networks.
Introduction to Personal Digital Inquiry in Grades K-8Julie Coiro
The document discusses strategies for fostering comprehension and engagement through digital inquiry, including coming to a shared understanding of important terms like online reading comprehension and personal digital inquiry, intentionally designing learning opportunities and choosing technologies to support inquiry, and building a classroom culture that values inquiry. It also explores how to empower students at varied levels of inquiry from modeled to open-ended.
Concept-driven, inquiry-based learning focuses on developing students' conceptual understanding rather than just facts alone. It emphasizes big ideas and key concepts that can be applied across disciplines. Teachers facilitate classroom discussions around these concepts to help students make connections between different subject areas and see relationships between facts. Assessing conceptual understanding also involves varied assessments that allow students flexibility. This type of education aims to prepare students for an increasingly globalized world by developing important skills like critical thinking, collaboration, and problem solving.
The document discusses the importance of future-focused learning. It argues that students learn best when they are motivated, spend sustained time learning, and know when they have succeeded. However, traditional school focuses on timetables, subjects, and testing rather than giving students agency over their learning. The document advocates for project-based and collaborative learning that prepares students with the skills and competencies needed for an uncertain future, such as embracing diversity, discerning truth from misinformation, and making complex decisions. It emphasizes learning from history, looking to trends that impact the present, and living deliberately in the present through our choices.
Este informe aborda la asesoría pedagógica desde un fenómeno propio de esta época: el e-learning. Es decir, una asesoría orientada ayudar a docentes e instituciones a pensar, gestionar y mejorar la modalidad de enseñanza a través de las nuevas tecnologías informáticas, fundamentalmente, a lo que se conoce como educación online.
Nini Daiana- Nechay K. Evelyn.
This document discusses how technology is changing education from a focus on "what" teachers teach to "how" students learn, shifting the role of teachers from "master teachers" to "master learners." It advocates for educational approaches that emphasize communication, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, being motivating, connected, interdisciplinary, project-based, self-reflective, willing to take risks, listening to stakeholders, committed to holism, and focused on students' futures.
Themed “Higher Education 4.0: Knowledge, Industry and Humanity”, the 2018 mandate from Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh is centred on embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) as part of the call to revamp the Malaysian higher education system. Idris stressed to realise this, first, the process of teaching and learning has to be changed. Under Learning and Teaching 4.0, there are four aspects which should be put into paramount. The learning spaces should be redesigned. (eg : lecturer halls with multi-tiered collaborative tables and the use of smart board). Too, different kinds of pedagogies are needed, which are heutagogy (self-determined learning), paragogy (peer-oriented learning) and cybergogy (virtual-based learning).
Teaching for the 21st century diapositivasSINDYGALVAN03
This document discusses the skills needed for students in the 21st century global workforce. It argues that teachers should incorporate career-oriented projects into their classrooms to help students master core subjects like reading and writing as well as develop skills in communication, problem-solving, critical thinking and financial literacy. These essential skills will prepare students for an uncertain future and changing world. The document outlines seven survival skills advocated for by Tony Wagner: critical thinking, collaboration, agility, initiative, entrepreneurialism, effective communication, and accessing and analyzing information.
The document summarizes Carol Kuhlthau's model of the Information Search Process (ISP), which describes the typical stages and feelings that students experience when conducting research. The six stages are: 1) initiation, 2) selection, 3) exploration, 4) formulation, 5) collection, and 6) presentation. Kuhlthau's research found that students generally feel uncertain early on but become more focused and confident as they progress through the stages. The ISP model informs the concept of Guided Inquiry, where teachers and librarians intervene to support students' research based on the stage they are in.
Avatar-mediation and transformation of practice in a 3D virtual world - meani...Marianne Riis
This document summarizes Marianne Riis's PhD defense presentation on avatar-mediation and the transformation of practice in the 3D virtual world Second Life. The summary includes:
1) Riis's research questions focused on how students respond to avatar-mediation and transformation of practice in Second Life, and how design can facilitate meaningful participation and reification for students.
2) Her methodology involved research-led action research over four cycles from 2007-2011 using grounded theory-inspired coding of qualitative data from observations, interviews, and documents.
3) Key findings included that a respectful remediation strategy alone was not effective, and that alignment with curricular goals, supporting identities, and in-world
Development of a Pedagogical Design Matrix - for ICT-based Boundary Crossing ...Marianne Riis
This document discusses the development of a pedagogical design matrix for using information and communication technology (ICT) to promote boundary crossing in dual vocational education and training (VET) in Denmark. The research project examined challenges in connecting school and workplace learning in Danish dual VET. Interviews and observations were conducted with teachers, students, IT counselors, and workplace trainers. The findings were used to develop parts of a pedagogical design framework, including a matrix focusing on designing ICT-based boundary crossing activities. Critical issues discussed include the need to involve users in authentic experiments and to consider the plethora of ICT tools used in VET, not just pedagogical technologies.
This document discusses several complex factors that influence learning, including competence, identity, knowledge, and performance. It presents learning as a journey of authentic inquiry that connects one's purpose, identity, and story to real-world competence. Several frameworks are introduced for understanding learning as a multi-level process within learning organizations that can be improved through systems approaches like the Deming cycle of plan-do-study-act. The role of learning analytics in providing data, simulations, and tools to support self-directed change and document one's learning journey is also discussed.
Digital Futures is a resource that aims to help educators understand and explore what it means to be digitally literate. It discusses how the definition of literacy has changed over time and explores different views on literacy, including as a set of cognitive skills, as a social practice, and critical literacy. The resource also examines how digital literacy can be incorporated into school-based literacy teaching by using technologies to encourage creativity, critical thinking, and home-school connections. Challenges of using digital technologies in schools are also addressed, as well as visions for the future of education.
The document discusses the importance of teaching complex thinking skills to students. It defines complex thinking as seeing multiple sides of issues, reasoning objectively using evidence, solving problems, and more. Complex thinking is best taught using depth of knowledge (DOK) levels 3 and 4, which involve strategic thinking, justification, applying concepts to new contexts, and creating new things. Teaching complex thinking helps students navigate an information-rich world and make informed decisions.
The three documents discuss education, instructional design, and learning theories. The first document states that education is life itself, not just preparation for life. The second document says that while technology is a useful tool, teachers are the most important factor in motivating and engaging students. The third document argues that people have become reliant on their tools.
Overall, the discussion touched on several key aspects of instructional design. It was noted that instructional design is important for improving quality, aligning with goals, and putting students at the center. Relevant learning theories discussed included Universal Design for Learning and Understanding by Design. The discussion also explored how instructional design could be applied at edX to support a variety of learning pathways
This document outlines a teacher inquiry plan process that includes three parts: 1) A focusing inquiry where the teacher establishes a baseline and direction by determining what students have and have not learned; 2) A teaching inquiry where the teacher plans learning opportunities using research and experience to achieve prioritized outcomes; 3) A learning inquiry where the teacher assesses success through various methods and analyzes the information to determine next steps. The plan template then prompts the teacher to identify specific achievement targets, measurement methods, teaching strategies, resources, and support people.
The document discusses the importance of teaching students how to learn. It argues that the purpose of education is not just to teach content like various subjects, but to build students' ability to learn on their own. It states learning is a lifelong process that students must be able to do independently after formal education. The document advocates for collaborative and project-based learning to develop skills like critical thinking and digital literacy. It also stresses the importance of giving students opportunities to use technology meaningfully in their learning to prepare them for success after school.
Deputy Director of the Rockefeller Center Sadhana Hall submitted an article on resilience to the publication 'Concepts & Connections', which released an issue on leadership competencies.
CSCL 2017 | Using Rotating Leadership to Visualize Students’ Epistemic Agency...Leanne Ma
As in knowledge-creating organizations and Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs), students in Knowledge Building classrooms work creatively with ideas in a self-organized fashion, with all members engaged in advancing emergent community goals. In this study, we examined the online knowledge work of 9-year-olds studying light and shadows. Data triangulation at multiple levels of analysis (e.g., community, students, teacher) was used to validate the COIN concept of rotating leadership to assess students’ collective responsibility for knowledge advancement. Overall, we found many students leading the group at different points in time, facilitating the spread of diverse ideas that enhanced the breadth of community knowledge and the depth of individual learning. Teacher perceptions of classroom dynamics uncovered additional details of student leaders, such as their level of engagement and their learning outcomes. The practical implications of rotating leadership for assessing Knowledge Building community dynamics – such as epistemic agency and collective responsibility – are discussed.
This document discusses connected learning and digital literacy. It defines connected learning as learning that occurs through connections with other learners based on conversation and interaction. Connected learning shifts the focus of literacy from individual expression to community involvement. The document also discusses new literacies that have emerged in the digital age, including skills like play, performance, negotiation, and collective intelligence. It emphasizes the importance of personal learning networks and connected learning communities for facilitating connected learning. Overall, the document advocates for embracing connected, collaborative approaches to learning that leverage digital tools and networks.
Introduction to Personal Digital Inquiry in Grades K-8Julie Coiro
The document discusses strategies for fostering comprehension and engagement through digital inquiry, including coming to a shared understanding of important terms like online reading comprehension and personal digital inquiry, intentionally designing learning opportunities and choosing technologies to support inquiry, and building a classroom culture that values inquiry. It also explores how to empower students at varied levels of inquiry from modeled to open-ended.
Concept-driven, inquiry-based learning focuses on developing students' conceptual understanding rather than just facts alone. It emphasizes big ideas and key concepts that can be applied across disciplines. Teachers facilitate classroom discussions around these concepts to help students make connections between different subject areas and see relationships between facts. Assessing conceptual understanding also involves varied assessments that allow students flexibility. This type of education aims to prepare students for an increasingly globalized world by developing important skills like critical thinking, collaboration, and problem solving.
The document discusses the importance of future-focused learning. It argues that students learn best when they are motivated, spend sustained time learning, and know when they have succeeded. However, traditional school focuses on timetables, subjects, and testing rather than giving students agency over their learning. The document advocates for project-based and collaborative learning that prepares students with the skills and competencies needed for an uncertain future, such as embracing diversity, discerning truth from misinformation, and making complex decisions. It emphasizes learning from history, looking to trends that impact the present, and living deliberately in the present through our choices.
Este informe aborda la asesoría pedagógica desde un fenómeno propio de esta época: el e-learning. Es decir, una asesoría orientada ayudar a docentes e instituciones a pensar, gestionar y mejorar la modalidad de enseñanza a través de las nuevas tecnologías informáticas, fundamentalmente, a lo que se conoce como educación online.
Nini Daiana- Nechay K. Evelyn.
This document discusses how technology is changing education from a focus on "what" teachers teach to "how" students learn, shifting the role of teachers from "master teachers" to "master learners." It advocates for educational approaches that emphasize communication, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, being motivating, connected, interdisciplinary, project-based, self-reflective, willing to take risks, listening to stakeholders, committed to holism, and focused on students' futures.
Themed “Higher Education 4.0: Knowledge, Industry and Humanity”, the 2018 mandate from Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh is centred on embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) as part of the call to revamp the Malaysian higher education system. Idris stressed to realise this, first, the process of teaching and learning has to be changed. Under Learning and Teaching 4.0, there are four aspects which should be put into paramount. The learning spaces should be redesigned. (eg : lecturer halls with multi-tiered collaborative tables and the use of smart board). Too, different kinds of pedagogies are needed, which are heutagogy (self-determined learning), paragogy (peer-oriented learning) and cybergogy (virtual-based learning).
Teaching for the 21st century diapositivasSINDYGALVAN03
This document discusses the skills needed for students in the 21st century global workforce. It argues that teachers should incorporate career-oriented projects into their classrooms to help students master core subjects like reading and writing as well as develop skills in communication, problem-solving, critical thinking and financial literacy. These essential skills will prepare students for an uncertain future and changing world. The document outlines seven survival skills advocated for by Tony Wagner: critical thinking, collaboration, agility, initiative, entrepreneurialism, effective communication, and accessing and analyzing information.
The document summarizes Carol Kuhlthau's model of the Information Search Process (ISP), which describes the typical stages and feelings that students experience when conducting research. The six stages are: 1) initiation, 2) selection, 3) exploration, 4) formulation, 5) collection, and 6) presentation. Kuhlthau's research found that students generally feel uncertain early on but become more focused and confident as they progress through the stages. The ISP model informs the concept of Guided Inquiry, where teachers and librarians intervene to support students' research based on the stage they are in.
Avatar-mediation and transformation of practice in a 3D virtual world - meani...Marianne Riis
This document summarizes Marianne Riis's PhD defense presentation on avatar-mediation and the transformation of practice in the 3D virtual world Second Life. The summary includes:
1) Riis's research questions focused on how students respond to avatar-mediation and transformation of practice in Second Life, and how design can facilitate meaningful participation and reification for students.
2) Her methodology involved research-led action research over four cycles from 2007-2011 using grounded theory-inspired coding of qualitative data from observations, interviews, and documents.
3) Key findings included that a respectful remediation strategy alone was not effective, and that alignment with curricular goals, supporting identities, and in-world
Development of a Pedagogical Design Matrix - for ICT-based Boundary Crossing ...Marianne Riis
This document discusses the development of a pedagogical design matrix for using information and communication technology (ICT) to promote boundary crossing in dual vocational education and training (VET) in Denmark. The research project examined challenges in connecting school and workplace learning in Danish dual VET. Interviews and observations were conducted with teachers, students, IT counselors, and workplace trainers. The findings were used to develop parts of a pedagogical design framework, including a matrix focusing on designing ICT-based boundary crossing activities. Critical issues discussed include the need to involve users in authentic experiments and to consider the plethora of ICT tools used in VET, not just pedagogical technologies.
This document discusses several complex factors that influence learning, including competence, identity, knowledge, and performance. It presents learning as a journey of authentic inquiry that connects one's purpose, identity, and story to real-world competence. Several frameworks are introduced for understanding learning as a multi-level process within learning organizations that can be improved through systems approaches like the Deming cycle of plan-do-study-act. The role of learning analytics in providing data, simulations, and tools to support self-directed change and document one's learning journey is also discussed.
Digital Futures is a resource that aims to help educators understand and explore what it means to be digitally literate. It discusses how the definition of literacy has changed over time and explores different views on literacy, including as a set of cognitive skills, as a social practice, and critical literacy. The resource also examines how digital literacy can be incorporated into school-based literacy teaching by using technologies to encourage creativity, critical thinking, and home-school connections. Challenges of using digital technologies in schools are also addressed, as well as visions for the future of education.
#Flops - Assessing the Challenges of Embedding Digital Literacy in a Flipped ...SEDA
This document summarizes a workshop on using the "Visitors and Residents" model to reflect on digital engagement. The model proposes a continuum of online engagement based on motivation rather than skills or age. "Visitors" see the web as a tool and leave no social trace, while "Residents" see it as a place to socially engage with others. The workshop involved individual mapping activities to reflect on participants' own engagement followed by group discussions to identify risks, challenges, and needed supports. References are provided on digital literacy, flipped classrooms, and the Visitors and Residents model.
Game-based learning and academic integrityJudy O'Connell
Through a new subject added to anacademic program which commenced in 2014 at Charles Sturt University, further strategies have been explored to support subject engagement and assessment design. The contribution of global connectedness for embedding academic integrity through social scholarship was an essential feature of the curriculum and learning experience.
Presented at LOEX 2017 with Trudi Jacobson
Librarians and faculty members from three institutions collaborated to adapt a metaliteracy Digital Citizen badge for use with graduate literacy education students. The multi-faceted goal is not only for these students to affirm their roles as digital citizens, but also to actively teach and model such citizenship to their prospective students. This grant-funded project, which adapts content from an existing metaliteracy badging system, incorporates mechanisms to encourage a community of users, and serves as a model for collaborations with faculty across various disciplines.
In this session, project collaborators will briefly introduce metaliteracy (metaliteracy.org), provide an overview of the badging system (metaliteracybadges.org), and discuss the components added for this project, and mechanisms that worked well for collaborating. We are not only concerned with collaboration within the grant team; we also built components that will encourage educators to create open access learning objects for an Educators Corner and an Educators Conference.
Drawing from expertise as co-creators and researchers in initiatives such as the new ACRL Information Literacy Framework and the Connecting Credentials (connectingcredentials.org) and Global Learning Qualifications Frameworks (funded by the Lumina Foundation), we have worked together to create a robust resource that will be available to every SUNY institution, and, ultimately, to interested institutions beyond SUNY. We encourage participants to actively engage in the presentation by contributing ideas for badging opportunities based on your own professional development and curricular goals to an open forum in the Educators Corner.
This document discusses using a library induction game called LibQuest to help first-year undergraduate students at Teesside University learn about library resources in a more engaging way. LibQuest uses augmented reality and tasks students to complete around the library. An evaluation found students enjoyed the social and exploratory aspects of LibQuest and it increased their awareness of available resources. Statistics show participation and borrowing increased in the years after LibQuest for students in the Schools of Computing and Health. Future development could include tailoring LibQuest to different subject areas and improving the app experience.
Constructivist Learning and Mantle of the Expert Pedagogy
A Case Study of an Authentic Learning Activity,
the “Brain Game”, to Develop 21St Century Skills in Context
Grace Lawlor & Brendan Tangney
CSEDU Conference 2016
Hum@n Project: Digital Storytelling module: Digital Storytelling in the Human...Karl Donert
A series of presentations from the Hum@n Digital Humanities Project for higher education from the module on digital storytelling.
The module is organised into five parts:
1. Stories, narratives and storytelling
2. Story-based learning
3. Digital storytelling
4. Tools for digital storytelling
5. Using StoryMaps
By the end of this module, participants should be able to use storytelling in teaching, learning and research and create StoryMaps.
Three sentences summarizing the key points:
1) While policies aim to improve readiness through rigorous coursework and test scores, students' grades are actually better predictors of their future success than test scores or courses taken. 2) Grades reflect not just content knowledge and skills, but also important noncognitive factors like behaviors, attitudes, strategies, and relationships that support school performance. 3) Noncognitive factors beyond just cognitive abilities and knowledge, such as motivation, self-control, and problem-solving skills, are critical influences on students' academic outcomes.
The document discusses the role of school libraries in developing students' skills and capabilities. It notes that school libraries can help students develop research skills, thinking skills, information literacy skills, and a love of reading. The document also outlines results from a survey of New Jersey school librarians that found school libraries contribute to student learning outcomes like intellectual engagement, independent learning, and awareness of ethical issues. However, librarians struggled to articulate specific learning outcomes and impacts on deep knowledge and understanding.
Opening Frontiers in Intercultural Academic Practice: Concept mapping as an e...SEDA
This document discusses using concept mapping as an equitable approach to academic development with diverse colleagues from different contexts. It explores how to increase the likelihood that globally diverse colleagues will experience academic exercises as respectful and empowering regardless of their gender, ethnicity, culture or other attributes. The session handout references literature on culturally relevant pedagogy and relational-cultural theory to illustrate how concept mapping was used with tutors on three continents in an intercultural manner.
The document discusses how community arts organizations can connect their programs to the Common Core State Standards. It provides an overview of the Common Core, including its goals of preparing students for college and careers. The Common Core focuses on higher-order thinking skills, content mastery, and habits of mind. It also shifts the focus in English Language Arts to more non-fiction texts, argumentative writing, and using textual evidence. In math, it emphasizes practices like problem-solving and modeling with mathematics. Two examples of programs from the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust are described along with the standards they address.
The document discusses using online scenario-based learning modules to assist non-English speaking background students studying Corporations Law. It notes that different learning styles between countries can cause difficulties for international students and suggests using online modules featuring scenarios and representations of students to help explain complex legal concepts and materials in more accessible ways. References are provided on principles of English language development, challenges international students face, and effective design of online learning environments.
Kirsty Kitto, Simon Buckingham Shum, and Andrew Gibson. (2018). Embracing Imperfection in Learning Analytics. In Proceedings of LAK18: International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, March 5–9, 2018, Sydney, NSW, Australia, pp.451-460. (ACM, New York, NY, USA). https://doi.org/10.1145/3170358.3170413
Open Access: http://simon.buckinghamshum.net/2018/01/embracing-imperfection-in-learning-analytics
Abstract: Learning Analytics (LA) sits at the confluence of many contributing disciplines, which brings the risk of hidden assumptions inherited from those fields. Here, we consider a hidden assumption derived from computer science, namely, that improving computational accuracy in classification is always a worthy goal. We demonstrate that this assumption is unlikely to hold in some important educational contexts, and argue that embracing computational “imperfection” can improve outcomes for those scenarios. Specifically, we show that learner-facing approaches aimed at “learning how to learn” require more holistic validation strategies. We consider what information must be provided in order to reasonably evaluate algorithmic tools in LA, to facilitate transparency and realistic performance comparisons.
1. The document outlines a research project at York St John University that aims to explore understandings of information literacy across different academic subjects and establish if emerging forms of information literacy are present.
2. The research objectives are to examine how academics experience and evaluate information literacy in their teaching and identify common ground already in curriculums.
3. The research also looks to implement and evaluate a platform for information literacy dialogue among staff to promote collaborative provision and improve practice.
This document discusses teaching and learning philosophies for the 21st century classroom. It describes 21st century teachers as facilitators, lifelong learners, and reflective practitioners. Learners are described as multiliterate, innovative problem solvers and active citizens. The document advocates for inquiry learning through meaningful experiences that build on students' prior knowledge and authentically integrate subjects. It provides examples of assessment tools like self-assessment and feedback. The conclusion emphasizes integrating the curriculum to acknowledge students as citizens and cultivate lifelong learners.
Grades are better predictors of students' future academic success than test scores alone. Grades capture students' mastery of content knowledge as well as noncognitive factors like their academic behaviors, attitudes, perseverance, and learning strategies. Research shows that these noncognitive factors significantly influence students' academic performance and outcomes. This suggests schools should focus not just on raising academic standards and requiring more rigorous coursework, but also on explicitly developing students' noncognitive skills to help more of them complete high school and college.
This document discusses a research project exploring communities of practice around information literacy among faculty at York St. John University. The research aims to understand differing conceptions of information literacy, establish if critical approaches are already part of teaching practices, examine how faculty experience and evaluate information literacy, and create a platform for information literacy dialogue. It reviews relevant literature on communities of practice and social learning approaches. Initial pilot interviews provided evidence that faculty have information literacy concerns and values embedded in their teaching, with one faculty more aligned with emerging critical approaches and one with traditional skills models.
Webinar: Thinking and Teaching Digitally: Connecting to the Millennial LearnerDonald Doane
Today’s students are digital natives with digital expectations. They are coming of age in a Web 2.0 world where Facebook, Twitter and text messaging are the preferred channels for sharing and communicating ideas, but how do we as educators leverage these same social and mobile technologies to increase student engagement and ultimately improve learning outcomes?
Professor Renee Robinson discusses how Saint Xavier University is doing just that!
This presentation covers how both faculty and the institution can leverage Social Media to better:
• Connect with and Engage Millennial Learners
• Identify and Understand Millennial Characteristics and Behaviors
• Re-imagine Pedagogies that Assist Millennial Learning
This document discusses trends in 21st century learning spaces and designs. It defines learning spaces as physical, blended, or virtual environments that enhance learning. It outlines trends like blended learning and challenges in designing learning spaces. It discusses guiding pedagogies like authentic and personalized learning. It provides principles for designing learning spaces like comfort, aesthetics, and blending technological and face-to-face resources. It emphasizes empowering learners with knowledge, skills, and attitudes to continue learning.
Learning Analytics for Holistic Improvement ALASI 2014Ruth Deakin Crick
Presentation on holistic improvement and learning analytics using hierarchical proess modellling at the Australian Learning Analytics Summer School 2014
This document summarizes the transition project between Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5 at Avonbourne College, an 1150-student school for girls ages 11-18 with specialisms in business, thinking skills, and internationalism. The project aimed to train Year 11 students and staff to adopt a more self-directed, problem-solving approach to learning aligned with the school's core purpose. Staff underwent training to facilitate learning through design and conversations rather than didactic teaching. Initial results found that establishing core teams, leadership support, and flexibility were essential, and student self-directed learning capacities showed promising signs of growth.
This document discusses creating a shared language for teaching, learning, and assessment across student transitions to improve student achievement and progress. It proposes establishing a common approach to teaching as learning design, shared assessment strategies using rich data, and common values across learning environments. The goal is to form a networked improvement community of "research teachers" who plan improvement efforts, try interventions, study results, and share learning to strengthen student self-directed learning and manage transitions.
The document describes the development of a diagnostic tool to analyze test results from students with different learning needs to ensure accurate responses and understand their self-directed learning prior to transitioning. It explains that researchers obtained and adapted existing dimension questions, established their appropriateness, built on other diagnostic tools for lower ability students, produced a prototype, analyzed results, and outlined next steps to administer the survey to incoming students to determine development priorities and allow for earlier intervention.
What are systems and how does this apply to school leadership Ruth Deakin Crick
This document provides an introduction to systems thinking for school leaders. It defines a system as a set of interconnected parts that produce emergent behaviors not present in the individual parts. Systems thinking recognizes that the world consists of highly interconnected technical and social entities organized in hierarchies that produce complex and uncertain behaviors. The document discusses key concepts in systems thinking including layers, loops, and processes to understand how change happens within systems. It emphasizes integrating both hard, physical aspects and soft, human aspects of systems and considering purpose, stakeholders, and relationships between components that influence system performance.
Echo presentation hierarhical process modelling case studyRuth Deakin Crick
A case study of the application of HPM and Perimeta to school leadership in three English Academies...<a><img src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a>Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>.
The document provides information on designing questionnaires and surveys. It discusses determining research questions, different types of surveys, principles of good survey design, question formatting and layout, advantages and disadvantages of questionnaires, improving response rates, question types, designing effective questions, and data analysis. Key points covered include framing the research question, descriptive vs. analytic vs. exploratory vs. confirmatory surveys, keeping surveys concise, credible, and minimizing burden on respondents.
This document discusses narrative inquiry as a qualitative research method. It focuses on using stories and symbols to collect and analyze data. Narrative inquiry interprets people's stories and how they make meaning of the world. It views narratives as social constructs influenced by context rather than just facts. The research process in narrative inquiry is flexible and allows themes to emerge through stories rather than relying on pre-determined questions. Key methods include gathering stories through interviews and observations and analyzing them thematically while keeping the full story intact.
This document discusses improving student learning outcomes through collaborative improvement efforts. It emphasizes measuring student self-directed learning and using Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles to test improvements on a small scale before expanding. Networks will collaborate by sharing knowledge and testing ideas to achieve measurable improvements in learning at scale over time. The document also references using empirical, analytical, hermeneutical and emancipatory approaches to guide this work.
This document discusses pathways to impact for research universities. It notes that Research Councils UK defines research impact as the demonstrable contribution of excellent research to society and the economy. It then identifies some challenges to impact and possible pathways to address these challenges, including ensuring research and practice inform each other, engaging with organizations that bridge research and practice, getting universities closer to the education world, understanding audiences, and being creative.
This document discusses learning across transitions and developing resilience. It notes that for an individual or school to be sustainable, they must be self-aware and take responsibility for their own purpose, learning, and performance. It then discusses developing a shared language for learning across the community from leaders to teachers to students. It outlines different studies on measuring students' learning power and how interventions can help underachieving students develop skills like changing and learning, critical curiosity, and resilience. Overall it advocates for authentic enquiry-based learning to generate rich knowledge and deep learning.
This document discusses the concept of pedagogy of hope and learning as a relational journey of authentic inquiry. It presents learning as having three components: identity, knowledge, and competence. Learning is depicted as a journey from the personal to the public. The document advocates for the school being a learning community where leadership and learning are interconnected, with a focus on student, teacher, and community learning. Images are included of Australian wildlife and landscapes to represent concepts like critical curiosity, creativity, and resilience. Comments from an Indigenous leader praise an exhibition for bringing culture into the classroom in a way that meets educational standards. The document promotes finding a unifying story that engages young people.
This document outlines a new approach to a Preparation for Tertiary Success (PTS) course designed to help Indigenous Australian students transition successfully to university. The new course focuses on identifying student strengths and learning needs, incorporating Indigenous knowledge, and developing a lifelong learning identity. Key changes include exploring concepts like identity, resilience and success; emphasizing group learning; and using tools like the Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory to support students through shared understanding of learning dimensions. Initial results are promising, with more students successfully completing the course.
Learning Dispositions and Transferable Competences: pedagogy, modelling and l...Ruth Deakin Crick
This document discusses learning dispositions and transferable competencies in pedagogy, modeling, and learning analytics. It summarizes that:
1) Learning dispositions matter for developing intentional learners and can be modeled as "Learning Power" which comprises seven dimensions that indicate effective lifelong learning.
2) A learning analytics platform called the Learning Warehouse hosts apps, pools learner data, generates real-time analytics reports, and manages permissions for different stakeholders including learners, educators, and researchers.
3) Validating learning analytics requires considering different "truth paradigms" depending on whether the analysis is for individuals, groups, or systems-wide and must be interdisciplinary and methodologically plural.
This document discusses rethinking school leadership and transformation. It provides:
1) Evidence that current school improvement strategies are reaching limits and not addressing complex issues blocking further progress.
2) A call for a new paradigm of school leadership focused on transformation rather than just incremental improvement. This would develop five minds - disciplined, synthesizing, creating, respectful and ethical/spiritual - and address complex problems through systems thinking.
3) Examples of systemic leadership approaches using communities and networks to holistically drive change through developing leadership in others over the long term.
In 3 sentences or less, it argues that a new paradigm is needed to transform schools for the 21st century by developing leaders' abilities to
The document provides an introduction to learning power and discusses several studies related to assessing and developing learning power. It defines seven dimensions of learning power: changing and learning, meaning making, critical curiosity, creativity, learning relationships, strategic awareness, and resilience. Several studies are summarized that examined the relationship between learning power and factors like academic attainment, teacher behaviors, and underachievement. The document also discusses interventions for developing learning power, such as using metaphors and coaching conversations.
Corporate Leadership as Corporate Authorship TIm Coburn 2011Ruth Deakin Crick
The document discusses the idea of corporate leadership as corporate authorship. It proposes that human systems are systems of language, with their own vocabularies and meanings for identity, purpose, action, expression, and belonging. As a result, leaders construct and sustain corporate life through their role as authors, architects, and arbiters of the language used. The document suggests that viewing corporate life as a system of language invites viewing leadership as a form of authorship within that system.
ElliMent is an online mentoring tool developed by the University of Bristol to facilitate learning and change for learners of all ages. It provides support for online mentoring around ELLI profiles, which show how learners see their own learning abilities. The mentor and mentee can view the mentee's ELLI profile diagram, set goals to improve certain learning dimensions, and exchange notes and actions in a chat. The tool is intended to supplement phone or video conversations rather than replace them.
Level 3 NCEA - NZ: A Nation In the Making 1872 - 1900 SML.pptHenry Hollis
The History of NZ 1870-1900.
Making of a Nation.
From the NZ Wars to Liberals,
Richard Seddon, George Grey,
Social Laboratory, New Zealand,
Confiscations, Kotahitanga, Kingitanga, Parliament, Suffrage, Repudiation, Economic Change, Agriculture, Gold Mining, Timber, Flax, Sheep, Dairying,
A Visual Guide to 1 Samuel | A Tale of Two HeartsSteve Thomason
These slides walk through the story of 1 Samuel. Samuel is the last judge of Israel. The people reject God and want a king. Saul is anointed as the first king, but he is not a good king. David, the shepherd boy is anointed and Saul is envious of him. David shows honor while Saul continues to self destruct.
This presentation was provided by Rebecca Benner, Ph.D., of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, for the second session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session Two: 'Expanding Pathways to Publishing Careers,' was held June 13, 2024.
Temple of Asclepius in Thrace. Excavation resultsKrassimira Luka
The temple and the sanctuary around were dedicated to Asklepios Zmidrenus. This name has been known since 1875 when an inscription dedicated to him was discovered in Rome. The inscription is dated in 227 AD and was left by soldiers originating from the city of Philippopolis (modern Plovdiv).
This document provides an overview of wound healing, its functions, stages, mechanisms, factors affecting it, and complications.
A wound is a break in the integrity of the skin or tissues, which may be associated with disruption of the structure and function.
Healing is the body’s response to injury in an attempt to restore normal structure and functions.
Healing can occur in two ways: Regeneration and Repair
There are 4 phases of wound healing: hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling. This document also describes the mechanism of wound healing. Factors that affect healing include infection, uncontrolled diabetes, poor nutrition, age, anemia, the presence of foreign bodies, etc.
Complications of wound healing like infection, hyperpigmentation of scar, contractures, and keloid formation.
3. • Communication in the mother tongue
• Communication in foreign languages;
• Mathematical & scientific basic competence
• Digital competence;
• Learning to learn;
• Social and civic competences;
• Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship;
• Cultural awareness and expression.
Deakin Crick et al (eds) (2013) Learning to Learn: Perspectives from Theory and Practice, Routledge, London Forthcoming.
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Wylie, C. (eds.) The Handbook of Research on Student Engagement New York: Springer
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Deakin Crick R., Broadfoot P. & Claxton G. (2004) Developing an Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory: The ELLI Project, Assessment in
Education, 11, 3, 247 - 272.
6. 21st
century challenge…..
“educational philosophy and
theory face the unfamiliar and
challenging task of theorising a
formative process which is not
guided from the start by the
target form designed in
advance”
Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman, 2001: The Individualised Society, Cambridge, Polity Press.
7. Deakin Crick, R., Godfrey, P. & Huang S. (2013) Systems Thinking, Systems Design and Learning Power, International Journal of Engineering
Education, (in press).