The document summarizes a presentation by Professor Jeremy Williams on upskilling for online learning. [1] It discusses integrating digital learning technologies across curricula and redefining roles and workload. [2] It also covers moving from a virtual learning environment to a personal learning environment and connectivism as a learning theory for the digital age where building, tinkering, learning and sharing lead to more building. [3] The presentation advocates for learner-centric and participatory education with authentic and flexible assessments that last beyond tests.

1. Senior Leadership Conference
Mainstreaming the Disruption:
Up-skilling for Online Learning
Professor Jeremy Williams
Asia Pacific Management Centre
Griffith Business School

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1. Unbundle higher education services
1. Integrate digital learning technologies across all curricula
1. Redefine roles and workload
2. Get serious about service quality and who gets value
1. Transition from VLE to PLE

23. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age
Siemens (2005) http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm
Building  tinkering  learning  sharing  building
Students do this routinely every day
…using their ...

26. From teaching to learning
Old World: Teacher Centric New World: Learner Centric

28. (Seely Brown, 2008)

29. … it’s just learning

32. Old paradigm
Content
Assessment
Learning
outcomes

33. New paradigm
Learning
outcomes
Assessment
Content

35. Junior
Junior Faculty Junior
Faculty Faculty
Educational Research
Designer Assistant
Senior
Faculty
Blended
Curriculum Learning
Consultant Advisor
Librarian

38. The outcome:
participatory Learner centric: student as consumer and
producer of knowledge
Assessment of learning grounded in reality: outcome
authentic driven learning; learning that lasts beyond the test
flexible Multi-modal in format: catering to different learning
styles and different life styles

46. Mainstream
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