Reflections on Quality: Educational Technology's Dirty Little Secret
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1. The dirty little secret of educational technology is that most initiatives reinforce traditional outcomes and the "pump and dump" model of online learning still dominates teaching practice. 2. There are different views of quality including standardized, craft-based, and personal ethos approaches. Quality is contestable, idiosyncratic, context-bound, and a moving target. 3. Frameworks for quality include peer review, guidelines, and tools for design, facilitation, assessment, evaluation and leadership. A quality culture involves understanding teachers, trust, responsibility, and distributed leadership.
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Reflections on Quality: Educational Technology's Dirty Little Secret
- 1. Professor Mark Brown Reflections on Quality: Educational Technology‟s Dirty Little Secret University of Southern Queensland Australian Digital Futures Institute May 2013
- 3. • Director, National Centre for Teaching and Learning • Director, Distance Education and Learning Futures Alliance • Major leadership role in digitalisation at Massey University • Contribute to several executive committees (ascilite, DEANZ,Ako Academy) • President of the NZ Association for Open, Flexible and Distance Learninf • Recipient of National Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching @mbrownz m.e.brown@massey.ac.nz About Mark… http://www.slideshare.net/mbrownz/
- 8. About Massey… Over 4000 online environments
- 9. http://delfa.massey.ac.nz • Innovation Hub • Global Think-tank • Networked Community • Engine for New Learning Futures • We Offer International Consultancy • Leading International Advisory Board About Massey…
- 11. Questions… “A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.” Francis Bacon http://www.slideshare.net/mbrownz/
- 12. Professor Mark Brown Reflections on Quality: Educational Technology‟s Dirty Little Secret University of Southern Queensland Australian Digital Futures Institute May 2013
- 14. • What is the dirty little secret about educational technology? Write your short response and then fold over and pass tosomeone else in the room Before we start…
- 15. “Not everything that can be counted counts, not everything that counts can be counted” My key point… Albert Einstein
- 16. 1. Dirty little secret
- 17. 1. Dirty little secret “The unexaminedlife is not worth living” (Socrates)
- 20. “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. Dirty little secret
- 21. “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. Dirty little secret
- 22. 1. Dirty little secret 1935
- 23. Technology Expectation Cycle (Cuban, 1986) Cuban, L. (1986). Teachers and machines: The classroom use of technology since 1920. New York: Teachers‟ College Press. 1. Dirty little secret
- 24. High expectations Growing support Subsided enthusiasm Rebukes and blame Cuban, L. (1986). Teachers and machines: The classroom use of technology since 1920. New York: Teachers‟ College Press. Technology Expectation Cycle (Cuban, 1986) 1. Dirty little secret
- 25. Technology-enhanced learning involves an ongoing cycle of hype, hopeand disappointment (Gouseti, 2010). 1. Dirty little secret
- 26. Gartner Hype Cycle Technology-enhanced learning involves an ongoing cycle of hype, hopeand disappointment (Gouseti, 2010). 1. Dirty little secret “The Distal Effects”
- 27. 1. Dirty little secret “The meta-analysis found that, on average, students in online learning conditions performed modestly better than those receiving face-to-face instruction” (Means et. al., 2010, p.ix).
- 28. 1. Dirty little secret Guiney, P. (2013). E-learning achievement: Trends, patterns and highlights. Ministry of Education, Wellington.
- 29. 1. Dirty little secret
- 30. 1. Dirty little secret
- 31. 1. Dirty little secret
- 32. 1. Dirty little secret
- 33. 1. Dirty little secret
- 34. 1. Dirty little secret In sum, the inconvenient truth is…
- 35. 1. Dirty little secret In sum, the inconvenient truth is… Most educational technology initiatives reinforcetraditional outcomes…
- 36. 1. Dirty little secret And the„pump, pump,dump‟ model of online learning still dominatesteaching practice. Most educational technology initiatives reinforcetraditional outcomes… In sum, the inconvenient truth is…
- 37. “The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same things and expecting a different result” 1. Dirty little secret (Stephen Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Successful People)
- 38. “A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.” Francis Bacon http://www.slideshare.net/mbrownz/ Thoughts…
- 39. 2. Different Views of Quality
- 40. Three different metaphors… 2. Different Views of Quality
- 41. Quality is Standardized (a) Mass production metaphor… 2. Different Views of Quality
- 42. 2. Different Views of Quality (b) Boutique craft metaphor…
- 43. 2. Different Views of Quality (b) Boutique craft metaphor…
- 44. 2. Different Views of Quality Quality is not to everyone‟s taste
- 45. Who defines quality? … and for what purpose? 2. Different Views of Quality
- 46. (c)Personal ethos metaphor… 2. Different Views of Quality Quality is Relative
- 47. 2. Different Views of Quality
- 48. • Contestable • Idiosyncratic • Context bound • Discipline specific • Always a moving target • An ethos we must continually strive for Basic assumptions… 2. Different Views of Quality
- 50. “A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.” Francis Bacon http://www.slideshare.net/mbrownz/ Thoughts…
- 51. 3. Frameworks and Tools for Quality
- 52. 3. Frameworks and Tools for Quality
- 53. 3. Frameworks and Tools for Quality
- 54. 3. Frameworks and Tools for Quality
- 55. By analogy what type of cheese do you want to make and how will you judge its quality? 3. Frameworks and Tools for Quality
- 56. institution individual clear standards creative flair externally imposed requirements internally owned commitments central quality police local professional responsibility quality compliance quality culture Key Tensions… 3. Frameworks and Tools for Quality
- 57. • Understanding teachers matter most • Promoting a high level of professional trust • Giving responsibility for quality back toteachers • Building distributed leadership for teaching and learning A quality culture involves… 3. Frameworks and Tools for Quality
- 58. Scholarly Peer Review Effective Practice Guidelines Academic Development Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grants and Awards Designs for Learning Resources for Learning Facilitating Learning Assessment for Learning Evaluating Teaching Professional Leadership Learning Design Tools Teaching Evaluation 3. Frameworks and Tools for Quality
- 59. http://peerreview.massey.ac.nz 3. Frameworks and Tools for Quality
- 60. Principles of peer review - owned by academics - confidential to participants - encouragesformative feedback - promotes pedagogical conversations - focuses on continuous development - has stronginstitutional alignment 3. Frameworks and Tools for Quality
- 61. We want them to learn how to make their own uniquecheese that students can truly savor! 3. Frameworks and Tools for Quality
- 62. Conclusion…
- 63. Conclusion Conclusion… “What‟s wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology” (Steve Jobs; cited in Oppenheimer, 1997, p.61).
- 64. Conclusion Conclusion… It depends on… - high quality teachers - a culture of quality enhancement - winning the hearts and minds of people “What‟s wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology” (Steve Jobs; cited in Oppenheimer, 1997, p.61).
- 65. Conclusion… But people are easily fooledby the hype…
- 66. And greater critique is required of the competing discoursesto better understand the digital futures we are making and taking. Conclusion… But people are easily fooledby the hype…
- 67. Reconceptualist Knowledge Society Knowledge Economy Deschooling Reschooling Reproduction Ed - Tech Different interest groups and stakeholders borrow the same „discourse of persuasion‟ to legitimize their own hegemonic agenda • Being glocal • Active citizenship • Socially just society • Education for change • Un-curriculum • Personalization • Life-long learning • Messiness of learning • New pedagogies • Skills for employment • Learning for the real world • Higher education in change • Mass education • Universal standards • Education as a commodity • Increased market competition • Online learning • Blended learning • Anytime, anywhere learning E-learning • Open Learning • Technology-enhanced learning • (Mark Brown, 2012) Major competing discourses…
- 68. Final remark…
- 69. Final remark… Put more simply, the digital future is a bit like the question…
- 70. “What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?” (Bertolt Brecht) Final remark… Put more simply, our preferred digital future is a bit like the question…
- 71. • What is the dirty little secret about educational technology? Oh one more thing…
- 72. “A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.” Francis Bacon http://www.slideshare.net/mbrownz/ Discussion…
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