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Learning Technologies, Current Debates and Barriers
1. Learning Technologies,
Current Debates and Barriers
Presentation to Union of Students of Ireland
Waterford Institute of Technology
Brian Mulligan,
Centre for Online Learning, IT Sligo
11am, 18th July 2013
View live at:
http://itsligo.adobeconnect.com/bmulligan
2. What’s wrong with Higher
Education?
You can learn anything online!
Do we even need higher education?
3. Why use learning
technologies?
To reduce costs and lecturer hours
To improve the quality of learning.
To stop wasting students’ time
To diagnose and assist
underperforming students
To improve access
To prepare students for lifelong
learning
12. Lecture
Capture
Easy recording and publishing of
screen and audio
In the background during lectures
Works well with electronic whiteboard.
Great for:
◦ Difficult topics (can take slowly and
repeat)
◦ Studying and revision
◦ Mature students with difficult schedules
13. Open Educational Resources
OER
Includes MOOCs
◦ Massive Open Online Courses
◦ Coursera etc.
◦ Some institutions offering assessment
and credit.
Free materials
◦ Including free textbooks and research
publications
◦ Eg. Khan Academy
14. Virtual Learning Environments
Moodle, Blackboard etc
Just platforms to put materials up on
Not all that different from each other.
16. Learning Analytics
Coming soon!
With large numbers of users
Can prove what works
Can automatically adjust.
17. Current debates
Ireland
◦ How to get more education online
◦ How to get lecturers to use more learning
technologies
Worldwide
◦ Free online learning
◦ Quality
◦ Competency Based Accreditation
◦ Disaggregation
◦ Getting institutions to change
◦ Private vs Public
◦ Competition and failure
18. Barriers in Ireland
Institutional inagility
Lack of knowledge
Lack of competition
Vested interests
Polls: Costs, Quality Access – use it several times.
What do the authorities want?
What do the public want?
What do lecturers want?
What is your personal priority?
Where do you think is the greatest potential for change/impact?
I believe “Access” –
It is more of a green field
computers have not proved to be as smart as we would have predicted but we underestimated the communications potential. (The death of distance)
Online Distance will be very important.