education innovation project

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• Rationale• Approach• Aims• Participants• Methodology• Monitoring and evaluation• Feedback and support for students• Risk analysis and mitigating liability

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Overview• Pilot projects• http://educationinnovators.ning.com

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Rationale• Bureaucratic: ANU expectations,

flexible delivery, college-level support• Educational: Web 2.0 promotes

constructivist and connectivist approaches

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Approach: Web 2.0• Participation• Collaboration• Interactivity• Communication• Community-building• Sharing• Networking• Creativity

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Systems vs tools• LMSs: clunky, old, trauma, teacher-

centred, limiting, inflexible, boring, restricting, transmission, Reject Shop, watered-down, frustrating, accounting

• Web 2.0 tools: creative, collaborative, flexible, education-centred, powerful, engaging, active, community, easy

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Stephen Downes. “Places to Go. Connectivism and connective knowledge.” http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=668&action=article

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Aims• Develop pedagogically sound and sustainable models for

the use of various Web 2.0 tools in education that can be shared amongst teachers

• Identify and mitigate against any potential risks associated with the use of externally hosted web services in higher education

• Identify the amount and degree of teacher support required to implement such course innovations

• Develop and sustain a support network for participating lecturers

• Collect and analyse data relating to student attitudes towards and experiences of the use of Web 2.0 tools in their class

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Methodology• Pilot projects• Training/PD of teachers• Models for use in class• Mitigating liability • Briefing students• Sharing, networking, discovering• Assessment: rubrics and instructions• Academic skills

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Monitoring and evaluation• EI@ANU network• Six points of evaluation:

1. pre-, 2. Week 73. Week 104. Week 135. Mini-symposium (9 June)6. Focus groups

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Feedback and support for students• Mostly positive feedback so far• Main concerns: lack of assignment

info, rubrics• Student workshops

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Risks• Legal challenges (Privacy, Disability)• Work for assessment is lost (backups)• Service disappears• Copyright, IP• Marketing, spam, monitoring

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Mitigating liability: briefing students• External provider• Offensive material• Information provided• Copyright, IP, privacy• Monitoring, marketing emails• Responsibility for work

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In-class practicalities• Bandwidth quotas• Backups• Student identification and usernames• Cross-platform usability• Due date cut-offs

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