This document summarizes a presentation about new approaches to teaching and learning with technology. It discusses how expectations of new technologies often follow a cycle from hype to disappointment. While blended learning has become popular, it often fails to truly transform traditional teaching methods. True transformation is challenging due to workload issues, the status of teaching, and rapidly changing environments. However, institutions can design new approaches by exploring new spaces, designing their own models, and thinking like future makers.

1. New Moves for New Times:
Dancing Towards the Future
Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning
Melbourne, Australia
13th September, 2016

2. Outline…
1. Fickle dance
2. Beyond old steps
3. Dancing against the grain
New Moves for New Times:
Dancing Towards the Future

3. This presentation does NOT
contain handy hints for teachers
Warning…

4. 1. Fickle dance…

5. “With the coming of the New Media, the need for
print on paper will rapidly diminish. The day will
soon arrive when the world’s literature will be
available from The Automatic Library at the
mere pressing of a button”
(Uzanne, 1994).
1. Fickle dance…

6. “With the coming of the New Media, the need for
print on paper will rapidly diminish. The day will
soon arrive when the world’s literature will be
available from The Automatic Library at the
mere pressing of a button”
(Uzanne, 1894).
1. Fickle dance…

7. “Books will soon be obsolete in public schools.
Scholars will be instructed through the eye. It is
possible to teach every branch of human
knowledge with the motion picture”.
(Thomas Edison, 1912)
1. Fickle dance…

8. “I believe that the motion picture is destined to
revolutionize our educational system and that
in a few years it will supplant largely, if not
entirely, the use of textbooks,”
(Thomas Edison, 1922)
1. Fickle dance…

9. “We will undoubtedly have lectures of every
conceivable kind presented to us right in our
homes, when practical television arrives,
possibly a year or two off.”
Short Wave Craft, 1935
1. Fickle dance…

10. “Modern educators and psychologists have found,
through thousands of tests in the nations schools,
that “typewriter” children do better work… get from
10% to 30% higher grades...”
https://twitter.com/audreywatters/status/719231612865544192
1. Fickle dance…

11. “It happens every
day! Many so
called ‘slow
students’ learn
to type and then
show up on the
honor roll.”
https://larrycuban.wordpress.com
1. Fickle dance…

12. Project Plato – 1960s
1. Fickle dance…

13. Project Plato – 1960s
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14. Cuban, L. (1986). Teachers and machines: The classroom use of technology
since 1920. New York: Teachers’ College Press.
Technology
Expectation Cycle
(1986)
High Expectations
Subsided Enthusiasm
Growing
Support
1. Fickle dance…

15. Gartner Hype Cycle
“Technology-enhanced learning involves an
ongoing cycle of hype, hope and
disappointment” (Gouseti, 2010).
MOOCs
1. Fickle dance…

16. “Resilience requires
adaptation and evolution to new
environmental conditions, but retains core identity”
(Weller & Anderson, 2013, p.55).
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19. “Big data, powerful analytical tools, and
sophisticated data mining techniques is poised to
spark a revolution in how education is delivered
and in how the efficacy of that education is
measured”
(ECAR Working Report, 2015, p. 1).
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ewg1510.pdf
1. Fickle dance…

20. “We tend to overestimate the effect of a
technology in the short run and
underestimate the effect in the long
run.”
Amara’s Law
1. Fickle dance…

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23. Is face-to-face teaching better than online learning?
2. Beyond old steps…

24. 2015
Is face-to-face teaching better than online learning?
2. Beyond old steps…

25. Is blended learning really transforming traditional
pedagogy?
2. Beyond old steps…

26. “At its simplest, blended learning is the
integration of classroom face-to-face
learning experiences with online learning
experiences” (Garrison & Kanuka, 2004, p.96).
Is blended learning really transforming traditional
pedagogy?
2. Beyond old steps…

27. Weak sense of blending…
Is blended learning really transforming traditional
pedagogy?
2. Beyond old steps…

28. Is blended learning really transforming traditional
pedagogy?
2. Beyond old steps…

29. Is blended learning really transforming traditional
pedagogy?
2. Beyond old steps…

30. “. . . an opportunity to fundamentally redesign
how we approach teaching and learning in ways
that higher education institutions may benefit from
increased effectiveness, convenience and
efficiency”
(Vaughan, 2012).
Is blended learning really transforming traditional
pedagogy?
2. Beyond old steps…

31. Is blended learning really transforming traditional
pedagogy?
2. Beyond old steps…

32. Is blended learning really transforming traditional
pedagogy?
Trowler, P., Ashwin, P. and Saunders, M. (2014). The Role of HEFCE in Teaching and
Learning Enhancement: A Review of Evaluative Evidence. The Higher Education
Academy, p.16.
2. Beyond old steps…

33. Littlejohn, A., & Pegler, C. (2007). Preparing for Blended E- Learning. 70-93. New York: Routledge.
Is blended learning really transforming traditional
pedagogy?
2. Beyond old steps…

34. Stronger Sense of Blending…
Is blended learning really transforming traditional
pedagogy?
2. Beyond old steps…

35. Is blended learning really transforming traditional
pedagogy?
2. Beyond old steps…

36. Is blended learning really transforming traditional
pedagogy?
2. Beyond old steps…

37. Is blended learning really transforming traditional
pedagogy?
2. Beyond old steps…

38. Off Campus
in Class
Off Campus
out of Class
On Campus
in Class
Acquisition
Participation
On Campus
out of Class
Leakage
The New Learning Ecology
Physical Virtual
2. Beyond old steps…

39. Arguably the concept has done little
to disrupt the ‘old normal’ and the
familiar 123, 123, 123 of the
traditional slow waltz which continues
to dominate our thinking about
university-level teaching.
The inconvenient truth is…
Blended learning has become a popular construct
that means different things to different people…
2. Beyond old steps…

40. “A future of hybrid [blended] learning is an
opportunity, not a threat. If implemented
sensitively and professionally it will lead to higher
student performance and greater staff
satisfaction” (Daniel, 2016, p.18)
2. Beyond old steps…

41. B O L D
[ Blended | On-line | Digital ]
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43. 2015
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44. F2F
Remains
Dominant Mode
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47. #1 The challenge of academic workload…
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48. #1 The challenge of academic workload…
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49. #2 The challenge of the status of teaching…
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50. #2 The challenge of the status of teaching…
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51. #3 The challenge of rapidly shifting ground…
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52. 3. Dancing against the grain…
#3 The challenge of rapidly shifting ground…

53. http://connected.dcu.ie
3. Dancing against the grain…
#3 The challenge of rapidly shifting ground…

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55. 3. Dancing against the grain…
#3 The challenge of rapidly shifting ground…

56. 3. Dancing against the grain…
#3 The challenge of rapidly shifting ground…

57. 3. Dancing against the grain…
#3 The challenge of rapidly shifting ground…

58. #3 The challenge of rapidly shifting ground…
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59. Conclusion

60. Conclusion
• Courage to explore new spaces
• Design your own dance
• Be a future maker
Three key lessons….

61. Conclusion

62. Go raibh
maith
agaibh!

63. Professor Mark Brown
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning
www.dcu.ie/nidlmark.brown@dcu.ie
@mbrownz www.slideshare.net/mbrownz