This document summarizes a presentation on innovative pedagogy in online learning. The presentation covered trends in online learning including the growth of education technology investments, convergence of learning modalities, and a changing credential ecology with the rise of micro-credentials. It discussed challenges with old models of technology-enhanced learning and competing narratives around education's digital future. The presentation concluded with thanks in both English and Irish.

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Trends and Best Practices in
Pedagogical Technology-enhanced
Innovation in Higher Education
Professor Mark Brown
Dublin City University
18th November 2021

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@mbrownz

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Outline...
1. Big business
2. Convergence of modalities
3. Changing credential ecology

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1. Big business
EdTech is the new FinTech!
“In 2020 alone, Education Technology startups
secured $2.2 billion in private equity and
venture capital funding, an almost 30% increase
from $1.7 billion in 2019. $2.2 billion is the
highest total investment number ever in one
year in the U.S. EdTech industry” (TRN, 2021).

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2. Growing convergence
https://er.educause.edu/articles/2020/10/the-landscape-of-merging-
modalities

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Off-Campus
in Class
Off-Campus
Out of Class
Formal
Informal
On-Campus
out of Class
Virtual
Digital
Leakage
Digital
Learning
Ecology
Physical
On-Campus
in Class

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Hybrid

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Need to challenge old
pump, pump, DUMP
models of technology-enhanced learning

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3. Changing credential ecology
Growth of micro-credentials evidenced by Google search traffic

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Credit Bearing
Non Credit Bearing
Bundled Unbundled
Credential
Ecology
Macro-credentials
Formal Accredited
Degrees
Micro-credentials
Formal & Semi Formal
Accredited & Stackable
Nano-credentials
Informal & Non-Formal
Digital Badges & Certificates
Non-status Awards
Semi-Formal Courses
Non-Accredited
(Brown et al., 2020)

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1,200+
30/11/2020

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OECD, 2021
Increasing Supply

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Poll conducted in March
2021 in Higher Education
4.0: Certifying Your Future

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Recently completed a major literature review
on contract to European Commission

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(Brown et al., 2021)

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What word best encapsulates your view?

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Lifelong Learning
(Brown et al., 2021)

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“Rather than presenting new
opportunities for social inclusion
and access to education, they
contribute to the privatisation of
education by unbundling the
curriculum and blurring the line
between public and private
provision in higher education”
(p.14).

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Final remarks...
COMPETING
DIGITAL
FUTURES
Navigating Through Entangled Narratives
Education
in
Change
Education
for
Change

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Go raibh maith
agaibh!
Thank you