online educa berlin 2014 selfie and students as producers

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Dan Peters

Senior Manager, Solution Engineering @danspeters

The “Selfie” and

Going from Students

as Consumers to

Students as

Producers

http://polls.bb/3923

Please take out your mobile and…

Have you taken a selfie in the

last 6 months and shared it via

social media?

Do you see students today more

as “consumers” than you did in

the past?

About Dan

Dan Peters, Sr. Manager, Solutions Engineering,

EMEA @danspeters

9 Years With Blackboard

Held various eLearning roles

at the University of Texas at

Austin and Stanford

University

Live in Amsterdam and love

selfies

What is a Selfie?

• A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website

Oxford Dictionary’s English Definition

• Oxford Dictionary noted a 17,000% increase in the use of the word “selfie” in 2013 compared to 2012

2013 Word of the Year

• Word of the year in Sweden, Belgium, Holland

• Makati City, Philippines ranks first ahead of Manchester, Amsterdam, and Milan on Time Magazine’s World’s Top 100 “Selfiest” cities

Also a Global Phenomenon

The Selfie

• Video of DVP typing

8

World Leaders Do It

Alexander Stubb

Even Superheroes Do It

The First Selfie

Some Meanings of the Selfie

A symptom of media driven narcissism

A new way not only of representing ourselves to others,

but of communicating with one another through images

An empowering form of self-creation that puts everyone

in a position of celebrity

Selfies as Social Protest in Turkey

Key Point

The selfie is the coming

together of trends in mobile,

Internet, social networks, and

individualism that already

affect us greatly…

The Impact and Efficiencies of Consumer Tech

Only 7 years ago..

Now

Key Point

Learner needs have changed

based on the availability and

expectations of technology

Key Point

Teaching methods have

largely remained the same

What is the functional change?

What is the functional change?

Key Point

We should not use

new technologies to

teach the same old content

The SAMR Model

Same Thing

but now iThing

Tech makes easier

No Tech = No Lesson

World Expands Beyond

the Classroom

Applying the SAMR Model

SUBSTITUTION AUGMENTATION SUBSTITU

MODIFICATION REDEFINITION

Stanford Medical School today

In the Pilot Course Attendance

grew from 30% to 80%

Stanford Tuition Costs $48,999 Annually

The “Lecture” Material Used was non-Stanford produced Open Educational Resources

Results

Regular, Timely Feedback is Important

Giving Feedback in the Context

of Practice Allows Students to

Apply Their Learning

Learners Learn from Each Other

Highlights

“There is a subtle, but extremely important, difference

between an institution that ‘listens’ to students and

responds accordingly, and an institution that gives

students the opportunity to explore areas that they believe

to be significant, to recommend solutions and to bring

about the required changes. The concept of ‘listening to

the student voice’ – implicitly if not deliberately – supports

the perspective of student as ‘consumer’, whereas

‘students as change agents’ explicitly supports a view of

the student as ‘active collaborator’ and ‘co-producer’, with

the potential for transformation.”

(Students as Change Agents, Dunne and Zandstra, 2011,

).

Shift from

Students as

Consumers to

Students as

Creators

Horizon Report 2014: 3-5 year

CHANGE

BY THE

IS BEING

CONSUMER

DRIVEN

?http://blog.blackboard.com/the-consumerization-of-higher-education

Essence of a course for the Learner

OR

NUI Galway – Students as Producer

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• NUI Galway needed a University app. • Who should own the app internally (marketing, library,

IT)?• No staff to build app

The Issue

• Gave students ownership of the app to build it • Also let students decide what should be in the app

Students as Change Agents

• Apps created and updated regularly for HTML5, iOS and Android without need for development skills

Blackboard Mosaic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMQHuMobU7Y

Hypothesis

Selfie’s are a symptom of the

desire to produce rather than

consume

Conclusion

We already have the

methods, knowledge and

technology to ride these

trends to greatly improve

education

“Tell me, and I will

forget. Show me and I

may remember. Involve

me, and I will

understand.”

Dan Peters@danspetersdan.peters@blackboard.com5 December 2014