Peter Scott

Director, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK.

Coordinator,

STELLAR, EU Network of Excellence in TEL.

Peter.Scott@open.ac.uk

Learning in a Post Personal Computer

World

eMadrid III, 18 June

Monday, 18 June 12

Peter.Scott@open.ac.uk

The long term future of Higher Education is in a world which is: open, social, filled with high quality, interactive, semantic, learning services.

And at a very competitive price...

free.

Will you be there?

Monday, 18 June 12

Peter.Scott@open.ac.uk

The long term future of Higher Education is in a world which is: open, social, filled with high quality, interactive, semantic, learning services.

And at a very competitive price...

free.

So long as you have a solution for

•Assessment

•Mentoring

•Social Support

•HQ Content

Will you be there?

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online assessment wizards

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mentoring live

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we work ‘live’ with students via a variety of delivery and innovations systems

here, Elluminate tutorials in languages, maths and a technology FlashMeeting peer group support meeting with embedded group work analysis

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social network support

make good use of peer and mentored support via social networking platforms

see e.g our own and 3rd party support

... here twitter, facebook and a ‘halloween student party’ in second life

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very high quality content

we reserve most content and experiences for our own students; currently we target 5% OER

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Foresight is Fun

Join  us  on  teleurope.eu

linked datawhen data services are open and connected?

analyticswhen measurement is open and easy?

post personal computingwhen the computer disappears?

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the personal computer* has changed the way we learn and work

a post personal computing worldthin and mobile devices -> invisible (?)

careless, infinite storage -> cloudalways on; always connected

* interesting point :a debate here whether it was the PC did this or it was the internet or email, or …

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What is this PPC world?consider this example using Apple GameCentre™

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Student  want  this?Understanding  the  needs  of  today’s  students

• Believe  ICT  improves  their  learning  experiences• Want  academics  to  use  more  ICT• Feel  their  lecturers  need  addiBonal  training  in  technologies

• Use  latest  technology• Part  of  the  overall  learning  experience• IntegraBon  between  the  VLE,  lectures  and  the  enBre  learning  experience

Beliefs Desires

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mobile open learning visionThe Open University experience

by 2014 more people will access the internet via a mobile device than a computer*

* From Internet Trends 12 April 2010 – Morgan Stanley.

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Faculty

LibraryOpen Media

Quality OfficeKnowledge Media Institute

Learning and Teaching SolutionsInstitute for Educational Technology

SO… what is the OU experienceof designing the 21st century learning experience

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iTunes U in our VLEin 2012

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structure eProductionco-work via managed pipelines

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Structured content productionto mobi; epub2 and epub3

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An Open University Music bookLyrics; Score; Listen; Think;Do

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The Open University on iTunes UGeographical breakdown of downloads

3 June 2008 - 21 March 2011

All downloads external to the Open University’s intranet

• 30M downloads by close of 2010

• 90% outside UK

• 350 collections from 150 OU modules

• maybe 3-4.5 Tb p/w via Amazon and Akamai clouds

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iBooks Author(Jan, 2012)

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Interaction ‘in book’(May, 2012)

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Virtual Microscope with 4 rocks

apps are easybut hard to scale

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Poster

eBook

Interactive

Sample

Study

Website

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'in tablet' learning experiencewhat do you dream of that is missing?

good experiencebut

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So… what next?

Peter.Scott@open.ac.uk

The long term future of Higher Education is in a world which is: open, social, filled with high quality, interactive, semantic, learning services.

And at a very competitive price...

free.

Remember :Assessment

Collaboration (Co-creation)Social

HQ Content

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